Building the Human Capital for the Future

Intelligence is about nothing if not about “out-thinking” the adversary. For all the appropriate emphasis on technologies, methodologies, tools, and infrastructure, people are the Intelligence Community’s most precious resource. Whatever the changing paradigm for analysis, analysts remain at the center. Training and professional development of analysts remain a challenge. Learning the detailed intelligence-related skills is hard enough; producing world-class analysts with adequate breadth and depth is more demanding still. The analytic community faces a clutch of human capital issues, from the immediate effect of compensation reform, to how to develop and train analytic tradecraft, to how to nurture a new