The Analysis Corporation (TAC), now renamed as Sotera Defense, is the Intelligence Solutions business of Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. ("GTEC"), a defense contracting company focused on mission-critical, technology-based US national security

National security

National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use of economic, diplomacy, power projection and political power. The concept developed mostly in the United States of America after World War II...

 solutions. Since its inception in 1990, TAC has been working on projects in the counterterrorism and national security realm by supporting national watchlisting activities as well as other CT requirements. Based in McLean, Virginia

McLean, Virginia

McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....

, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Global Strategies Group (North America) Inc., the operating company of GTEC.

Cooperation

GTEC's Intelligence Solutions business, which is staffed by other former senior officials from the Intelligence community

Intelligence community

Intelligence community may refer to* Bangladeshi intelligence community* Croatian intelligence community * Israeli intelligence community* Italian intelligence community, see SISMI...

, operates within almost every entity in the Intelligence Community including the US Department of State, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...

 (FBI), and Defense Intelligence Agency

Defense Intelligence Agency

The Defense Intelligence Agency is a member of the Intelligence Community of the United States, and is the central producer and manager of military intelligence for the United States Department of Defense, employing over 16,500 U.S. military and civilian employees worldwide...

 (DIA).

Key areas

Key practice areas include intelligence and law enforcement support for terrorist screening, watchlist

Watchlist

Watchlist or watch list can have several meanings:*Interpol Terrorism Watch List, a 24 hour, 7 days a week command center and a linkage system to identify terrorist financing lists...

 development and operations; intelligence analysis

Intelligence analysis

Intelligence analysis is the process of taking known information about situations and entities of strategic, operational, or tactical importance, characterizing the known, and, with appropriate statements of probability, the future actions in those situations and by those entities...

; systems integration and software development

Software development

Software development is the development of a software product...

; multilingual name search and pattern matching.

External links

• Official site
• A collection of material related to the passport info scandal
• Spies for Hire

See also

• Airport security
  Airport security
  Airport security refers to the techniques and methods used in protecting airports and aircraft from crime.Large numbers of people pass through airports. This presents potential targets for terrorism and other forms of crime due to the number of people located in a particular location...
  
  
• Civil defense
  Civil defense
  Civil defense, civil defence or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state from military attack. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, mitigation, preparation, response, or emergency evacuation, and recovery...
  
  
• High policing
  High policing
  High policing is a form of intelligence-led policing that serves to protect the national government or a conglomerate of national governments from internal threats; that is, any policing operations integrated into domestic intelligence gathering, national security, or international security...
  
  
• Infrastructure security
  Infrastructure Security
  Infrastructure security is the security provided to protect infrastructure, especially critical infrastructure, such as airports, highways rail transport, hospitals, bridges, transport hubs, network communications, media, the electricity grid, dams, power plants, seaports, oil refineries, and...
  
  
• Military-Industrial Complex
  Military-industrial complex
  Military–industrial complex , or Military–industrial-congressional complex is a concept commonly used to refer to policy and monetary relationships between legislators, national armed forces, and the industrial sector that supports them...
  
  
• Port security
  Port security
  Port security refers to the defense, law and treaty enforcement, and counterterrorism activities that fall within the port and maritime domain...
  
  
• Supply chain security
  Supply chain security
  Supply chain security refers to efforts to enhance the security of the supply chain: the transport and logistics system for the world's cargo. It combines traditional practices of supply chain management with the security requirements of the system, which are driven by threats such as terrorism,...
  
  
• Terrorism in the United States
  Terrorism in the United States
  A common definition of terrorism is the systematic use or threatened use of violence to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious, or ideological change...