Master of Science of Strategic Intelligence

 

The Defense Intelligence School was enacted by Department of Defense Directive 5105.25, establishing the school as a professional educational institution attached to the DIA. Its mission was to enhance the preparation of selected military officers and key DoD civilian personnel for important command, staff and policy-making positions in the national and international security structure; prepare DoD military and civilian personnel for duty in the military attaché system; and assist the broad career development of civilian personnel assigned to intelligence functions.

 

Regional accreditation was obtained in 1983 at which time the School was re-chartered and renamed the Defense Intelligence College. It relocated to the new Defense Intelligence Analysis Center on Bolling Air Force Base in 1984. That same year, the DIA launched a pilot program designed to recruit and train civilian personnel for Human Intelligence (HUMINT) positions in a Clandestine Service division being developed within the newly formed Intelligence Community. Two satellite colleges were established to accommodate

that objective.  The Satellite College, combined with The Southwest Academy, embarked on a new era in which its mission was more sharply defined.

 

In 1993, the College was renamed the Joint Military Intelligence College, and broadened it's curriculum by adding a bachelor's degree program as well as a number of certification courses.  

 

In December 2006, DoD Instruction 3305.1 changed the name to the National Defense Intelligence College and again in February 2011 to reflect the current designation — National Intelligence University. Today NIU is a federally chartered research university that has become the United States Intelligence Community's premier institution for higher learning in fields of study central to the profession of intelligence and national security.  Since 1963, more than 80,000 military and civilian students have attended the university.  The primary campus is now located at Intelligence Community Campus Bethesda with five additional locations around the world. NIU is the only university in the United States where students can study and complete research at the Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information level. National Intelligence University's interdisciplinary programs emphasize education through scholarly and applied research designed to help U.S. intelligence officers better understand the diverse range of geopolitical, strategic, and technological threats and opportunities affecting intelligence and national security. The university is organized into two separate academic units: the College of Strategic Intelligence and the Oettinger School of Science and Technology. Combined, the colleges cover a diverse and evolving range of international affairs including adversarial threats and capabilities, cultural and religious conflicts, WMD proliferation, cybersecurity threats, terrorism, transnational crime, and more.