1. Future Focused Intelligence
Degrees & Colleges
The challenges and the opportunities for education in the national
intelligence community today are broader and more multifaceted
than ever. National Defense Intelligence College looks to the future,
dedicated to the pursuit and refinement of knowledge, the study and
clarification of values, and to the advancement of the Nation it serves.
A. Denis Clift, President of the National Defense Intelligence College
Commencement speaker, the Honorable James R. Clapper, Jr., Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, addressed the Class of 2007
T he National Defense Intelligence College was chartered in 1962 by the Department of Defense
to educate government intelligence professionals and to conduct and disseminate research.
NDIC reaches beyond the Department of Defense to involve all sixteen agencies and departments
that make up the national intelligence community under the auspices of the Director of National
Intelligence.
As a powerful change agent, the College leads professional development in this national
community by awarding graduate and undergraduate degrees in Intelligence. The College is
accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and offers a Bachelor of Science
in Intelligence and a Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence, both authorized in law by Congress.
The College prepares intelligence community and combatant command professionals, both
civilian and military, to work with skill and dedication in identifying and effectively integrating foreign,
military, and domestic intelligence in defense of the homeland and of US interests abroad. The
College’s research products, both classified and unclassified, reflect the deep familiarity of gradu-
ate students, faculty and research fellows with intelligence targets and with the craft of intelligence
collection, analysis and synthesis. College alumni become leaders in the intelligence community,
and research produced at the College contributes to more efficient business practices, as well as to
greater integration of the community.
The National Defense Intelligence College’s dynamic learning community centers around a
professionally diverse student body of over 650, representing a balanced mixture of experience in
federal agencies and all branches of the US Armed Services. All students are employed in the
federal government and hold Top Secret security clearances. The faculty embodies a professional
and talented mix of knowledge and experience gained through advanced academic degrees and
through senior leadership positions in the national intelligence community. Professors specialize in
globalization, asymmetric warfare, social analysis, terrorism, Islam, military strategy, analytic
methodology, collection management, science and technology, information operations, and
geostrategic studies.
The challenges and the opportunities for education in the national intelligence community today
are broader and more multifaceted than ever. The College has created three applied academic
Centers that specialize in broadening the College’s reach beyond the classroom, bringing a focus on
international engagement, scientific and technical intelligence, and on publishing strategic intel-
ligence research through the National Defense Intelligence College Press.
The College’s ability to apply education as a powerful tool for a stronger national intelligence
community grows from its leading role in reforming intelligence through teaching, research and
outreach. The College is a member of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington National Defense Intelligence College Press - Featured Publications 2008
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www.NDIC.edu
The Defense Intelligence Agency, is the home of the College’s main campus on Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C.
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