Concurrent Breakout Sessions 9 Breakout Sessions 12

IAFIE Outstanding Teacher Award 2009

The IAFIE Outstanding Teacher Award recognizes and honors the distinguished effort and achievements by college, university, and other post-secondary school intelligence instructors; military training personnel; and law enforcement training officials. The award recognizes the recipient’s contributions to the intelligence discipline and profession. This year’s Outstanding Teacher Award is presented to James Holden-Rhodes, Ph.D.

Dr. J.F. Holden-Rhodes

Presently a full-time Technical Consultant, for Universal Technology Corporation at Space Countermeasures Hands-On Program [SpaceCHOP], Air Force Research Laboratory. There, he has been involved in asymmetric [simulating rogue nations/terrorist groups] vulnerability assessments dealing with Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS), Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), GPS, UAS Chemical/Biological Attacks; and serves as a key Mentor in the Kirtland Air Force Base Junior Force Council TIgER program; and, the AFRL Commander’s Cup Challenge. In the latter, the KAFB Teams have won the CCC for the past three years by developing and field testing in competition with Wright-Patterson Air Force base, rapid prototype projects: vehicle stopper, long endurance UAS, and, Tagging and Tracking of humans and vehicles.

Dr. Holden-Rhodes brings 20+ years of seasoned experience in Intelligence, Intelligence Operations, and operations issues to the national security arena. A combat-tested USMC Infantry/Reconnaissance Officer thrice decorated for actions under fire, he has applied his military experiences and learning from advanced graduate work to the difficult issues facing the nation. As the first non-traditional Post Doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory he worked on unconventional nuclear issues, terrorism/counterterrorism, special operations, and force projection.

Involved in the world of terrorism/counter-terrorism long before terror was recognized as a primary threat to this country, he served as the Team Chief, Latin America, 9001st Military Intelligence Detachment [Terrorism Counteraction]. [It was this group that coined the term “narco-terrorism”]. This experience led to a “boots on the ground” assignment as the Counter Drug Intelligence Team Leader for LANL/US Southern Command and the identification and tracking of coca growing and cocaine production sites, and, transshipment routes to the United States.

A pioneer in the development of and applied application of Open Source Intelligence [OSINT] he is the author of the award-winning book, Sharing the Secrets-Open Source Intelligence and the War on Drugs. An accomplished, frequently published writer/author he also wrote and co-edited, Intelligence in Terrorism Counteraction for the US Army Intelligence Center and School.

He has lectured and taught at the National Drug Intelligence Center, National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, Western European Union [Paris], University of New Mexico, New Mexico Highlands University, and New Mexico State University. He created and served as the Director, Intelligence Studies, NMSU. There, students were trained at the undergraduate and graduate level in analytical techniques prior to joining the US Intelligence Community. He is now Adjunct Associate Professor of Intelligence Studies at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University [Albuquerque Center] where he leads the Certificate and Minor in Intelligence Studies and Security programs.

He recently led contractual work as a Project Manager for US Army Intelligence and Security Command [INSCOM] dealing with the monitoring, collection, and analysis/synthesis of OSINT production dealing with the policies and actions of nine Middle Eastern countries vis-à-vis their responses to United States operations in Iraq. He is also the Senior OSINT Analyst for the Food and Drug Administration/New Mexico State University project for food safety and bio-terrorism issues.