Strengthening Intelligence Education with Information-Processing and Knowledge- Organization Competencies

• Main Author: Yejun Wu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Henley-Putnam University 2013-08-01
• Series: Journal of Strategic Security
• Subjects: Intelligence analysis; Intelligence studies/education
• Online Access: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1272&context=jss

This paper studies the weaknesses of intelligence-education curriculum in the United States from a Library and Information Science perspective. Intelligence information processing is a separate step in the traditional intelligence cycle; however, information-processing competencies are often included in the intelligence collection and analysis competencies in the Intelligence Community. A study of the websites of the intelligence-education programs in the major 27 intelligence-education institutions in the United States reveals that information processing is often implicitly included in an intelligence analysis or collection course; and only three universities offer such courses that include information-processing components. Only one university has been found to offer courses that implicitly include components of the knowledge-organization competency. This paper recommends strengthening intelligence-education curriculum with information-processing and knowledge-organization competencies.