The Fbis Honors Internship Program - 1093 Words

While participating the FBI’s 2017 Honors Internship program I was assigned to the Counterterrorism Division at FBI Headquarters, in the Counterterrorism Internet Operations Section (CIOS). I worked primarily with three of the internal units of CIOS, the Computer Internet Operations Unit I (CIOU I), the Computer Internet Operations Unit II (CIOU II), and the Net Talon National Intuitive (NTNI). Both of the CIOU units primarily serve at the headquarters program managers for online based terrorist investigations, located both overseas and domestically. The units provided support for the online operations run under the NTNI in their assigned CONUS areas. NTNI trains and manages the Bureaus Online Covert Employees (OCE) under their directives†¦show more content†¦In order to further the Bureau’s and the Section’s mission, I assisted with and managed several projects over the course of the internship so far. I completed a large scale administrative project th at involved reorganizing and evaluating the NTNI/CIOU I/CIOU II program managed cases across multiple platforms based on the given parameters, as well as assessing their US threat nexus. OCE effectiveness given the circumstances of the case was also evaluated in action to the above stated parameters. I also provides additional administrative and program help when a need was identified across all three of the units I was working with. My primary project over the course of the Internship was a data collection, intake, and analysis project undertaken with the collaboration of multiple FBI units and other USIC partners. The project entailed taking a mass collection of data from a social networking application extremely popular with terrorist groups and terrorist inspired individuals. After the data was collected, it was sorted and recoded into a form that could then be imported into a program that allowed for analysis of the data. That data was then analyzed using multiple methods in or der to identify two main objectives: first to de-conflict any overly repetitive targeting or accidental blue on blue targeting, and second to identify potential high level targets as well as identify individuals that would make good targets for exploitation or intelligence. To this effect,