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If interested, please contact Mark Durkee, Principal Investigator, School of Security and Global Studies
Are you interested in contributing to research on all-source analytical expertise in the Defense Intelligence Enterprise? We are seeking individuals with at least five years of all-source analysis experience at the Defense Intelligence Agency, including the Joint Intelligence Operations Centers, Missiles and Space Intelligence Center, and the Service Intelligence Centers. This study involves a questionnaire about your and education experiences. An optional follow-on 45-minute interview is available for those who would like to contribute to a deeper understanding of all-source analytic expertise. Participation in the interview will be compensated.
If interested, please contact carlos.lopez@unt.edu, if you are interested in participating or have questions regarding whether you qualify.
Are you interested in contributing to research on how intelligence and decision-makers collaborate? We are seeking individuals with professional experience in intelligence operations, either in current or previous roles within law enforcement, military departments, federal agencies, or the private sector. We are particularly interested in those who have been involved in collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence that directly informs organizational goals/missions. We also seek those who have been in roles that make decisions based on such intelligence. This study involves an interview lasting approximately 1 hour to explore your experiences and contribute to a deeper understanding of this critical area of collaboration. Participation in the interview will be compensated.
If interested, please contact Misty Duke at mcduke@utep.edu and include your CV.
The Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso needs adjunct instructors to teach courses at the undergraduate (must have a Masters degree) and graduate (must have a PhD) levels. We need instructors qualified to teach topics related to technical intelligence (including MASINT and AI), geospatial intelligence, critical infrastructure protection, the role of intelligence in counterproliferation, crime and border security, transnational gangs, security operations, national security law, counterintelligence, transnational threats, and ethics and security. Instruction may be online or in person but chosen instructors must be U.S. residents.
The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin (“LBJ School”) invites applications for a professional-track Professor of Practice focused on intelligence studies. One of the nation’s top programs in public affairs, the LBJ School is seeking to strengthen its faculty in the field of intelligence. The LBJ School comprises more than 45 faculty members and approximately 500 undergraduate and graduate students. This faculty member would teach in the Master of National Security, the National Security Minor, and the Master of Global Policy degree programs, and be affiliated with the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project (ISP).
The search committee will begin considering applications March 1. The position will remain open until filled.
This position is a 10-month, tenure-track position with possibilities of summer teaching assignments. Weekly office hours required.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the U.S. for other than practical training. The university will not provide visa sponsorship for this position.
This position will remain open until filled. For full consideration, please submit your application materials by February 15, 2026, or until filled. Attach the following to the applicant tracking system:
The Department of Criminal Justice and Security Studies is seeking a Department Chair at the rank of Full Professor with an outstanding record of scholarly research and grants as well as experience in strategic planning, program-building initiatives, and faculty mentoring. We seek a leader with management and analytical skills, as well as a strategic planner committed to consolidating the national reputation of the department and its robust programs. The Department Chair will support the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff, advocate for a strategic vision for the undergraduate and graduate programs and foster an environment of inclusive excellence for students. If you are a a full professor in Security Studies with a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, Political Science, Public Policy, History (Intelligence or National Security), or a related field, please consider applying for or sharing this vacancy.
There are two positions available. For the first position, the successful candidate will principally teach courses related to computer hardware/software, computer networks, digital forensics, and/or security and risk. For the second position, the successful candidate may focus more on courses related to cybercrime, the human factor of cybercrime, and digital forensics. Individuals with expertise in both specialties will be considered for both positions. The successful candidates for both positions will also have the ability to develop new courses and will be able to teach at both the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as teach in both on-campus and distance formats. The typical teaching load for faculty members who remain productive scholars is 3 courses per semester. Summer teaching opportunities are also possible for those who are interested.
Qualifications and Duties: Candidates for both positions are required to have a doctorate, with strong preference given to those with a Ph.D. or D.Sc. in cybersecurity, digital forensics, or criminology, or in a related field with expertise in cybersecurity, digital security, or other related cyber area. Preferred qualifications include experience in the field of cybersecurity and/or digital forensics or practical experience in computing. An ABD with a firm completion date by December 2026 will be considered. A juris doctorate is not sufficient.
11 Mar 2026 - In-Person and Virtual International Spy Museum Program | Washington, DC
12:00pm
On June 1, 1863, under cover of darkness three federal gunboats steamed up the Combahee River in South Carolina. This was the beginning of a daring combat raid…led by Harriet Tubman! As Harriet Tubman guided “Lincoln’s gun-boats” up the Combahee River, she added combat pioneer to the other important roles she played during the Civil War: Union nurse, scout, and spy. How did Tubman become the first woman to lead a major military operation in the United States? Join Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black to discover the significance of the attack and how Tubman used her knowledge of the terrain, strategic thinking, and bravery to execute a mission that led to the liberation of more than 700 enslaved people and the destruction of sprawling Confederate rice plantations. Fields-Black has delivered the first deeply detailed account of this important event in her book COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, The Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War, which was awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History. Fields-Black brings an especially unique look at this incredible military operation as a descendent of the enslaved men and women who fought in the raid and in the process liberated themselves. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
12 Mar 2026 - Virtual International Spy Museum Program | Washington, DC
12:00pm
Join us for an online discussion of the latest intelligence, national security, and terrorism issues in the news. Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa will lead the briefing. Costa, a former intelligence officer of 34 years with 25 of those in active duty in hot spots such as Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, is also a past Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council. He will be joined by Meredith Cavan, the former Deputy Director of Public Affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Cavan completed over two decades of distinguished service at the CIA. As the Deputy Director of Public Affairs, she oversaw the Agency’s public engagements, internal communications, and media relations. Earlier in her career, Cavan led the CIA’s Southeast Asia program, driving intelligence operations, analysis, and technical initiatives across more than two dozen countries in a strategically vital region. Cavan’s strategic acumen was honed by her experience briefing US Presidents, members of Congress, and foreign heads of state. Her understanding of national security dynamics and deep substantive expertise is enhanced by her career-spanning close partnerships with the US military, including her role as Special Advisor to Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) and her time at US Indo-Pacific Command. Cavan currently is the founder of Brightchord Strategies, a strategic communications firm, and is an adjunct professor at The College of William and Mary where she teaches a class on Intelligence and National Security. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
12 Mar 2026 - Virtual International Spy Museum Program | Washington, DC
7:00pm-8:30pm
Orchids are commonly associated with sensuality and beauty, seen to have a dark, luxurious charm. The U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG) has a large collection of these fascinating plants. In this collaboration with the International Spy Museum (SPY), explore Mata Hari, a figure who also embodies sensuality, beauty, and dark charm. Join George Guenthner, USBG Gardener (Advanced), and Amanda Ohlke, SPY Director of Adult Education, to discuss the complex interplay of attraction and deception in both the human and natural worlds. This program is connected to USBG’s 2026 joint orchid show More Than a Flower: The Connective Power of Orchids in collaboration with Smithsonian Gardens and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
18 Mar 2026 - Online event
12:00pm-1:00pm
Join MS in Intelligence Analysis Program Director Michael Ard as he hosts Kathleen M. Vogel, associate dean for faculty at Arizona State University’s Rob Walton College of Global Futures. Vogel will draw on her insights from the study of knowledge production on security and intelligence problems, and her expertise on biological weapons issues, for a discussion on how to prevent intelligence failure.
Vogel is also a professor in Arizona State’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society and a senior global futures scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She served previously in the U.S. Department of State as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and as William C. Foster Fellow in the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction in the Bureau of Nonproliferation. She has also spent time as a visiting scholar at Sandia National Laboratories. Vogel holds a PhD in bio-physical chemistry from Princeton University.
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible experience for all participants. To request additional accessibility for this event, please contact us at aapevents@jhu.edu.
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18 Mar 2026 - Virtual International Spy Museum Program | Washington, DC
6:30pm
An abolitionist Southern belle turned spy sounds like a character in a novel, but Elizabeth Van Lew was one hundred percent real. Join award-winning journalist Gerri Willis as she uncovers an unsung spy hero of the Civil War. Elizabeth Van Lew came from a society family in Richmond and when the South seceded from the Union, she went undercover. Van Lew used her status and social skills to assist Union prisoners and ultimately build a spy network that would provide Union General Ulysses S. Grant with crucial daily intelligence. In Lincoln’s Lady Spymaster, Willis explores who worked with Van Lew and how she deployed her agents through the Confederate capital. From legends of a spy in the Confederate White House to the actual hardboiled work of the Van Lew network which included free people of color dangerously pretending to be enslaved, Willis has captured the tense environment that Van Lew operated in as a patriot in a high stakes world turned upside down. She’ll share her fresh research and how there is still much to be learned about the American Civil War. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
24 Mar 2026 - Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies | 111 Massachusetts Avenue NW | Washington, DC
10:00am
The Intelligence Studies Consortium (ISC) was established in 2018 by the National Intelligence University (NIU) and university partners to promote communication and cooperation among academic and government organizations. The ISC provides an organized forum for the partner universities to collaborate in exploring issues and engaging in solutions that can improve national security. The participating universities have intelligence studies academic programs and unique relationships with many government agencies, non-government organizations, and the private sector; the ISC seeks to develop these relationships and provide an integrated forum to discuss critical intelligence issues in intelligence education.
The upcoming Spring 2026 Symposium, titled "The Intelligence Profession: Future Challenges & Opportunities," will feature a combination of keynote speakers, student and faculty panels, student and faculty poster sessions, networking opportunities, and a Career Fair. We will feature information about publication, internships, and employment opportunities in government (intelligence community and non-Title 50 jobs) and the private sector. This symposium will be conducted both in-person and virtually; all sessions will be recorded. We’ll provide morning refreshments and host an evening reception. We will recognize outstanding student presentations with awards. REGISTER
Call for Submissions
This Call for Submissions aims to solicit fresh insights from students and faculty members at the ISC universities—at the graduate, undergraduate, or post-doctoral levels—for presentation at the Spring 2026 Symposium, “The Intelligence Profession: Future Challenges & Opportunities.”
The lines of effort for this challenge, supported by the Intelligence Studies Consortium, include Homeland Security, National Security & Great Power Competition, Business/Private Sector, Emerging Technologies, and the Concept & Future of Intelligence Studies. Individuals or teams of students should submit ideas in one of the areas below or note that their submission falls in an unidentified area (Open Topic Submission).
This symposium is an opportunity for students and faculty members to present recent work at an academic conference in a panel format. Panelists will be selected for participation in the symposium based on their proposal, which will be judged by the ISC faculty representatives, using the criteria below. In addition, all persons (whether or not selected for a panel) will have the opportunity to present in a poster session. Please submit a 1-2 page proposal (an abstract) for a 10-minute presentation at the symposium and panel discussion. Government employees are obligated to obtain prepublication review on their own prior to submission. SUBMIT PROPOSAL
16 Apr 2026 - Berlin, Northern Germany & Denmark
26 April 2026
Join author, historian and lecturer Gary Powers Jr. on this exciting, 11-day tour of fascinating Cold War and espionage related sites in Germany and Denmark with overnight stays in Berlin, Kiel, Aalborg, Copenhagen and Rostock.
What's Included on this Tour: Round-trip air transportation from Washington, DC 9 nights in centrally-located, four-star hotels. Full-time, professional CHA Tour Director throughout. Valuable insight & informative commentary by Gary Powers Jr. Breakfast daily at hotels & six, three-course dinners. On-tour transportation by private touring motorcoach. Ferry crossing between Denmark and Germany. Sightseeing tours & visits/entrances to sites listed below:
Full Tour Price: $5,995 per person
Land Only Price: $5,295 per person (airfare & airport transfers not included)
Repeat Gary Powers travelers will receive a $200 discount!
Prices above are based on double occupancy in hotels. A $850 single room supplement is required for travelers without roommates.
Book by December 15, 2025 with a required deposit of $495. Final payment is due by January 15, 2026.
Berlin Airlift Memorial • Checkpoint Charlie Museum • Glienicke Bridge • Teufelsberg or "Devil's Mountain" • Soviet War Memorial • DDR Museum • German Spy Museum • Schwerin Stasi Documents Archive • Laboe Naval Memorial & Museum • Submarine U-995 • Aalborg Defense & Garrison Museum • Regan Vest Cold War Bunker • Rebild Centre • Thingbaek Mines • Odense Bunker Museum • Copenhagen Resistance Museum • Ejby Bunker • Cold War Museum Stevnsfort • Rostock Documentation & Memorial Site • Rechlin Aviation Museum (Visits subject to change based on availability)
Want more information? Ready to enroll? Visit: www.cha-tours.com/garypowers/2026
24 Mar 2026 - Virtual International Spy Museum Program
2:00pm-3:00pm
SPY with Me is an interactive virtual program for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. Join SPY as we use music and artifacts to explore some of our favorite spy stories. Programs last one hour and are held virtually through Zoom. To register, please email Shana Oltmans at soltmans@spymuseum.org. Free but space is limited. Visit www.spymuseum.org.
8 May 2026 - The Hotel at Arundel Preserve | 7795 Arundel Mills Blvd | Hanover, MD 21076
6:00pm-10:00pm
Join us for a Spectacular Night as we Celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the National Cryptologic Foundation (NCF) and we honor the late Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan, Maj. Gen. John E. Morrison Jr., founding board members, and long-serving NCF staff and volunteers.
Gen. Mike Minihan, USAF (Ret) proudly followed in his father’s footsteps, building a distinguished three-decade career in the Air Force. As Commander of Air Mobility Command, he led teams through urgent, high-stakes missions—delivering vital aid to Gaza, providing security assistance to Israel, and supporting Ukraine. He also oversaw the most challenging military exercise ever conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Don’t miss the chance to hear his inspiring stories and insights firsthand!
TICKET SALES AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION COMING SOON.
Sponsorship Opportunities are Available. For More Information: Contact Rebecca at rdiam1ond@cryptologicfoundation.org
1 Jun 2026 - Dahlonega Campus, Mike Cottrell College of Business | 256 S Chestatee St | Dahlonega, GA 30533
8am-4pm
UNG will be hosting the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE) Annual Global Conference for 2026. This conference is open to all that are interested in intelligence studies, global security, cyber education, international relations, psychology, criminal justice, and history.
The conference theme will be “The Convergence of Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, and Intelligence on Global Security Interests.”
25 Sep 2026 - Hacienda del Sol Guest Ranch Resort, Tucson, Arizona
27 Sep 2026 - See agenda for times
14 Oct 2026 - Fellowship Auditorium and Block E Learning Centre at Bletchley Park | Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
TBD
The National Intelligence History Conference (NIHC), organised by Bletchley Park and GCHQ. This academic conference is open to all who have an interest in intelligence history. Visit the Bletchley Park website for ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE INFORMATION or if you would like to be informed when tickets for NIHC 2026 go on sale.