NEW COURSES PROPOSED FOR FY 1986

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NEW COURSES PROPOSED FOR FY 1986
LANGUAGE TRAINING DIVISION (LTD)
o Survival Turkish
o Survival German
o Survival Italian
o Survival Russian (depending on staffing)
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION (MATD)
INFORMATION SYSTEMS TRAINING DIVISION (ISTD)
CAREER TRAINEE DIVISION (CTD)
WASHINGTON OPERATIONS TRAINING STAFF (WOTS)
o Operations Course Accelerated
INTELLIGENCE TRAINING (IT)
Executive Development Staff (EDS)
o Leadership Forum
0 Program/Project Management
o Panel Discussions by Scholars in Residence
o Discussion with Author on National Security Issues
o Power Management Seminar
o Making Professional Presentations
o Technology Leakage
o Covert Action
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NEW COURSES PROPOSED FOR FY 1986
INTELLIGENCE TRAINING DIVISION (IT) (Continued)
Analysts Training Branch (ATB)
o Advanced Intelligence Support Course. Conducted for
DI Intelligence Assistants with three or more years of
experience. Research, design and development phases have been
completed. The pilot running is scheduled for early December
1985.
o Seminar for Senior DI Branch Chiefs. Conducted for DI
branch chiefs with one to five years experience as a first line
supervisor.
Topical Issues Branch (TIB)
o Technology Transfer Course. This course would be
directed by and would cost an estimated $8,000 per
running.
o English language version of Soviet Realities. This
course would be a part of the Soviet Affairs package and, if
conducted by and his colleagues would cost an
estimated $22,250 per running.
o Economic Training. The economic training package is
under review at this time and may result in one or more courses
to be run by a rotatee from the DI.
Selected area-oriented courses resulting from Judy
ongoing survey. We will identify one or more courses
to be run starting in FY 86.
o Africa Survey Course. This course results from the
DS&T survey and will run in FY 86. It will be conducted by
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o Middle East Survey Course. This course results from
the DS&T survey and is scheduled to run.in FY 86. We have not
yet identified people to conduct it.
o Advanced Military Analysis
being researched and will be run by
colleagues.
and his
o Military Analysis for Liaison Training. This course
will be developed for use in the liaison training package.
and his colleagues will develop it.
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NEW COURSES PROPOSED FOR FY 1986
o Contract Process Course. This course was identified
in the DS&T needs survey as a priority effort. The DS&T has
provided a contractor to develop the course. We are having
difficulty in getting a DS&T experienced course director who
has contract experience. The course is tentatively scheduled
for a 2-13 December 1985 running.
o Program Management and Budget. This course was
identified in the DS&T needs survey as a priority effort. We
are waiting for the promised GS-14 rotatee from the DS&T to
conduct this course.
o S&T Analysis. This course was identified in the DS&T
needs survey.. We have not identified people to develop and run
the course and may need to drop it from our plan.
o Managing the New DS&T Employee. This course was
identified in the DS&T needs survey. We have not identified
people to develop and run the course and may need to drop it
from our plan or transfer it to MATD.
0 Executive Development in the DS&T. This course was
identified in the DS&T needs survey. We have not identified
people to develop and run the course and may need to drop it
from our plan or transfer it elsewhere.
Professional Development Branch (PDB)
o AIAPS (Agency Issues: Applied Problem Solving). In
response to need originally raised by DS&T STO PDB
plans to explore market demand for an organizationally focused
course that would meet needs of:
a. those who will not have the opportunity to attend
MCC.
b. those senior grade EOD's the DS&T brings on board
for whom ITCIA is too elementary and MCC too
advanced
c. those individuals transitioning from narrow areas
of responsibility to those requiring greater
knowledge of, and ability to work across
organizational boundaries.
Basic interviews will be conducted in September and October
and a firmer recommendation for the Curriculum Committee will
be possible once this initial spade work is accomplished.
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NEW COURSES PROPOSED FOR FY 1986
o A heads-up on the Agency for the vast, untrained group of
wage grade employees in Logs as well as for those technical
types returning to DC after tours abroad. Would like for these
programs to be component based, conducted in cooperation with
PDB so that we might avoid the earlier problems of a "CIA Today
and Tomorrow". Again, we have not begun the initial surveys or
interviews on this possibility.
o As an outgrowth of recommendations from a number of
Midcareer students, we would like to look into the feasibility
of designing a short career planning seminar which would look
at the generic kinds of organizational information, personal
information, and planning skills needed to most effectively
utilize the available Agency mechanisms for career planning and
management. Substantively such a course would include personal
career assessment (NOT general personality instruments) an
overview of internal and external training opportunities,
coverage of the peculiarities of the various career management
systems in the Agency, and some study of the culture and norms
involved in a long term career in CIA. If the Curriculum
Committee approves exploring this concept we would like to do
so both through our student population, as well as through the
Directorate training officers, career planning staffs, and
senior management.
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16 September 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Assistant Director for Curriculum
Members o OTE Curriculum Committee
Chief, Media Production Branch
1. The following programs have been suggested and prioritized
by OTE components as a result of the 1986 Video Needs Assessment:
LS - "SURS" Videodisc project.
ISTD - "Intermediate AIM"
"SAFE"
"Introduction to ADP and VM in CIA/Components"
"GIMS Menu"
"GIMS (Basic Query Language)"
"WANG-WANG, or WANG-VM Overview and Connection (TELECOMM)"
"Introduction to PC-Mainframe Link"
"Fundamentals of VM"
"Intermediate VM"
"NBI Overview" for Learning Center
"PRIM"
"Advance GIMS Query Language"
Presentations by "DESIST" speaker
"WANG Security Overview"
MATD - "Just Plain English"
IT - "Insurgency"
"Harvard Problem"
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S E C R E T
SUBJECT: 1986 Video Production Needs Assessment
IT - continued
"Overview of Military Analysis in CIA"
"Soviet Area Studies"
"Falkland Island Warning Exercise"
"Processing for Overseas"
"Support Exercises for DS&T, ITICIA, and AIAPS"
"Chamber of Commerce Building Briefing"
"Life, After the Communist Take-Over"
"DS&T Overview"
WOTS - "Personnel Security"
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2. The OTE Curriculum Committee is now being asked to compile
a production priority listing for the Media Production Branch from
the above cited requirements.
3. Programs remaining in the 1985 MPB production listings are:
"Excellence" - Final production is scheduled for October 3;
"EXITO Project" - Shootings are in progress and new contract will
soon be negotiated;
"DORIC" - Final editing scheduled for 20 September;
"ISTD SERIES" - Final shooting and editing for "Host Based Word
Processor is scheduled for the last week of September. Final
editing for "SCRIPT" is scheduled for the second week of
October;
"OGC SERIES" - Three scripts are planned for completion by the end
of December;
"Arrest and Interrogation" - Production is tentatively planned for
the early part of November;
"Archives and Records Center" - Production is scheduled for the end
of September; and
"Just Plain English" - Final editing is tentatively scheduled for
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18 September 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: OTE Curriculum Committee
FROM: C/CBTG/OTE
SUBJECT: CDT Development Priorities for FY86
1. The two attached lists., 1) CBT Courses for OTE
Authoring, and 2) ISTD Priorities for CBT in FY86, are proposed
to guide OTE's CBT activities over the next year. As noted in
my memorandum of 25 July, it appears reasonable to group CBT
into two parts, ISTD and the rest of the Office, for several
reasons, not the least of which is that ISTD has a separate
budget initiative in the area of CDT for FY86. There is some
overlap of interest between the two lists, e.g. SAFE transition
training is of interest to both ISTD and IT, and CBTG will no
doubt be involved in both writing CDT and/or COTR function for
some of the ISTD projects listed. ISTD would prefer to retain
authority to determine how their funds should best be spent to
meet their requirements. If this position is adopted by OTE
management, the prioritizing exercise at issue here is limited
to the list of projects on the "CBT Courses for OTE Authoring"
list.
2. As noted on the attached list, virtually all of this
CBT will be done for delivery on microcomputers. We will
hopefully know by the end of December 1985 what the Agency
standard micro will be; a substantial amount of money will need
to be spent for an initial CBT lab installation by the end of
FY86. These machines would be intended for use by all OTE
divisions, and would essentially comprise a learning center
located here at OTE where students would go individually or in
groups to study. Such a facility would of course have space
and manpower implications, and, if successful, we would no
doubt soon want to install a similar facility at Headquarters
and perhaps other buildings.
3. Not reflected on the CBT development list is the
generic courseware of interest to CTB/MAT and PDB/IT (for
writing and English language arts), for LT. and possibly for
other units I don't know about yet. Clearly, we need to set
aside a number of dollars for courseware to be used in the
computer lab/learning center, and to budget time for
instructors, as CTB has done, to study this generic material,
test it with our students on a trial basis, and recommend
implementation, adaptation, or future in-house development.
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SUBJECT: CBT Development Priorities for FY86
4. I have put the projects in a tentative priority
order, but do not feel confident of the rankings beyond number
three because detailed course specifications have not been done
yet, including the number of students that would be affected
and the importance of the training relative to other training
that OTE does. The views of the Curriculum Committee with
respect to the latter question may resolve the matter before we
get to the course specification stage.
S. The budget figures on the attached list are all
approximate, and some differ from those on the last prioritized
list. We will know much more about costing interactive video
by December and will have been able to define the other courses
in greater detail.
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CDT COURSES FOR OTE AUTHORING IN FY86
1-3
SAFE UPGRADE. For use in training of DI analysts
using SAFE; of interest to IT and ISTD. Has possibility of
answering an urgent "surge" training requirement from 1500
analysts currently using SAFE 1 who will need to know how to
use SAFE 2. CLASS: unknown, might require using classified
example material. SYNOPSIS: Preliminary design analysis has
not been done for this course. Course would no doubt make
extensive use of simulated SAFE activity. Could be written by
CBTG or contracted out to a vendor with clearances.
VM-delivered. BUDGET: under $100,000.
3. SURVIVAL SPANISH. For use in Spanish language
training at CoC and Headquarters. CLASS: unclassified.
SYNOPSIS: Complete the remaining seven units of the ten-unit
course. Design work to be done by Language School personnel;
coding and graphics by outside contractor; video production by
MPB. Three almost-completed units are currently implemented on
TICCIT, with videodisc and random access audio. BUDGET:
$150,000
4. WRITING FOR THE DI. Introductory training for DI
analysts. CLASS: probably secret, because of classification
of example material. SYNOPSIS: Would likely adapt the
recently completed video and printed material to an interactive
mode. Since a preliminary design study has not yet been done,
it is unclear what this course would look like in detail.
Micro-based, perhaps with interactive video. BUDGET: $200,000
5. OPERATIONAL RECORDS (OR-1). Introduction to DO's
record-keeping system. Of interest to CTD and IT; could be
used in initial training as well as refresher training upon
return from overseas. CLASS; SECRET. SYNOPSIS: Preliminary
design study partially complete. From our fairly extensive
conversations with it is clear that a CBT
package would be very effective here. Strong support exists in
IMS r -1 for this curriculum project. Not yet clear
whether interactive video would be needed, but a micro delivery
system would be needed for color and graphics, which would be
essential to the course. BUDGET: $100,000 (color graphics only)
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6. INTRODUCTION TO THE CIA. For use with new employees
in all appropriate courses, AOOP, ITCIA, etc. Also. could be
used stand-alone for employees who had to delay attendance at
an introductory course. CLASS: SECRET. SYNOPSIS: Interactive
video course that would introduce the student to the structure
and function of the Agency. Includes testing function: student
must show knowledge required before exiting course.
Interactive video, micro-based. BUDGET: $150,000.
7. FINANCIAL SYSTEMS/FIELD ADMINISTRATION/CLASS B AUDIT
RECORDS Of interest to MATD for training of Logistics,
Finance, and other personnel with administrative and financial
requirements. Preliminary discussions only have taken place
recently; we have not identified exactly which portion of these
courses might most profitably be put onto CBT. It is clear,
however, that there is considerable potential. Either micro or
VM-based, or both, perhaps on a different machine altogether
for field administration training. BUDGET: unknown.
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15 August 1985
Memorandum for:
Thru:
From:
Chief, Computer Based Training Group
Assistant Director of Training,for Curriculum
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Subject: ISTD Priorities for CBT in FY86
Reference: 25 July '85 memo
1. CBT has been an active topic in OTE for approximately two
years. We have come a long way and the CBTG, particularly, has begun
to identify ways in which CBT will serve OTE well in the years
ahead. It is time, however, to get something on the street, so to
speak, so that is ISTD's top priority in FY86.
2. With this overall objective in mind our requirements fall
into three categories based on estimated time for implementation.
Items listed in each category are in priority order:
CATEGORY I (1-3 months)
This category consists of courseware available on the
commercial market which can be purchased and
delivered, without modification, using IBM 3270 PC's
a. Commercial CBT courseware which can be used to
replace our existing 3-day classroom course,
Introduction to ADP. Our survey of last September
showed that adequate material existed then and is
probably improved now. The courseware would be made
available in the Headquarters Learning Center and
delivered on the two IBM 3270 PC's which should be
available by 1 Oct '85. Recent successes using the
3270 simulator may make it feasible to deliver it on
Delta Data terminals as well. The type of material
covered in such courseware, as well as in our current
classroom
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course, is general background understanding of
computers. It is nice-to-have but not essential to
any of our other courses. Therefore, we do not plan
to teach the classroom course in FY86. The CBT
material would be a nice self-study option, however.
b. CBT Courseware for appropriate commercial
software packages for PC's. Recommended for purchase
are the CBT packages, if available, for:
Lotus 1-2-3 Version 1A
Goldengate
KEDIT Version 3.5
dBaseIII Version 1.1
Microsoft's CHART Version 1.01
DD5260 Version 3.00
KERMIT Version 2.26
Several sets will be needed, two for the PC's in the
Learning Center and several for use by instructors in
OTE.
CATEGORY II (3-6 months)
This category consists of courseware which is
available on the commercial market but which may need
some minor modification or improvement to make it
acceptable.
a. NOMAD2
b. SAS
C. Writing JCL
d. Programming Language I (PLI)
e. RAMIS
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Subject: ISTD Priorities for CBT in FY 86
CATEGORY III (6 + months)
This category consists of courseware unique to CIA
which, therefore, must be written by OTE staffers or
by contractors under OTE guidance. It includes the
capability to consider CBT as a viable part of the
development of training packages for future
information systems.
a. Introduction to AIM (ASAP)
b. All or part of the existing Fundamentals of
VM (FVM) course.
c. Modules of the SAFE training program (to
supplement CBT courseware developed by the
training contractor).
d. All or part of the existing Host-Based Word
Processing (HBWP) course.
e. All or part of the revised GIMS course.
f. Future systems whose specific training
requirements are yet to be determined such
as:
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3. Because of the time difference of the three categories, it was
difficult to place all of the above requirements on one priority list.
In effect, our needs are such that some work should go on in all three
categories simultaneously. The CBTG and ISTD need to continue to wnrk
together closely on all of these items
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