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 that threaten peace and security across the Allied 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
Article deadline on 1 October 2025 for Volume 5
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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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