The Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA) Research Group delivers cutting edge open-source and geospatial intelligence and analytics on a range of topics related to national security and defence.
From North Korea’s overseas procurement and proliferation networks to Russia’s ongoing military activities, we seek to leverage new technologies and techniques to generate actionable and insightful intelligence on contemporary security issues.
The team has also developed a number of in-house machine learning and AI tools to detect, classify and database entities in electro-optical and synthetic aperture radar imagery.
OSIA works closely with a number of external partners and the team’s output has featured in a range of international news organisations such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Times among others.
Programmes
We divide our public portfolio of research into three programme areas.
Project Sandstone
Project Sandstone is an initiative to systematically analyse North Korea’s proliferation, procurement and sanctions evasion networks.
Assessment of Military Capabilities
This programme looks at providing analysis and insights into military capabilities using OSINT and GEOINT techniques.
The Changing Nature of Intelligence
This programme seeks to understand how the proliferation of data and digital tools is changing the nature of intelligence inside and outside of government.
Our team
James Byrne
Director, OSIA
Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
Joe Byrne
Research Fellow
Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
Gary Somerville
Research Fellow
Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
Giangiuseppe Pili
Research Fellow
Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
Marike Woollard
Programme Manager
Open-Source Intelligence and Analysis (OSIA)
