National Security: An Inventory of Professional Development Activities Intended to Improve Interagency Collaboration and Selected Characteristics (GAO-11-109SP, November 2010)
	An E-supplement to GAO-11-108
	Activity Type: Leadership Development Programs
	A list of abbreviations is provided at the bottom of the page.
	Activity Name	Providing Agency	Activity Description	Target Audience	2009 Approximate Participation
	Defense Senior Leader Development Program	DOD	A leadership development program that requires four in-person seminars, a 10-month full-time, in-person professional military education program at NDU or one of the DOD war colleges, and interagency rotational assignments. The program provides the enterprise-wide perspective to lead organizations and programs and achieve results in joint, interagency, and multinational environments.	Senior-level civilian personnel at DOD (GS-14 - 15 or equivalents)	40
	Executive Leader Development Program	DOD	A leadership development program that requires 95 contact days over a 10 month period of in-person training and a different week-long deployment each month for 6 months to various military facilities to expose civilians to military experiences.	Primarily DOD civilian personnel at GS-12 - 14; some participants from military or other civilian agencies such as DHS and Transportation	60
	Defense Information Systems Agency Executive Leadership Development Program	DOD	A 3-year program that includes 17 in-person and on-line courses, 4 developmental conferences, participation in a mentoring program and action learning project, and 3, 6-month rotations, in support of the development of Defense Information Systems Agency’s technical, professional, and leadership talent.	Senior-level civilian personnel (GS-14 - 15) level and military officers (O5 - O6)	30
	NDU, Information Resources Management College: Advanced Management Program, Government Strategic Leadership Certificate	DOD	A full-time, 14-week residential classroom program that teaches skills for strategic thinking, collaboration, and cross-boundary leadership with a focus on the roles, challenges, and opportunities of organizations within the context of homeland, national, and global security; provides participants with a network to share knowledge, analyze and leverage strategic human, technological, and financial resources.	USG personnel (GS-13 and above; FS and military equivalents)	0
	NDU, Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Program for Emerging Leaders	DOD	A specialized leadership development program with approximately 66 in-person, contact hours to be completed during a 3-year period created to foster a community of rising U.S. government leaders with the awareness and skill-set needed to respond to the dangers of weapons of mass destruction.	Early to mid-career national security professionals	50
	National Security Executive Leadership Seminar	State	A leadership development program that meets 2 days a month over the course of 5 months and provides the knowledge and skills needed to navigate the interagency policy implementation process as well as opportunities to establish professional networks.	USG personnel (GS-15 and above; FS and military equivalents)	60
	Interagency Policy Seminar Series	State	A 2-day, in-person seminar that brings together  senior leaders to discuss key policy issues related to national security such as democracy building, develop leadership skills such as teambuilding, and establish networks.	USG personnel (FS-01, GS-15 and above)	50
	Senior Executive Threshold Seminar	State	A 10-day leadership development program designed to prepare newly promoted senior executives in the foreign affairs community for the challenges they face in leading across agency and national boundaries.	Newly promoted senior Foreign Service officers and senior Civil Service employees in the foreign affairs community (open to interagency personnel as of 2010)	110
	Deputy Chief of Mission/Principal Officer Seminar	State	A 3-week leadership development program intended to teach the leadership skills needed to manage in an interagency environment.	New Deputy Chiefs of Mission and Principal Officers	60
	Ambassadorial Seminar	State	A 2-week leadership development program that prepares ambassadors-designate and their spouses for their unique positions of leadership in the interagency environment of State's missions abroad.	Ambassador-designates	70
	Interagency Effectiveness: Strategies and Best Practices	State	A 1-day leadership development program that teaches analysis, communication, and negotiation skills needed to operate in an interagency environment.	USG personnel (GS-15 and above; FS and military equivalents)	40
		Abbreviations
		DHS: Department of Homeland Security
		DOD: Department of Defense
		DOE: Department of Energy
		FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
		FS: Foreign Service (pay schedule)
		GS: General Schedule
		JPME: Joint Professional Military Education
		NGO: Nongovernmental organization
		NDU: National Defense University
		NNSA: National Nuclear Security Administration
		O: Officer-level (pay schedule)
		ROTC: Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
		SES: Senior Executive Service
		State: Department of State
		Treasury: Department of Treasury
		USAID: United States Agency for International Development
		USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
		USG: United States Government