Week 8 Key Insights

Key Learning Moments:

[1] Open source may be as far as Intellisense’s current visualization tool will go. Only viable funding on deputy sector commander side requires DHS-wide application. Budget is constrained, and a couple other challenges described below.

[2] Fundamentally limited by sparsity of interdictions. During MVP demo, beneficiaries found no patterns that surprised them in first 20 minutes, primarily since after filtering, only a handful of datapoints in LA-LB area of operation. Although strong signals of excitement in prior two weeks, beneficiaries and us assumed there would be enough data to see patterns from for LA-LB. Excited about the possibility of finding new patterns, and presented a capable tool to, but unable to from sparsity.

[3] Standardizing data entry into this visualization is difficult. Deputy sector commander thinks “This could languish at the data entry piece” since data never entered consistently between sectors / agencies and one system barely speaks to the other.

Interviewees:

9.01 — CDR, acquisitions desk officer for all things Navy

9.02 — Major, experienced on interoperability side with USMC

9.03 — CBP Representative to ReCoM

9.04 — LCDR, our problem sponsor at sector LA-LB

9.05 — deputy sector commander for sector LA-LB

9.06 — acting chief of USCG Station LA

9.07, 9.08 — intel staff of LA-LB

9.09, 9.10 — CWO and LT on the enforcement team of LA-LB

9.11 — LT on the maritime safety security team

9.12 — ReCoM intel group supervisor from CBP

9.13 — CO for a USCG fast response cutter

9.14 — LCDR, chief enforcement officer at sector SD.