Defense Language Transformation Roadmap
Defense Language Transformation Roadmap

Author: Barry Leonard

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13: 1437935699

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DoD needs a significantly improved organic capability in emerging languages and dialects, a greater competence and regional area skills in those languages and dialects, and a surge capability to rapidly expand its language capabilities on short notice. Contents of this report: (A) Goals: (1): Create Foundational Language and Regional Area Expertise; (2): Create the Capacity to Surge; (3): Establish a Cadre of Language Professionals; (4): Establish a Process to Track the Accession, Separation, and Promotion Rates of Military Personnel with Language Skills and Foreign Area Officers; (B) Def. Language Inst. Foreign Language Center Transformation; (C) Offices of Primary Responsibility and Dates for Full Operating Capability.

Defense Language Transformation Roadmap
Defense Language Transformation Roadmap

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Published: 2005

Total Pages: 22

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Post 9/11 military operations reinforce the reality that the Department of Defense needs a significantly improved organic capability in emerging languages and dialects, a greater competence and regional area skills in those languages and dialects, and a surge capability to rapidly expand its language capabilities on short notice. The Strategic Planning Guidance (SPG) for FY 2006-2011 directed the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD (P & R)) to develop and provide to the Deputy Secretary of Defense (DepSecDef), a comprehensive roadmap for achieving the full range of language capabilities necessary to support the 2004 Defense Strategy. The SPG established four goals for language transformation: 1. Create foundational language and cultural expertise in the officer, civilian, and enlisted ranks for both Active and Reserve Components. 2. Create the capacity to surge language and cultural resources beyond these foundational and in-house capabilities. 3. Establish a cadre of language specialists possessing a level 3/3/3 ability (reading/listening/speaking ability). 4. Establish a process to track the accession, separation and promotion rates of language professionals and Foreign Area Officers (FAOs).

Beyond the Defense Language Transformation Roadmap
Beyond the Defense Language Transformation Roadmap

Author: United States Congress

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9781978180840

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Beyond the Defense Language Transformation Roadmap: bearing the burden for today's educational shortcomings : hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, hearing held June 29, 2010.

Military Training
Military Training

Author: Sharon Pickup

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-12

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1437918352

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Violent extremist movements and ongoing military operations have prompted the DoD to place greater emphasis on improving language and regional proficiency, which includes cultural awareness. This report assesses the extent to which DoD has: (1) developed a strategic plan to guide its language and regional proficiency transformation efforts; and (2) obtained the info. it needs to identify potential language and regional proficiency gaps and assess risk. To conduct this assessment, the auditor analyzed DoD's Defense Language Transformation Roadmap, reviewed the military services' strategies for transforming language and regional proficiency capabilities, and assessed the range of efforts intended to help identify potential gaps. Illus.

DOD Language Transformation
DOD Language Transformation

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Published: 2005

Total Pages: 2

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After a year-long series of studies, DOD issued its Defense Language Transformation Roadmap in March 2005. It acknowledges the lack of language and cultural ability within the uniformed services, highlights the increasing need for such capabilities, and outlines several goals for language transformation. Among them, it requires all junior officers to complete language training, to actively recruit heritage speakers, and to incorporate "regional area content" in all Professional Military Education courses. Further, in a move reminiscent of the Goldwater-Nichols Act, it mandates foreign language "ability" as a criterion for "general officer/flag officer advancement." Additionally, the newly established Defense Language Office recommends that all officers, with few exceptions, have "a level of language proficiency."