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They've been doing this for awhile, and it's actively used in the Middle East to predict locations of IED. Also DOD has a tendency of creating shell companies t
by josephpmay 11y ago
They've been doing this for awhile, and it's actively used in the Middle East to predict locations of IED. Also DOD has a tendency of creating shell companies to buy up these startups without the usual oversight.
- tobltobs 11y ago> Middle East to predict locations of IED. Would be interesting to know how that would work.
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- philsalesses 11y agoThey use existing IED locations and layers of GIS data to determine where terrorists would be likely to place them. For instance, they use events as training data and then measure distance to light posts, distance from school, distance from whatever to create heat maps of high risk IED areas. The problem is the terrorists algorithm changes as we get better at stopping them. Cat and mouse.
- actionwords 11y agoixnay tellvay
- ashwinl 11y agohttp://www.army.mil/article/125989/JIEDDO_launches_redesigned_IED_knowledge_portal/ http://www.army.mil/article/125989/JIEDDO_launches_redesigne...
- nxzero 11y ago>> "DOD has a tendency of creating shell companies to buy up these startups without the usual oversight." Have an example of this?
- josephpmay 11y agoHere's one of the shell companies: http://www.strategiclinkpartners.com/ http://www.strategiclinkpartners.com/
- nxzero 11y agoWhat is the difference between a shell and a defense contractor? Only thing I see so far is the DigaForce deal; co-founder's profile on LinkedIn lacks any "oddness" in my opinion.
- threatofrain 11y agoPredicting IED location from social media data sounds like such a brittle strategy.