ISP Tearline Team Reports on Russia’s Planned Naval Base Near Port Sudan

January 13, 2026

ISP’s Tearline student research team recently published an open-source report analyzing the impact of the May 2025 drone attack by the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces on infrastructure in the vicinity of Russia’s planned naval base in Sudan. The team assessed that Russia is unlikely to realize their plans for a naval base near Port Sudan in the…

Alexandra Sukalo Named Director of the Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project

December 15, 2025

The Clements Center for National Security and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Alexandra Sukalo to lead the University’s Intelligence Studies Project (ISP). ISP was established in 2013 as a joint venture of the Clements and Strauss Centers…

2023-2024 Public Attitudes on US Intelligence

November 21, 2025

Public support for the U.S. Intelligence Community remained strong through the end of the Biden presidency, though polls show mounting evidence of entrenched partisanship. The Chicago Council on Global Affairs published the results of two annual national surveys of public attitudes sponsored by UT-Austin’s Clements-Strauss Intelligence Studies Project. The surveys conducted in 2023 and 2024…

UT Austin Students Brief the NSA Director

April 16, 2025

UT Austin students with the Strauss Center-Applied Research Laboratories Joint Studies Program briefed NSA Director (DIRNSA) General Timothy Haugh on their research during a visit by the DIRNSA to the University in March 2025. The Joint Studies Program is a multidisciplinary program that applies research in law, political science, engineering, and the natural sciences to…

“Government Executive” on “Reforming the Intelligence Community’s Hiring Practices”

December 13, 2019

Students interested in applying for U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) internships and full-time positions may be interested in this recent article by Lindy Kyzer of Government Executive. The article describes hiring challenges experienced by the 17 IC agencies, who often have their…

Review of “Subordinating Intelligence: The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship” by ISP Senior Fellow

December 2, 2019

ISP Senior Fellow J. Paul Pope recently reviewed David P. Oakley’s “Subordinating Intelligence: The DoD/CIA Post-Cold War Relationship” in the Joint Forces Quarterly. Click HERE to read the review.

ISP Director Joins Civil-Intelligence Relations Discussion

November 20, 2019

ISP Director Steve Slick participated in a recent on-line roundtable discussion of “Civil-Intelligence Relations” organized by the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The roundtable was sponsored by the FPRI’s Program on National Security and included the Institute’s President-elect, Carol Rollie Flynn.

“Influence Operations and Active Measures: The History of Soviet and Russian Political Warfare in the West” Podcast Now Available

November 8, 2019

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Will Inboden, executive director of the Clements Center, sits down with Professor Paul Pope and Dr. Kiril Avramov of the Intelligence Studies Project at the University of Texas and Dr. Calder Walton,…

Brumley Fellow and ISP Director Co-author Essay on Privacy and U.S. Signals Intelligence

October 17, 2019

In an Intelligence Studies Essay on the Lawfare national security site, LBJ School alumnus and former Brumley Graduate Fellow Eric Manpearl and ISP Director Steve Slick call for a reappraisal of Obama-era policies that afford extraordinary privacy protections to incidentally collected data…

ISP Senior Fellow Paul Pope in the Austin American-Statesman

October 16, 2019

On October 15, 2019, the Austin American-Statesman published an opinion editorial by ISP Senior Fellow Paul Pope. Professor Pope discusses the withdrawal of the remaining U.S. forces out of Syria and stresses the need to support Kurdish (and other) allies.…

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- Bobby R. Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence

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- Robert M. Gates, former Secretary of Defense and Director of Central Intelligence

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