Susanne Hake’s Post

Step into any watch floor or mission operations center and you'll be hit with dozens of screens, feeds, and alerts all demanding attention.  It's overwhelming—and that's the problem. Despite all this technology, we're still asking analysts to play connect-the-dots manually, using systems that feel ancient compared to what threats look like today. The intelligence community needs to fundamentally rethink how we process geospatial data. When you're trying to monitor hundreds of critical locations simultaneously—military bases, shipping lanes, infrastructure sites—human analysts simply can't keep up. The math doesn't work. We need systems that can automatically orchestrate multiple sensors, process data in real-time, and flag only the changes that actually matter. The goal isn't to replace human judgment, but to free analysts from the tedious work of scanning static images so they can focus on making decisions. That's exactly the gap we're working to close at Vantor with Sentry—persistent monitoring software that delivers predictive intelligence at global scale. The technology exists. The question is whether the GEOINT community will deploy it fast enough to matter.