NIU Strategic Vision and Mission


Strategic Vision

The NIU seeks to continue and expand its role as the nexus for collaboration, intelligence research, and intelligence education for the entire IC. Operating on the principles that education should be relevant, accessible and life-long, the NIU exists to support the Intelligence Community and national security processes through its continuously updated curriculum, intelligence-focused research, and motivated graduates.

Mission

Prepare intelligence professionals, both military and civilian through education and research, to work with skill and dedication in identifying and effectively integrating foreign, military, and domestic intelligence in defense of the homeland and of the U.S. interests abroad.

Place high priority on education and research to meet the combat and peacetime intelligence needs of the Department of Defense. Enhance the competence of intelligence professionals attending NIU through a variety of academic and educational programs, which include granting intelligence undergraduate and graduate degrees, and undertaking and disseminating intelligence research in the furtherance of those programs, and establishing and enforcing appropriate learning standards.

Act as the DoD primary point of contact for academic outreach regarding intelligence matters. Contribute to the educational and professional career development of military and Federal civilian personnel who are pursuing careers in intelligence, defense policy and programs, homeland defense, or homeland security.

Continue the expansion of degree-program offerings, international programs, research, and academic outreach to federal, public, and private colleges and universities.