February 2007

GW’s Elliott School Earns Multimillion Dollar Pentagon Contract

January marked the start of the Pentagon’s National Security Studies Program at GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs, made possible by a multimillion dollar U.S. Department of Defense contract. Designed to supplement the Security Policy Studies Program, the Pentagon’s program will instruct department officials in a series of four-week, two-week, and three-day courses.

Military and civilian executives and managers will have the opportunity to participate in a defense policy seminar, an executive course on national and international security, and a senior manager course in national security. Elliott School faculty, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program, will be responsible for giving lectures, developing curricula, and visiting various agencies within the Department of Defense.
“This program offers us an opportunity to draw on the breadth and depth of our faculty’s expertise in the areas of security, defense, and intelligence,” says Joanna Spear, director of both GW’s Security Policy Studies Program and the new National Security Studies Program.

“We are pleased and very proud to direct this important program,” adds Michael E. Brown, dean of the Elliott School. “It is gratifying to know that the Elliott School is helping to educate military and civilian leaders and contributing to U.S. national security.”

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