Transportation Seminar Series
UGPTI Intelligence: Toward a Global Transportation Intelligence Program
Apr 24, 2008 (10:00 - 11:00 a.m., IACC 422)
Multiple intelligence agencies exist within the United States government that focus on providing all-source global intelligence products related to the transportation industry. Most of the finished intelligence reports from these agencies, however, are restricted in their dissemination. Similarly, a number of private transportation intelligence groups exist that offer tactically relevant transportation intelligence but generally miss the strategic level. This presentation proposes the establishment of a global transportation intelligence program at the UGPTI that collects and analyzes substantive transportation intelligence from a strategic perspective through a variety of different products. The presentation will show how this program could further integrate and harness UGPTI's diverse expertise in order to provide situation analysis, long-range assessments and threat estimates to the transportation industry. The presentation will also show how such a program could serve to harness community-wide knowledge from across the transportation industry and related fields as well as ideas for strategically offering deliverables to transportation analysts, researchers and corporate clients globally.
Jarret Brachman, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute – NDSU
Jarret Brachman holds a joint position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and the Director of Research in the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy. He is also an Adjunct Professor at New York University's Center for Global Affairs where he teaches a graduate class on Intelligence and Counterintelligence. Jarret's research focuses on counterterrorism and homeland security. Jarret has testified before the U.S. Congress, spoken before the British House of Lords and routinely advises senior government officials in multiple agencies on counterterrorism strategy. Jarret's research has been profiled on 60 Minutes, CNN, A&E and a variety of international media outlets including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Al-Jazeera and Sharq al-Awsat. He served as a Fellow with the Central Intelligence Agency's Counterterrorist Center before coming to West Point. Jarret's new book, "Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice," is in press with Routledge press due out in August 2008. Jarret lives in New York with his wife and two children and is a native of Fargo, North Dakota.
