Big Data Intelligence Lecture Series
Big Data Intelligence Systems: Executive Lecture Series I took place last Fall, and was considered a huge success by all that participated.
It was designed by George Mason’s Intelligence and Security Research Center (ISRC) to prepare mid-career IT Program Managers in the Intelligence Community, and their counterpart consultants, for the special challenges of working with big data technologies. The series featured marquee speakers with significant credentials in their topics, executive-depth lectures and organization-nominated participants.
A repeat series is being planned for those that could not attend the first round.
Stay tuned...
The ISRC is a George Mason University Center with a focus on forensics, biometrics, and intelligence and national security issues. The ISRC its advisors, and associates have significant intelligence and national security experience. The Center has been chartered to coordinate approaches to complex national security problems with other areas of deep expertise on the George Mason University campus and throughout the community.
Because key personnel maintain official links to the intelligence and national security community, the ISRC has access to real IC problems and the ability to translate and interpret for Mason, researchers, and educators. The ISRC is available for individual consultation and counsel.
Center leadership and its Board of Advisors have significant intelligence and national security experience. We have access to real IC problems. We have the ability to translate and interpret for Mason, researchers and educators. We are available for individual consultation and counsel. ISRC is chartered to coordinate approaches to complex national security problems. Our objective is to create new and enhance existing collaborations. Our vision is ISRC is the research center of excellence for Intelligence and national security.
Mason has a long history of successful projects for disparate, national security and intelligence agencies. It has rich capacity of more than a dozen research centers and labs, whose foci include, for example, Cyber Security, Geospatial Intelligence, Air Traffic Management, C4I, Document Forensics and Learning Agents. Today, Mason recognizes that there are hard Intelligence problems, amenable only to multi-disciplinary approaches for which Mason is uniquely suited to address. It has ten schools and colleges that confer 100 degree programs at the Bachelor, Master and Doctoral levels. Mason has an ethos of public service. Its faculty has significant relationships with government, as both consultants and adjunct faculty. Mason has a demonstrated willingness to innovate. Its Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering has a twenty-five year history of investing in opportunities. Examples include the Department of Applied Information Technology, launched from traditional academic disciplines to address the growing demand for applied solutions. Today, it is among the best populated programs in the University. Mason has an experienced contracting office and is adept at attracting and challenging top talent. Mason is committed to the success of ISRC: the Director and key resources are engaged, office and lab space is arranged and there is the potential, if funding can be secured, for a SCIF and secure communications. Perhaps the best answer to, “Why Mason”, lies in Mason’s proximity to key IC and national security agencies.
ISRC wishes to establish long term relationships through contract RESEARCH of hard problems and through multi-disciplinary teams with other Mason centers, other universities and with federal agencies and their contractors. We seek GRANTS that enable frequent interaction with ISRC and participation in our work. Individual contracts with researchers leverage the executive IC experience of our leaders and Board of Advisors. ISRC can even arrange with the appropriate academic department tailored EDUCATION and training for degree and non-degree programs at every level, structure research sabbaticals for your staff, identify research roles for your interns.