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.

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."

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.

Military Training: Continued Actions Needed to Guide DoD's Efforts to Improve Language Skills and Regional Proficiency
Military Training: Continued Actions Needed to Guide DoD's Efforts to Improve Language Skills and Regional Proficiency

Author: Sharon L. Pickup

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 1437935702

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Today, and in the foreseeable future, military operations require U.S. personnel to work alongside multinational partners and among local populations. The DoD has placed a greater emphasis on transforming language and regional proficiency capabilities, which includes cultural awareness. This testimony summarizes recommendations on DoD's efforts to develop language skills and regional proficiency and the steps DoD has taken to implement these prior recommendations. Specifically, the testimony addresses the extent to which DoD has: (1) developed a strategic plan to guide its language and regional proficiency transformation efforts; and (2) obtained the information it needs to identify capability gaps and assess risk.

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).

CADRE Quick-Look: Suggestions for Language Transformation in the US Air Force
CADRE Quick-Look: Suggestions for Language Transformation in the US Air Force

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Published: 2004

Total Pages: 3

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The Air Force has no central language program or overarching language plan. While it has "muddled through" each successive crisis requiring Air Force language support, it has not moved beyond ad hoc solutions or just-in-time language training. The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) requires many languages and a quick response to any emerging threat. The Air Force's current language posture does not meet these emerging needs. The August 2002 "Chief's Sight Picture" regarding language sent a clear signal that a cultural change must occur. The 2004 Defense Language Transformation Initiative provides the Department of Defense (DoD) impetus for direction and will certainly provide the funding to do so. The Air Force's response to DoD will have long-term effects on its language capabilities. To jump start this process, this issue of CADRE Quick-Look presents specific solutions to the lack of foreign language skills in the Air Force grouped by the following problem sets: Lack of Air Force Language Advocacy; Numerous "Language" Offices, but No One Voice; Lack of Comprehensive Air Force Language Requirements; Uneven Data Collection and Manipulation; Incomplete Identification of Entry-Level Personnel with Language Skills; Lack of Language Awareness throughout the Air Force; No Roadmap for Formal Language Education and Training; Little Attention to Language Recruiting and Retention Issues; Incomplete Planning for Language Training; Little Reward or Recognition for Language Proficiency; and Underutilization of Available Resources.

Military Training
Military Training

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-09-09

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781976206757

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Violent extremist movements and ongoing military operations have prompted the Department of Defense (DOD) to place greater emphasis on improving language and regional proficiency, which includes cultural awareness. GAO was asked to assess the extent to which DOD has (1) developed a strategic plan to guide its language and regional proficiency transformation efforts and (2) obtained the information it needs to identify potential language and regional proficiency gaps and assess risk. To conduct this assessment, GAO 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.