Gina Ligon, the Director of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education Center, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence for terrorism prevention and counterterrorism research, visited the National Counterterrorism Center highlighting the research center’s mission and growing diversity of skills and techniques available across the organization.
NCITE’s work is organized around four themes: countering terrorism and targeted violence; bolstering suspicious activity reporting; improving prevention efforts; and strengthening the homeland security workforce. Based at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the NCITE consortium includes more than 60 researchers from 26 different institutions across the U.S. and in Europe.
They take an interdisciplinary approach to solving homeland security and challenges and are force-multipliers for U.S. counterterrorism practitioners through their development of cutting-edge research methods and technological advances to bolster the counterterrorism fight.
