The Scientific-Educational Center of the National Security Service of the Republic of Armenia was formed in 2003 on the basis of the Higher Courses conducted since 1993.

At present, the Center is a modern scientific-educational institution for training personnel for the national security bodies of RA, where the officers and non-commissioned officers serving in the RA NSS study.

The SEC actively participates in the development of legislative and other normative acts, as well as the conceptions related to the basic directions and areas of ensuring national security of the Republic of Armenia.

Teaching of theoretical and experimental knowledge in intelligence, counter-intelligence, economic, as well as information security, combating international terrorism, drug trafficking and transnational organized crime and other urgent directions is constantly carried out.

Teaching at the Center is carried out using modern educational technologies. The lectures are accompanied by the presentation of videos, schematic and graphic slides. At the same time, professional thematic educational films are also shot and used during teaching, which present the methodology and peculiarities of operative-search work. Educational and thematic classrooms are equipped with appropriate technical means.

In addition to vocational subjects, the English and Russian languages are also taught. Great attention is paid to extracurricular activities aimed at increasing the general level of development of the trainees. Distinguished specialists in various fields are also invited to deliver lectures.    

An open fund library and a reading hall of the SEC, which are constantly replenished with new literature, are at the disposal of the trainees.

The new structure of the Scientific-Educational Center was approved in September 2018, which provides a wider opportunity to attract specialists for lectures both from high-qualified and retired employees of the RA NSS and from different educational institutions of the republic.

One of the important directions of the SEC activities is the training of scientific and pedagogical staff. As a result, on the basis of targeted applications, many promising young employees have been admitted to postgraduate courses of RA NAS institutions and RA state universities, have successfully defended their dissertations and have been awarded scientific degrees. In order to modernize the educational process and to make it more effective, a test and modular system of knowledge testing and assessment is used.

Cooperation with leading scientific-educational institutions of the republic is also aimed at deepening scientific research and improving the professional knowledge of employees in the field of ensuring national security.

In February 2021, a memorandum was signed between the Scientific-Educational Center of the RA NSS and the Faculty of Law of Yerevan State University, providing a legal basis for multilateral cooperation in the field of law between these two institutions. In February 2021, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between the Scientific-Educational Center of the RA NSS and the Educational Complex of the RA Police, the main purpose of which is to define the directions of cooperation between the two institutions, as well as to regulate the planned joint events.

For many years the Scientific-Educational Center and the Complex have been for modernization of in the direction of fight against separate kinds of crime buildings spheres regulating legislation

The combination of the accumulated scientific and educational experience of many years of the Scientific-Educational Center and the Educational Complex will have essential significance for the activities of the two structures, the search for new solutions to fight certain types of crime, and the modernization of legislation regulating these spheres.

In May of the same year, a memorandum was signed between the Scientific-Educational Center of the RA NSS and Institute of Oriental Studies of the NAS of RA. It is intended to involve the researchers of the Institute of Oriental Studies in the lectures on separate topics within the subjects taught at the Scientific-Educational Center, and to engage the staff of the Center in the organizational work in applying as a scientific degree applicant for postgraduate and doctoral admissions at the Institute.

One of the directions of activities of the Scientific-Educational Center is the study of the history of the Armenian security bodies. For this purpose an important impetus was the opening of Museum of the History of the Armenian Security Bodies in 2006, on the initiative of the leadership of the RA NSS. The Museum is visited by the staff of the Service, as well as by many guests from the Republic and abroad.