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Annual Report 19: Working With Minority Serving Institutions
CINA MSI Summer Week By: John Hollis Dan Vandiver said the week he recently spent at George Mason University has given him a much better understanding of the many opportunities…
Annual Report 2019: CINA Sponsored Events
Illicit Supply Networks On March 25 and 26, CINA co-organized an NSF-led conference on “Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks.” Academic and private sector experts in this field connected with…
Annual Report 2019: Introducing the Multimedia Archive
In 2019, CINA launched its Distinguished Speaker Series of expert overviews of CINA mission topics followed by audience Q&A. Inaugural talks covered such crucial challenges as illicit trade, tracking cash…
Annual Report: Introducing the CINA Multimedia Archive
In 2019, CINA launched its Distinguished Speaker Series of expert overviews of CINA mission topics followed by audience Q&A. Inaugural talks covered such crucial challenges as illicit trade, tracking cash…
Annual Report: COE Summit 2019 Student Grand Challenge
As part of the 2019 DHS Centers of Excellence Summit, 30 students from across the COE network participated in a student Grand Challenge to develop groundbreaking, interdisciplinary counterunmanned aerial systems…
Annual Report: CINA Outlook 2020
These illicit activities form a massive global economy sector. While it remains hard to assess their full scope, transnational networked criminal activities are widely estimated to account for up to…
Annual Report: Building an Enriched Gazetteer of Illicit Cartel Activities
Cartel activities occur over space and time at one or more geographical locations, and are based on several possible functional building blocks. However, identifying the space-time characteristics (context) of such…
Annual Report: New Research Projects
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from George Mason University, led by Foteini Baldimtsi, Associate Professor of Computer Science, is partnering with the Blockchain Intelligence Group to pursue a project on…
Annual Report: Analyzing and Disrupting Complex Transnational Crime Networks
Transnational criminal organizations typically comprise multiple interacting subnetworks, for example, a network to smuggle contraband into the U.S. and a network to move money out of the U.S. As a…