1. 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 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
What is Training?

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
What is Education?

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, (accessed January 6, 2011).
Within the IC

6. 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. (accessed December 28, 2010).
Building Education Programs

7. 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

9. Building a Solid Relationship
Training
Education