BRIEFING TO DDS&T CAREER DEVELOPMENT COURSE NO. 26

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 13, 1984
• Content Type: MEMO

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
DDS&T/CDC
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Executive Director - 7E12 H4s.
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Executive
MEMORANDUM FOR: Executive Director
Director, DDS&T Career Development Course
SUBJECT: Briefing to DDS&T Career Development Course No. 26
1. Thank you,l Ifor once again accepting the invitation to
brief the CDC. I well remember your meeting with my own group in April
of last year; we were flattered and impressed that you found uninterrupted
time to devote to us. Your discussion of the concerns of the Agency today,
when tied to your special historical perspective, was invaluable. Your
address is scheduled for Monday, 26 March, from 1445 till 1600 in Room 6E60,
Headquarters Building (the DDS&T Conference Room).
2. Together with your discussion of the functions of the Office of
the Executive Director, CDC-26 will appreciate your sharing the same insights
and anecdotes with them.
a few days before your appearance tolsee if you
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DDSBT CAREER DEVELOPMENT COURSE NO.
26
NUMBER IN CLASS:
AVERAGE GRADE:
AVERAGE AGfi: -
AVERAGE YEARS CIA SERVICE:
CURRENT FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY:
15
13
38.5
8.75
Imagery Collection, Processing, Analysis
2
SIGINT Collection, Processing, Analysis
3
HUMINT Collection
1
Technical Support
5
Research and Development
1
Intelligence Production
3
EDUCATIONAL STRENGTHS:
Electrical Engineering
3
Language
2
Chemistry
1
Economics
1
Law Enforcement
1
Library Science
1
Mathematics
1
Physics
1
Political Science
1
Psychology
1
Other
2
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FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
DDS$T CAREER DEVELOPMENT COURSE
Objectives
To provide a comprehensive review of the offices in the
Directorate of Science and Technology, including their missions,
functions, operating procedures, and relationships with each
other and consumers;
To provide an overview of the rest of the Agency and the
Intelligence Community in order to gain a better understanding
of the intelligence process, and to provide an awareness of the
interrelated roles of collectors, producers and support elements
and the coordination of their activities;
To provide an understanding of the consumers'of intelligence
information, including their needs and the ways in which they
utilize intelligence products;
To provide an awareness of the role that the Intelligence
Community plays in policymaking activities and an awareness of
the mechanisms guiding and overseeing the Community;
To provide an awareness of some of the major issues in the
Intelligence Community and the impact that those issues have on
various segments of the Community;
To provide an introduction to the technology being applied
to intelligence collection and processing, and the research and
development producing that technology;
To enable participants to enrich their professional scope
and potential through observation and discussion of management
principles and techniques applied in the Agency.
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To achieve the objectives established for the Career Development
Course, briefings are provided by the following:
- DDS&T office directors and other senior managers from the
offices in the Directorate for Science and Technology;
- Managers and analysts from each of the other Agency
directorates;
- Other senior Agency officials;
- Representatives from the other member components of the
Intelligence Community;
- The heads of Intelligence Community Staff components and
DCI committees;
- Representatives from the Congressional oversight committees,
the National Security Council, the Office of Management and
Budget and other elements concerned with guidance and control
of the Intelligence Community;
- Representatives of selected Department of Defense components;
- Representatives from selected non-Intelligence Community
elements, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration and
NASA and from private industry.
In addition, the course includes visits to selected facilities involved
in the national intelligence effort.
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