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IC Research Entities Are Willing to Collaborate with NIU

• Faced with the competing demands of many critical, time-sensitive tasks, small staffs, and limited resources, research entity representatives stated the need for more opportunities to conduct longer-term, strategic research and analysis.
• IC research entity representatives were interested in NIU research plans aligned with national priorities and NIU research products that complement the research being conducted by their entities.
• Interview participants were willing to provide limited support to NIU for a number of academic activities (e.g., guest lectures, student mentoring, providing potential thesis research topics).

But Some Conflicts Remain

• Interview participants still perceived NIU as a Defense Intelligence Agency/military intelligence institution and were cautious about accepting NIU as the IC's educational institution.
• While the research entities believed that NIU should be responsible for selecting research topics for its students and faculty that are relevant to the IC, NIU has a responsibility to its students and faculty to support their research interests and allow for academic freedom.

The Center for Strategic Intelligence Research (CSIR) of the National Intelligence University (NIU) is responsible for supporting faculty and student research efforts and coordinating NIU research activities with the Intelligence Community (IC). A challenge to these coordination efforts lies in the fact that research being conducted regularly in the IC exists, for the most part, in small pockets throughout a number of different IC agencies. To better identify collaborative research opportunities, topics, and processes, CSIR asked RAND to conduct a study that would capture information about these research entities, their responsibilities, and their willingness to support interagency research with NIU. The study team conducted semistructured interviews with a purposive sample of representatives of research entities in the IC. The interviews discussed interagency research and collaboration with NIU. We found that the majority of these research entities are small (less than ten full-time staff), face the competing responsibilities of short-term analytic responses and longer-term analysis and research, and are interested in research plans aligned with national priorities. The research entities are willing to support NIU, but expect NIU to take the lead in facilitating research collaboration.

• Chapter One

  Introduction

• Chapter Two

  Data Collected: Interviews and Literature

• Chapter Three

  Findings

• Chapter Four

  Recommendations

• Chapter Five

  Concluding Observations

• Appendix A

  Interview Instrument

• Appendix B

  Research Entities in the Intelligence Community