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

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 of the intelligence analytic community, we continue to break new ground with SCIA Academy (we are the first to teach Human Terrain Analysis to the intelligence and academic communities in our 3-day seminars), our internal Socio-Cultural Analyst Training Program (we are the first to have developed a robust training program that requires our analysts to be tested every 15 days on skills, knowledge, and techniques necessary to be a successful socio-cultural analyst in the demanding DoD environments in which we work); HTA Laboratories (our in-house Research and Development arm that partners with academia to discover new and better ways to conduct geospatial predictive analysis); and, Concierge (our new product, currently in beta testing, due for release in AUG 09).

Today, we remain a small, veteran-owned business and continue to focus on our specialty: the fusion of social science with GEOINT to discover patterns of human behavior necessary to understand the foreign environments in which our military is increasingly called upon to operate within.  SCIA’s workforce is unique in its combination of skills and its program of education and training we provide to our analysts.