As you know, Rutgers is a federally-designated Intelligence Community Center for Academic Excellence (IC CAE). The effectiveness of our program is partly measured based on the number of Rutgers Consortium students who have received internships, conditional offers, and/or permanent offers within the federal Intelligence Community.

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The Rutgers University Center for Critical Intelligence Studies (CCIS) partners with numerous academic and federal institutions to provide a number of research opportunities for students within the Rutgers Consortium. These opportunities serve to fulfill the research requirement in the CIS minor as well as individual research and professional development interests. Currently, CCIS is accepting applications for the Spring 2023 semester. 

National Intelligence University (NIU)

Selected students will work under the mentorship of NIU faculty with expertise and backgrounds in intelligence, military, and foreign policy. Students will support groundbreaking research to advance U.S. intelligence processes and foreign policy efforts. During the application process, students will have the opportunity to rank each of the five NIU centers participating in the fellowship.

Students must fulfill the following requirements:

• Be a junior, senior, or graduate student.
• Maintain a 3.0 GPA or higher.

Opportunities and Preferred Qualifications (Students do not need to have ALL of the following skills):

Data Science/Cyber:

• Strong computing background, particularly in Python and R.
• Computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering majors preferred.

Geographic Information Systems:

• Strong GIS skills, with a preferred background in ArcGIS or QGIS.

Intelligence Enterprise, Information Environment, IC relationships with the public:

• Strong research, writing, and critical thinking skills.

Area Studies:

• Area studies majors preferred. Concentration in China/East Asia preferred, but not required.
• Fluency in foreign language and ability to translate/interpret media.
• Interest and background in social science.

(Open to BMCC, CCNY, NJCU, and Rutgers students ONLY)

New York University (NYU)

Global Security Operations Center (GSOC)

The Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) in NYU Campus Safety’s Global Resiliency and Security (GR&S) prepares global NYU constituencies to mitigate, respond to, and recover from any potential impacts to university governance, operations, and business while providing consistent, reliable, advanced security technology solutions, services, and subject matter expertise to proactively enhance community safety.

The GSOC intern will work with the GSOC Director on different projects such as providing situational awareness through open-source intelligence, developing risk assessments, writing geopolitical strategic analysis, and assessing non-state actor’s intelligence, surveillance, and

reconnaissance capabilities and potential threats to NYU location(s).

(Non-US Citizens are eligible for this opportunity)

(Open to BMCC, CCNY, NJCU, and Rutgers students ONLY)

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Fall 2023 National Security Fellowship

Responsibilities include:

• Conducting legal research and analysis, fact development, and developing theories to support new litigation projects 
• Drafting legal memoranda, pleadings, declarations, motions, and briefs 
• Interviewing and working with potential witnesses and clients 
• Participating in discovery and trial practice as opportunities arise 
• Drafting and editing public education and non-litigation advocacy materials
• Providing support and assistance to ACLU affiliates
• Helping manage the summer legal internship program and supervise student interns
• Engaging in public speaking and attend meetings and/or conferences as needed

United States Space Force (USSF)

HR Project Manager Intern (DC Area)

Duties include:

• Reviews, analyzes, drafts, designs and contributes to the development, test, launch, continuous improvement, measures and visualizations of progress, impact and effect of content, products and services associated with organizational and employee development across the culture, engagement, resilience and wellbeing, and HR innovation domains
• Assists in development of content, evaluations, briefings and reports to determine new or revised program requirements