Defense Management: Preliminary Observations on DOD's Plans for Developing Language and Cultural Awareness Capabilities

Abstract

Our objectives were to assess the extent to which DOD has 1. Developed plans to address language and cultural awareness capabilities, including funding needs and metrics to evaluate success; 2. Established processes to identify strategic language and cultural awareness capabilities, requirements to carry out its plans, and inventory of existing capabilities; 3. Developed training and education programs to support its plans for developing language and cultural awareness capabilities; and 4. Developed research and acquisition programs to support its plans for developing language and cultural awareness capabilities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 25, 2008
Accession Number
ADA490262

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Congress
  • Education
  • Foreign Languages
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Language
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Education
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Observation
  • Personnel Management
  • Training
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.