TY - JOUR
T1 - Strengthening DHS intelligence analysis education
T2 - core competencies, gaps, and challenges
AU - Black, Michelle
AU - Obradovic, Lana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Department of Security Studies and Criminology.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Building and strengthening the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) workforce in counterterrorism operations starts with effectively trained and educated intelligence analysts. However, identifying and establishing standards for effective training and core competencies for intelligence analysts can be a challenge. By drawing on ethnographic interviews with members of the Intelligence Community (IC) and conducting domain analysis, this article sets out to understand those challenges and examine what is required to solve them. More specifically, we sought to identify benchmarks for core competencies associated with intelligence analysis as well as gaps in standardisation and the current implementation of intelligence training and education. Based on our findings, we recommend a conceptual framework for homeland security intelligence training and education and chart a path to build a more innovative and efficient intelligence workforce able to conduct analysis and develop intelligence products that contribute to the missions of DHS.
AB - Building and strengthening the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) workforce in counterterrorism operations starts with effectively trained and educated intelligence analysts. However, identifying and establishing standards for effective training and core competencies for intelligence analysts can be a challenge. By drawing on ethnographic interviews with members of the Intelligence Community (IC) and conducting domain analysis, this article sets out to understand those challenges and examine what is required to solve them. More specifically, we sought to identify benchmarks for core competencies associated with intelligence analysis as well as gaps in standardisation and the current implementation of intelligence training and education. Based on our findings, we recommend a conceptual framework for homeland security intelligence training and education and chart a path to build a more innovative and efficient intelligence workforce able to conduct analysis and develop intelligence products that contribute to the missions of DHS.
KW - Department of Homeland Security
KW - Intelligence education
KW - core competencies
KW - workforce development
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U2 - 10.1080/18335330.2022.2069475
DO - 10.1080/18335330.2022.2069475
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85132637232
SN - 1833-5330
VL - 19
SP - 22
EP - 39
JO - Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
JF - Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism
IS - 1
ER -