Roadmap to Succeed in the Open for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Human Development Directorate
Abstract
This roadmap provides the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)'s Human Development Directorate (HD) leaders a plan for succeeding in the open. This is a living document, intended to evolve as NGA's needs change and new information is discovered. Throughout this project, the HD and RAND team engaged in dialogues about what "succeeding in the open" means. For this roadmap, it refers to the ability of NGA employees to work anywhere in the world, while having access to the HD information, resources, and functions they need to do their jobs. In 2016, RAND conducted more than 40 interviews with leaders across NGA for the purposes of understanding which NGA missions and functions are well suited to be conducted in the open and revealing barriers that may exist to achieving this change. We reviewed available research on telework and other types of remote work, and we analyzed data available from other government agencies whose employees workoff-site. After we presented our findings to HD, HD created a working group in 2017 to begin to address several of the cross-discipline challenges were revealed. The working group identified specific hurdles to Succeeding in the Open and began to discuss options to tackle each hurdle. RAND collaborated with the working group to identify actions NGA could take to begin this transformation. This roadmap is the result of our research, analysis, and collaboration with the working group. To view this roadmap online, visit www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL251.html
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1086756
Entities
People
- Arthur Chan
- Cortney Weinbaum
- Richard Girven
Organizations
- RAND Corporation