3GIMBALS

Category: Law Enforcement

The Power of Intelligence Fusion in Understanding Migration Trends 

Intelligence fusion enables the multifaceted monitoring of migration drivers to predict emerging trends.

Intelligence fusion for migration offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding global movement. By integrating satellite imagery, social media, economic indicators, and policy shifts, 3GIMBALS uncovers migration drivers in real time. This intelligence empowers governments, security forces, and humanitarian organizations to anticipate trends, allocate resources efficiently, and craft smarter, data-driven policies. Migration analysis has always struggled with answering “why”—until now.

Data-Driven Intelligence for Combating Drug Cartels  

Data-driven intelligence for mapping drug trafficking routes.

Explore how OSINT, AI, and geospatial analytics are revolutionizing U.S. counter-narcotics efforts. With new policies designating cartels as terrorist organizations and advanced intelligence tools mapping trafficking networks, law enforcement is shifting from reactive to proactive. Learn how data-driven intelligence is reshaping the fight against drug trafficking in 2024-2025.

Bargaining with the Beast: U.S.-China Efforts to Curb the Fentanyl Epidemic 

The U.S. seized enough fentanyl in 2023 to kill every American, a crisis fueled by China's chemical manufacturing industry.

Over 1 million Americans have died from drug overdoses since 2000, with some 70-80% of these deaths involving a fatal dose of the synthetic opioid fentanyl. Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45. In 2023, the U.S. government seized 77 million fentanyl pills and nearly 12,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. These record seizures represent enough to kill every American. At the heart of this crisis are precursor chemicals, almost exclusively manufactured and exported from China to the Mexican Sinaloa and Jalisco cartel organizations. China likely views this complex intersection of public health and international relations as a bargaining chip to gain concessions from the U.S. 

Global Fentanyl Supply Chain: Mapping the Network to Disrupt a Deadly Trade

The global fentanyl supply chain fueling America’s opioid crisis spans precursor chemical suppliers, cartel mega-labs, clandestine trafficking routes, and shadowy financial networks. Understanding how this lethal network operates is key to powering strategies of intelligence-driven enforcement and supply chain disruption.

Exposing the Human Impacts of China’s Distant Water Fishing Fleet

China’s distant water fishing fleet has inflicted immeasurable harm on the global community, in particular nations across the global south. The global fish stock is in decline as China amasses a distant water fishing fleet that dwarfs its competition.

The United Nations estimates that almost 90 percent of the global marine fish stocks are depleted, over exploited or fully exploited, which is largely due to the devastating fishing practices of China’s fleet.

Tracing Illegal Logging and Influence from Peru to China

Criminal organizations and malign state actors exploit natural resources across their regions of influence. High demand for natural resources drives increased exploitation and foreign investment. 3GIMBALS recently analyzed strategic competitors’ activities and followed the flow of media, natural resources, and money to track influence.

What we found illuminates the dark truth that authorities have been hypothesizing. Our research exposes foreign investment and economic influence on natural resource exploitation by strategic competitors.