Combating Terrorism Center
Cadets Amy Slaughter, Mack Bartle and Samuel Parker along with OIC Dr. Aaron Brantly, the Combating Terrorism Center’s Cyber Fellow, recently traveled for three weeks (12 June – 3 July) on an AIAD trip to Mongolia. In country, they worked on human rights in domestic violence matters and prisoner rights with local NGOs and metropolitan police. In addition to their human rights work, they observed Khaan Quest 2015, a joint peacekeeping exercise involving 21 nations including the United States and Mongolia. They were also able to travel and participate in various activities, including a day spent with a nomad family and hiking in special reserved areas of Mongolia.
Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering
AIAD at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). During the past three weeks, Cadet Nathaniel Marks has worked with analysts at NGA and other intelligence agencies to formulate his research project which he will continue to work on as a capstone project during the next academic year. Cadet Marks’ research seeks to integrate multidisciplinary domain knowledge to motivate innovative modeling perspectives for predictive analysis that can support international policy development. The project goal is to assess risks associated with an anticipated surge of maritime traffic in the Arctic. Raster and vector data sets are assembled within a GIS environment to capture and model inter-related processes among various components.