Military Technologies And Applied Sciences
This has all the subfields within “Military Technologies And Applied Sciences”. This field is for “Instructional programs that prepare individuals in specialized and advanced subject matter for the armed services and related national security organizations, including intelligence operations, military applied sciences, and military technologies.”
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Intelligence, General
A program that focuses on the principles and techniques of intelligence acquisition, analysis and exploitation. Includes instruction in intelligence organizations, the intelligence cycle, intelligence operations planning, intelligence analysis and reporting, intelligence methods, electronic and signals intelligence, operations and communications security, human intelligence management, intelligence chain of command, information exploitation and psychological warfare, and the relationship to national security policy and strategy.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Associates | 3 | 937 |
| Bachelors | 12 | 875 |
| Certificate | 8 | 106 |
| Masters | 8 | 424 |
Strategic Intelligence
A program that focuses on the management, analysis and use of national-level, theatre-level, and international intelligence and related policy issues. Includes instruction in intelligence organization and management, strategic uses of intelligence, management of intelligence systems and assets, command and control, joint intelligence operations, electronic and signals intelligence, threat assessment and estimation, intelligence analysis and reporting, counterintelligence, and studies of specific regions and situations.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelors | 7 | 33 |
| Certificate | 8 | 279 |
| Doctorate | 2 | 2 |
| Masters | 6 | 91 |
Signal/Geospatial Intelligence
A program that focuses on the theory, technology and operational aspects of collecting, processing and exploiting remote-sensed, radar, acoustic and other forms of signals intelligence. Includes instruction in applied physics, wave propagation and capture, radar systems, acoustics and underwater systems, infrared systems, synthetic aperture systems, collection and processing systems, signal phenomenology, signal analysis and exploitation, and applications to specific intelligence problems.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Associates | 1 | 0 |
| Bachelors | 2 | 7 |
| Certificate | 8 | 16 |
| Masters | 3 | 22 |
Command & Control (C3, C4I) Systems and Operations
A program that focuses on the theory, technology and operational use of information and decision systems in support of battlefield, theatre, and global strategic operations. Includes instruction in applied mathematics and statistics, computer systems, real-time analysis and decision systems, surveillance and navigation systems, information and communications technology, information security, situational awareness, system integration, joint operations and applications to specific command problems and services.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate | 2 | 0 |
Information/Psychological Warfare and Military Media Relations
A program that focuses on the support of military and strategic operations and policy via the use of information as a tool of statecraft and warfighting. Includes instruction in information technology and systems, information security, command and control, satellite communications, global information dissemination, communications and media management, intelligence, psychological warfare, strategic planning, security policy and doctrine, and applications to specific operations, services, and scenarios.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Masters | 1 | 21 |
Cyber/Electronic Operations and Warfare
A program that focuses on the technological and operation aspects of information warfare, including cyber attack and cyber defense. Includes instruction in computer and network security, cryptography, computer forensics, systems security engineering, software applications, threat and vulnerability assessment, wireless networks and satellite communications, tactical and strategic planning, legal and ethical issues, and cyber warfare systems development and acquisition.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Associates | 7 | 36 |
| Bachelors | 20 | 396 |
| Certificate | 22 | 200 |
| Doctorate | 1 | 0 |
| Masters | 11 | 313 |
Intelligence, Command Control and Information Operations, Other
Any instructional program in intelligence, command control and information operations not listed above.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelors | 1 | 32 |
| Certificate | 1 | 0 |
Combat Systems Engineering
A program that focuses on the application of systems engineering and system architecture to the design and construction of modern combat systems and their integration with each other, with host platforms and with other forces into network-centric warfighting systems. Includes instruction in systems engineering, computer programming, chemical systems, biological systems, material systems, human factors, combat environments, sensor systems, threat and system risk assessment, conventional and unconventional weapons, combat simulation, reliability and maintenance, testing, engineering project management, strategic planning and applications to aerospace, ground, and naval combat systems.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate | 1 | 0 |
| Doctorate | 1 | 0 |
| Masters | 1 | 32 |
Engineering Acoustics
A program that focuses on the application of acoustics and signals processing to undersea and antisubmarine warfare. Includes instruction in acoustics; electrical engineering; the generation, propagation and reception of underwater sound waves; military applications of underwater sound; and acoustic signal processing.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate | 1 | 1 |
| Doctorate | 1 | 1 |
| Masters | 1 | 12 |
Low-Observables and Stealth Technology
A program that focuses on the application of electromagnetic field theory, electro-optics and materials science to the reduction of radar, optical and acoustic signatures of weapons systems. Includes instruction in computational electromagnetics, electro-optics, acoustics, guided wave theory, radiation capture, antenna applications in layered environments, material characterization, radar cross-section analysis, sonar signature analysis, non-destructive testing, remote sensing, and applications to specific weapons systems and operational environments.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate | 1 | 1 |
Space Systems Operations
A program that focuses on the design, development, and operation of missiles, satellites and other space-based systems for military purposes. Includes instruction in the military applications of space, space technology, aerospace engineering, systems architecture, orbital mechanics, launch and retrieval systems, ground support systems, satellite communications, and space-based sensor systems.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelors | 2 | 17 |
| Certificate | 1 | 24 |
| Masters | 3 | 40 |
Operational Oceanography
A program that focuses on the study of physical oceanography as applied to the naval tactical and strategic environment and the support of military operations. Includes instruction in atmospheric thermodynamics and radiation propagation, air-ocean fluid dynamics, ocean waves, nearshore environments and processes, ocean acoustics, ocean analysis, tactical oceanography, prediction, and related quantitative and experimental methods.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate | 1 | 9 |
| Masters | 1 | 0 |
Undersea Warfare
A program that focuses on the principles, engineering design and military concepts that govern the operational employment of underwater sensors and weapons systems. Includes instruction in acoustics, electrical, and mechanical engineering; mathematics; meteorology; oceanography; physics; operations analysis; human factors; computer science; and robotics.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate | 1 | 9 |
| Masters | 1 | 10 |
Military Applied Sciences, Other
Any instructional program in military applied sciences not listed above.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Associates | 3 | 20 |
| Bachelors | 3 | 60 |
| Certificate | 1 | 3 |
Aerospace Ground Equipment Technology
A program that focuses on the principles, technology, and maintenance of ground-based systems and equipments used to support aviation flight operations and space operations. Includes instruction in computer science, electronics, basic sciences and quantitative methods, air conditioning and refrigeration, corrosion control, fluid power, hazardous materials, industrial safety, maintenance management, vehicle and equipment operation, and applications to specific ground support systems.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelors | 2 | 57 |
Air and Space Operations Technology
A program that focuses on the principles, technology and maintenance of systems and equipment used in aerospace operations. Includes instruction in astronomy and astronautics, solid state theory, air and space operations, electronics, computer science, aviation and space flight safety, life support systems, flight operations management systems, programming, propulsion systems, weaponry, maintenance management and applications to specific systems and operations.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Associates | 1 | 86 |
| Bachelors | 2 | 34 |
| Certificate | 2 | 8 |
| Masters | 1 | 0 |
Explosive Ordinance/Bomb Disposal
A program that focuses on the identification, containment, analysis and neutralization of explosive devices. Includes instruction in nuclear science, computer science, ordinance and bomb systems, electronics, computer science, industrial radiography, non-destructive testing, equipment operation, inventory management, investigative techniques, forensics, schematic interpretation, safety procedures, site containment and emergency medicine.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Associates | 1 | 14 |
| Certificate | 1 | 7 |
Joint Command/Task Force (C3, C4I) Systems
A program that focuses on the principles, technology and operational use of command and control (C3, C4I) systems as applied to joint and combined military operations involving unified commands. Includes instruction in information technology, communications systems, network systems and architecture, systems engineering, C3 and C4I doctrine and policy, C3 and C4I systems management, intelligence, operational and strategic planning, interagency operations, operational security and deception.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Masters | 1 | 1 |
Military Systems and Maintenance Technology, Other
Any instructional program in military systems and maintenance technology not listed above.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate | 1 | 0 |
Military Technology and Applied Sciences Management
A program that focuses on applied military science, military operations, intelligence gathering, military technology, and national security. Includes instruction in computer science, engineering, ethics, field training, leadership, military strategy, logistics, management skills, and politics.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelors | 1 | 25 |
Military Technologies and Applied Sciences, Other
Any instructional program in military technologies and applied sciences not listed above.
| Degree | Schools offering | Degrees completed |
|---|---|---|
| Associates | 5 | 40 |
| Bachelors | 2 | 83 |
| Certificate | 5 | 13 |
| Masters | 3 | 9 |