Total Intelligence Solutions, LLC, (TIS) is a risk management and consulting company headquartered in

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. The company delivers threat and vulnerability assessments,

data acquisition Data acquisition is the process of sampling signals that measure real-world physical conditions and converting the resulting samples into digital numeric values that can be manipulated by a computer. Data acquisition systems, abbreviated by the acro ...

capabilities, physical and information security services, training, and high-level consulting to

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companies, and to U.S. and foreign governments. TIS owned and operated the

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, Incorporated (TRC) from 2007 to 2010. The TRC delivered training and research support relating to

counterterrorism Counterterrorism (also spelled counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, incorporates the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or el ...

and

asymmetric warfare Asymmetric warfare (or asymmetric engagement) is the term given to describe a type of war between belligerents whose relative military power, strategy or tactics differ significantly. This is typically a war between a standing, professional ar ...

/conflict to the private sector, and U.S. and foreign government customers. TIS was owned by

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, a private company led by

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. Erik Prince also owned numerous other investment and business interests to include

Academi Blackwater was an American private military company founded on December 26, 1996 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. It was renamed Xe Services in 2009 and known as Academi since 2011 after it was acquired by a group of private investors. ...

(formerly known as Blackwater).

Cofer Black Joseph Cofer Black (born 1950) is an American former CIA officer who served as director of the Counterterrorism Center in the years surrounding the September 11th attacks, and was later appointed Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Countert ...

was formerly the chairman of TIS. The TIS website now forwards to a site operated by OODA Group LLC.

References

External links

* http://www.totalintel.com/index.php
Total Intelligence Solutions
at

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* Dana Hedgpeth,
Blackwater's Owner Has Spies for Hire
, ''Washington Post'', Nov. 3, 2007, p.A01. * http://www.ooda.com Security companies of the United States Risk management companies {{business-stub