MICHAEL LYTLE

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Associate Master Technical Instructor, Office: 321 MRC South Hall, Phone: 956-882-7168, Email: michael.lytle@utb.edu.

Ph.D. Candidate, Higher Education and Public Management, Texas A & M University; Graduate Certificate, Forensic Nursing, University of California at Riverside, 2007; Diploma, US Army Command & General Staff College, 1992; Diploma, National Security Management, National Defense University, 1988; M.Ed., College Teaching, Texas A & M University, 1978; Graduate Certificate, Law Enforcement, Sam Houston State University, 1977; B.A., Forensic Studies, Indiana University at Bloomington, 1973.

Professor Lytle joined the faculty after retiring from his Washington DC consulting practice where he was an advisor and senior subject-matter expert to federal and international agencies in forensic science, counternarcoterrorism, homeland and border security, and C3I.  Professor Lytle is also the founder of the forensic science program at Marymount University. Some of his most recent forensic work includes research & development for Customs on detecting drug swallowing smugglers, and forensic research for DARPA on countering suicide bombers. He is listed in Who’s Who of the World, Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Science & Engineering, and American Men & Women of Science. Professor Lytle is designated a Distinguished Alumnus of Sam Houston State University where the LTC Michael A. Lytle ’77 Academic Prize in Forensic Science is named for him.

Research Interests: Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence (C3I) of Public Safety Agencies; Forensic Science; Homeland and Border Security; Terrorism and Political Violence.

Courses Taught: Advanced Police Organization and Administration; Criminal Investigations; Medical-Legal Forensic Investigations; Principles of Law Enforcement Supervision.

Recent Research

• Taking Stock of Defense Intelligence: Terms of Reference, Undersecretary of Defense (Intelligence), (Study Senior Writer & Editor), 2004.

• Detection of Ingested Drugs of Abuse, GS-23F-01075, U.S. Customs Service (Principal Investigator), 2001.

• U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Work Group Meeting, Washington, DC, April, 2000 (Conference  Facilitator /Proceedings Editor).

• U.S.-Colombia Bilateral Work Group Meeting, Washington, DC, March, 2000 (Conference  Facilitator/Proceedings Editor).

• Road Transportation & Illegal Drug Movement in Colombia, (Co-Author), July 2000, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Counternarcotics).

• US Vice President’s Conference on  Fighting Global Corruption: Safeguarding Integrity Among Justice & Security Officials-National Security Forces Panel, February, 1999, (Facilitator/Proceedings Editor).