DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement Takes Interest in NVAC
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On July 23, the NVAC hosted visitors from the DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Bulk Cash Smuggling Center (BCSC). The BCSC contingent was provided with overviews and demonstrations of NVAC’s applied visual analytics technology, and recognized several of these technologies as solutions to current analytical requirements of the BCSC. In a formal letter of thanks, ICE expressed their appreciation for DHS Science and Technology Directorate’s foresight in advancing these research venues, such as NVAC, for the benefit of other DHS Components.
ICE’s BCSC is the central source for information and support for identifying, investigating and disrupting bulk cash smuggling activities around the world. BCSC’s mission is to identify and disrupt illicit movements of cash derived from transnational criminal enterprise and is anchored in the goal of rendering high-grade operational intelligence to local law enforcement at the Federal, state and local level. BCSC recognizes that to achieve this goal, they need to monitor large, changing information spaces for prioritization of critical information. The demonstrations of NVAC’s technologies, supporting deeper analysis of such types of data and predictive modeling, has encouraged the BCSC to engage the DHS Program Manager, Joseph Kielman, with regard to establishing an ongoing working relationship with the NVAC in collaboratively shaping the BCSC analytical infrastructur