1. DEFENSE LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL SECURITY EDUCATION OFFICE (DLNSEO)

2. DLNSEO MISSION
Leads the nation in recruiting, training, sustaining, and enhancing language and culture capabilities to ensure national and defense readiness by:
Building a highly-qualified pool of U.S. citizens with foreign language capabilities and international expertise committed to public service through programs and policies;
Leading the Department’s strategic policy planning in foreign language, culture, and regional expertise;
Providing programmatic oversight of high-value national security and Defense training and education; and
Ensuring national and Departmental coordination through the National Security Education Board and the Defense Language Steering Committee.

3. USD (Personnel & Readiness)
DEFENSE LANGUAGE COORDINATION
USD (Personnel & Readiness)
Director DHRA
Army TRADOC
Air Force AETC
ASD(R&FM)
Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC)
Defense Language Institute English Language Center (DLIELC)
DASD (Readiness)
DoD Senior Language Authority
Director, Defense Language and National Security Education Office
National Security Education Board
Defense Language
Steering Committee
Key Members
Depts of Defense, Commerce, Education, Energy, Homeland Security, and State
National Endowment for the Humanities
ODNI
Presidential appointees from higher education, non-profit, and industry
DoD Working Groups
Foreign Area Officers
Language Assessment
Capability Based Review
Defense Intelligence Foreign Language and Area Advisory Group
National Programs
Boren Scholars and Fellows Program
Flagship Academic Language Programs
ROTC Programs
National Language Service Corps
Language Training Centers
Key Members
Joint Staff
Services
Combatant Commands
Defense Agencies
OSD Staff
Defense Field Activities
Policy Guidance
Oversight
Collaboration
Resource, HR & Admin Control

4. DLNSEO OVERSIGHT: NATIONAL SECURITY EDUCATION BOARD
14-member statutory Board: eight federal representatives and six Presidentially-appointed representatives. Federal members include:
Secretary of Defense (Chair)
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Homeland Security
Secretary of State
Director of National Intelligence
Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Security Education Board (NSEB) advises on the National Security Education Program’s administration
The NSEB provides value to DLNSEO by ensuring its programs remain focused on efforts that serve the broad national security interests of the United States

5. DLNSEO OVERSIGHT: DEFENSE LANGUAGE STEERING COMMITTEE
The Defense Language Steering Committee (DLSC), established under DoDD E and chaired by the Department of Defense Senior Language Authority, recommends and coordinates language policy, identifies present and emerging language needs, identifies language training, education, personnel, and financial requirements, and serves as an advisory board to USD (Personnel and Readiness).
DLSC’s key stake-holders include:
Joint Staff
Services
Combatant Commands
Defense Agencies
OSD Staff
Defense Field Activities

6. DLNSEO PRIORITIES Building a Talent Pipeline
Work with schools, universities, and federal training institutions to build the capabilities of our nation’s citizens to become and to remain skilled in critical languages
Enhancing Workforce Readiness
Provide a ready pool of U.S. citizens, civilian and military, who possess language and culture expertise critical for public service, and sustaining these skills
Improving Testing and Assessment
Develop proficiency metrics and tools to validate the language and culture expertise of DoD personnel and our nation’s citizenry
Creating Surge Capability
Accessing and deploying personnel with language & culture expertise necessary for immediate needs
Regional Alignment
Ensuring that language & culture policies & programs support the specific regional needs of the 21st century Total Force

7. DEFENSE LANGUAGE PROGRAM EFFORTS
Strategy and Policy
DoD Language Skills, Regional Expertise, and Cultural Capabilities Implementation Plan; Improving and updating DoD Directives and Instructions
Culture Policy and Products
3C for all military and specific civilians; Cross Cultural Negotiations Trainer; VCAT Modules for CENTCOM, SOUTHCOM, and PACOM
Assessments
Standardizing & strengthening practices across programs; Improving test development procedures and oversight
Sustainment for Language and Regional Professionals
Develop additional modules for our Foreign Area Officers on FAOweb; Provide seminars and immersion opportunities
Regional Expertise:
Support regional alignment through Language Training Centers; Developing a Regional Proficiency Assessment Tool
Language as Readiness
Developing metrics to show this readiness & updating LRI to include new requirements identified from the Capabilities Based Requirements Identification Process

8. DLNSEO PROGRAMS Boren Scholarships and Fellowships
African Languages Initiative
The Language Flagship
Flagship/ROTC Pilot Initiative
Project Global Officer
Language Training Centers
English for Heritage Language Speakers
National Language Service Corps

9. BOREN SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Provide funding for undergraduate and graduate students to study in regions critical to national security:
Africa, Asia
Central & Eastern Europe
Eurasia
Latin America
Middle East
Emphasize learning less commonly taught languages
Promote long-term linguistic and cultural immersion
Require 1 year of federal government service

10. AFRICAN LANGUAGES INITIATIVE
The African Language Initiative (AFLI) responds to a strong need for graduates with greater linguistic and cultural expertise in regions of Africa. AFLI offers select Boren Scholars and Fellows the opportunity for intensive African language and culture study.
Intensive domestic summer study at the University of Florida in: Akan/Twi, French, Hausa, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba, and Zulu. 
Overseas semester-long intensive study in Africa. For , NSEP will sponsor dedicated overseas programs in the following countries: Mozambique (Portuguese), Senegal (French and Wolof), and Tanzania (Swahili).

11. ENGLISH FOR HERITAGE LANGUAGE LEARNERS
The English for Heritage Language Speakers (EHLS) Program offers a unique opportunity to U.S. citizens who are native speakers of critical languages
Participants attend an 8-month course hosted at Georgetown University
Scholars undergo intensive training in professional communication and career skills essential for federal government employment
The EHLS curriculum builds towards a capstone analytical research assignment, the Open Source Analysis Project. Using non-classified open source materials, Scholars conduct research in English and their native languages on topics provided by federal agencies. Scholars produce written reports and present findings annually at a formal Symposium

12. THE LANGUAGE FLAGSHIP
Goal: To create a pool of college graduates from all majors with professional proficiency in all modalities (ILR Level3, ACTFL Superior) in critical languages to create the next generation of global professionals, and to change the expectations for foreign language learning.
Model:
Intensive language instruction on home campus integrated with undergraduate major
Overseas Capstone academic year program with intensive language instruction, internships in target language, university courses in target language
Admission Requirement for Overseas Capstone: ILR 2 / ACTFL Advanced
Flagship Certification Requirement: ILR 3 / ACTFL Superior plus completion of Overseas Capstone program
Articulation of domestic curriculum and overseas program elements

13. THE LANGUAGE FLAGSHIP GRANTEES, 2013 ARABIC CHINESE HINDI URDU KOREAN
Michigan State University
University of Arizona
University of Maryland
University of Oklahoma
University of Texas, Austin
Moulay Ismail University, Morocco*
CHINESE
Arizona State University**
Brigham Young University
Georgia Institute of Technology**
Hunter College
Indiana University
University of North Georgia**
San Francisco State University
University of Mississippi
University of Oregon
University of Rhode Island
Western Kentucky University Nanjing University, China***
Tianjin Normal University, China*
HINDI URDU
University of Texas, Austin
Jaipur Hindi Flagship Center, India
Lucknow Urdu Flagship Center, India
KOREAN
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Korea University, South Korea
PERSIAN
University of Maryland
PORTUGUESE
University of Georgia, Athens
Sao Paulo State University, Brazil
RUSSIAN
Bryn Mawr College
Portland State University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Wisconsin, Madison
St. Petersburg State University, Russia*
SWAHILI
Indiana University
State University of Zanzibar, Tanzania*
TURKISH
Ankara University, Turkey*
* Overseas Center managed by American Councils for International Education
** Pilot Flagship/ROTC Centers
*** Overseas Center managed by Brigham Young University and American Councils for International Education

14. ROTC PROJECT GO
Program goal is to develop future military officers with the necessary critical language and cross-cultural communication skills required for effective leadership in the 21st century operational environment
All six of the Senior Military Colleges have been involved in the program
Provided over 2,400 scholarships to ROTC students nationwide for critical language study since 2007
11 critical languages offered at 25 Project GO institutions
Institution list on next slide…

15. ROTC PROJECT GO GRANTEES, 2013-2014
Arizona State University
Persian (Farsi), Russian, Turkish, Uzbek
Boston University
Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Turkish
California State University - San Bernardino
Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian (Farsi)
Duke University
Chinese
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, Korean, Russian
Indiana University
Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Russian, Swahili, Tatar, Turkish, Uzbek
James Madison University
Swahili
Marquette University
Arabic
North Carolina State University
Arabic, Chinese, Persian (Farsi), Russian
Northeastern University
Norwich University
San Diego State University
Arabic, Persian (Farsi), Russian
Texas A&M University
Arabic, Chinese
The Citadel
University of Arizona
University of Kansas
Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian
University of Mississippi
University of Montana
Korean
University of North Georgia
Arabic, Chinese, Russian
University of Pittsburgh
Russian
University of Texas - Austin
Arabic, Russian
University of Virginia
Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Persian (Farsi), Russian, Swahili
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Arabic, Chinese, Hindi-Urdu, Russian, Turkish
Virginia Tech

16. LANGUAGE TRAINING CENTERS
DoD-funded initiative with accredited U.S. colleges and universities established in 2011
Program goal is to accelerate the development of foundational or higher-level expertise in strategic languages and regional studies for DoD personnel by leveraging U.S. institutions of higher education to meet the existing and demonstrated training needs of DoD units, offices, or agencies
Legislation - Section 529 of the NDAA of 2010 authorizes DoD to establish LTCs

17. UNIVERSITY/LANGUAGES
LANGUAGE TRAINING CENTERS
ACADEMIC YEAR,
UNIVERSITY/LANGUAGES
DoD PARTNER
Arizona State University
Russian, Persian (Farsi), Turkish
Defense Intelligence Agency
California State University - Long Beach
Chinese, Arabic, Persian (Farsi), French
California Army National Guard; 1st Radio Battalion; 351st Civil Affairs Command
Coastal Carolina Community College
Arabic, French
II Marine Expeditionary Force
North Carolina State University
Arabic, Chinese, French, Pashto, Persian (Dari), Persian (Farsi), Russian, Urdu
JFK Special Warfare Center and School; Joint Special Operations Command; Military Information Support Operations Command; North Carolina National Guard
San Diego State University
Arabic, Persian (Dari), Persian (Farsi), Pashto, Russian
1st Marine Division; Marine Corps Intelligence Support Battalion, 706th Military Intelligence Group
University of Kansas
Arabic, French, German, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, Russian
Special Operations Forces (Command and General Staff Officers Course); Marine Corps Detachment (Fort Leonard Wood, MO)
University of Maryland - Baltimore County
English
National Security Agency
University of Montana
Pashto, Dari, Urdu, Korean, Arabic
Special Operations Command; Army Special Operations Command; Marine Special Operations Command; 95th Civil Affairs Command; Military Information Support Operations Command
University of Utah
Arabic, Chinese, Persian (Farsi), French, Korean, Pashto, Urdu
300th Military Intelligence Brigade, 19th Special Forces Group; Utah National Guard; 169th Intelligence Squadron

18. DOD JOINT FAO PROGRAM DLNSEO responsible for policy to:
Establish minimum requirements for all Foreign Area Officers (FAOs) in selection, training, utilization, and career opportunities
Provide oversight to FAO programs ensuring promotion, retention, and utilization of FAOs meet the requirements of the Joint FAO Program
Determine the best practices of each program and promulgate them to other programs to spread success and achieve economies of scale
DLNSEO Supports:
Joint FAO Basic Course for new FAOs
FAO Web via Naval Post Graduate School (NPS)
Language Skill Sustainment Pilot: Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force (new 2014)
Regional Skill Sustainment Pilot for serving FAOs
Navy Executive Agent; NPS executes
Mix of venues for wide reach as well as economy
Latin America February In DC
Near East 6-8 May In DC
Asia-Pacific June In Theater
Africa July in DC
Eurasia September in Theater

19. REGIONAL PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT
Know the regional strengths of a force based on education, training, assignment history, travel, cultural exposure, and regional utility of language skills
Region Specific Systematic Knowledge (40%)
Region-Specific Experiential Knowledge (30%)
Regions
North America
Central Asia
West Africa
Central America
South Asia
Sub-Saharan Africa
South America
Southeast Asia
Middle East North Africa
Western Europe
East Asia
Western Oceana
Eastern Europe
Caribbean
Eastern Oceana
Regional Proficiency Rating
Utility of Language Skills (12%)
Analytic & Critical Thinking Skills (10%)
Regional Proficiency Scale
RP 5: Expert
RP 4: Senior Professional
RP 3: Professional
RP 2: Associate
RP 1: Novice
RP 0+ : Pre-Novice
(DoDI )
Nonspecific Experiential Knowledge (8%)
DATA
* Note: Civilian personnel can be assessed with minimal changes to the RPAT

20. COCOM REQUIREMENTS: THEN AND NOW
Capability-Based Requirement Identification Process (CBRIP)— a much better picture than we’ve had before . . .
In the past, DoD saw unconstrained, non-prioritized requirements. Results were skewed to the Commands that best knew the system:
Now we know the priority and the importance to mission accomplishment; however, we still need the Services to expand and quantify the demand signal:
UNCONSTRAINED REQUIREMENTS
Individual requirement (i.e. billets)
COCOM
Rqmts
CENTCOM
11,020
PACOM
108,934
EUCOM
192
SOCOM
16,252
NORTHCOM 5
SOUTHCOM
6,624
TOTAL
143,027
CBRIP DEMAND SIGNALS
Mission Essential Task Capabilities
COCOM
Demand Signals
AFRICOM
6,537
NORTHCOM
319
CENTCOM
2,155
PACOM
1,314
EUCOM
513
SOUTHCOM
2,457
TOTAL
13,295

21. EUCOM CBRIP Demand Signal
UNCONSTRAINED TOP 5
Turkish 32
French 28
German 21
Russian 14
Spanish 10
Other 87
Total
192
CBRIP TOP 5
Turkish
102
Serbian 83
Azerbaijani 78
Bosnian 48
Georgian
Other
256
TOTAL
513
UNCONSTRAINED
35 Languages
Top 5 are 54% of requirements
CBRIP
10 Languages
496 Non-mil demand signals
Top 5 are 70% of demand signals

22. AFRICOM CBRIP Demand Signal
CBRIP Demand Signals
17 Languages
Top 5 languages are Arabic, French, Hausa, Swahili, and Somali
6,100 Non-military demand signals
976 N/A language demand signals
Surge Demand Signals
8 Languages
Top 5 languages are Hausa, Ibo, Arabic, Yoruba, and French
433 Non-military demand signals
316 N/A language demand signals
STEADY STATE TOP 5
Arabic - 1,534; French – 943; Hausa – 504; Swahili – 504; Somali – 423; Other - 2,629
Total - 6,537
SURGE TOP 5
Hausa – 113; Ibo – 55; Arabic – 28; Yoruba – 15; French – 13; Other - 316
Total - 552

23. DLNSEO CULTURE PRODUCTS
Virtual Culture Awareness Trainers (VCAT)
Per COCOM needs
Culture-Specific
Incorporates DLIFLC language products
Available
Afghanistan Taiwan
South America Southeast Asia
Horn of Africa Hispaniola
Northern Africa Central America
Cross-Cultural Competence Trainer (3CT)
Culture-General
Applied in actual global scenarios
2012 Serious Games Showcase Winner – Mobile App
Cross-Cultural Competence Portal
Afghanistan + L
South America
3C Portal

24. NATIONAL LANGUAGE SERVICE CORPS (NLSC)
The NLSC is comprised of American citizen volunteers proficient in critical foreign languages who assist the nation, particularly during times of crisis and emergencies, both domestically and internationally
Piloted in 2007, NLSC membership totals more than 4,500 citizens
On January 2nd 2013, the NLSC became a permanent government program through the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
All members demonstrate proficiency in English and at least one foreign language
The NLSC serves as a conduit to access individuals who speak hundreds of languages critical to national security and who are generally unavailable to the government

25. Dr. Michael Nugent I michael.a.nugent22.civ@mail.mil
Thank You
Dr. Michael Nugent I