Homeland Security

During your on-board training, you learned that the National Counterproliferation Center was founded in 2005 based on recommendations from the Congressional Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Commission the same year and direction from the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Its mission is to lead the Intelligence Community and interagency to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, related technologies and expertise. The NCPC helps counter threats against the United States from the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and missiles capable of delivering them. The NCPC integrates the counterproliferation efforts of the entire Intelligence Community to ensure that the US Government is postured to protect the country from Weapons of Mass Destruction. The NCPC is a small, diverse group of Officers drawn from across the IC and devoted to integrating the IC's efforts. You further learn that the NCPC promotes innovative solutions to counter proliferation and posture the US Government and its partners to anticipate emerging threats and challenges. You further learn that the NCPC works with the Intelligence Community (IC) to identify critical holes in our WMD knowledge - resulting from shortfalls in collection, analysis, or exploitation - and then develops solutions to reduce or close these gaps. In conjunction with the policy community, NCPC also helps to identify long-term proliferation threats and requirements, and develops strategies to ensure that the IC is positioned to address these over-the-horizon threats. The NCPC drives whole-of-government actions to implement US policy objectives. To do this, NCPC depends not only on the 16 agencies of the IC, but also partners with experts across the US Government and in the private sector.