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September 19, 2024

**INFORMATION SESSION – October 21, 2024 at 5:00PM in UT-Austin’s Flawn Academic Center (FAC) 430.** UT-Austin’s Strauss-Clements Intelligence Studies Project is now accepting applications from UT undergraduate students of all academic disciplines to participate in its 2025 Texas Intelligence Academy (TIA). The TIA is a competitive, all-expenses paid, intensive academic program focused on intelligence and…

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UT’s Intelligence Studies Project Announces 2024 Inman Awards for Student Scholarship in Intelligence and National Security

August 13, 2024

The recipient of this year’s “Inman Award” is Jemima Baar, a recent Master of International Affairs graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her paper, Cold War Confrontations: US Intelligence Insights and Policy Responses to the Sino-Soviet Split and the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1956-1961), contrasts the responses by policymakers in the…

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The White House has a policy problem, not an intelligence problem

August 28, 2015

The controversy du jour centers on President Obama’s recent 60 Minutes interview where, among other comments, he singled out DNI James Clapper for the intelligence failures that allegedly missed the Islamic State threat.

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Inside NSA

August 28, 2015

Welcome to “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—a special series of podcast interviews of senior NSA officials that we conducted last week. Listen to the podcast HERE.

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Slick: Congress Should Resist the Temptation to Legislate on the CTIIC

August 25, 2015

When a conference committee convenes to reconcile differences in the House and Senate versions of the 2016 Intelligence Authorization Act, Members should resist the temptation to legislate on the proposed Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). Read the full article…

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

"There has been far too little focus in the academic world on the Intelligence Community and the critical role it plays in our country's national security. The Intelligence Studies Project will position the University of Texas at Austin to be a leading academic center on U.S. intelligence."

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

"The Intelligence Studies Project at UT Austin - anchored by the Inman Chair - will allow new generations of young people to learn from and about Admiral Inman, and to learn about intelligence: its many disciplines and dimensions, its structure, how it operates, its strengths and weaknesses, how it is used, and how it can be improved."