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Critical Skills
CAE Skill Sets and Competencies
Over the next several years the United States Intelligence Community will develop a series of Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE) in National Security Studies. The CAE initiative will serve as an innovative strategy to develop critical IC skills and competencies. Objectives include the development of eligible talent that the IC can attract, recruit and hire. The strategy will help build a pipeline of competitive talent including women and racial/ethnic minorities with diverse cultural backgrounds, experience, skills, language proficiency, and expertise.
The CAE Program Institutions will develop critical skills and competencies that focus on several of the following five (5) areas in addition to the general competencies required by all professionals:
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Primary Critical Skill Sets/Competencies
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Information Technology Specialists
- Project managers
- Computer specialists
- Systems research
- Software Applications
- Software specialists
- Electronic Data Optimization
- Cyber Security
Political/Economic Specialists
- Political
- Foreign/Regional Area specialists
- Economics
- Military specialists
- Geospatial specialists
- International business/finance/banking
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Language Specialists
- Middle Eastern
- Far Eastern
- World Languages
Threat Specialists
- Counterterrorism
- Counterintelligence
- Counternarcotics
- Criminal Justice
- Law Enforcement
- Homeland Security
- Risk Analysis
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Scientific/Technical Specialists
- Scientists
- Engineers
- Nuclear specialists
- Nonproliferation
- Technical weapons
- Geospatial specialists
- Imagery specialists
- Geodesists
- Cartographers
- Telecommunications
- Information security
- Forensics
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Specific General Competencies for Intelligence Professionals
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- Analysis
- Analytical Reasoning
- Critical Thinking
- Communications (oral and written)
- Mathematical Reasoning
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- Project Management
- Knowledge Management
- Consequence Management
- Time Management
- Research, developing rational conclusions and alternative solutions from ambiguity and limited data sets
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- Political Strategy
- Team Building/Team Work
- Futuristic Focus/Strategy
- Establishing Priorities
- Government(s) Operations
- People Skills
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