University of Nebraska Counterintelligence

Training and Research Resources

Presentation to Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA)

of the Department of Defense

University of Nebraska

•Four campus system (Lincoln, Omaha, Kearney, and Medical Center) serving over 25,000 students in undergraduate and graduate students from over 37 states and 47 countries

•Recognized by the Carnegie Foundation as a Research Intensive university while also retaining a strong teaching focus

•Extensive business/private industry connections

Knowledge and Skill Domains of

Potential Training Model

Operational/ Law Enforcement

Behavioral/Cultural/ Decision making

Technical Scientific Knowledge

Distance Learning

•Range of extended outreach and continuing education opportunities

•Multifaceted approach including web-based and satellite instruction

•Currently offering 14 masters and 2 doctoral distance programs, as well as 4 certificate programs and 5 endorsement programs. Distance instruction also spans more than 90 undergraduate and graduate credit and non-credit courses from 29 academic departments

•Nebraska Educational Television (NETV) provides substantial technical assistance

Behavioral Science

•Most established Forensic Psychology and interdisciplinary Law-Psychology programs in country

•Extensive practicum, instructional, and research training related to risk assessment and management

•Full range of clinical practicum sites

•Significant number of graduates employed in military, law enforcement, and other public service positions

Behavioral Science

•Research and training related to Behavioral Threat Assessment (i.e., the examination and determination of the level of threat an individual/entity poses at a certain time to specific targets)

•Extensive research assessing risk from internal and external threats to public officials and institutions

•Value of empirically-informed behavior-based as opposed to profile-based factors guiding threat assessment and protective activities

Behavioral Threat Assessment Capabilities

•Only academic setting in nation performing behavioral threat assessment research and training

•Collaborative and productive linkages with:

• Federal, state, and local law enforcement (e.g., United States Capitol Police, Nebraska State Patrol)

• Private industry

• Private and governmental threat assessment professionals

Communications Studies

Extensive training and research related to:

•Cultural awareness

•Cross cultural nonverbal communication

•Organizational communication

•Risk communication

Extensive research and instruction related to: • Informatics

• Data Mining, Databases, Constraint Processing, GIS, Bioinformatics, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Simulation and Modeling

• Pervasive and Grid Computing• Embedded Systems, Sensors and Sensor Networks, Real-Time

Systems, Distributed Computing and Storage, Collaborative Technologies, Networking, Security

• Software Engineering• Software Testing and Reliability, Methodology, Maintenance,

Program Analysis

• Theory and AI• Machine Learning, Languages, Semantic Modeling, Intelligent

Agents, Computational Complexity, Constraint Satisfaction, Algorithms

Computer Science & Engineering

Academic Programs:

•PhD in Information Technology• Optional Educational Technology Specialization (TBD)

• Other collaborative specializations (TBD)

•PhD in Computer Science• Optional Bioinformatics Specialization

•MS in Computer Science • Optional Bioinformatics Specialization

• Optional Computer Engineering Specialization

•ME in Software Engineering

•BS in Computer Science or Computer Engineering

Computer Science & Engineering

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•Distributed geospatial decision support systems• Developed unique architecture

• Perform both spatial and point analysis

• Able to quickly integrate new analytical or spatial models into geospatial decision support systems using this architecture

•Data Visualization and image processing• Visualize simulation results from high-end computers for

greater understanding of the underlying phenomena

• Developed vision algorithms used by NASA

Computer Science & Engineering Advanced Capabilities

•Robotics• Applying real-time scheduling theory to ensure temporal

correctness of mobile, autonomous robots

•Energy-aware computing• Algorithms and scheduling techniques to save energy in real-time,

embedded systems with power and constraints

•Collaborative research• Participate in group meetings with remote collaborators, e.g.,

Access Grid, while simultaneously viewing simulation results, e.g. Tiled Visualization Wall

•Computational steering• Steer the simulation in real-time, i.e., Real-Time Collaborative

Computing and Decision Making

Computer Science & Engineering Advanced Capabilities

Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies (CALMIT)

•Research and instructional activities in remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), automated cartography, and image processing.

•CALMIT’s uniquely powerful data collection and analysis systems provide a special opportunity for the application of geospatial technologies to issues and problems relevant to counter-intelligence training and homeland security.

Capabilities of CALMIT

•Faculty and staff are experienced in analyzing satellite digital-image data, terrain mapping, and developing and using geographic information systems, from submeter to continental scales.

• Staff members have previous experience with military and homeland-security applications of geospatial technologies including the training of National Guard and Army Reserve units in geographic information systems and remote sensing/image processing software packages.

Capabilities of CALMIT

•Unprecedented field spectroscopy capabilities and experience

•State-of-the-art airborne imaging spectrometer capable of hyperspectral acquisitions at submeter spatial resolution

•Expertise/experience with advanced change analysis strategies for spatio-temporal-spectral data

Capabilities of CALMIT

•Expertise/experience with multimedia retrievals: vegetation, soils, water quality, underwater structure

Expertise/experience across broad range of spatial and spectral resolutions/extents

Expertise/experience in developing and delivering educational products/modules for NASA

Expertise/experience in training National Guard and 3436th MID in use of GIS and RS/IP packages

Bioterrorism Education

The Nebraska Center for Bioterrorism Education supports education and training for the State of Nebraska in the response to biological, chemical, and radiation terrorism, biodefense, and disaster preparedness. The Center provides a web-based calendar of programs and on-line registration for distance learning.

Cyber Security•The Peter Kiewit Institute of the University of Nebraska at Omaha

•active capability with Advanced Digital Media for Decision Support and Training Digital Media Simulators for Decision Support and Training

• Simulators allow trainees to rehearse and experience alternatives about the future before the future arrives. Digital media simulators provide highly realistic visual experiences in movies and animations that closely resemble the “real world”. (Examples include battlefield operations, emergency response and other training scenarios)

Modern Languages

•Active instruction in German, Japanese, French, Spanish, Czech, and Russian

•Capability to expand instruction to Chinese & Arabic

• Departmentally-sponsored study abroad programs in Europe and Latin America

•A highly trained, teaching-oriented faculty whose central mission is to promote diversity, cultural proficiency, and sensitivity to other peoples

•Previously provided summer institutes for strategic languages involving 6-8 week programs that offered specialized instruction

Additional Departments of Interest

Political Science (including training related to International/Foreign Relations

Military Science

Criminal Justice

Some facts about Lincoln, Nebraska

•Population of 225,000– University town with many amenities

•Family-friendly environment

•Affordable cost of living

•More parkland per capita than any other city in the United States and an intricate trails network and a wealth of outdoor diversions

•Highly rated public school system

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