Clients

• BRS Labs
  
  

  Houston-based BRS Labs has invented a patented technology that eliminates the risk of human error from security surveillance. The technology, known as AiSight (pronounced eyesight), blends computer visualization and machine learning with a sprinkling of artificial intelligence.
  
  AISight takes visual input from a camera, learns what activities and behaviors are typical, and generates real-time alerts when it identifies activities that are not normal. It will be a game changer at government facilities, airports, laboratories and other high-security institutions.
  
  AISight is a reasoning-based surveillance that functions in a manner similar to the human brain. It takes in external visual input (computer vision), while its machine learning engine observes the scene, learns and recognizes behavioral patterns and responds accordingly. There are no humans involved, so surveillance is 24/7, and since the software learns the scene, the false positives are reduced to practically zero.
  
  The technology is backwards compatible with any current CCTV system (and there are millions of those ubiquitous cameras everywhere in our post 9/11 world), and it can be rapidly deployed across various industry segments without intensive engineering set-up and labor on a per-camera basis.
  
  So, a hotel with a cascading water fountain or a tree blowing in the wind can be seen and monitored without setting off a false alarm. If, however, someone suddenly places a package in front of the fountain and leaves it there, an alarm is immediately sent and within seconds police/FD/first responders could be on the scene.
  
  Other areas where the "mind" of the software might be employed include, Sonar, Radar, biometrics, internet search engines, storage (AISight only records when an alert is issued vs. current video security systems, which are recording 24/7 and taking up immense storage space on network drivers.)  AISight may also be used with all other sensors, such as bio-chemical detection, MRIs and other medical testing, CBRNE sensors, etc.
  

• ICx Technologies
  
  ICx Technologies is a leader in the development and integration of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications. Its proprietary sensors detect and identify chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats, and deliver superior awareness and actionable intelligence for wide-area surveillance, intrusion detection and facility security. ICx also leverages its unparalleled technical expertise and government R&D funding to address othere emerging challenges, such as working towards a cleaner environment, alternative energy and life science. For more information, visit www.icxt.com.
   

• The OSINT Group—Michael Bagley, Principal; now working with Able Danger Veterans
  
  There has been a quasi transfer of power from New York to D.C., which is now the de facto financial center of the world. In developed and developing countries, domestic political factors will drive the performance of national and international markets. As a result, the use of "political intelligence" by global financial institutions is quickly becoming an important factor to asset portfolio managers across all sectors.
  
  The OSINT Group, a boutique private intelligence firm based in Washington, D.C., was established in 2007 to assist government and commercial clients in the energy and financial industries with unique "open source" intelligence collection and delivery. In addition to utilizing technology used by the U.S. intelligence community, the firm usus its network of personal relationships and connections in Washington to gather political intel for international clients that need to better understand how and why the U.S. Government will influence the international financial markets. The OSINT Group also implements very sophisticated software used by the U.S.Intelligence Community fo pattern trending, spatial research and link-analysis to pinpoint data relatiohships. The OSINT Group can aggregate unlimited information sources, harvesting information from 126 countries in 25 languages.  www.theosintgroup.com.
   

• Development Gateway Foundation
  
  The Development Gateway Foundation (DGF) is an international nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology. The DGF concept and several of its programs originated within the World Bank. The programs were then merged into an independent foundation, supported by government donors as well as private sector pioneers who recognized the high potential of ICT to increase the impact of scarce development resources. 
  
  To meet its mission, DGF provides Web-based platforms that make aid and development efforts more effective around the world. DG focuses its resources in three areas where even small investments in information and communications technology (ICT) can make a major difference:
  

• Effective government – enabling better aid management and coordination, and more efficient and transparent government procurement.
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration – leveraging the Internet for online communications among development practitioners worldwide. 
• Local partner programs in nearly 50 countries – connecting developing country organizations into the DG mission and helping empower them to use ICT to scale up local development efforts.
  

• J. Michael Barrett
  
  Mike Barrett is a homeland security expert with an extensive background in U.S. domestic counterterrorism and military intelligence. A former Fulbright Scholar to Ankara, Turkey, Mr. Barrett is currently the Manhattan Institute's Harbinger/ICx Fellow in Homeland Security and the founder of Counterpoint Assessments, a terrorism preparedness consulting firm in Annapolis, MD.
  
  He previously served as a Counterterrorism HUMINT targeting officer identifying domestic terrorism threats for the Defense Intelligence Agency and as Lead Intelligence Officer for the Special Operation/Combating Terrorism Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense's Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SOLIC). Mr. Barrett also previously served as Senior Analyst for the War on Terrorism Branch of the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he was responsible for operational trends analysis and strategic policy development for a multitude of classified counter-terrorism projects.

   

• Mark P. Mills, Chairman of the Board of International Battery  

Mr. Mills is also a co-founding partner in the venture fund Digital Power Capital, and founding member of the Digital Power Group, a research firm. He has been published in various publications, including Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Magazine, and has a book, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, which was published by Basic Books in January 2005, and co-written with Peter Huber. He has testified before, and briefed, many state public service commissions, legislative groups, state legislators, and the U.S. Congress.

Before founding Digital Power Capital, Mark founded and ran a technology consulting business for 17 years. He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office (under President Reagan), a number of the Federal Research Laboratories, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Mark was an experimental physicist and development engineer in the fields of integrated circuits during the early 1970s, the "Jurassic era" of microprocessors. He also worked in fiber optics, defense and solid-state devices, fields in which he holds several patents. Mark holds a degree in physics from Queen's University, Canada, and is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Physical Society and Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers.

• Marshall Young, Chief Executive Officer, Paratus Worldwide Protection

  Marshall Young, a decorated U.S. Navy veteran, is the founder and CEO of Paratus Worldwide Protection. Mr. Young has 15 years of security experience, including military experience in both the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has operated in Iraq for nearly four continuous years, beginning with the Joint Task Force-7 Anti-Terrorism Cell, located in Baghdad. Mr. Young has completed hundreds of security missions on behalf of the United States government and private sector clients. His knowledge of military security issues and fluency in Arabic make him an expert in Islamic militant movements by allowing him to conduct investigations of suspected and known militants directly.

  In Iraq, Mr. Young's private-client experience includes:

  • Site surveys
  • Secure compound planning and construction
  • VIP close protection
  • Convoy security, usually combined with improvised explosive device (IED) detection
  • Explosive ordinance disposal coordination and the emergency evacuation of clients when necessary.

  Young was responsible for a comprehensive overhaul of the security infrastructure of the Khanzad Hotel (Erbil, Iraq), which allowed it to then be upgraded to an officially approved remote and secure location for members of the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice and other U.S. government agencies.

  In support of military clients, Mr. Young has captured several suspected insurgents, provided rescue and assistance missions for U.S. military patrols in volatile cities and he has personally protected the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, contractors for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), oil industry executives and various Iraqi dignitaries, including both the President and Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan. He has also been specifically selected to secure insurgent-targeted buildings in Mosul, Baghdad and at the U.S. Marine Corps' forward-operating locations in Fallujah and surrounding areas.

• Xelocity™
  
  Xelocity, based in Overland Park, Kansas, has deep expertise in supply-chain consulting work across several vertical markets—dairy, forestry and building products, CPG, telecommunications, manufacturing and distribution. Clients using Xelocity’s ProcessWizard™ application include DHL, McCormick, Kohler and Boeing, among others, and the software is used in Supply-Chain Council’s SCOR Implementation coursework. Globally, Xelocity has a team of 200 consultants and specializes in the following areas:
  
  • Supply Chain Optimisation (strategic, tactical and operational)
  • Production Scheduling
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Logistics Planning
  • Distribution and Transport Scheduling
  • Inventory Optimisation
  • Financial Modelling
  • Risk Management
  
  Xelocity is also teamed up with “futures designer” Mike McAllum and his Global Foresight Network, to provide sustainable design for its clients. McAllum is a globally recognized expert on global warming and how to combat it – smarter design and smarter technology.  If you cover any aspect of the “green world,” I highly recommend you talk with him.  For more information, please visit www.xelocity.com or call Vicki directly.