TRACK RECORD

• Program Management and Oversight of Research, Editing, and Distance Learning.” “Most members of the GAP team, and particularly Bruneau, Hespe, Lewis and Springborg have extensive experience in research, writing, editing, and education via distance learning (DL) vehicles.
• Professionals at GAP combine academic and professional experience in these seven areas. GAP participates in contracts as both a prime and a sub contractor.
  
  
• Democratic Security Institutions
• In their work Bruneau and Springborg have researched, and written, extensively on all aspects of democratic, and not so democratic, security institutions in the U.S.; Western and Eastern Europe; the Middle East; Africa; and Latin America.

• Security Institution Building

• Civilian Oversight of Security Institutions. A key theme in the work of Bruneau and Hespe in particular has been to assist established, including the U.S., as well as new democracies create the institutions and professional capacities to oversee the security institutions, which include intelligence agencies.  They have provided both academic and professional support and on –hands assistance to governments on four continents as they seek to control the security institutions they require to deal with contemporary threats.

• Out Sourcing of Government Functions
• All member of the GAP team have worked in a professional capacity in out- sourcing some aspect of government functions in the security field throughout the world.  Bruneau is currently engaged in research, writing, and teaching about the general areas of out sourcing in national security and defense.
  
  
  
  
• Impact Assessments of Public Policies and Programs
• Security Threats
• As all members of the GAP team have worked in one or more agencies of the U.S. Government, and primarily in the Department of Defense and in the intelligence services, they have always been professionally involved in identifying and assessing security threats. All GAP experts have worked on combatting weapons of mass destruction as well as more localized security threats including street gangs and regional terrorist threats.
  
  
• Intelligence Fusion Centers
• Education and Training of Foreign Area Officers
• Virtually all members of the GAP team have extensive expertise in organizing and delivering specialized programs for junior and senior officers designated as Foreign Area Officers (FAOs). Drawing on their deep regional expertise, they provide this education and training in the U.S. and abroad.