Hive specializes in designing, developing, and implementing critical national security programs through the integration of cross-border collaboration, knowledge transfer, strategic communications and outreach, and monitoring and evaluation. Hive functions as the streamlined Program Management Office (PMO), managing several lines of interconnected activities to accomplish targeted client objectives.
Hive's globally acclaimed Director of Digital Forensics, Mr. Sam Brothers, leads Hive's Digital Forensics Program, which assists customers with computer and digital forensics advisory and training services, including advising on the recovery of information from computers, mobile phones, and other data storage devices. Hive's forensic experts provide expertise in collecting, processing, preserving, analyzing, and presenting digital evidence to support criminal, fraud, counterintelligence, and law enforcement investigations. To further partner nation capabilities to combat narco-trafficking and organized crime, Hive assists its partners in developing multi-faceted toolkits of digital forensic capacities through the provision of equipment and software, mentoring and advising, assistance with obtaining certifications and accreditation, and the production of training materials, operating procedures, and technical evaluations.
There are many moving parts to implementing a large-scale foreign assistance project, particularly in a foreign environment. At every stage of program implementation, we employ techniques to actively monitor each activity that can potentially impact the quality and success of the project to meet established objectives and client requirements.
Hive is uniquely positioned to leverage our finely tuned project and program monitoring techniques across different agencies and critical programs as our team members have done successfully for the Departments of State and Defense.
Hive’s comprehensive approach to instructional design and development, similar to our PMO management approach, is strategic, outcome-oriented, flexible, and founded in the international standard Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation (ADDIE) Model methodology. Our full-time Instructional Systems Design (ISD) Team collaborates with select subject matter expert (SME) instructors to create unique learning experiences that link program goals with participant needs to produce measurable gains in knowledge and skills while at the same time enhancing interagency and international cooperation among training alumni.
Our outcome evaluation methodology enables clients to measure program results through qualitative and quantitative reporting. We specialize in collaborating with Government program stakeholders to capture needs, tailor solutions to achieve objectives, and realize investments of both short- and long-term outcomes through the development of a formal logic model. We are capable of creating project evaluation models for programs that are at the conceptualization phase with a full-scope evaluation plan and instruments or utilize existing inputs, processes, outputs, and outcomes for ongoing or completed projects. Our logic model is applicable to single projects, entire programs, and even portfolios such as INL’s International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) and offer a top-level depiction of the flow of materials and processes utilized to produce the results desired by the Department, Bureau, or program. Our model will provide a tool to all program or project stakeholders to assist their organizing, planning, analysis, and decision-making efforts for current and future programs.
The success of a diplomatic capacity-building engagement will continue to engage stakeholders and participants following the initial engagement, monitor the progress and skill development of the participants and associated agencies and organizations, and build on the reach and impact of the program to create an invested group of partners that share common interests in global security and progress. This “sphere of influence” serves as a strategic asset for the U.S., our partner nations, and future public diplomacy engagements.
Our Team brings years of experience collaborating with U.S. Government agencies, NGOs, and partner nations to develop public diplomacy engagements that strengthen partnerships, enhance security, promote social inclusion and prosperity, and support ongoing interaction. We provide a platform for participants and alumni to continue dialogue, share experiences, and continue the learning experience. This network acts as a support system for program stakeholders as well as a valuable tool to derive data and metrics on the downstream effects of initial program objectives and medium- to long-term impacts and outcomes
Members of Team Hive have gained expertise in leveraging a variety of low-cost, high-impact technological tools to implement and elevate government foreign technical assistance and capacity building programs. Our team has hands-on experience collecting extensive, global participant data via surveys and polls to produce qualitative and quantitative reports for clients. We have collected data via web forms, SMS, phone calls, surveys, in-person interviews, and focus groups internationally, and are particularly cognizant of tech challenges posed by both low-bandwidth regions and U.S. Government network security.
Through iterative human-centered design processes, we have successfully documented requirements and discover tech tools appropriate for training development, public diplomacy outreach efforts, overall monitoring and evaluation, and professional networking to develop positive and targeted spheres of influence.
Team Hive brings years of experience working closely with practitioners in a variety of criminal justice and security areas. We have worked with the entire U.S. federal law enforcement community, U.S. federal and state judges and prosecutors, foreign justice institutes and chief justices, and international NGOs. We have accumulated an extensive network of subject matter expert (SME) resources over years of working with the domestic and foreign domain experts who bring not only decades of expertise in particular subject areas but also have substantial facilitation experience in the U.S. and abroad. Some examples of SME resources include: counter-narcotics, cybercrime, law enforcement management, and maritime security.