CIRAT Director Brian Fuller to head SCIP Mid-Atlantic Center of Excellence

The Strategic Consortium of Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), of which Mercyhurst University is a member, has announced the opening of a global network of Intelligence Centers of Excellence (ICoE) and named Mercyhurst’s Brian Fuller chairman of the U.S.-Mid Atlantic Center.

The centers are intended to develop an extended SCIP community that addresses regional requirements and leverages SCIP’s vast body of intelligence expertise to benefit industry, academic, government, and community organizations. As extensions of the SCIP community, the centers focus on tools, best practices, challenges, and opportunities within the regional intelligence landscape.  

Fuller is executive director of the Center for Intelligence Research, Analysis, and Training (CIRAT) at Mercyhurst. He is a retired U.S. Army First Sergeant, where he served honorably for 24 years as a Military Intelligence Senior Non-Commissioned Officer, All-Source Intelligence Analyst, Senior Counterintelligence Analyst, Horizontal Engineer, and Urban Search and Rescue Technician. He also held joint assignments supporting theater-level strategic operations in the Middle East, Germany, and the Korean Peninsula. Over the years, his leadership and operational assignments have taken him to more than two dozen countries, among them Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Kosovo, Bosnia, Germany, France, and Italy.

Fuller said he is gratified by SCIP’s support and noted that Mercyhurst is the only center within the U.S. and one of only two in North America.  

“We are honored to have been selected as a SCIP ICoE,” Fuller said. “This selection highlights Mercyhurst University’s commitment to being a global influencer of competitive business intelligence and bringing experts from the field into our curriculum and applied experiential learning activities for our students. I am excited to have been bestowed with this honor. I look forward to representing Mercyhurst University and SCIP in driving the future of CI and finding solutions to complex problems in the private sector.”

PHOTO: Brian Fuller works with students in the CIRAT lab.