Admissions

Home > College: Mission of the National Defense Intelligence College

Our Mission


	Prepare Intelligence Community and Combatant Command 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 US 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 the College, 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 Department of Defense 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 as part of a continuing advancement toward university status.