PADM 517 Intelligence for Homeland Security
This course examines key questions and issues facing the U.S. intelligence community and its role in homeland security. Students have an opportunity to fully address policy, organizational, and substantive issues regarding homeland intelligence support. Course reference materials provide an overview of diverse intelligence disciplines and how the intelligence community operates. Course emphasis is on issues affecting policy, oversight, and intelligence support to homeland security and national decision-making. The 2004 Intelligence Reform and Prevention of Terrorism Act is addressed, and the course is shaped to focus on homeland intelligence support issues at the state/local/tribal levels.