Week 0 Key Insights

Key Learning Moments

Poor coordination of data affects interdiction operations

1. USCG: bureaucracy inhibits data sharing [0.08]
2. CBP: wishes 3 IT databases were one database. Literally share data with…

Week 4 Key Insights

Key Learning Moments:

[1] Our beneficiaries are not patrol boat units — they’re the patrol coordinators in the command centers. (4.03, 4.08)

[2] Areas of operation do not overlap between USCG patrol stations, reducing the…

Week 6 Key Insights

Week 6 Hypothesis: We can extract insights from past interdiction data of the…

Week 3 — Key Insights

Key Learning Moments:

Week 7 — Key Insights

Key Learning Moments:

Week 3 — Customer Discovery

After traveling to the MCC and JHOC, we have concluded that Not detecting vessels is a far bigger problem than losing vessels in pursuit. We confirmed that the fundamental problem is domain awareness. Agencies involved in interdiction including the Coast Guard and CBP acknowledge…

Week 8 Customer Discovery

Goals

The past week, we identified missing links for deploying Intellisense, but were…

Week 2 Key Insights

Key Learning Moments:

[1] On Scheduling Issue: “This is my struggle”. (2.11) Scheduling on assets (both people and equipment) is difficult to coordinate among agencies, thereby reducing the effectiveness with which DHS is able to identify illicit…

Week 7 Customer Discovery

Goals

The past week, we tested our MVP — a digital visualization of past interdiction…

Week 5 Key Insights

Key Learning Moments: