Centers for Naval Intelligence, Information Dominance Support DIA
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS100318-11
Release Date: 3/18/2010 7:45:00 PM
By Dr. Bud Livers, Learning Standards Officer, Center for Naval Intelligence Public Affairs
NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- Hosted by the Center for Naval Intelligence (CNI) and Fleet Intelligence Training Center (FITC), the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) General Intelligence Training Council (GITC) held their annual winter conference in San Diego Feb 22-25.
The GITC is a semi-annual gathering of Department of Defense and other intelligence community training and education professionals.
Attendees included combat support agencies, U.S. combatant commands and the uniformed services' intelligence training and education school houses and learning institutions.
The council members exchanged training and education course offerings, shared best practices and worked toward finding common solutions to general intelligence training and education challenges and requirements.
The goal of the 2010 conference was to develop a standardized list of certification requirements for intelligence collection managers throughout the intelligence domain.
"CNI and FITC provided a tremendous level of support to make this one of our most productive GITCs in meeting customer needs," said J. Keith Dunbar, executive director of the GITC in the office of learning and development for DIA. "CNI is a long time supporter of GITC activities and once again they exceeded our expectations in assisting us in hosting this off-campus GITC in San Diego. CID (Center for Information Dominance) made their very first attendance at a DIA-GITC memorable and relevant by introducing the conference attendees to Navy Credentialing Opportunities Online (Navy COOL)."
Myrna Armstrong, CID executive director, provided guidance for the credentialing and certification sub-group, briefing the council on Navy COOL.
"At CID we have been quite successful in linking Navy jobs to civilian certifications through Navy COOL," said Armstrong. "For example, we have mapped 28 certifications for the intelligence specialist rating and 24 certifications for intelligence officers."
"Navy COOL provided an opportunity to see a fantastic tool and its application in supporting certification within the Navy," said Dunbar. "By sharing the challenges and lessons learned in application and use of Navy COOL, the GITC has really gained an increased understanding into the possibilities available to support professionalism of our customer's workforce."
"We can really help the GITC," Armstrong added. "Our [Navy] COOL model is quite successful as recognized by the under secretary of defense, and because we've already done this for the Navy, we can help model the defense intelligence enterprise certifications for intelligence collections managers."
GITC members were also briefed on the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Center's (NMITC) Navy Intelligence Collection Management (CM) Course.
"NMITC's CM presentation garnered significant interest and attention," noted Frank Cubillo, CNI executive director. "Most GITC attendees agreed that this three-week course is the model and ideal CM training for tactical and operational-level collection management operations."
Also at the workshop, Marine Staff Sgt. Ryan Bonham, assigned to FITC, was awarded the coveted GITC 2009 Instructor of the Year Award. The award represents one of the highest honors available to general intelligence training professionals and provides a vehicle for the director of DIA to recognize general intelligence training excellence. Candidates are evaluated based on the areas of collaboration, learning innovation, results focus and professionalism. This is the second time in three years this award has been presented to a member of the Naval intelligence training community.
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