Innovate • Experiment • Educate • Analyze • Engage

The U.S. Department of Defense Regional Center for the Arctic – Dedicated to American and Allied Defense & Security.

Vision

Advance a network of U.S. & Allied civilian and military practitioners promoting and providing collaborative defense and security solutions for the Arctic region.

Mission

Build strong, informed, and sustained U.S. & Allied networks of defense and security practitioners through expert education, analysis, and engagement to advance homeland defense and regional security across the Arctic region.

Value

Prepare defense and security practitioners, propose useful & risk informed solutions, provide enabling associated networks – to advance capable support to U.S. and Allied Arctic defense measures. These efforts support Homeland Defense, plus deter and dissuade adversaries confronting the rules-based order in the Arctic.

For a millennium, the people of the Arctic looked to the Raven as a symbol of wisdom, cunning and intelligence. The Stevens Center recognizes the utility of such symbology – as useful in framing perspectives of Arctic defense and security program activities.

Our Guiding Principles

At our core, we are leverage innovation and experimentation in providing excellence in Arctic-oriented defense and security education, engagement, and analysis. We are committed to understanding the Arctic from all domains…and consider comprehensive defense and security must include analyzing and informing details ranging from the geophysical to geostrategic. We are deeply committed to conducting practitioner-relevant research and fostering teamwork across the community of practitioners who provide defense & security across the American and Allied Arctic. Through our determined commitment and network of professionals, we provide needed expertise in support of U.S. and Allied national defense concerns and regional security.

Journal of Arctic Security

Journal of Arctic Security
Ted Stevens Center

Call for Submissions!

Article deadline on 31 May 2025 for Volume 4

Article deadline on 1 October 2025 for Volume 5

A Special STEM Edition!

TSC supports US warfighter readiness in new Arctic operations manual

The Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies recently played a role in shaping the U.S....

TSC Alumni event highlights civil-military emergency cooperation across Arctic, and reinforces new DoD priorities

The Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies hosted its third Alumni event March 14,...

Ted Stevens Center guides German government leaders through capstone course on Arctic security challenges

Against the backdrop of Alaska’s expansive terrain and unpredictable elements, senior German...

Reflections from Arctic Multidomain Legal Course (AMLC) 25-01

The Arctic operational environment is undergoing significant transformation. The readiness of...

Bridging frontiers: How the TSC is reframing Arctic readiness for US warfighters

As global competition intensifies across the northern latitudes, the Arctic is no longer seen as a...

TSC launches Arctic Crisis Logistics Course enhancing strategic and operational logistics capabilities

The Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies concluded the first ever Arctic Crisis...

Reflections from Arctic Regional Security Orientation Course 25-02

The School for Arctic Security Studies welcomed aboard 167 new Alumni after completing the...

TSC and Swedish Defence University enhance partnership, inaugurate Sweden Chair

Director Randy “Church” Kee and a team from the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies...

TSC workshop strengthens Arctic health and security

As Arctic maritime activity increases, so do the challenges associated with health and security in...

Arctic Readiness in Action: TSC Arctic Fellows experience the harsh realities of the U.S. Arctic

In the dead of winter, where the sun refuses to rise and temperatures plunge to minus 17 degrees...

Mission Pillars

TSC activities encompass education and training programs, seminars, conferences, and other activities, as well as research and analysis projects to further strategic foresight relating to Arctic security affairs.

Executive Education

TSC’s educational programming provides a deep understanding of the multifaceted issues affecting Arctic security. Leveraging the subject matter expertise of the academic staff and faculty to extend the impacts of the TSC’s educational mission far beyond the classroom, creating, nurturing, and furthering connection with a multitude of key stakeholders, allies, and partners.

Strategic Engagement

In coordination with the other mission components of the TSC, the team plans, organizes, executes, and reports on workshops, simulations/exercises, field programs, symposia, and seminars that bring together Arctic security leaders, subject matter experts, and associated collaborators to advance and promote Arctic security.

Research & Analysis

To organize, execute, and report on research and analysis in support of OSD(Policy), USNORTHCOM, other Combatant Commands, and military service mission needs. Research and Analysis will be conducted in unclassified and classified domains. TSC-conducted research and analysis is published to support advancing Arctic security awareness, consistent with the overall mission of the center and in compliance with higher level guidance.

Mission Support

As the critical enabler of the TSC mission areas of research & analysis, executive education, and strategic engagement programs and activities, a consolidated “support function.” TSC activities encompass education and training programs, seminars, conferences, and other activities, as well as research and analysis projects to further strategic foresight relating to Arctic security affairs.

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