Colleagues,

It is a torrid week here in Baghdad-by-the-Potomac, and a decent thunderstorm might help to clear the sodden air- that is the point of these aperiodic reports.

You may have heard that I have joined the staff of Syntelligent Analytic Solutions to take over the Intelligence Community Portfolio. I am excited about the challenges ahead and eager to see many of you at DoDIIS in Atlanta next week. It will be a great opportunity to share thoughts about the way forward in a nation confronted by an evolving threat landscape and new ways to visualize data and create finished intelligence.

I am going to continue the Weather Report business intelligence on the events in our ever-changing business landscape. I hope to talk to you personally about it at our event at the conference- and get your game on!

Here at Syntelligent, we have doubled in size our last appearance at DoDIIS. We have made some key hires to help manage that dramatic growth, and are confident that our Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) status will enable us to help our IC customers to meet their small business goals.

We know that our ability to maintain the delicate calculus required to maintain our compliance will be of great value going forward, and I personally am proud to be part of that effort.

In fact, I have moved to a HUBZone to help keep us in balance as we focus on growth and excellent in management as we grow our intelligence practice by harnessing our unique and talented people.

See you next week at DoDIIS!

Vic Socotra

IC Account Manager

Syntelligent Analytic Solutions