AFCEA US Intelligence: An Introducton 2025

U.S. Intelligence: An Introduction, provides a broad overview of the roles, functions, activities and current issues facing the U.S. intelligence community (IC). This course is specifically designed to provide government, military, academic and contractor professionals working with the IC a firm basis for understanding the community’s roles, needs and culture.

This course places special emphasis on the ongoing changes in intelligence, the issues that these changes raise, the changes that have been implemented since 2001 and how they are progressing. The two-day course is comprised of the following core modules with associated learning objectives, each of which helps meet the needs noted above: Legal Basis and Budgeting, Structure and Missions, National Security Threats in the 21st Century, Collection, Covert Action, Intelligence Analysis, Congress and the Intelligence Community, Cyber: An Introduction. There is a fee for this course.

Course instructor, Dr. Mark M. Lowenthal is an internationally recognized expert on intelligence and the former president of The Intelligence and Security Academy where he now serves as a senior instructor.