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7 Building Knowledge and Skills
7 Building Knowledge and Skills
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NGA could also toward building university programs, curricula, and take steps to build the specialized expertise it needs in academic support infrastructure to help develop fields the future. of interest to NGA, as described below.
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L to carry out collaborative research, create tools and Dr. Andrews requested the chair of the NRC commit- data sets, and build a cohort of trained individuals in tee to draft a research agenda and operating plan for subject areas outside traditional academic, business, or a UARC focused on using entertainment technologies government departments.
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For eral types of benefits to NGA, including providing example, the National Consortium for the Study of a means to build emerging areas in universities or to Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism offers a graduate facilitate collaboration among NGA offices or partner certificate in terrorism analysis and an undergraduate organizations. minor in terrorism studies, and the Center for Mari- An example of a virtual center focused on facilitattime, Island and Remote and Extreme Environment ing research collaborations is the Research Information Security offers professional development courses in Centre, which was developed jointly by Microsoft port-security sensing technologies.
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develop research partnerships with private companies. Past experience with creating academic curriculum Cooperative Research and Development Agreements in emerging geospatial areas is well illustrated by the (CRADAs)
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In addition, the NGA College offers sible actions include the following: few classes in the emerging areas. Adding graduate pro grams in emerging areas to the Vector Study Program • Funding a university scientist to edit a special would produce NGA employees with new skills.
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Many national conferences include workshops, Sessions at Professional Society Meetings seminars, and training courses on specific topics, which provide an opportunity to bring NGA employees up to Professional society meetings and conferences date on new developments. Setting up workshops and are a primary means for professionals to learn about seminars is usually simple, requiring only a workshop breaking research developments and to showcase their organizer, credentialed instructors, and a mechanism own research results.
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Such activities could also be offered on GIS day7 or provide the basis for an online quiz. Social Media Site Aptitude Tests The next generation of NGA employees will be familiar and comfortable with the use of social media Career and employment aptitude tests use person for all aspects of their daily lives, including searching ality tests, intelligence tests, work samples, and other for jobs and internships and exchanging informa- tests to determine the suitability or desirability of a job tion.
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, while others varying scope and complexity, including the following: could provide more immediate gains (e.g., Vector Study Program expansion, virtual centers, professional soci • Establish research centers (UARCs, centers of ety workshops and short courses, recruitment efforts)
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