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Establishing a Framework for Intelligence Education and Training

Will You Marry Me?. Establishing a Framework for Intelligence Education and Training. The views in this presentation and any discussion do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government. Disclaimer. What is Training?. Skills Acquisition

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Establishing a Framework for Intelligence Education and Training

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  1. Will You Marry Me? Establishing a Framework for Intelligence Education and Training Drs. Rebecca Frerichs and Stephen R. Di Rienzo National Defense Intelligence College

  2. The views in this presentation and any discussion do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government. Disclaimer

  3. What is Training? • Skills Acquisition • Standardized Processes • Specialization • Many Experts • Environmentally-dependent • Limited Transferability • Elements of Education • GOAL: How to be a “good” analyst • Or, a highly skilled and competent IC professional

  4. What is Education? • Knowledge Acquisition • Improvisational • Generalization • Few (if any) Experts • Environmentally-independent • Transferable • Elements of Training • Information Literacy • GOAL: The ability to synthesize and integrate knowledge • Critical and Creative Thinking/Reasoning

  5. The IC must be integrated: a team making the whole greater than the sum of its parts. We must also be agile: an enterprise with an adaptive, diverse, continually learning, and mission-driven intelligence workforce that embraces innovation and takes initiative. (emphasis added) Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Vision and Mission, http://www.dni.gov/mission.htm (accessed January 6, 2011). Within the IC

  6. Focus of IC has been on training • IC education is daunting • IC’s primary mission: “…is to collect and convey the essential information the President and members of the policymaking, law enforcement, and military communities require to execute their appointed duties.”* • “Essential information” from multiple fields (social, natural, physical, behavioral sciences as well as the humanities) • “Essential information” is different for different IC components *Intelligence.gov: Collaboration. Commitment. Courage. http://www.intelligence.gov/about-the-intelligence-community/ (accessed December 28, 2010). Building Education Programs

  7. Focus on knowledge transfer • Learn • Deconstruct • Debate • Reconstruct • Repeat • Encourage non-linear thinking • Exposure to wide variety of • Methods • Ontologies • Sources • Create producers of knowledge Building Education Programs

  8. Building a Solid Relationship Training Education

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