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.: Executive Summary

THE INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable research institute created to address critical global challenges through advanced science and technology. The Institute seeks practical solutions to selected global issues through international collaboration, research and scientific exchange of the world's leading scientists and technologists. The Institute provides a forum for performing focused studies, international seminars and symposia and operates state of the art physics and simulation and modeling research laboratories to identify, develop and commercialize technical solutions to selected global challenges.

.: Mission

The Institute for Strategic and Innovative Technologies provides a forum for international cooperation, research and scientific exchange on advanced electromagnetic technologies to address critical global technical challenges.

.: Approach

The Institute provides facilities and internationally recognized scientific experts to host and lead research and scientific exploration to address specific selected scientific and technological and National Security challenges of global importance. Through teams and collaborative efforts, with government, universities and industry, leading scientists, engineers and National Security specialists focus on providing solutions to critical global challenges.

.: Management and Organization

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Latest News...

Feb. 21, 2023 "INFER's Best of 2022: Congratulations to the season's leaders across various forecasting categories." Yes, both Dawna Coutant (user name DKC) and Carolyn Meinel are among the best of the best with this geopolitical forecasting challenge.

Feb. 16, 2023 Another success for the geopolitical forecasting research of ISIT's Dawna Coutant and Carolyn Meinel. INFER, where they are top performers, has announced "collaboration with Cosmic Bazaar, the crowdsourced forecasting program run by the UK’s Professional Head of Intelligence Assessment (PHIA). Cosmic Bazaar was created by the British government to improve the rigor of its intelligence analysis. It involves 2,000 forecasters from 41 government departments and several allied countries and has been featured in The Economist."

Feb. 8, 2023 INFER released its list of top geopolitical forecasters for the 2022 season. Unsurprisingly, ISIT's Dawna Coutant (user name DKC) and Carolyn Meinel made it into the top five for many categories. For accuracy, Dawna was #7 and Carolyn #54 out of 1091 competitors, of whom over 100 were fellow Pro Forecasters.

INFER, short for INtegrated Forecasting and Estimates of Risk,"is a forecasting program designed to generate valuable signals and early warning about the future of critical science and technology trends and high-risk geopolitical events for U.S. Government policymakers"

Oct. 2021: ISIT's involvement in IARPA's Hybrid Forecasting Competition finally paid off. Although we didn't win a contract, we went ahead and did the research anyhow. See " What do forecasting rationales reveal about thinking patterns of top geopolitical forecasters?" in the International Journal of Forecasting.

August 2021: ISIT's Dawna Coutant and Carolyn Meinel had been combating COVID-19 as participants in IARPA's GJP 2.0 program. We did better than the big modeling teams for the first six months of the pandemic. Then we were about even with the models until Delta arrived. Wow, what a surprise this was to most of us. See what we had forecasted for 2021 as of August 8, 2020 at Covid_forecasts_2021.html

May 2020: ISIT's Carolyn Meinel explains how she used Natural Language Processing to forecast geopolitical questions in a webinar hosted by Basis Technology: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall -- which Country Will Rule them All?

January 2020: The team of ISIT and KaDSci, LLC came in 4th place in IARPA's Geopolitical Forecasting Competition out of over 100 initial competitors by forecasting 305 questions within just 5 1/2 months: Details here.

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