In-Q-Tel Technologies/Capabilities Highlighted

Forbes ran a nice piece on In-Q-Tel.  The article is worth reading in its entirety.  Here is a link: Startups Backed By The CIA. The In-Q-Tel mission is to identify, adapt and deliver innovative technology solutions to support the missions of the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community, including the Department of Homeland Security. As a teaser till you get around to the article, here is a list of companies in the order … [Read more...]

Endeca Government Summit: Important context on a key mission area

The Endeca Government Summit was yesterday.  The agenda included some fantastic presentations from customers who have used Endeca to address issues requiring incredible scale (billions of records) and incredible scope (including the need to discover meaning in data in milliseconds) and human-focused interfaces (including, in every solution I saw, an ability to enable humans to interact with data in ways that search never enables). One of my … [Read more...]

In-Q-Tel Portfolio Gadget for the CTO

In-Q-Tel is a famous not-for-profit organization created to help bridge the gap between the needs of the US Intelligence Community and advances in commercial technology.  In-Q-Tel has attracted some of the best minds in the technology business and has also established a fantastic reputation for finding emerging companies and entrepreneurs with promising ideas. Enterprise CTOs looking to track emerging technologies should pay attention to In-Q-Tel.  … [Read more...]