NW3C will send staff Justin Parker, training manager to present at the 2024 National Fusion Center Association (NFCA) Training Event in Washington, DC. The intent was to raise awareness on FREE training resources and technical assistance available by BJA, IIR, and NW3C. Additionally, the panel wanted to facilitate a discussion on training needs and to determine what's working, what needs fixed, and what's broken in respect to national training offerings for local and state law enforcement.
Full title: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Training and Education Needs, a Discussion with the National Network of Fusion Centers (NNFC)
SESSION OVERVIEW:
The National Network of Fusion Centers (NNFC) sits at the forefront in the fight against organized criminal activity, terrorist threats, targeted violence, and even threats from nation state actors inside the Homeland. In order to be successful in this mission, the NNFC must prioritize training for its intelligence professionals. Although part of the same network,
fusion centers can differ greatly in their training needs due to a diversity of staff structure and size, turnover, and threat focus. Training needs are centered on education, technical and tradecraft skills, and threat-topic related education for analysts with specific threat portfolios.
This session begins with a brief overview of three agencies dedicated to providing, primarily free training and technical assistance to local and state law enforcement agencies - the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Institute for Intergovernmental Research, and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C). Although the session opens with overviews, the session is NOT focused on an advertisement for each. Rather, the
session is intended to share details of a joint IIR / NW3C training needs survey with NFCA attendees as a starting point for a broader discussion.
The remainder of the session will focus on solicitation of ideas, brainstorming and a discussion upon the types of current training and education gaps present in today's environment. Essential to this discussion will be dialogue on future needs related to emerging technologies to include artificial intelligence, and topics related to tradecraft needs for frontline, senior, and supervisory levels.
This session's discussion will then assist curriculum refinement, new development, and collaboration with other domestic intelligence enterprise partners to include the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC), the NFCA Executive Board and the NNFC Analyst Council.
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