SCIA analysts teaching their techniques to the Nepalese Military in Kathmandu.

History

SCIA’s Analysts Offer a Powerful Combination of Military Experience, Behavioral / Social Science Education, All-Source Analytic Skills, and Subject Matter Expertise

SCIA began in 2005 as a small, veteran-owned business providing the counterterrorism community with intelligence analysts specifically trained in “socio-cultural” and “human terrain" research and analysis. As the success of our methods and understanding of our products grew, the terms “socio-cultural” and “human terrain” analysis have become institutionalized in the intelligence community. While we are proud to have been among the founders of this niche within the intelligence analytic community, we continue to break new ground with our training program (most recently deploying to Kathmandu to partner with the Naval Postgraduate School to train the Nepalese military).

Today, we continue to focus on developing and improving our specialty: the fusion of social sciences with Geographic Intelligence.  Our goal is to discover patterns of human behavior, which are necessary to understand the foreign environments in which our military is increasingly called upon to operate within. SCIA’s workforce is unique in its variety of skills and expertise, which are constantly being enhanced thanks to its education and training programs available to each and every employee.