DAGIR Co.’s Methodology:

• Solve the problem.
• Simplify the solution process.
• Standardize the solution process.
• Automate the solution process.

DAGIR Co.’s offerings take advanced analytic techniques pioneered for military and law enforcement uses, and distills them down to powerful, low-overhead, automated systems. We then re-engineer these systems specifically for the multiple applications, currently emphasizing the law enforcement mission. DAGIR Co.’s products automate the legwork, freeing users to focus on bigger, more complex investigation/analysis. In smaller agencies that cannot otherwise afford full-time analysts, DAGIR Co. provides products that enhance a first responder’s structured analysis of target dilemmas, such as complex methamphetamine systems (MethSys) investigations.

The Defense Analyst’s Generic Intelligence Requirements Company is comprised of personnel from a wide variety of Intelligence Community and Law Enforcement specialties. Our senior staff comprises prior service:

• Marine Corps Intelligence Specialist (0231);
• Crime Scene Investigation Specialist, 13 years;
• Homeland Security Lead Transportation Security Officer; and
• Army Counter-Intelligence Specialist.

In addition, two of our senior staff have earned degrees in Intelligence Studies from the world-renowned Mercyhurst College Institute of Intelligence Studies (MCIIS.org), and a third is pursuing his M.S. in Applied Intelligence from the same Institute. DAGIR Co.’s mission is to bring this experience and an assortment of additional technical skills to support first responders as they confront their most complex and challenging investigations.

DAGIR Co. Philosophy:

DAGIR Co. produces analytics to support and enhance the analytical assessment of intelligence professionals and the layman alike. Among its products, DAGIR Co. designs and produces analytic machines. There is a tendency among technologists to attempt anthropomorphosis when designing analytical machines. This is to say, technologists often attempt to produce analytical machines capable of producing analysis analogous to human analysis. DAGIR Co. philosophy holds this tendency to be in error. This is not to say that computer and data machines are not capable of analysis, but a declaration of understanding that humans and computers detect, organize, and analyze information differently. Indeed, humanity shares a fascination with pitting human against machine in the performance of tasks, such as the legendary chess match between IBM’s Deep Blue and chess champion Garry Kasparov; however, we must understand that the execution of these tasks are very different. Therefore, we must understand that this is less a contest between man and machine, than a contest of the mechanics of analysis. To be sure, humans and machines exhibit characteristically different mechanics of analysis, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. It is therefore, more productive to produce machines that do what machines do best, and design tools and techniques which, organize and enhance humans analysis.

Computer’s are fast and are immune to most (not all) cognitive biases. We would not claim that a human could compete with a computer in its lightening fast serial computation of data. So the only question that remains is, “Is a computer capable of matching the real-world, adaptable, conceptual analysis of the human brain?” DAGIR Co.’s answer is an unqualified “No.” Computers produce speed in analysis. Information Technology allows for the fast survey, organization, and analysis of data. This advantage is a “resource conserving” advantage. The cost is low, and time requirements short. Computers demonstrate a highly competitive advantage in some “structured analysis” techniques. To be sure, when computers are directed to collect standardized data from a standardized source and compare and analyze in terms of values, they far out-perform humans in terms of speed and objectivity. Moreover the analysis of data allows for more exact assessments resulting in true value driven probability. However, computers lack flexibility and the detection and conception of nuanced factors. Humans far exceed computers’ abilities to analyze nuance and anecdotal data. This is to say, humans demonstrate the potential to detect and extract meaning from a single piece of data whose importance is atypical of the rest of a data set. However, the cost of human analysis is high and time require long. Human analysis is a “resource consuming” requirement. Therefore, “Intelligence Technology” should be pushed to its limits to conserve resources, but not beyond them or else one risks the accuracy of analysis.

DAGIR Co. produces systems and informational structures that do the analysis in which computers and informational structures show a clear advantage. Furthermore, this analysis is often the leg work that analysts and detectives neither have the time nor inclination to do. DAGIR Co. Analytics do the “peon work” that high paid analysts and over-tasked detectives should not have to do. DAGIR Co. analytics put the right information, in the right context, at the right time so users can make a proper assessment of the dilemmas they face, without having to go look for this information.