About Us
We apply our expertise on a range of national security topics to assist our clients with strategic planning and risk management.
ANS Analytics serves a portfolio of government and industry clients from regions including in Australia, the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. We apply our expertise on a range of national security topics to assist our clients with strategic planning and risk management.
Our assessments provide C-suite executives and decision-makers with a big-picture view of their strategic landscape. Our data modeling and machine learning capabilities provide analysts and tacticians with operational insights that empower agile decision-making.
- Indications and warning services: We work with our clients to develop new methodologies for understanding changes in their current operating environment. We engage in the R&D of bespoke software tools enabling our clients to measure risk and develop action plans for effective response and adaptation to changing circumstances.
- Strategic risk dashboards: We help our clients operate in a dynamic world by developing unique datasets that fuse capabilities like real-time data and geospatial intelligence to provide unique and accessible open-source data-driven intelligence.
- Tailored research products: We work with our clients to understand their strategic priorities and the specific problems they seek to solve. Our research products include risk assessment, due diligence, and forecasting.
- Bespoke research tools: We work with clients to develop unique research methodologies in response to their research objectives. We help our clients build an operationally secure open-source research infrastructure.
Founder & Managing Director
Dr. Samantha Hoffman is the founder and managing director of ANS Analytics LLC. She is an analyst with over ten years of experience and a proven track record for producing groundbreaking open-source research on Chinese politics and national security strategy. Her work has shaped global approaches to understanding challenges posed by the Chinese party-state’s harnessing of technology for security and propaganda purposes.
Dr. Hoffman is an adviser to the UK-based Coalition on Secure Technology (CIM-Coalition), a Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation, and a Nonresident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research. She has publicly testified in the United States Congress, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, and the European Parliament. She has been quoted in international media, including in outlets such as the BBC, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and The Guardian.
Dr. Hoffman holds a PhD in Politics and International Relations from the University of Nottingham (2017), an MSc in Modern Chinese Studies from the University of Oxford (2011), a BA in International Affairs from Florida State University (2010), and a BA in Chinese Language and Culture from Florida State University (2010).
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ANS Analytics participates in ‘Hybrid Threats and Intercultural Strategic Communication’ event
Participants from EU Member States came together in Brussels for the European Security and Defence College (ESDC)’s fully residential pilot course ‘Hybrid Threats and Intercultural Strategic Communication’, from 9 to 11 April 2024.