Military Training: DOD Needs a Strategic Plan and Better Inventory and Requirements Data to Guide Development of Language Skills and Regional Proficiency

Resource Information

The work Military Training: DOD Needs a Strategic Plan and Better Inventory and Requirements Data to Guide Development of Language Skills and Regional Proficiency represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Military Training: DOD Needs a Strategic Plan and Better Inventory and Requirements Data to Guide Development of Language Skills and Regional Proficiency

Contributor

• GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
• Brown, Catherine H
• Bumgarner, John
• Carrington, Gabrielle A
• Cooper, MacKenzie
• Landesman, Joanne
• Lentini, Patricia
• Marchand, Greg
• Pickup, Sharon
• Reed, Chad
• Smale, Jay
• Smith, Kathryn
• Smith, Traye

Subject

• Auditing
• Civilian personnel
• Cross culture(sociology)
• Department of defense
• Foreign languages
• Inventory
• Linguistics
• Military capabilities
• Military forces and organizations
• Military forces(U.S.)
• Military personnel
• Military requirements
• Military training
• Proficiency
• Skills
• Sociology and law
• Transformations

Language

eng

Summary

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 done the following: (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. GAO recommends that DoD do the following: (1) develop a comprehensive strategic plan for its language and regional proficiency transformation, (2) establish a mechanism to assess the regional proficiency skills of its military and civilian personnel, and (3) develop a methodology to identify its language and regional proficiency requirements. DoD concurred with GAO's recommendations and stated it is taking related actions

Cataloging source

DTICE

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult