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Accelerate the homeland security mission with Primer real-time intelligence
October 14, 2025
By
Shikha Bahl
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The Department of Homeland Security fights uphill battles everyday to serve the United States. And increasingly, homeland security threats evolve faster than legacy tools can counter. From drone interdiction and border security to fentanyl and transnational criminal groups, Homeland Security faces urgent and massive big data problems that Primer solves.
We know that homeland threats are networked, adaptive, and global driven by bad actors who monitor the latest technological innovations and look for ways to exploit them.
Jorge Comas, Director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s NTC detailed how, in 2024, the agency disrupted an ISIS-K-affiliated network involving people from Tajikistan seeking to enter and harm the the United States with the assistance of enablers from Central Asia through Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America, before reaching Mexico.
This success underlines that countering modern threats require intelligence fusion and international coordination, and we are grateful to Director Comas and his teams for their commitment. We believe those transnational, multi-domain threats are growing and require new tooling for reliable success.
To meet the moment, Primer delivers visibility into adversarial TTPs (tactics, techniques and procedures) at the earliest stages of planning, coordination, and movement. The help DHS overmatch malicious actors, Primer uncovers affiliations and illicit networks, reveals threats, and delivers real-time operational insight before impact.
Bridging the Gap Across Data Silos
Traditional OSINT tools are often effective at threat detection – “the what” – but usually fall short of providing context and deep insight (“so what”). And they remain isolated from agencies’ internal data sources. Without fused datasets key connections can get lost and the mission might not achieve clear, traceable, verifiable decision support.
Primer bridges the gap. Serving critical mission teams, Primer fuses critical data such as reports, investigation notes, transcripts, and open-source data and then elevates data to insight.
When threats and insights about entities, relationships, networks, timelines, and narratives are surfaced and connected to historical patterns, analysts can interrogate data quickly and act with greater speed, power, and confidence. Primer’s capabilities support a wide range of homeland security use cases, helping agencies respond to evolving threats, improve situational awareness, and inform strategic decisions.
- Counterterrorism: Uncover online radicalization narratives, networks, and communication patterns.
- Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (cUAS) Threat Intelligence: Fuse proprietary briefs and reports with publicly available information to get left of launch with cUAS intelligence for action and policy.
- Cyber-Enabled Threats: Monitor social media platforms for ransomware and vulnerability chatter, and adversarial operations in the information environment.
- Event Security: Support threat monitoring and intelligence for large-scale events like the FIFA World Cup 2026 and the 2028 Olympic Games.
- Border and Port Security: Surface OSINT-sourced financial trade, migration pattern and emerging smuggling route insights.
- Disaster Response: Surface OSINT-sourced signals of humanitarian distress, requests for assistance, sentiment, trust, and disruptions to support for faster, coordinated emergency response.
Staying Ahead of the Threat
Where threats are decentralized, fast-moving, and increasingly digital, critical missions need more than visibility; they need foresight. By fusing data, uncovering hidden patterns, and delivering real-time, mission-ready context and insights, Primer helps agencies reduce toil and tilt the scales by shifting left of threats.
Primer Enterprise
Informed, defensible analysis
Primer Enterprise is a secure AI platform that helps analysts and mission teams across the Intelligence Community, Defense, and Civilian agencies analyze massive volumes of unstructured data. It transforms fragmented reports, proprietary data, and open-source information into structured, traceable insight that supports faster, defensible decision-making.
Primer Command
Real-time operational clarity
Primer Command is an AI-powered monitoring platform that helps mission teams keep track of narratives, track evolving topics, and detect emerging threats across global news and social media. It provides real-time visibility into the information environment so leaders can understand events as they unfold.