Recording and Reporting Foreign Language Proficiency, Regional Expertise, and Cultural Knowledge of the Armed Forces

Abstract

The Defense Language National Security Education Office (DLNSEO) asked IDA to develop a methodology to inventory core, regional/technical, and leadership/influence competency domains. This would be accomplished through an examination of relevant demographic, academic, military, professional education, and personal experience data, maintained at the enterprise level by the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) via military Service extract. By assessing the completeness and quality of these data elements, IDA determined that gaps exist in the data holdings, even though appropriate DOD policy and guidance exist regarding what data are supposed to be extracted from each military service to DMDC. Oftentimes, these data exist and are documented by each military service, but not provided to DOD enterprise-wide holdings. Recommendations are to improve the quality and completeness of the DMDC data, at to consider importing directly from the military services all data related to foreign language proficiency, regional expertise, and cultural knowledge.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1095822

Entities

People

  • Amrit K. Romana
  • Amy A. Alrich
  • Brandon A. Shapiro
  • Dina Eliezer
  • Ethan W. Novak
  • Joseph F. Adams
  • Joseph M. King
  • Nathaniel T. Latshaw

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Data Centers
  • Data Science
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Education
  • Foreign Languages
  • Guidance
  • Inventory
  • Language
  • Leadership
  • Manpower
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Education
  • Military Personnel
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Social Security
  • Students
  • Training

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Naval Personnel Management
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).