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By Leischen Stelter

Frances Rouse started her career in nuclear engineering, redesigning components in nuclear power plants. Her career migrated to the aerospace industry, where she was a design engineer on the F16 Fighting Falcon, fighter jet and V22 Osprey, tilt-rotor helicopter. However, she wasn’t totally happy and fulfilled by her career as an engineer. Learn more about her decision to pursue a degree in Intelligence Studies and some of the lessons she learned along the way.

By Leischen Stelter

What have we learned from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, which consisted of 11 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks across India’s largest city? How can law enforcement agencies, first responders and cities be better prepared to respond to an incident of this scale?

Read more about how these questions were addressed by an esteemed panel during the 2012 International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in San Diego.

By James Green, Jr.

Have you ever wondered how the President and senior policymakers arrive at national security decisions? How our military forces maneuver through the battle spaces and know exactly where enemy forces are? What gives our first responders and other emergency personnel an advantage during natural or man-made disasters?

By Tim Hardiman

Many police officers are able to retire from their police careers long before they are ready to never work again. They are interested in the financial benefits of collecting a pension along with a regular paycheck to truly experience financial independence. Many retiring officers choose to transition into the private sector, but making this transition can be challenging.