FALL 2013

IT690.02 - Intelligence Technologies: R&D in the Intelligence Community

Instructor: Dr Robert H. Latiff, Maj Gen (Ret), USAF

Meeting Day/Time: Thursday 7:20PM-10:00PM

Location: Robinson B124

Phone: 703-993-3565

Email:

Overview: This course is intended to introduce students to the structure of research and development in the U.S. Government and in particular the US national intelligence community (IC). Students will learn general information about the organization, structure, and funding of research, development and technology needs of the individual agencies of the IC. The course will survey, and will delve into some of the basics of the technologies employed in the collection of intelligence and/or the execution of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) operations, both within the IC and the Department of Defense.

Course Goals: Students will exhibit a basic understanding of the structure and operations of the R&D enterprise. Students will be able to describe how the R&D community determines needs, how it programs funds, and how those funds are employed in basic, applied, and advanced development. Students will understand the fundamentals of some of the technologies employedand how information is collected and processed, and how analysis is conducted, to include the technical tools potentially brought to bear on selected problems.

Requirements: The course will employ lectures, guest speakers, class discussion, directed readings, homework, and quizzes.

Required Text:

Materials for this class will be instructor presentations and selected assigned readings.

CLASS SCHEDULE

  1. Introduction, R&D Basics, Course Overview (8/29/13)
  2. TBD
  1. Agencies, Mission Needs, Selected Systems (9/5/13)
  2. TBD

3. Space Systems, Orbits, Aircraft ISR (9/12/13)

a. TBD

4. IMINT, Optics, Radar (9/19/13)

a. TBD

5. Signals and Electronic Intelligence (9/26/13)

a. TBD

6. Guest Speaker TBD (10/3/13)

a. TBD

7. Quiz 1 (10/10/13)

8. CYBER (10/17/13)

a. TBD

9 Undersea Intelligence Techniques (10/24/13)

  1. TBD

10 Guest speaker TBD (10/31/13)

  1. TBD
  1. Covert Communication, Cryptography, Tracking and Locating (11/7/13)
  2. TBD
  1. Denial and Deception, Camouflage (11/14/13)
  2. TBD
  1. Big Data, Data Mining (11/21/13)
  2. TBD
  1. Quiz 2 (12/5/13)

GRADING:

Class participation 10%

Quizzes65%

Homework Assignments25%

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