3GIMBALS today released its cutting-edge Synthetic Narcotics Precursor Chemical Seller Dashboard Prototype—a game-changing tool that brings innovation and precision to the counternarcotics fight.  This dashboard redefines the landscape of narcotics supply chain analysis with an interactive interface, crafted to unveil intricate connections between precursor chemicals, sellers, exporters, export ports and destinations.  Click on any element […]

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, […]

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 […]

DEF CON® is famous for its culture and subcultures—it provides something for everyone in the wide world of hacking. This year offered no shortage of characters, caricatures, professionals, “feds,” “goons,” and hackers. Between the villages, talks, demos, and car hacking station, three things were clear to us: 1. ANYONE can disrupt the tech that keeps […]

The fallout from the Syrian civil war had catastrophic effects on the Arab Republic’s legitimate economy, resulting in the Assad regime’s reliance on illegal production of an amphetamine type stimulant (ATS) called Captagon. As a synthetic narcotic, Captagon is flooding Middle Eastern countries and being exported to U.S. allies in European markets, with revenue estimated […]

Space impacts every aspect of our lives and plays a vital role for U.S. and allied forces operating globally. The explosion of commercial and government space programs presents opportunities to mask activity within the increasingly crowded orbital real estate. While numerous space domain awareness solutions aim to detect, monitor, and identify objects in orbit, a […]

Destabilizing forces in the Sahel signal a shift in the balance of power. Civil unrest emerged in Niger, as French counterinsurgency operations ended in November 2022. Following these events, 3GIMBALS’ OMEN™ investigated Russian expansion in Niger—a key ally in the Sahel—through diplomatic activity, scientific cooperation, military exchanges, and infrastructure investments aligned to economic and geopolitical […]

With daily battles in Ukraine, operations foreshadow larger geopolitical threats and alliances. In fall 2022, Russian use of Iranian Shahed-136 drones during 54 events in Ukraine hinted at a shift in the relationship between Moscow and Tehran. While investigating these drones, 3GIMBALS brought to light the growing alliance between Iran and Russia. Following the flow […]

3GIMBALS announced today the release of OMEN™, a multi-domain, multi-sensor analytic fusion solution. OMEN™ fuses novel data sets, pioneering data science, artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced human tradecraft to deliver once impossible insights that are fully unclassified and shareable across agencies and multinational partners.  OMEN™ is built on an open, interoperable, sharable architecture. The solution […]

3GIMBALS Awarded Seven-Year $900 Million IDIQ Contract by NGA Washington D.C. – May 9, 2023 3GIMBALS, the leading provider of intelligence, investigations, and information operations solutions, today announced the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) selected it as one of eight small businesses for the GEOINT Enterprise Operations Service and Solutions Program with Industry, Core Mission Operations […]