National Security

Redhorse National Security Practice

From its inception, the Redhorse National Security Practice (NatSec) has focused on helping the Department of Defense (DoD) and the greater National Security community to understand, define, and solve data-driven mission challenges. While competing companies often come to the table with preferred platforms and solutions before comprehending data problems, Redhorse NatSec has shown that first-class data and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions first require an intimate understanding of the user, mission, and the latest technology. We have significant, unique in-house capabilities we can apply, or we can build bespoke technical solutions, all depending on the specific challenge we are addressing and how the customer operates.

We start by working directly with the affected warfighter or with those performing affected support functions, such as managing strategic deployment of drones, keeping weapons systems functioning in adverse conditions, or finding unexpected connections between millions of intelligence data points. That initial work helps us understand our customer’s mission objectives and challenges, gaps in understanding and capabilities, and how solutions would be implemented and used in operations.

With that foundation, we leverage three methodologies to prototype end-to-end intelligent systems quickly and scale them to production: 

• Design thinking helps us deeply understand problems and develop better ways to solve them. 
• Lean startup turns those ideas into business models that work, quickly and for the least cost. 
• Agile development helps us deliver solutions quickly and incrementally, building exactly what’s needed as fast as possible. 

By understanding the operational situation and user needs first, we build solutions that meet our customers’ unique requirements and help the joint force make wiser, data-driven decisions and field integrated, more-lethal capabilities. 

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