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Asch, Beth J.

Title Ensuring language capability in the intelligence community : what is the best mix of military, civilians, and contractors? / Beth J. Asch, John D. Winkler.

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Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 76 pages) : illustrations
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Note	"RAND National Defense Research Institute."
	"This research was ... conducted within the Intelligence Policy Center and the Forces and Resources Policy Center of RAND's National Defense Research Institute"--Preface
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-76).
Contents	Introduction -- DoD guidance for determining workforce mix -- Literature review on the costs and benefits of different categories of personnel -- Insights from interviews -- Exploratory analysis of the relative cost-effectiveness of military versus civilian language-pro¬cient workforces -- Summary and concluding thoughts -- Appendix A: Details on DoD guidance of workforce mix -- Appendix B: Qualitative analysis approach -- Appendix C: Quantitative research approach.
Summary	Language capability is provided in the intelligence community by military personnel, government civilians, and contractors. A key question is what is the best mix of these three types of personnel in terms of cost and effectiveness. This research draws on U.S. Department of Defense guidance and the economics and defense manpower literatures to provide a framework for broadly assessing the costs and benefits of different sources of personnel to provide a given capability, including language capabilities. The authors interviewed personnel at the National Security Agency/Central Security Service and conducted an exploratory quantitative analysis to identify the factors that may affect the best mix of language capability in the intelligence community. A key finding is that each category of personnel provides unique advantages and belongs in the IC language workforce but that a number of factors lead to civilians being a more cost-effective source of language capability than military personnel, even after accounting for the flow to the civil service of trained veterans with language capability. Policies that reduce language-training costs for military personnel and increase the flow of veterans to the civil service might help reduce this disparity.
Note	Print version.
Subject	Intelligence service -- United States -- Employees -- Language.
	Linguists.
	Multilingualism.
	Intercultural communication.
	Linguistes.
	Multilinguisme.
	linguists.
	HISTORY -- Military -- Veterans.
	Intercultural communication
	Linguists
	Multilingualism
	United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Added Author	Winkler, John.
	Intelligence Policy Center (U.S.)
	National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center.
	Rand Corporation.
	United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
ISBN	9780833081933 (electronic bk.)
	0833081934 (electronic bk.)
	9780833077844
	0833077848
Report No.	RAND/TR-1284-ODNI
Standard No.	GBVCP 1008659967