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

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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 Training?

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 What is Education?

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

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

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 Education Programs

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