Benefits
Participants in DPSL's graduate Intelligence Analysis program enjoy benefits that extend from themselves to the Intelligence Community.
Benefits to Self
- The proposed degree is designed to enhance the analytical skill levels of intelligence analysts, to include federal, state, and local criminal intelligence analysts. Further, the proposed degree is designed to inculcate leadership skills in all levels of the intelligence analysis hierarchy.
- Students gain and apply basic leadership skills and principles necessary for producing intelligence of value within a bureaucratic setting, either governmental or private.
- Students develop written, oral , and visual presentation skills necessary for a dynamic, succinct, and timely reporting of analytical conclusions to policy and decision makers.
- Students acquire and make use of research tools applicable to the collection and analysis of large volumes of data.
- Students apply new and enhanced skills to making informed, timely decisions and ensuring that related tasks are understood, accomplished, and assessed.
- Students learn the importance of ethics and integrity as a foundation for analytical debate and conclusion.
- Students enhance their creative and strategic thinking in the intelligence environment through imaginative maturation.
Benefits to the Intelligence Community
- Long-term, ongoing approach to developing superior intelligence analysts who possess the knowledge, skills, and attributes necessary to provide intelligence of value to policy and decision makers.
- Focus on real world projects generated by agencies and worked on by the entire class. Projects vary by semester according to the needs of students and the participating agencies.
- Weekly instruction, guidance and support from instructors of the Johns Hopkins University.
- Quality leadership education and development designed specifically to meet the needs of agencies and changes imposed by new and expanded threats, risks, and challenges.
- Enhanced cooperation and collaboration among agencies within the "greater' intelligence community that share common goals in gathering, analyzing, and supplying intelligence of value to policy and decision makers.
- Improved relationships and networking fostered by bringing together a corps of experienced intelligence analysts to address issues and projects of importance.
- Mentors and advisors with the skills, commitment, and passion to support new and inexperienced analysts.
- High quality presentation of intelligence information and findings to policy and decision makers.
- Intelligence analysts who possess refined creative, imaginative, analytical, intuitive, and strategic thinking skills.
