Take advantage of the following CCIS resources and more:

• Career and Internship Portal

• Minor in Critical Intelligence Studies

• Research Opportunities

• IC CAE Scholar Program

• Upcoming Events

Complete our survey and be automatically entered into a raffle to win one of two $50 Amazon gift cards! 

(for BMCC, CCNY, NJCU, and Rutgers students only) 

As you know, Rutgers is a federally-designated Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC CAE). The effectiveness of our program is partly measured based on the number of Rutgers Consortium students who have received internships, conditional offers, and/or permanent offers within the federal Intelligence Community.

The survey takes 4 minutes to complete and is vital to ensuring the continued funding and development of the program. You will also be able to provide feedback on course content, programs and more. 

We send this survey out on a regular basis, so please complete the survey even if you've done so in the past. Your input will ensure that Rutgers has the most up-to-date information and remains eligible for federal funding.

Please complete the survey once.

Additional responses will not count towards the raffle.

Delivering Quality Intelligence Products on Controversial Topics

DATE: 02/02/24

TIME: 11AM (ET)

LOCATION: Rutgers - New Brunswick, specific location TBD

Join Rutgers lecturer Dean Baratta for a session on how to deliver quality intelligence products on sensitive/controversial topics. Intelligence analysis often involves work on topics that are emotionally sensitive or politically controversial. Navigating those challenges, both as a professional AND as a human being can be difficult even for seasoned analysts. In this talk we'll discuss some ways to approach these issues in ways that support your mission, maintain credibility and coherence within your team, and allow you to stay emotionally healthy.

(Open to BMCC, CCNY, and NJCU, and Rutgers students only)

SF-86 Workshop

DATE: 02/09/24

TIME: 12-1:30PM (ET)

LOCATION: Virtual

Learn the ins and outs of the SF-86 in this workshop. This session on security clearances and the SF-86 will help answer your questions about the sometimes mysterious, painful process for getting a clearance!

(Open to all current and legacy IC CAE school students)

Tableau Data Analysis Workshop

DATE: 02/09/24

TIME: 3-5PM (ET)

LOCATION: Virtual

Do you want to explore how Tableau can change the way you analyze data? Then this is the session for you! Follow along with our speaker as you launch Tableau and begin answering questions for the first time. This session covers:

• Connecting to data
• Working with categorical, geographic and time-series data
• How to build a functional and impactful dashboard that answers all of your questions

(Open to all current and legacy IC CAE school students)

IC Fundamentals

DATE: 02/14/24

TIME: 2-3PM

LOCATION: Virtual

Do you want to learn more about the world of intelligence and national security? Join our session to hone critical analytical skills and gain an upper-hand in applying to internships, jobs, and other opportunities in the national security field. Students will also have the opportunity to ask questions about the IC CAE program as well as numerous professional, academic, and research opportunities at their disposal.

(Open to BMCC and CCNY students ONLY)

IC Contractor Panel

DATE: 02/23/24

TIME: 12PM (ET)

LOCATION: Virtual

 Are you interested in working in the field of national security, but aren't sure what your options are?

Speak with Rutgers alumni currently employed as contractors to learn more about the role of contractors in national security, internship and job opportunities, and career paths.

(Open to all current and legacy IC CAE school students)

Tell Me How This Ends: Structured Analytic Techniques

DATE: 03/29/24

TIME: 10AM-1PM

LOCATION: Rutgers - New Brunswick, specific location TBD

Do you wish you knew how major events like the Russia-Ukraine war would end? Do you find it hard to sift through headlines and understand where a situation is heading? With structured analytic techniques (SAT), you can understand what truly matters in a situation and better understand the possible range of futures that could occur. Take charge of sharpening your understanding with the SAT workshop, where we will look at the current Russia-Ukraine war through the lens of scenario generation and develop indicators that will help us better understand reality.

(Open to BMCC, CCNY, NJCU, and Rutgers students ONLY)

Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)

Intelligence Research Specialist

Duties include:

• Provide timely, insightful, and sophisticated all-source analysis or situational awareness--in collaboration with IC partners--on threats (terrorist, proliferation, narcotics, illicit finance, security, cyber or counterintelligence) to U.S. interests, author a range of finished intelligence products, and brief policy, intelligence, law enforcement, and military customers to inform decision-making and policy-making on national security.

• Identify as early as possible leads that could become threats to the Homeland and U.S. interests abroad. Work with mission partners across the Federal Government to help disrupt potential threats within assigned area(s) of responsibility.

• Perform in-depth all-source research and analysis; within substantive area conduct targeted analysis of known and unknown individuals, groups, and networks to reveal identity attributes for future analytical and/or watchlisting purposes.

• Conduct independent research, synthesize data, apply analytic methods, and evaluate programs within a substantive area to produce clear, concise products and recommendations to support ODNI senior leadership.

• Maintain 24/7 global situational awareness by independently researching and analyzing raw intelligence reporting and maintaining awareness of current intelligence issues.

• Evaluate, integrate, and develop strategies and plans in coordination and collaboration with other Federal Government agencies and private sector entities to counter threats to U.S. interests.

• Research, monitor, and evaluate the use of agencies' resources to meet mission objectives, examine alternatives, and provide structured recommendations in accordance with organizational policies, procedures, and viewpoints. Assess progress made against mission objectives and develop recommendations to enhance performance.

Deadline: 01/17/24

Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

IT Specialist

Duties include:

• Supports technical personnel in the planning, developing, implementation, operation, and maintenance of current and future systems.

• Performs studies relating to design and development of new systems and major restructuring of existing system configurations, to include recommending what must be changed to anticipate effects of actions on parallel and dependent systems.

• Assists in developing system and network requirements, to include developing plans for meeting all security requirements.

• Performs diagnostics on system operations to identify problems and trends, verify network performance, and identify potential user requirements.

• Analyzes and isolates problems.

• Establishes and conducts meetings to discuss areas of customer concern and to obtain additional or clarifying data.

• Makes recommendations for corrective actions required.

• Plans and advises on implementation of revised procedures, processes, methods or approaches.

• Maintains currency on state-of-the-art in assigned specialty area.

• Researches new products and technologies in functional area.

• Analyzes product specifications to evaluate functionality within current and projected operating environment.

Deadline: 01/17/23

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Multimedia Specialist

Major duties include:

• Installs, modifies, and adapts photographic and video techniques and processes for the purpose of the office's social media pages, web designs, presentations, briefings, etc.

• Plans, designs, produces, and/or assembles promotional displays and advertisements.

• Produces computer graphic designs and animation by using state-of-the-art computer graphic applications and programs.

• Develops regular content for multiple social media platforms in order to create, update, and monitor an office's outreach efforts.



• Manages office's web design with emphasis on functionality and usefulness.

Application Deadline: 01/30/24

National Security Agency (NSA)

Signals Analyst

Duties include:

• Levy deep technical understanding of signal characteristics to determine signal structure, define signal parameters, identify signal content, and model signal behavior within the RF and digital domains.

• Transform signals between domains, and create processing models and scripts.

• Report technical characteristics of signals and maintain knowledge bases.

• Use knowledge of customer requirements to collect, process, analyze and/or report on signals intelligence information.

• Identify and analyze signal waveforms (e.g., weapon systems or communication systems), bit streams (e.g., multiplexers, error correction, voice and video compression, or instrumentation systems), and/or protocols (e.g., link layer, network layer, or application layer.)

• Develop software code to support analysis and/or processing using a variety of architectures and solutions.

• Report signal parametric data and intelligence information in databases, narrative reports, and oral presentations.

Application Deadline: 02/13/24