#126 Edgar Hollandsworth on Talent Development and Intelligence Support for OIE

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cognitive Crucible is a forum that presents different perspectives and emerging thought leadership related to the information environment. The opinions expressed by guests are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of or endorsement by the Information Professionals Association.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During this episode, Ed Hollandsworth of the</span> <a href= "https://jfsc.ndu.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joint Forces Staff College</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">shares his observations related to career-level US military officer education and the recently released joint doctrine: JP 3-04 Information in Joint Operations. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research Question</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">: Ed suggests that researchers consider a cluster of inter-related questions that could be considered as a research agenda. This means each question by itself could be the focus of a separate research effort.  Building on the podcasts of</span> <a href= "https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-81"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Major Cassandra Brooker (#81)</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <a href="https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-82"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">John DeRosa and Alex DelCastillo (#82)</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Ed challenges scholars to ask “How can the US Government validly, accurately, and rapidly measure the effectiveness of its operations in the information environment in time to influence leader decisions about future plans and operations?  What social science methods and performance measurement models are well-suited to this complex task?  How should the Intelligence Community posture itself to support OIE performance measurement?  Downstream, what are the implications of integrated OIE strategies, and the measurement of their effectiveness, for future changes in