STEM in National Security

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Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours. How the U.S. Intelligence Community uses STEM graduates to collect and process information from overseas and analyze the information that has been collected on technical topics, such as technology or weapons; a brief overview of how different IC organizations recruit for and use STEM backgrounds and information on the intelligence cycle from a STEM perspective: technical collection techniques, cyber and counterintelligence issues, and production of technical analysis for policymakers using open-source information. Prerequisites: Graduate classification.