NS4157 Intelligence for Homeland Defense and Security

This course will provide students with a fundamental knowledge of U.S. operational intelligence capabilities to detect and deter terrorist and other unconventional threats to the United States. Topics will include the structure and function of U.S. intelligence organizations, systems, architecture, and capabilities. Issues in intelligence oversight, joint and inter-agency intelligence sharing, intelligence community administration, and intelligence support to national decision-making will be discussed.

Prerequisite

NS3181 or consent of the instructor

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

·      Critically examine the U.S. intelligence community’s role in homeland defense and security. 

·      Discuss the problems involved in interagency coordination and information flow in intelligence support to homeland security and defense. 

·      Compare and evaluate regional, state, local, and tribal organizations and processes in place for homeland security intelligence. 

·      Assess the role of the U.S. military—and military officers—in providing intelligence support for homeland security and homeland defense.   

·      Evaluate the impact of the increased focus on great power competition, and of events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, on intelligence, homeland security, and homeland defense. 

·      Improve your skills in critical thinking, graduate level reading, and communications.