Announcements

It is the pleasure of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense to invite you to participate in an open webinar training session on the Food and Agriculture Sector Criticality Assessment Tool (FAS-CAT). These sessions are intended to familiarize the appropriate individuals in State Agencies with this program such that they can act as a resource for other parties that will be using this program within each of the States. Training sessions are November 18th, 3-5 PM Central, conference call and online access.

Please contact your chapter President, Janis Rose (jrose@uis.edu), for dial in conference call detail and online website.

The Lockheed Martin Center for Security Analysis is offering a winter 20% discount to CYBERCOP members on its upcoming classes. The price for each course is $1400 (discount price). Additional discounts are avilable for referrals and groups of 3 or more.

1012-01 Critical Thinking                          1-5 Dec 2008
1010-01 Counterterrorism Analysis          8-12 Dec 2008

Critical Thinking Course: Critical thinking has been widely recognized in the Intelligence Community and elsewhere as one of the key skills that analysts require to produce reasoned, mission directed analytical results. This Course is designed to facilitate and enhance individual critical thinking skills through reflective thinking, systematic questioning, and critical reading. Attendees will also learn skills such as critical reading and writing as an integrated part of other techniques used by analysts everyday.

Counterterrorism Analysis Course: This course explores analytical techniques for the purpose of countering and defeating terrorism. Attendees learn to analyze, interpret, and apply threat-profiling techniques to vast amounts of terrorism data, and produce a multi-discipline intelligence product in accordance with current intelligence community needs. Subjects include the origins of terrorism, roots of Islamic Fundamentalism, and analytical techniques such as link and time event analysis, center of gravity analysis, and threat profiling.

Additional information can be found at: http://tinyurl.com/4c9pb8.

Please contact:
Marnie Grice
Marnie.j.grice@lmco.com
703-339-6201 x 317

Where: Panera Bread at 3019 S. Dirksen, Springfield  (map)

Local members will gather informally to discuss recent events and security issues of interest over coffee.  Local FBI representatives will lead off the discussion.

We will gather by sight at Panera.  If you are new to the group, drop our chapter president a note to coordinate recognition.

We meet monthly on the second Wednesday of the month.  If you're interested in joining in, but this day or time doesn't work for you, please let us know and we'll review some alternatives.

MATERIALS

• Mark Cheviron, ADM (.pdf)
• Denis Edgar-Nevill, Brute Force Equals Ignorance (.pdf)
• Bruce Finn, FDIC (.pdf)
• Jeff Thompson, State of IL (.pdf)
• Todd Short, UofI Police (.pdf) (website)

CINTAS can now use the FBI InfraGard logo as well as the logo for each chapter (IMA). InfraGard members have the option to purchase items with either of these logos.

Choose the InfraGard Springfield logo for your gear--10% of the proceeds will go to our chapter. Visit www.infragardstuff.com to make your purchase. You can contact Chapter President Janis Rose for the online shopping password.