Using Intelligence to Control Weapons of Mass Destruction

Description

Michael Ard, program director and a senior lecturer for the MS in Intelligence Analysis program, and Robert Clark, former senior analyst with the CIA, will lead a curated conversation on "Using Intelligence to Control Weapons of Mass Destruction."

Robert M. Clark previously was a faculty member of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Intelligence Community Officers' Course and course director of the DNI's Introduction to the intelligence community course. Clark served as a U.S. Air Force electronics warfare officer and intelligence officer, retiring with the rank of lieutenant colonel. At the CIA, he was a senior analyst and group chief. He subsequently was the founder, president, and CEO of the Scientific and Technical Analysis Corporation. He is the author of Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach (6th edition, 2019), The Technical Collection of Intelligence (2010), and Intelligence Collection (2014). He is a coauthor, with William Mitchell, of Target-Centric Network Modeling (2015) and Deception: Counterintelligence and Counterdeception (2018), and, coeditor, with Mark Lowenthal, of Intelligence Collection: The Five Disciplines (2015). His newest book, The Road to Geospatial Intelligence: The Story of GEOINT, was published in 2020.

Clark holds a Bachelor of Science from MIT, a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, and a law degree from George Washington University. He is a member of the Virginia state bar and the U.S. patent and trademark bar.