Capabilities & Programs
COURSES
The primary mission of DGMA is to provides dynamic, in-depth and relevant education, training and products on counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and security. Our programs are designed to enhance your organization’s mission and to protect your information, facilities and personnel from global terrorists, foreign intelligence collectors and competitor threats. Our five core competencies are:
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STRATEGY AND TACTICS
DGMA's extensive education and training programs are designed to change organizational understanding and commitment to the strategic and tactical importance of counterintelligence to enhance successful mission accomplishment. Our courses provide insight into both the strategic importance and the tactical application of counterintelligence. Course material highlights the historical and future consequences of ignoring and mismanaging counterintelligence programs. Our expertise lies in providing education programs on defensive and offensive counterintelligence, and specific foreign country intelligence and counterintelligence operations directed against the United States, as well as lessons learned from high profile espionage cases. We provide CI education programs on tactics, strategy, country specific concerns, case studies and high and low profile espionage cases.SECURITY AND OPSEC AWARENESS
Security Awareness and Operations Security (OPSEC) are generally regarded as not only a methodology, but also a mindset. Our goal is to increase your employees’ awareness of threats from espionage, active measures/operational games and terrorism, as well as to enhance their understanding of OPSEC, INFOSEC, and personnel security. Our courses have value not only for U.S. Government employees, but also for government contractors, law enforcement officers and corporate employees.UNDERSTANDING TERRORISM: ROOTS OF THE CONFLICT AND PRACTICAL RESPONSE
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 Americans both within the government and the private sector have been asking the profound question of “Why.” Why were we attacked? Why are we so hated? Why was a war declared against us? The United States and other nations are faced with an enemy that is neither understood nor acknowledged as a real threat by elements of various societies. We have numerous courses designed to enhance understanding of terrorism at both the strategic and tactical levels. Our professors explore with students the roots of the worldwide Jihadist movement; the trends of the conflict today; the reason for the spread of suicide bombers; and how to protect personnel, programs and facilities. They also explore the positive role offensive counterintelligence, analysis and education must play in addressing the serious realities our nation faces.ECONOMIC ESPIONAGE PROTECTION
Economic espionage, by both foreign nations and competitors,is a crime against your company that you can’t afford to ignore. In today’s competitive global market, it is vital for your job security and your organization’s survival to have an understanding of the collection techniques used to target both you and your assets. Today’s global economy demands that corporations must plan, operate, hire, produce, market and sell on a worldwide scale. A challenge is to find an effective mechanism to ensure employees from diverse cultures and religious beliefs living in nations around the world are supportive and loyal to their corporate mission. DGMA has solutions to meet this challenge.INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL SAFETY
In today’s international marketplace, worldwide travel is an essential and absolute requirement for corporate, government and military personnel. U.S. personnel who travel internationally for personal and professional reasons face an enhanced threat from foreign intelligence collectors, unscrupulous business competitors and terrorists driven by many ideologies and objectives. DGMA provides practical information and usable tactics to assist the global traveler. Our programs cover pre-travel planning, arrival procedures and strategies to lower individual profiles while in travel status. Included in these seminars are strategies to recognize recruitment and elicitation operations, technical collection operations to assess travelers and/or compromise their information, and criminal/terrorist pre-attack profile recognition.
WEBSITE
DGMA's popular website, http://cicentre.com, receives nearly 70,000 visitors per month with over 1.5 million pages viewed last year. Every work day, we search the worldwide media on the internet for the latest news articles about counterintelligence, espionage, economic espionage, cybersecurity, US and foreign intelligence, homeland security, counterterrorism, jihads, terrorism trials and much more. It has become a must-read for professionals. Our online news archive goes back to the year 2000 and is an excellent resource. In addition, there are hundreds of resources on CI, spy cases (when a spy is arrested, we create a page and collect all articles and documents pertainning to the case), original articles, CI and security reference materials, CI and CT books and more. A former head of counterintelligence for an Intelligence Community agency said the CI Centre’s website is a “national asset.”
RESEARCH
DGMA conducts analysis and can work on unclassified and classified projects upon request. We are also able to expertly design and produce the finished product. DGMA researched, designed and wrote the widely-used Intelligence Threat Handbook and the Terrorism Threat Handbook published by the Interagency OPSEC Support Staff. These publications provide rich, useful information about foreign intelligence services, terrorist organizations, operational methodology and real case studies/examples of OPSEC indicators. Please contact www.IOSS.gov to order these books. We have also used our unique expertise and staff to conduct special studies and red team exercises identifying vulnerabilities of an organization.
CONSULTING
DGMA is available for consulting and can advise on setting up professional multi-faceted training programs or company OPSEC programs. DGMA has several associates who are on the Board of Advisors of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. We are also corporate members of the Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO) in McLean, VA, and the International Association for Intelligence Education. David Major is a member of the AFIO National Board of Directors. DGMA associates have been consultants to numerous television documentaries and authors of books about counterintelligence and espionage cases. We were also technical consultants to the movie, Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, which was written by Norman Mailer and produced by Lawrence Schiller.
SPEAKERS
Our Speakers Bureau specializes in providing knowledgeable experts in intelligence, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, security to give speeches/lectures at conferences, meetings, conventions, organizations, colleges, schools, special events, etc. Our speakers have served in the FBI, CIA, DOD, DOS, US Military Intelligence, Canadian RCMP and Russian KGB and have a wealth of knowledge and experience to impart to your group.
PODCASTS
DGMA has a popular podcast channel on our CI Centre website delivering analysis and commentary by our associates on current counterintelligence, counterterrorism or security-related news and events, book and movie reviews, and historical discussions.
VIDEOS
DGMA can research, film and produce videos. We are the creator of the popular US Government “CI-TV” programs with over 150 episodes. We also researched, filmed and created a DVD called “Critical Security Issues: The Reality of Economic Espionage” for organizations to teach employees how companies and countries can steal intellectual and economic assets. We produced a 30-minute video “The Unseen Victims of the Robert Hanssen Case,” and the OPSEC video “Think Like the Wolf.”
STORE
DGMA's CI Centre online store has a wide selection of items, including “Counterintelligence Classics” books and audio lectures, original design CI, CT and Security posters, as well as mugs, hats, magnets, pins, apparel, clocks, book bags, mousepads, notecards, and more with special designs relating to counterintelligence, intelligence, D*I*C*E and counterterrorism. Visit the store via our website (http://cicentre.com) or go directly to www.cafepress.com/cicentre_store.
EVENTS
DGMA can plan and host special events at our training facility or off-site. We have held numerous counterintelligence book signings and lectures featuring the authors. We have planned and presented multi-day conferences with lectures from our professors and guest speakers at different special venues, such as The Homestead Resort and on different cruise lines. The classrooms in our training facility are available for rent for our clients own needs.
DESIGN
DGMA can create designs for your internal CI and security communications, such as posters, pens, notepads, bookmarks, table tent cards, flyers, brochures and many other items. We can work with vendors to get the design produced for you.
POWERPOINT®
DGMA is well known for its powerful, innovative, multimedia PowerPoint® presentations. We can redesign your existing presentation to give you the most attention-getting impact when you present.
PRESENTING
DGMA can teach you how to motivate through communication, how to deliver an effective presentation that gets results. Learn techniques to keep the attention of your audience and get them involved and listening.
SALES
Recruitment and elicitation techniques and knowledge used by DGMA Associates when they served in counterintelligence and intelligence in the government can be used by those in sales to identify a potential client, find out their needs, ‘pitch’ them and then close the sale. Our associates are available for lectures, consulting and one-on-one advice to help you succeed in your business.