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An Assessment of the Ability of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Services to Measure and Track Language and Culture Training and Capabilities Among General Purpose Forces
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The Defense Language Office (DLO) tasked MITRE Corporation and the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) to jointly address questions concerning the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) ability to measure and track language, regional expertise, and culture (LREC) training and capabilities for general purpose forces (GPF). The objective of this task is to provide information to policymakers about the available data to track LREC training and skills, as well as available information on how LREC affects readiness and mission accomplishment. To reach the stated objective, the following research questions were addressed: (1) According to the best available data, what is the relevance of LREC training and capabilities to overall unit readiness and mission accomplishment?; (2) How does DoD currently track LREC training and capabilities of GPF?; (3) To what extent does this tracking adequately reflect unit readiness and the ability to accomplish missions?; and (4) How can DoD improve tracking of LREC training and capabilities to adequately reflect unit readiness? Chapter 2 describes the methodology and data used in the study. Chapter 3 addresses the first research question and uses available data to assess the importance of LREC training and skills for mission readiness and mission accomplishment. Chapter 4 addresses the second research question and addresses how DoD currently tracks LREC training and skills and whether or not that tracking adequately reflects mission readiness. Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the findings and offers recommendations for linking LREC training and skills to mission readiness and success. In addition, we include four appendixes. Appendix A lists the policies and directives we reviewed for this analysis. Appendix B lists our interviewees, and Appendix C provides the interview questions we used. Appendix D details the confidence intervals for our analysis of the Status of Forces Survey of Active-Duty Members (SOF-A). ; Pepared in cooperation with the MITRE Corporation Department of Social, Behavioral, and Linguistic Sciences.
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*CULTURE; *DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; *FOREIGN LANGUAGES; *GENERAL PURPOSE FORCES; *LANGUAGE REGIONAL EXPERTISE AND CULTURE; *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES); *MILITARY TRAINING; *OPERATIONAL READINESS; *TRACKING; AFTER-ACTION REPORTS; CROSS-CULTURAL TRAINING; CULTURAL EXPERTISE; DEPLOYMENT; FOREIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING; INTERVIEWS; JOB PERFORMANCE; Linguistics; MEASURES OF EFFECTIVENESS; MILITARY CAPABILITIES; Military Forces and Organizations; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MISSION ACCOMPLISHMENT; MISSION EFFECTIVENESS; MISSION READINESS; MISSIONS; PERFORMANCE TESTS; Personnel Management and Labor Relations; POLICIES; PREDEPLOYMENT TRAINING; SKILLS; Sociology and Law; STANDARDIZATION; STATUS OF FORCES SURVEY; SURVEYS; UNIT READINESS
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URL: http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA565668
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Users' Manual and Validation of the Automated Grading System (AGS): Improving the Quality of Intelligence Summaries Using Feedback from an Unsupervised Model of Semantics
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Conference Report: Cultural and Linguistic Advancement for Mission Success: Enhancing Language, Regional and Cultural Capabilities Across Whole of Government for an Effective COIN Strategy
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Adding a Capability to Extract Sentiment from Text Using HanDles
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Capability Challenges in the Human Domain for Intelligence Analysis: Report on Community-Wide Discussions with Canadian Intelligence Professionals
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Compressed Domain Automatic Level Control Based on ITU-T G.722.2
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Trends in Human-Computer Interaction to Support Future Intelligence Analysis Capabilities
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Visual Analytics in Public Safety: Example Capabilities for Example Government Agencies
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An Intelligence Process Model Based on a Collaborative Approach
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A Concept Map Knowledge Model of Intelligence Analysis
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Multiple Detection Probabilistic Data Association Filter for Multistatic Target Tracking
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A Smarter Common Operational Picture: The Application of Abstraction Hierarchies to Naval Command and Control
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Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS)
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Towards a Semiotic Information Position Framework for Network Centric Warfare
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Semantic Analysis of Military Relevant Texts for Intelligence Purposes
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Multilingual Content Extraction Extended with Background Knowledge for Military Intelligence
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Related Entity Finding: University of Waterloo at TREC 2010 Entity Track
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Speech Understanding in Noise in the Bison Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) Mobile Command Post (MCP)
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Entity Profiling for Intelligence Using the Graphical Overview of Social and Semantic Interactions of People (GOSSIP) Software Tool
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Issues in Intelligence Production: Summary of Interviews with Canadian Managers of Intelligence Analysts
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