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Furthering Intelligence Research How the National Intelligence University Can Fill Critical Gaps for Intelligence Research / HEATHER J. WILLIAMS, DAVID STEBBINS, RICHARD S. GIRVEN, TRACEY RISSMAN, SUNNY D. BHATT, GREGORY WEIDER FAUERBACH.
Van Pelt Library JF1525.I6 W545 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Heather J.
- Series:
- Research report (Rand Corporation) ; A2172-1.
- Report ; A2172-1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Intelligence University (U.S.)--Research.
- National Intelligence University (U.S.).
- Intelligence service--United States--Evaluation.
- Intelligence service.
- Interagency coordination--United States.
- Interagency coordination.
- Intelligence Analysis.
- Intelligence Community.
- Military Intelligence.
- Research Methods.
- Title I (Elementary and Secondary Education Act).
- Local Subjects:
- Intelligence Analysis.
- Intelligence Community.
- Military Intelligence.
- Research Methods.
- Title I (Elementary and Secondary Education Act).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 65 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2025
- Summary:
- This report addresses how the National Intelligence University (NIU) can define its role in conducting and overseeing research that is relevant to members of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) and how it can identify study areas related to IC requirements and gaps. This report explores the definition of research, how it differs from traditional intelligence analysis, what intelligence research is currently being done within the IC and academia, and what pressing research questions are unanswered. The report provides insights into the NIU's unique position between academia and the IC and how its access to classified holdings and its understanding of a largely closed part of the U.S. national security enterprise allow NIU to conduct research that most organizations cannot. NIU can be a critical convener between the outside academic and research communities doing cutting-edge research and the IC. NIU should consider multiple factors in developing a research agenda, but its best value proposition comes when it leverages one of its four unique assets: organic access to IC stakeholder needs, access to classified data and data sets, faculty expertise in intelligence subjects and methods, and student subject-matter expertise. These unique assets would be engaged for research on unclassified or classified projects about the theory of intelligence and the intelligence discipline, and for practical questions relevant to national security priorities that can only be answered with the use of classified information. The report then suggests a decision-aid framework that can be used when making decisions about NIU's research agenda.
- Contents:
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction
- CHAPTER 2: Differentiating Intelligence Analysis from Academic Research
- CHAPTER 3: Alternative Institutional Models and Approaches to Research
- CHAPTER 4: Observations, Suggestions, and Conclusions
- APPENDIX: Additional Background on Regional Accreditation
- Notes:
- Title from PDF document (title page; viewed May 8, 2025)
- "Prepared for the National Intelligence University"
- "RAND NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE"
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-65)
- Description from electronic resource
- ISBN:
- 1977411487
- 9781977411488
- OCLC:
- 1519330501
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