Building Language Skills and Cultural Competencies in the Military -- Contents -- Preface -- Building Language Skills and Cultural Competencies in the Military: DOD's Challenge in Today's Educational Environment -- HASC Oversight and Investigations Members -- SC Oversight and Investigations Staff -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Key Questions -- Background -- Language Skills, Regional Expertise, and Cultural Awareness for the Few -- The Roadmap Vision for Transformation: What is the Department Trying to Accomplish, What is the Military Requirement, and how is the Department Trying to Accomplish its Goal -- The Services' Efforts -- Screening for Foreign Language Capability -- Cost and Risk Tradeoffs -- General Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Glossary of Acronyms -- Appendix B: Hearings, Briefings, Interviews -- Appendix C: Supporting Documents -- Appendix D: Defense Language Transformation Roadmap -- Appendix E: U.S. Navy's Language Skills, Regional Expertise, and Cultural Awareness Strategy -- Appendix F: NSLI Funding, by Agency -- Endnotes -- Statement of Dr. Robert O. Slater before the Hosue Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on September 23rd, 2008 -- Introduction and Background -- What Is the Language Flagship? -- New Curricular Approaches -- K-12 Articulation -- Articulated Overseas Immersion -- Diffusion of Innovation -- Peer Review and Quality Assurance -- Engagement of the Business Sector -- A Closer Look at Flagship Centers -- Statement of Mrs. Gail H. McGinn before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on September 23rd, 2008 -- Introduction -- Supporting a National Agenda -- Conclusion.

Presentation to the Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, United States House of Representatives, Language and Culture Transformation Efforts on September 10, 2008 -- Introduction -- Air Force Culture and Language Transformation Efforts -- The End State: Airmen with Key Joint-Warfighting Capabilities/Airmen-Statesmen -- Trade-Offs -- Conclusion -- Statement by BG Richard C. Longo before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Second Session, 110th Congress, on September 10, 2008 -- Statement of BG Gary S. Patton before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee on Foreign Language and Cultural Awareness Transformation on 10 September 2008 -- Guidance -- Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) -- Foreign Area Officer Program (FAO) -- Language Requirements -- Statement of Brigadier General Richard M. Lake before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on 10 September 2008 concerning United States Marine Corps Foreign Language and Cultural Awareness Efforts -- 1. What Language Skills, Cultural Awareness, and Regional Expertise are Required by the Marine Corps' Military and Civilian Personnel, in particular, the General Forces? -- 2. How will the Marine Corps Ensure the Aforementioned Language and Culture Needs are Met? -- 3. and 4. What Tradeoffs in Terms of Time, Resources or other Readiness Training will be Needed to Meet the Needs of the Marine Corps? What Risk is Assumed if our Needs are not Met? -- "The End State of Language Capability for the U.S. Department of Defense: The Country's First 'Globalized' Workforce" Prepared Statement before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, July 9, 2008 -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- An End State Scenario -- The Problem.

The End State: A "Globalized DoD Workforce" -- National Capacity Architecture -- Academe as a Core Asset -- Summary Conclusions and Recommendations -- Appendix A: DoD Language Supply Architecture -- Appendix B: DoD National Language Capacity Architecture/Piplines -- Testimony of Andrew F. Krepinevich before the United States Hosue of Representatives Committee on the Armed Services, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on July 9, 2008 -- Introduction -- The Future Security Environment: A Disordered World? -- Implications for the United States Military -- Tradeoffs -- Summary -- Statement of Rear Admiral Daniel P. Holloway before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee on Foreign Language and Cultural Awareness Transformation, 10 September 2008 -- Introduction -- Navy's Vision and End-State for Language Skill, Regional Expertise and Cultural Awareness -- What we Were: Drivers of Navy LREC Transformation -- What we Are and where we're Headed: Achieving the End-State -- Finding the Balance: Requirements, Tradeoffs and Risks -- Conclusion -- Statement of Dr. Montgomery McFate before the House Armed Services Committee, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 2nd Session, Hearings on the Importance of Socio-Cultural Knowledge to the US Military, 9 July 2008 -- Introduction -- Statement of Dr. Amy Zalman before the Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation United States House of Representatives, July 9, 2008, on the Topic of Department of Defense Language and Cultural Awareness Transformation -- The Current Challenge -- Resolving the Challenge: Cultural Awareness an Element of Force Transformation -- Action Items en Route to a Culturally and Linguistically Aware Military -- Index.