establishing a framework for intelligence education and training
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Establishing a Framework for Intelligence Education and Training
Drs. Rebecca Frerichs and Stephen R. Di RienzoNational Defense Intelligence College
Will You Marry Me?
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 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
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
Within the IC
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).
Building Education Programs
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
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 a Solid Relationship
Education
Training