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5 Current and Anticipated Gaps in Expertise
5 Current and Anticipated Gaps in Expertise
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provide a mea- so the committee estimated NGA's future needs based sure of the knowledge and skills the agency is currently on the age distribution of NGA's current geospatial seeking, and the schools where NGA recruits potential intelligence workforce and the ssumption that future a employees indicate where the agency is looking for this hiring would focus on the core and emerging areas. knowledge and skills.
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citizens or permanent residents obtained a More than half of geospatial intelligence analyst degree in cartography in 2009 (Tables C.6 and C.10, positions at NGA specify degrees or coursework in Appendix C) , but there is a large supply of cartography Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
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The treatment of GIS operations using commercial products is also reasonably complete, but there is little coursework in geospatial analysis, such as spatial data analysis, spatial statistical analysis, or spatial optimization. None of the courses focus on geospatial data visualization and information design, even though NGA cartographers and other analysts work with graphics, imagery, movies, and maps.
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Multidisciplinary areas will grow over time. The increasing availability approaches involve people with different skill and knowledge sets working together, such as a geodesist working with a cartographer of geospatial data and technology are allowing NGA as part of a geospatial intelligence team, and they require an infra to tackle increasingly complex intelligence problems, structure for information sharing, such as a control room or social which commonly require interdisciplinary approaches network.
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Tier 5 specifies clusters behaviors and knowledge needed in most industries, of subject and background knowledge needed for each including personal attributes learned at home (e.g., of three industry sectors: positioning and geospatial interpersonal skills, integrity) , knowledge and skills data acquisition; analysis and modeling; and software learned in academic settings (e.g., geography, com- and application development.
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creasing demands of teamwork and of multidisciplinary The core competencies and skills span all levels of the and interdisciplinary analytical tasks are placing ingeospatial technology competency model, although the creasing importance on a broader set of skills. core competencies stress interpersonal skills, communi- If there were such a thing as an ideal geospatial cation, and creative thinking and adaptability, whereas intelligence analyst, he or she would be well versed the position-related skills stress working with custom- and expert at spatial thinking; have considerable interers and gathering, analyzing, and disseminating infor- disciplinary training; be well traveled and knowledgemation.
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Even when data volumes are ware commonly used by students has broadened from modest, computer programming skills are needed for standard statistical packages and GIS to include visual writing scripts to encode image analysis and process- analytics, semantic web, content analysis, and others. ing steps, implementing algorithms, understanding Standard, often commercial packages have rapidly methods such as tracking and optimization, and com- yielded to extendable "mashups" of open-source softmunicating effectively with programming staff.
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In NGA's future workforce, which is likely to be more interdisciplinary and focused on emerging SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS areas, the ideal skills will include spatial thinking, scien tific and computer literacy, mathematics and statistics, The second task of the committee was to identify languages and world travel, and professional ethics. gaps in the current or future availability of expertise rel- These skills are not always taught in university proative to NGA's needs.
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NGA could improve its chances of finding the necessary knowledge and skills by extending recruiting to the example university programs identified in this report.
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