At this time each year, the CINA Center (and most of our DHS COE colleagues) are busy kicking off new research projects identified in the prior program year and approved…
Director’s Blog: March 2022
A big component of the CINA center is our research portfolio, so we naturally spend a lot of time thinking about how we initiate, execute, and communicate research that will…
Director’s Blog: June 2022
As I’ve written before, one of the benefits of leading CINA is the many opportunities we have to meet and talk with a wide variety of people who are directly…
Director’s Blog: September 2021
The CINA Center is four years old, the first DHS Center of Excellence was formed 17 years ago, DHS is almost 19 years old, and our constitution was written 234…
Director’s Blog: August 2021
The CINA Center proudly supported three projects this year through the DHS Summer Research Team Program for Minority Serving Institutions (MSI). We once again had an abundance of strong proposals, and we selected teams…
Director’s Blog: November 2021
My role at the CINA center puts me in contact with a wide variety of people at DHS and beyond. In any given week, I might talk with frontline operators,…
Director’s Blog: April 2021
The threat landscape facing our nation and world is complex, varied, and dynamic. We are actively dealing with a global pandemic, mass shootings, foreign and domestic terrorism, climate change, supply…
Director’s Blog: July 2021
- News
The DHS Centers of Excellence Summit was held the week of May 17-21, 2021. In a completely virtual format, the summit had a record number of registrants (over 1,200) including…
GMU Researchers Help DHS Fight Cybercrime
The Criminal Investigations and Network Analysis Center, a Department of Homeland Security S&T Center of Excellence, supports the agency with research and tools for fighting cybercrime. Jim Jones, CINA’s director,…
Director’s Blog: January 2021
I began serving as CINA Director one year ago, and the other day was asked what I had learned in that first year. It turns out that fighting Transnational Criminal Organizations…