New Building
Center for Academic Engagement Education should be hands-on. Collaborative. High-tech. And transparent. That’s the vision behind the new Academic Engagement Center that will soon rise on the Mercyhurst campus. Groundbreaking is planned for June and completion is expected by fall 2012. If you are having trouble seeing the live strea ...
Register For The 2012 Professional Development and Networking Conference
Click here to register for the 2012 Institute for Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst University (IIS-MU) Professional Development and Networking Conference, July 8th – 11th 2012.
Professional Development and Networking Conference
National Security Panel
The National Security Panel is currently planned to be held on Monday, July 9, 2012, from 1:00 until 3:00 p.m. in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. The interactive panel will consist of four MCIIS, now Institute for Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst University (IIS-MU), alumni who work in the national security field. The panelists will [...]
Competitive Intelligence Panel
The Competitive Intelligence Panel is currently planned to be held on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, from 10:15 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. in the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. The interactive panel will consist of four MCIIS, now Institute for Intelligence Studies at Mercyhurst University (IIS-MU), alumni who work in the competitive intelligence field. The panelists [...]
IIS-MU News
Rain And Continued Growth:1996-1999
By 1996, the Research/Intelligence Analysis Progrom (R/IAP) was at the forefront of the technological push on Mercyhurst’s campus, responsible for bringing email to all students. Lexis-Nexis selected R/IAP to serve as a major testbed for the application of open source information to the intelligence process. By developing strong relationships with various organizations in the U.S. [...]
R/IAP Picks Up Momentum: 1993-1995
During the first three years of the program R/IAP struggled to produce analysis with a lack of equipment. After successfully forging relationships with agencies throughout the Intelligence Community (IC), Mercyhurst graduates first found employment with the National Security Agency (NSA). In 1994 under agreement with IBM Federal, R/IAP developed a national intelligence laboratory and testbed [...]
Intelligence News
Bridging The Gap
One of the subtle, yet constant needs people have always had has been the need to know. Historically, that need has given rise to the birth of intelligence as a discipline; all the way from Sun Tzu and the Roman frumentarii to the romantic James Bond and high-tech satellites, we still have that need to [...]
The Importance Of OSINT To The Intelligence Community
This article was written by Garrett Trent, Class of 2015, for Professor Mulligan as part of a series focusing on the importance of the various INTs to the Intelligence Community. The Importance of OSINT To The Intelligence Community Introduction The U.S. government has always been fond of open source intelligence (OSINT) (Johnson, 2010, p. 2). It has been around [...]
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