Concurrent Breakout Sessions 9 Breakout Sessions 12

Teaching Military Intelligence

Military intelligence is not an oxymoron in today’s environment. Is military intelligence any different from national security intelligence? What special considerations/methods/cultural issues must be taught in the military framework?

Moderator: LCDR Michael Bennett, US Coast Guard Academy

Speakers: Major John Mowchan, US Army War College; LCDR Todd Wiggen, US Coast Guard Intelligence Training Center; Colonel Eric M. Walters, US Marine Corps

12. Teaching Predictive Intelligence

Forecasting and warning have always played a role in intelligence, for all aspects of the field. Foreknowledge is a key goal in many situations. How successful are we in predicting and teaching how to predict or warn?

Moderator: Don McDowell, Intelligence Study Centre (Australia)

Speakers: John McCreary, Air Force; Dr. Jonathan Lockwood, American Military University; Dr. John Bodnar, SAIC

13. 
    Core Competencies for Analysts
    

What attributes and skills should intelligence analysts or officers have and how do we encourage them in the education process? Core competencies have been developed in varying areas and these speakers will talk to them.

Moderator: Eileen Hurley, Pherson Associates

Speakers: Reese Madsen, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Intelligence); Dr. Michael Collier, Eastern Kentucky State University; Shelagh Dorn, NY State Police/IALEIA

Keynote Speakers

Michael “Mike” McConnell

Mike McConnell is a Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton and former Director of National Intelligence (2007 - 2009). McConnell has an illustrious record of government service. He previously served as Director of the National Security Agency (1992 - 1996) under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.  A Vietnam veteran, he served a total of 29 years in the Navy retiring in 1996 as a Vice Admiral. 

Upon his retirement from the Navy, he joined Booz Allen where he attained the position of senior vice president, and departed in 2006 when asked by President George W. Bush to become the Director of National Intelligence. President Obama has asked McConnell to continue to serve by accepting a position on his President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), the Board which advises the President on all matters related to intelligence.

During Desert Shield/Storm and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, McConnell worked as the Intelligence Officer (J2) for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense.

He holds a Master's of Public Administration from George Washington University and is a graduate of the National Defense University and the National Defense Intelligence College, and holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Furman University.

Honorable Edwin Meese III

Edwin Meese is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He served as the seventy-fifth attorney general of the United States from February 1985 to August 1988.

Meese is an expert on the U.S. legal system, law enforcement and criminal justice, intelligence and national security, and the Reagan presidency. His current research focuses on the criminal justice system, federalism, emergency response management, and terrorism.

Meese is also a distinguished fellow and holder of the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation; a member of the Board of Regents of the National College of District Attorney; distinguished senior fellow, Institute for United States Studies, University of London; and a member of the boards of directors of both the Capital Research Center and the Landmark Legal Foundation.

Before serving as U.S. attorney general, he was counselor to the president from 1981 to 1985. In this capacity he functioned as the president's chief policy adviser and had management responsibility for the administration of the cabinet, policy development, and planning and evaluation. During the time he held both these positions, Meese was a member of the president's cabinet and the National Security Council.

Formerly, he served as Governor Reagan's executive assistant and chief of staff in California from 1969 through 1974 and as legal affairs secretary from 1967 through 1968. Before joining Governor Reagans staff in 1967, Meese served as deputy district attorney of Alameda County, California.

From 1977 to 1981, Meese was a professor of law at the University of San Diego, where he was also director of the Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management.

Meese is a graduate of Yale University (1953) and holds a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

Francois Mathieu

Director, Research & Development, Criminal Intelligence, Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Mr. Mathieu has been a civilian member of the RCMP for 20 years. He first worked in Drug Enforcement before transferring to Criminal Intelligence in 1991. In Criminal Intelligence, Mr. Mathieu has focused on various aspects of drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime related corruption. In 1999, Mr. Mathieu became the officer in charge of the Criminal Analysis Branch in Criminal Intelligence. In 2005, Mr. Mathieu took over the responsibilities of the officer in charge, National Priorities & Special Intelligence Projects. Since late 2008, Mr. Mathieu has been the director of Research & Development in Criminal Intelligence. In his current functions, he oversees the continued development of criminal intelligence in the RCMP, including training for intelligence analysts and officers. Mr. Mathieu obtained a B.A. and an M.A. in history at Laval University.

Speaker/Moderator Biographies

Susan Aldridge (Dr.) - President, University of Maryland University College. In three years at UMUC she has expanded the university’s global outreach and presence, added new academic programs, increased its enrollments, strengthened its infrastructure and streamlined its business operation.

Dr. Aldridge was one of 11 university presidents appointed by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities to study how the United States can improve its system for higher education. She serves on numerous national boards and committees, including the Microsoft Advisory Council for Education Products. She received her doctorate and master’s degrees from the University of Colorado and her bachelor’s degree from Colorado Women’s College.

Thomas Carr - Director of the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Program since 1994. He is the Executive Director of the University of Maryland’s Public Safety Training and Technical Assistance Program. Formerly, he served as Chief (Lt. Colonel) of the Maryland State Police Bureau of Drug Enforcement and Commander of the Criminal Investigations Division. He is the principal investigator on an annual grant of approximately $4.5 million from the State of Maryland, Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services that focuses on the conversion of mainframe technology to distributed databases and a $13.5 million grant that funds the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program. In addition, Mr. Carr develops antiterrorism curriculum and provides training for the Department of State, Office of Antiterrorism Assistance. He has taught antiterrorism courses in Macedonia, Peru, Thailand, Hungary, St. Kitts, and El Salvador. In 2007, Mr. Carr was elected vice-chair of the International Association for Intelligence Education he became chairman of IAFIE for 2008-2009.

Mr. Carr has a degree in History from Towson State University and attended the Maryland State Police Academy, the FBI National Academy, the DEA Drug Commander’s School and the Federal Executive Institute.

Michael Bennett (LCDR) - is currently Director and Assistant Professor of Strategic Intelligence Studies at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, CT where he teaches courses in Strategic Intelligence, National Security Policy, Terrorism, and Analysis. He is a 1998 graduate of Webster University in St. Louis, MO where he earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and Environmental Science, and a 2003 graduate of the Joint Military Intelligence College where he was awarded the Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence (MSSI). He was recently selected as the 2009-2010 Director’s Fellow at the National Security Agency and was accepted into the Doctoral Program at Virginia Tech’s School for Public and International Affairs beginning in the Fall of 2009.

John Bodnar (Dr.) - is a biological warfare analyst for SAIC. A 1970 Naval Academy graduate, he served first on nuclear submarines then in the reserves

as an S&T analyst and war-game umpire until retiring as a Captain. As a PhD

molecular biologist with twenty years experience studying viruses and developing bioinformatics methodologies, he has spent the last eight years has supported several government agencies on biological warfare projects and development of new analytical methodologies. He is the author of Warning Analysis in the Information Age (JMIC).

James Bruce (Dr.) - is a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. Both an intelligence practitioner and teacher, he retired from CIA after nearly 24 years. He served in the National Intelligence Council, CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence, the Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, and was Chief of Training at the Counterintelligence Center. He is presently an adjunct professor at Georgetown and Columbia Universities where he has taught four different graduate courses.

Grey Burkhart - program manager for intelligence training and an intelligence analysis instructor at the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center. He served as a Navy intelligence officer, the chief executive of a consulting engineering firm, and as the Chief Operating Officer of two media companies. As a career intelligence officer, Burkhart's 30 years of professional experience and has contributed to a broad range of intelligence-related activities since he joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 2001. He is an authority on the global proliferation of information and communications technologies (ICT). His most recent book, co-authored with Susan Older, is The Information Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa. Burkhart holds a B.S. degree from Illinois Institute of Technology and a master's degree from the University of Southern California.

Steve Casto - Assistant Vice President, i2 Inc. Previously served for over 30 years with the U.S. Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). At the time of his retirement, he served as the Chief of Investigative Intelligence at the Special Operations Division. Some of the other Intelligence positions held by Mr. Casto include serving as the Chief of International Investigative Intelligence at DEA Headquarters; leading DEA’s Intelligence Response Team to Southwest Asia after 9/11; an assignment as an Inspector in the Office of Inspections; and six years as an Intelligence Group Supervisor in the Washington-Baltimore HIDTA where he worked closely with HIDTA Director and IAFIE Chair Thomas Carr. He also served three years in the U.S. Army, Military Intelligence, including a tour of duty in Vietnam. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland – University College.

Derek Chris - Master’s Student, Mercyhurst College. Intelligence Specialist, US Navy Reserves, Office of Naval Intelligence (2005-2008); Ballistics Specialist / Test Engineer – University of Alabama in Huntsville (2004-2007). Won the 2006 Harry S. Truman Foundation Scholarship. Awarded the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for military service in the Persian Gulf. B.A. Political Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2007.

Robert Clark (Dr.) - former CIA Analyst and current consultant and author. Wrote Estimates and Prediction and Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (now in 2^nd edition). Forthcoming book is Technical Collection for Intelligence. Retired as a Lt. Col. From the Air Force; flew in Vietnam. Has a S.B. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Ph.D. in Engineering from the University of Illinois and a J.D. from George Washington University.

Michael Collier (Dr.) - teaches Homeland Security and Intelligence Studies in the Eastern Kentucky University College of Justice and Safety.  He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University (2000), an M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College (1986), and a B.S. from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1974).  In a 22-year U.S. Coast Guard career, he was a specialist in deepwater cutter operations and a sub-specialist in law enforcement and military intelligence.

Jeffrey Cooper - Vice President for Technology, SAIC Technical Fellow, and Chief Innovation Officer in the Intelligence, Security and Technology Group at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). He received his undergraduate and graduate education at The Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Cooper‘s recent focus has been largely on intelligence matters, with particular emphasis on analytic failures and methods to improve all-source analysis capabilities. He wrote “Curing Analytic Pathologies” published by CIA’s Center for the Study of Intelligence in December 2005.

Randy Dietering - Lead Instructor for the DNI “Analysis 101” course. He served more than three decades as a national security and intelligence professional, with half of his career on the White House staff. Mr. Deitering served four consecutive Presidents during his 15 years with the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), The White House (1987-2003). He received his White House Commission (Presidential appointment) as PFIAB Executive Director in 1998, having served as Acting Executive Director since 1995. He also was Deputy Executive Director and an Assistant Director of the Board. Mr. Deitering retired from CIA as a SIS-4 in 2006, after serving as Senior Officer-in-Residence, University of South Carolina Honors College. He has an MA in politics from New York University.

Shelagh Dorn - Senior Supervising Intelligence Analyst, New York State Intelligence Center, six years and the last sixteen years working in/with law enforcement. She studied Sociology at Cornell University (BA) and Criminal Justice at the University at Albany (MA; PhD in progress). A member of IALEIA’s Foundations of Intelligence Analysis Training (FIAT) Coordinating Committee and a FIAT instructor, she frequently participates in designing and revising state and national intelligence training curricula.

James M. Dubik (Lieutenant General) - Commanding General, Multi National Security Transition Command – Iraq. Previously, LTG Dubik was the Commanding General of I Corps and Ft. Lewis. He commanded US and Multi-national forces in northern Haiti during Operation Uphold Democracy. He served as Assistant Division Commander for Multinational Division (North) Operation Joint Forge, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Deputy Commanding General for Transformation, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Lewis, Washington, and Commanding General of the 25th Infantry Division (Light), Schofield Barracks, Hawaii from 2000 to 2002. LTG Dubik has attended United States Army Command and General Staff College and Senior Service College Fellowship. He completed the Advanced Operations Studies Fellowship, Fort Leavenworth and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s executive program for national and international security. He holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Philosophy from Gannon University, a Master’s of Arts degree in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Military Arts and Sciences Degree from the United States Army Command and General Staff College. His awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, four awards of the Legion of Merit, five awards of the Meritorious Service Medal, and numerous Army Commendation and Achievement Medals.

Stephen Fowler - served 20 years in the US Army in various strategic, operational and tactical intelligence assignments and deployments in Korea, Japan, Haiti, Honduras, Malaysia, Philippines, and the United States. He has a Masters of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona and BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. For the past eight years he has taught undergraduate distance learning courses on intelligence subjects for the American Military University.  He is currently the Director of Education and Training for CINTT Corp. where he designed an intelligence analyst development program

Glenn Fueston - assumed leadership of the Investigative Support Center (ISC) at the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA in March of 2005.  The ISC has four core intelligence functions:  deconfliction, analytical case support, issuing threat assessments, development and dissemination of special assessments, bulletins, and alerts.  He earned two B.A. degrees from Salisbury University and an MS from Towson University. 

Suki Fuller - a competitive intelligence consultant located in Northern New Jersey. She has been an active Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) member since 2002 and currently serves as Chair of the Membership Advisory Committee and is a member of the 2009 Conference Planning Committee. She holds a BA in Intelligence Studies from Mercyhurst College, an MBA from Centenary College, and is pursuing an MGIS from Penn State. Her most recent "linear" position was as a full-time research analyst at a pharmaceutical consulting company, in New Jersey's pharma alley. Today Suki is teaching various companies to understand how social media tools can improve their ability to gather information and produce actionable intelligence. Her CI specialties include social network analysis, geographic analysis, and human intelligence collection. Her micro-blog can be found at: http://twitter.com/SukiFuller

David Grabelski - Under Graduate Program Director of the Mercyhurst College’s Department of Intelligence Studies and as an Assistant Professor. He holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and a M.A. from Pepperdine University. He specializes in law enforcement intelligence and is a former instructor with the US Department of Justice / National Drug Intelligence Center. He has also served with the Los Angeles Police Department as a Senior Homicide Detective and Gang Unit Supervisor.

David Gray (Dr.) - associate professor at Fayetteville State University, specializes in U.S. and international security and strategic studies.

Mark “Clint” Goodwin - intelligence professional with over 31 years experience supporting intelligence collection, analysis, production, and liaison tasking for several U.S. Intelligence Community members. He supported the National Security Agency and National Center for Medical Intelligence as an imagery analyst. While at the Defense Intelligence Agency he served as a senior intelligence analyst. He was assigned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a Liaison Officer supporting the FBI’s National Joint Terrorism Task Force and Counterterrorism Watch during 2003-2004. Towards the later part of his military career, Mr. Goodwin instructed, coached, and mentored mid-level intelligence professionals enrolled in the National Defense Intelligence College (NDIC) Post Graduate Intelligence Program-Reserves (PGIP-R). Mr. Goodwin has accrued over 8000 hours of experience instructing leadership, technical, and operational subjects to both government and civilian persons. He is an expert training programs manager.

Robert Heibel - a twenty-five year veteran of the FBI who served as its deputy chief of counter-terrorism. He holds a Masters Degree from Georgetown University and is Executive Director of the Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies and the developer of its Research/Intelligence Analyst Program (R/IAP). Heibel also directs the institute’s Center for Information Research, Analysis and Training (CIRAT), a nonprofit organization. Heibel has served on the board of directors of several national intelligence associations and is a founder and chairman emeritus of the International Association for Intelligence Education. In 2001 the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals presented him with its highest recognition, the Meritorious Award, and in 2006 he received a lifetime achievement award for his work in open-source intelligence.

Noel Hendrickson (Dr.) - Director of the Institute for National Security Analysis INSA) and Assistant Professor of Information Analysis at James Madison University. He teaches courses in “Hypothesis Testing,” “Causal Analysis,” “Counterfactual Reasoning” and “Strategy Assessment”. He has a Ph.D. in Philosphy from the University of Wisconsin and is co-author of Rowan and Littlefield’s Handbook of Critical Thinking, 208; and authored Counterfactual Reasoning: A Basic Guide for Analysts, Strategists, and Decision-Makers, Army War College, 2008.

Eileen Hurley - retired as a Supervisory Intelligence Research Specialist with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives. She has extensive experience in intelligence collection, analysis, and production, with concentration on intelligence applications for law enforcement.   She is an expert in nexus between national security intelligence and law enforcement.  Ms. Hurley held responsible positions in counterintelligence, anti-smuggling, drug trafficking intelligence, strategic trade and arms control, commercial fraud, counter terrorism, illegal immigration and human smuggling.  She is an accomplished practitioner in interagency coordination, horizontal integration, and international cooperation.  Ms. Hurley received a MS in Internal Audit and a MBA from Marymount University.  
David Jimenez - faculty member with American Military University and a Senior Intelligence Research Specialist for Immigration & Customs Enforcement, focusing on Southwest Border Violence and weapons smuggling. He is past Director of Training, Education, and Career Development for the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA), and is a USAF retiree. He has a B.S. in Management and Human Resources from Park College, and an M.A. in Human Resource Development from Webster University.
James LaHann (Dr.) - lead instructor and co-developer of the ODNI’s Analysis 101 course. He earned his Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology and is board certified in General Toxicology. An employee of SAIC, he continues to work within the Intelligence Community in the areas of emerging biological and chemical threat agents. Dr. LaHann has over 30 years of professional experience, including twenty years as a tenured member of the Pharmacy and Graduate faculty at Idaho State University and Washington State University. He has worked as a Science and Technology analyst and managed drug development projects in the pharmaceutical industry.

Jonathan Lockwood (Dr.) - received his BA in History and Psychology from the University of Tampa in 1997, and the MA and PHD in International Affairs (Russian Area studies) from the University of Miami in 1978 and 1980 respectively. Active service as a 1LT in US Army Military Intelligence Corps in September 1980, and retired as a Colonel from the US Army Reserve in May 2007. He was selected as a 1992-93 Fellow in the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) Exceptional Intelligence Analyst Program, during which he invented a predictive methodology now known as the Lockwood Analytical Method for Prediction (LAMP) (website at www.lamp-method.com). Following the completion of his DCI project in April 1993, Dr. Lockwood transferred to the USAR, where he served for nearly 12 years as a professor on the Reserve Faculty of the JMIC to teach the PGIP to Reserve Officers.  Dr Lockwood was named Outstanding Faculty Member at the JMIC for both the 1996 and 1997 Summer Quarters, and was a finalist for the annual Robert Beland Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching for three consecutive years from 1996-1998.  He was appointed in July 2007 by Charlie Allen, (former Chief of Intelligence for DHS) to be the first DHS Faculty Chair at the National War College for a one-year detail. He has been a professor of Graduate Intelligence Studies with American Military University since 1995, and recently assumed duties as their Program Director for Graduate Intelligence and National Security Studies.

Mark Lowenthal (Dr.) - President/CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, a national security education/consulting company.  He has been the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production, Vice Chairman on the National Intelligence Council, staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (104^th Congress), and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for intelligence.  His book, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy (CQ Press, 4th ed., 2009), is the standard college/graduate school textbook on the subject.

Reese Madsen, Jr., - Chief Learning Officer, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. Responsible for development of policy, plans, programs and oversight of personnel, training, education and career development of civilian and military defense intelligence positions within the Department of Defense and its components and services. He is Chairman of the Intelligence Training and Education Board for the Intelligence Community which includes 30 schoolhouses, one college, and one Distributed Learning Program. Mr. Madsen was active duty military for 20 years; in his last position on duty he was Intelligence Workforce Manager for the U.S. Coast Guard. He has a Masters in Science in Management from the University of Maryland (University College) and has received numerous joint awards, DoD awards and Coast Guard awards including the Legion of Merit.

John F. McCreary, Esq. - the Highly Qualified Subject Matter Expert for Analysis Transformation for the United States Air Force Intelligence Analysis Agency, he is a 38 year veteran of defense intelligence. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed, nightly news commentary, NightWatch™. He has taught strategic analysis and warning to the intelligence staffs of 32 countries. He created and taught the U.S. National Warning Course from 1983 to 1992. He has received dozens of commendations, citations, medals and awards from the Intelligence Community, the CIA and the DIA. In 2004 he received a Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service; the only DIA analyst to ever have received this award. His publications include The Latest Intelligence Crisis, with Richard A Posner, in Intelligence and National Security, Volume,23, Issue 3, 2008; Intelligence as Evidence, J2 monograph,1996; Analysis of Political Instability, J2 monograph, 1995; Warning Cycles, Studies in Intelligence, 1983.

Don McDowell - consulting instructor. Don’s professional career in intelligence spans 45 years. He started his career with active military intelligence service abroad before moving into national security and government analytical fields. For more than two decades he has worked mainly in enforcement intelligence, specializing in strategic analysis, publishing widely and winning awards for this work. Don’s consulting work continues today taking him around the globe providing specialized intelligence training. Don was the founder of AIPIO (Australian Institute for Professional Intelligence Officers) and is a lifetime CCA (Certified Criminal Analyst).
John Mowchan (Maj. P) - career Military Intelligence officer in the United States Army. Over the last 18 years, he has served in various tactical, operational, and strategic-level assignments. In 2008, he was assigned as a faculty member to the Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business-Mathematics from Albright College and a Master of Science Degree in Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College.

Jordan Moneski - senior at UMUC, planning to complete an undergraduate degree in Finance with a minor in Homeland Security. HMLS and Criminal Justice classes have dealt with the Intelligence field, including such topics as Counter-Terrorism, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Intelligence Analysis Software, and Intelligence Reform. This summer, working as an Intern for the Washington/ Baltimore HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area). After graduating at the end of this summer, goal is to pursue an Intelligence Studies degree in Graduate School. Recently became a student member of IAFIE.

Marco Monsalve - Chief Executive Officer of McManis & Monsalve Associates is a senior business and public administration professional with more than 30 years of experience. His areas of expertise include Intelligence Led Management™, strategic planning, business process reengineering, and change management. His experience has been both in the private sector and the Federal government, where he has held high-level executive positions including government wide duties at the Office of Management and Budget.

David Moore - career senior intelligence analyst and educator deployed form the National Security Agency to the School of Leadership and Professional Development at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Formerly he served as a technical director at the National Security Agency where he advocated for, and mentored best practices in intelligence analysis. He is an adjunct faculty member of the National Cryptologic School; has taught at the National Defense Intelligence College (formerly the Joint Military Intelligence College), Washington, DC; at Trinity University, Washington, DC; and lectures at the National Defense University. Mr. Moore holds a B.A. in sociology from Washington and Lee University and a Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence.

Gregory Moore (Dr.) - Director of the Center for Intelligence Studies as well as the Chairperson of the Department of History and Political Science at Notre Dame College in Cleveland, Ohio. He holds a doctorate in American Diplomatic History from Kent State University. He currently serves on the IAFIE Executive Board as chair of the association’s Educational Practices Committee. Dr. Moore is the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of U.S. Intelligence, scheduled for publication in 2010 by Taylor & Francis Publishing.

Kathy Pherson - teaches and facilitates the application of critical thinking and analytic techniques across the Intelligence and Homeland Security communities. She retired from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2000, after a 27-year career in intelligence and security analysis and resource management, as head of the DCI's Center for Security Evaluation. Ms. Pherson received her A.B. in Hispanic Studies from Vassar College, an M.A. in Spanish Linguistics and Latin American Studies from the University of Illinois, and an M.A. in Communications from the University of Oklahoma. She is a recipient of the CIA's Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal and the Intelligence Community's National Distinguished Service Medal.
Randolph H. Pherson - President of Pherson Associates, teaches advanced analytic tools and techniques to analysts throughout the Intelligence Community and the private sector. He collaborated with Richards J. Heuer, Jr. in launching the Analysis of Competing Hypotheses software tool; they are drafting a new book, Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis. Mr. Pherson completed a 28-year career with the Intelligence Community in 2000, last serving as NIO for Latin America. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and M.A. from Yale University.

Edna Reid (Dr.) - Dr. Reid is an Associate Professor, Clarion University, Pennsylvania. Formerly, she was a Senior Research Scientist and Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Arizona and a team leader on the AI Lab’s Dark Web project. She has worked at the CIA, MITRE Corporation, San Jose State University, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her publications include journal articles such as Mapping the contemporary terrorism research domain, Internet-savvy U.S. and Middle Eastern extremist groups, Analysis of jihadi extremist groups’ videos, and a book Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security. She has a doctorate from the University of Southern California, a MLS from the University of Maryland, a graduate certificate in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the American University, and a B.S. from the D.C. Teachers College, Washington, D.C.

Michael P. Ryan (Dr.) - Dr. Ryan is director of the Creative and Innovative Economy Center at the George Washington University Law School, where he is coordinating and participating in a variety of research projects regarding the political economy, business, law, diplomacy, and ethics of creativity, innovation, and economic development in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East.  He is presently writing two books, Knowledge Development: Creativity, Innovation, and the International Political Economy of Intellectual Property and Knowledge Ethics: Responsibility, Innovation, Governance, and AIDS in Africa and he is the author of Knowledge Diplomacy: Global Competition and the Politics of Intellectual Property and Playing by the Rules: American Trade Power and Diplomacy in the Pacific.  Dr. Ryan lectures frequently in Geneva to members of the diplomatic community and has lectured and conducted research in many developing countries.  He has served on the faculties of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and School of Business and the University of Michigan Business School; has been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a guest lecturer at China University of Law and Political Science; holds a PhD from the University of Michigan and an MA from The Ohio State University.

Jamie Schork-Morency - undergraduate senior in American Military University's Intelligence Studies program, and a 2009 National Military Intelligence Foundation scholarship recipient. Prior to attending AMU, she studied at San Diego State University’s International Security and Conflict Resolution program, completing an undergraduate thesis on Russian organized crime. A native of Oak Harbor, Washington, she currently lives in Yokosuka, Japan, teaching English and cooking to Japanese students.

Thomas W. Shreeve - joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984 and established the CIA Case Method Program in 1990 as a way to capture the value of the Agency’s experience and spread that value throughout the organization. In late 1998, he retired from the CIA to establish a consulting practice focused on the application of the case method to education and training in intelligence, national security, law enforcement, and private industry. Mr. Shreeve is an adjunct instructor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies and the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. From 2005 to 2007, he served as Chairman of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE). He graduated cum laude from Middlebury College in 1969 and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1983.

Robert A. Smith - is President and CEO of ProtectionMetrics, LLC, an education, training, and consulting firm that provides adjunct instruction for Mercyhurst College and Anne Arundel Community College Intelligence Studies Programs. Bob Smith has been an IAFIE member since 2005 and currently serves as the ad hoc Liaison Committee Chairman. He has over 37 years law enforcement, intelligence, and protective operations experience with the United States Secret Service and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC). Bob retired in 2001 from the Secret Service as Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Protective Operations, after 25 years service. He then became the Deputy Assistant Director at the FLETC Office of Cheltenham Operations. Bob obtained his Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College.

William Sondervan (Dr.) - Professor and Director of Criminal Justice, Investigative Forensics and Legal Studies at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). Previously served as the Director of Professional Development at the American Correctional Association (ACA). Dr. Sondervan served as Commissioner of the Maryland Division of Correction (MD DOC) and held positions of Deputy and Assistant Commissioner. His earlier employment includes twenty- two years of progressive criminal justice leadership experience from second lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Military Police Corps from 1972 to 1994. Dr. Sondervan earned a BS from the College of New Jersey, an Ed.M from Boston University, a M.P.A. from Jacksonville State University and an Ed.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institution and State University.

William Spracher - Editor, Center for Strategic Intelligence Research, NDIC. A retired Army COL, he was Army Attaché to Peru, Defense Attaché to Colombia, and Military Professor/XO at NDU’s Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies. He was Asst Professor, USMA Dept of Social Sciences, adjunct at American University’s School of International Studies, and an adjunct at NDIC. He has a BS from West Point (1970), MA in international relations from Yale (1979), MMAS in pol-mil studies from Army CGSC (1983), and is an EdD candidate in George Washington University’s Higher Ed Admin program. His dissertation focuses on intelligence education in U.S. colleges and universities. He is an IAFIE charter member and serves on its Educational Practices Committee. He also is Vice Chair of the Washington Area Chapter.

Denise Stepanik - brings 22 years of multi-functional HR expertise to DIA as its Competency Specialist. Besides DIA, worked HR with Air Force, Defense Commissary Agency, and private sector. Expertise includes federal classification, staffing, recruitment, management evaluations, labor and employee relations.

Served on the special DIA team designated to prepare for a pay-for-performance system. Examined work for pay comparability among all positions. Wrote, edited, and classified hundreds of job descriptions and competencies covering several fields to include instruction.

Kenneth Stringer (Dr.) - Senior Associate who joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 2004 after 20 years of service with the Central Intelligence Agency. Has served as Program Manager supporting the Iran Mission Manager (IMM) as the Analytic Supervisor on a major contract in support of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). and teaching advanced analysis and critical thinking at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). He was in charge of South Asia Issue Group at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He supervised and directed analytic support to CIA officers and the US military in the field throughout Operation Enduring Freedom and during subsequent developments crucial to US policy interests in South Asia. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Director’s Award, and the Intelligence Commendation Medal.

Eric Walters (Col.) - served as a Senior Intelligence Officer for the past nine years at the Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Division, Marine Expeditionary Force, and Marine service component level.  He led intelligence operations supporting Marine combat aviation in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and was the Joint Task Force Director of Intelligence performing humanitarian assistance after the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2005.  He is an online university professor, published author, television commentator, and Small Wars Journal staff blogger.

Timothy Walton (Dr.) - has a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. After serving in the Navy, he was an analyst at the CIA for 24 years. Since retiring, he has taught analysis at the Sherman Kent School, Mercyhurst College’s program in the Washington, D.C. area, and the Director of National Intelligence’s Analysis 101. He is the author of the forthcoming textbook, Fundamentals of Intelligence Analysis.

Chris Westphal - co-founder and CEO of Visual Analytics Inc. (VAI), a provider of visualization software, information sharing systems, and advanced analytical training. His clients include federal and state/local law enforcement including fusion centers, all major intelligence agencies, the U.S. Department of Defense, and international Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs). Mr. Westphal has authored numerous publications and several books including Data Mining for Intelligence, Fraud & Criminal Detection: Advanced Analytics & Information Sharing Technologies (Westphal, CRC Press, 2008); Data Mining Solutions: Methods and Tools for Solving Real World Problems (Westphal/Blaxton, Wiley, 1998); and Readings in Knowledge Acquisition: Current Practices and Trends (McGraw/Westphal, Ellis Horwood Limited, 1990). He also authored the “Analyzing Intelligence Data: Next Generation Technologies for Connecting the Dots” chapter in Net-Centric Approaches to Intelligence and National Security (Ladner/ Petry, Springer 2005).

Todd C. Wiggen (LCDR) - US Coast Guard officer currently assigned to the Coast Guard Training Center in Yorktown, Virginia. During his time with the Coast Guard, LCDR Wiggen has extensive experience in law enforcement intelligence, force protection and counter-drug operations. He has also served as the District Intelligence Officer for Coast Guard District 13 in Seattle, WA, where he was responsible for the implementation of two Field Intelligence Support Teams. LCDR Wiggen holds a Masters Degree in Strategic Intelligence with a concentration in Human Resources Intelligence from the National Defense Intelligence College, a Masters Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies focused on Counseling and Education and undergraduate degrees in Government and Speech Communications from Eastern Washington University. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Homeland Security.

Barry Zulauf (Dr.) - Deputy Chief of the DEA Office of National Security Intelligence, the 16th member of the Intelligence Community.  His was the Executive Assistant to the DEA Chief of Intelligence and from February to July 2006 the first Chief the Office of National Security Intelligence.  He is Adjunct Professor of Intelligence with Mercyhurst College, the Distinguished DEA Chair at the National Defense Intelligence College, and Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice, Michigan State University.