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NSPD Vision
Authority: Executive Order 13434 (May 17, 2007)
E.O. 13434 established –
1) the policy of the United States to promote the education, training, and experience of current and future professionals in national security positions ("security professionals") in executive departments and agencies ("agencies").
2) the requirement for a National Strategy for the Development of Security Professionals ("National Strategy"), setting forth a framework that will provide to security professionals access to integrated education, training, and professional experience opportunities - across organizations, levels of government, and disciplines - for the purpose of enhancing their mission-related knowledge, skills, and experience and thereby improve their capability to safeguard the security of the Nation.
3) the Security Professional Development Executive Steering Committee to facilitate the implementation of the National Strategy. The Steering Committee is chaired by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
4) specific responsibilities of agency heads to identify and enhance existing national security professional development programs and to establish new programs as necessary.
"National Security Professional" Definition
NSP Governance: Executive Steering Committee
The role of the ESC is to facilitate the implementation of the National Strategy. The Steering Committee is chaired by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
NSP Governance: NSP Integration Office
The ESC will establish metrics and reporting requirements and direct the NSPD Integration Office to produce reports, as required.
The NSP Integration Office will:
– establish and provide guidance to interagency working groups implementing the NSP Implementation Plan;
– coordinate department and agency efforts to implement the Plan, particularly for the training and professional experience pillars;
– oversee implementation of crosscutting interagency initiatives;
– monitor developments in support of the Implementation Plan;
– report overall progress to the Executive Steering Committee on a regular basis; and
– identify issues that need Executive Steering Committee resolution.
NSP Governance: National Security Education Consortium (NSEC)
The ESC will work with academe in the establishment of a National Security Education Consortium (NSEC).
The NSEC is a voluntarily constituted consortium of institutions amenable to the goals of the National Strategy for the Development of Security Professionals.
Charter members of the NSEC will draft a charter that establishes a Board of Directors (BoD), and criteria and procedures for admitting and integrating new and existing institutions.
The BoD will be comprised primarily of representatives of federal learning centers. It will also include other representatives from interested public and private institutions.
The NSEC will enable partnerships that are desirable in order to establish and maintain high academic standards, recruit talented individuals, and ensure NSPE reaches broad audiences.
NSP Implementation Plan
Accomplished to date
Executive Order 13434 - National Security Professional Development (May 17, 2007)
National Strategy for the Development of Security Professionals (July 2007)
National Strategy Implementation Plan (December 2007)
Near Term
Four key interagency action items from draft Implementation Plan:
1. Establish and resource a National Security Professional Integration Office
Targeted completion date: January 2008
2. Determine the Scope of Department and Agency NSP Communities
Targeted completion date: February 2008
Targeted completion date: March 2008
4. Develop and Operate a Comprehensive NSP Web Portal
Targeted completion date: March 2008
Currently (December 07):
– National Security Education Consortium (NSEC) Pilot Program underway at NDU schools (38 students). Inter-Agency students participating in a tailored, NSP-focused curriculum.
– NSPD Integration Office being staffed Executive Director of the National Security Professional Interagency Integration Office.
– Departments of Defense, State, and Homeland Security, National Intelligence agencies and Office of Personnel Management are primary NSP players to date. Each have one or more competency models under development that are relevant to NSPs.
– OSD & Joint Military and Civilian staff representing DOD on NSP Committees – Executive Steering Committee (GO/FO/SES level) – Education, Training, Professional Experience, and Integration Subcommittees (Working Groups).
NSP Guiding Principles
“National Security” includes traditional national security and homeland security missions.
The missions of national security and homeland security are no longer separate and distinct.
Effective performance requires integrated efforts with common purpose across the Federal Government.
Integration of Federal operations must be institutionalized vice improvised.
National Security Professionals need access to education, training, and professional opportunities.
NSP Levels: Strategic, Operational, Tactical
Strategic/Operational/Tactical.
NSPs are needed to perform missions at the field level, plan and oversee those missions at regional or operational levels, and set strategies that guide and direct overall efforts.
These designations recognize that NSP development must occur in multiple arenas and at different levels in the Federal Government.
Coordinated department and agency efforts should be developed to anticipate needs at all three levels.
Human Capital: NSP Pillars
NSP Pillars
The Plan rests on the three major pillars of education, training, and professional experience.
1. Education: focuses on enhancing capacity for critical and innovative thinking, and understanding of authorities, risks, responsibilities, and tools to perform current or future national security mission successfully.
2. Training: focuses on developing knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences necessary to carry out national security responsibilities while enhancing interagency communication, interoperability, and coordinated action.
3. Professional Experience: focuses on the identification and expansion of opportunities for NSPs to participate in wide-ranging, cross-cutting professional experiences that provide the hands-on, real-life experience.
Human Capital: Education
Definition of education: opportunities to enhance a person’s capacity for critical and innovative thinking, and level of understanding of authorities, risks, responsibilities, and tools to perform a current or future national security mission successfully.
Interagency NSP Education (NSPE) will be structured and tailored to support common NSP performance requirements, and will be delivered at the entry, mid, senior, and executive levels through a variety of formats.
Each agency bears the primary responsibility for providing educational opportunities to its NSP employees and must plan and budget for education to meet the requirements.
Human Capital: Education Levels
NSEC Resident Courses and Seminars Supported by Department/Agency Programs and NSEC Distance Learning and Inter-Agency Acculturation
Areas of Study:
– National Security Strategy Implementation
– Overviews of Departmental National Strategies
– Applying instruments of national power
– Interagency Operations (Foreign and Domestic)
– Public Policy and Policy Management
– National Resource development and acquisition
– Strategic Communications
Career NSPE (Operational / Regional Level)
Department/Agency Intermediate, Senior & Executive Level Programs Supported by NSEC Distance Learning and Resident Seminars
Areas of Study:
– National Security Strategy Overview
– National Security mission areas
– Regional Security Programs / Security Cooperation
– Applying instruments of national power
– Roles and capabilities of Federal Departments / Agencies
– Interagency Operations (Foreign and Domestic)
Basic NSPE (Tactical / Field / Local Level)
Department/Agency Introductory and Primary Level Programs Supported by NSEC Distance Learning
Areas of Study:
– Overview of National Security Missions
– Overview of Federal Departments / Agencies
– Federal Emergency Management and Preparedness
– Departmental role in Interagency Operations