Seminar in Intelligence Integration

Catalog description

This seminar explores the organizational and integration issues facing the U.S. Intelligence Community by first evaluating underlying organizational design and theory of communities and organizations. Using organizational design as a point of reference, the seminar examines the nature of the community and its relationship to its operating environment by delving into the present-day issues facing the Intelligence Community in relation to the ever-changing global threat and the wide array of intelligence customers requiring more timely and tailored intelligence services. Lastly, given an understanding of the present-day operating environment, the seminar concludes by identifying and evaluating the vertical and integration issues facing the community while examining some potential transformation models to better posture the Intelligence Community for the future. This course is one of two required beginning courses. (Corequisite: SSGS700)