1.3: Empirical Methodologies
Adopt empirical methodologies to determine requirements for analytic work force size and skill mix. Other Information:
Much of the effort to determine knowledge requirements and identify areas for investment has to be based on accurate personnel
and skills data. In addition, we must be able to discern which of the analytic community’s core missions require continuous
in-depth expertise and should be performed by an in-house work force, which can be fufilled by employing various types of
external expertise, and which need a combination of Community and outside resources to meet analytic requirements. Implementing
Actions: • Perform an IC-wide needs assessment to determine the appropriate size of the analytic community. (Consider growth
in personnel costs; allowances for training/ surge; generalists vs. specialists; long- and short-term employees and contractors;
inhouse and external expertise balance.) • Continue funding to develop agency and IC skills databases.
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