Total Intelligence Solutions, LLC, (TIS) is a risk management

Risk management

Risk management is the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities...

 and consulting company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. The company delivers threat and vulnerability assessments, data acquisition

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 typically convert analog waveforms into digital values for processing...

 capabilities, physical and information security services, training, and high-level consulting to Fortune 500

Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...

 companies, and to U.S. and foreign governments.

TIS owns and operates the Terrorism Research Center, Incorporated (TRC). TRC delivers training and research support relating to counterterrorism and asymmetric warfare

Asymmetric warfare

Asymmetric warfare is war between belligerents whose relative military power differs significantly, or whose strategy or tactics differ significantly....

/conflict to the private sector, and U.S. and foreign government customers.

TIS is owned by The Prince Group, a private company led by Erik Prince

Erik Prince

Erik Dean Prince is the founder and formerly the sole owner of the private military company Xe Services LLC, formerly Blackwater Worldwide. On March 2, 2009, Prince announced that he was stepping down as CEO of Xe. He is currently living abroad in the United Arab Emirates, where he is creating a...

. Erik Prince also owns and/or oversees numerous other investment and business interests to include Xe

Blackwater Worldwide

Xe Services LLC, better known by its former names, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide, is a private military company founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark.. Xe is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors...

, the company formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide.

External links

• http://www.totalintel.com/index.php
• http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Total_Intelligence_Solutions%2C_LLC
• Dana Hedgpeth, "Blackwater's Owner Has Spies for Hire", Washington Post, Nov. 3, 2007, p.A01.