Past Events

ILI Hosts
ILI Hosts "Combating Global Coronavirus: Assessment of Past Lessons & Future Outlook"
Date: Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 2:00 PM-4:00 PM Host: International Law Institute Opening Remarks: Prof. Don Wallace, Chairman at the International Law Institute Moderator: Prof. Yonah Alexander, Director of the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies, Senior Fellow at th...
ILI Hosts “Combating Global Coronavirus: From Isolation to Int'l Cooperation” Conference
ILI Hosts “Combating Global Coronavirus: From Isolation to Int'l Cooperation” Conference
On March 26, 2020, the International Law Institute was proud to support and co-host with the Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies [IUCTS] its conference on “Combating Global Coronavirus: From Isolation to International Cooperation” held as part of Special Ambassador’s Forum series. T...
IUCTS Feb 6 2020 Middle East Security Challenges: Past Lessons and Future Outlook
IUCTS Feb 6 2020 Middle East Security Challenges: Past Lessons and Future Outlook
Speaker: Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat Opening remarks: Professor Don Wallace Jr. International Law Institute and Inter University Center for Terrorism Studies
2019 Global Terrorism Index
2019 Global Terrorism Index
Featuring Col. Serge Stroobants, Director of Operations for Europe and MENA at the Institute for Economics and Peace (Brussels). December 16, 2019 (2:00-3:30 PM) Co-Sponsors: Inter-University Center for Terrorism Studies Inter-University Center for Legal Studies, at the International Law Institut...
Application of Blockchains to DoD Microelectronics Supply Chain
Application of Blockchains to DoD Microelectronics Supply Chain
In this presentation Nikhil Shenoy will review Colvin Run's microelectronics blockchain product and review the application of blockchains to the DoD microelectronic supply chain. This talk will focus on the importance of the U.S. semiconductor industry and review problems and facing the current micr...
ICTS Event, Technology and Security, November 18, 2019
ICTS Event, Technology and Security, November 18, 2019
“Understanding how technology evolves is essential for the United States to continue to maintain global leadership, as well as to ensure economic prosperity and national security. Dr. Daniel Gerstein, a leading technology expert, discuss his new book “The Story of Technology: How We Got Here and...

The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is excited to announce Dr. Lisa Costa as our newest Senior Fellow.

Dr. Costa is the Director of Countering WMD and Violent Extremism at MITRE. She brings over three decades of progressive leadership tackling complex, sensitive intelligence problems facing our nation's most critical missions. She is an expert in counter terrorism (CT) and intelligence analysis. She chairs MITRE’s Corporate CWMD and CT Council and was the lead for IR&D in Enhancing Intelligence Analysis (EIA), ensuring a focus on innovation, rigor and measurable progress on “hard problems”.

Previously, Dr. Costa was the Executive Director of Integration for MITRE’s National Security and Engineering FFRDC responsible for integrating across missions, sponsors, and programs. She provided executive strategic planning for MITRE’s business operations and advancing the Center's $1B business base.

Prior to this, Dr. Costa was MITRE’s Chief Scientist for the Combatant Commands and Defense and Service Intelligence agencies. She was on the OSD Senior Technical Experts Group providing advice on data science and computational social science.

Dr. Costa was responsible for establishing the largest data repository and data mining capability outside the NCR in support of special mission unit target adjudication. As the Director of the Non-Traditional Information and Knowledge Exploitation cell, located at USSOCOM, she led multidisciplinary teams to develop worldwide assessments using all source data. These efforts were at the request of Combatant Commanders via P4 memoranda to the Chairman, JCS. This work has been used as a model for intelligence centers across DOD, US government agencies, and federal law enforcement.

Dr. Costa was on the Defense Science Boards (DSBs) for Joint Forces and Special Operations in Support of the Global War on Terrorism, Intelligence in Support of Countering Terrorism, and The DOD’s Role in Homeland Security. Dr. Costa earned a BS (1986) degree in Computer Science and Mathematics, an MBA (1990), and a PhD (1993) in Computer Science.