Two proposals, Governance and CIM, up to 5 pages each, Paula is doing the framework for
Governance
Goal is to conduct meaningful research for Joint Special Operations Civil Affairs and Civil
Military Operations by applying software tools against cultural data in order to develop and
test theoretical models
•Apply tools for research and analysis: Data mining, SNA, GIS, Simulations, etc.
–ASK – Asymmetric Software Kit
–Simulations and modeling
•Conduct research to develop theories, models, and strategies
•Currently, no institution provides this form of advanced analytical education and training
Background
“• After over 4 years of continuous deployment in support of the GWOT, USACAPOC(A)
forces lack a common method for the collection, storing and sharing of civil battle-space
data. It has been addressed by individual unit disparate efforts. This lack of data
synchronization results in poor information sharing between both USACAPOC(A) organic
forces and supported commanders.
• Defined in new doctrine, and built into the current (approved) Force Design Update, CIM is
now a required core capability within current and future CA and PSYOP operations.
• System implementation, training, and sustainment of CIM capabilities in both the AC & RC
components has be written into the SOCOM ’08-’13 POM.”
Roadmap
“• Current Capabilities – Limited to Tactical Level
– Disconnected tactical civil information collection capabilities
• Directly supports tactical operations—real data not collaborated to operational/strategic
• Collection platforms NOT networked
– Various legacy disconnected data sets
• EXCEL Spreadsheets, FalconView, Digital Pics, Word Reports, Power Point Presentations
• Initial Operational Capability – FY06 target – (Limited)
– Field 90 Asymmetric Software Kit (ASK) application software primarily to CENTCOM
rotational CA Co’s/ CATBs
• ASK clients will be located at the various CMO staff sections to access tactical gen’d data
• Army Corps of Engineers-TEC Training to 06-08.2 Rotational Forces; 6-day POI
– Develop/implement enterprise-level ArcGIS-based servers to serve as backend feeder
nodes on SIPRNET/NIPRNET
• Servers will initially be hosted at CAPOC, with replication out to regional command nodes
• Objective Capability – Nested in TACLAN/SOMPE POR – RQMT’s written into ’08-’13
POM
– Tactical-level civil information collection handhelds using set data model and universally
recognized GIS-based software
– Collection machines are networked within an enterprise to provide seamless data fusion
and collaboration
– Global repository of civil information at the enterprise level with powerful query tools
***Fielded to entire USACAPOC force”
Goals
“1. The capability to effectively and efficiently collect, catalog, analyze, and fuse civil
information and target audience analysis to create a Civil information layer for the Common
Operating Picture (COP).
2. The capability to identify critical human nodes and audiences for influence; develop
logical lines of operations; and harness human feedback to direct persuasive, synchronized
messages and actions.
3. The capability to input relevant CA & PSYOP information into the Effects Coordination
Cell (ECC), EBO, and Decision cycles at BCT, Division, and Corp levels:
– Key Leader engagements and reports
– Civil reconnaissance
– CA Assessments
– Project Management
4. Provide desensitized civil information to interagency, DoD Partners, UN, NGOs, IOs, and
HN. Plan and assist in transition of DoD civil information enterprises to IPIs.
5. Provide effects-based assessment tools to determine CMO priorities and engagements
6. Provide the supported Commander predictive analysis and feedback of the impacts of the
human dimension within the operating environment”
CIM Research Program Proposal
1. Discovery phase
a. Stakeholder Analysis & interviews
b. Goal refinement
i.
Analyzing stakeholder input and refining goal of the course
c. Competitive Analysis
Who the players and service providers are
Identify gaps (some that they know and discover others they don’t know)
Identify emerging players and providers
i.
ii.
iii.
d. User Centered Research (d.school-style ethnographic need-finding)
Ethnographic frameworks
How are civilians experiencing civil affairs?
Behavioral analysis
1. why do/don’t civilians use certain services
i.
ii.
iii.
e.
f.
.
i.
Economics/Society/Behavior/Metrics
Models of innovation
open innovation
service innovation
ii.
bottoms up innovation
g.
.
i.
ii.
5.
6.
.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Theory of Change
Identify current theory of change
1. how effective is it?
Survey theories of change in adjacent domains
Gaps in current theory of change
Recommendations
Deliverables
Relevant CIM theory of change
Relevant literature
Materials
Case Studies
Other content
Tool Kit Frameworks (how to build a tool)
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
Monterey, California 93943
PROPOSAL FOR SPONSORED PROJECT
For the Office of Research, NPS
Civil Information Management (CIM)
Curriculum Development
September 1, 2012 – May 15, 2014
OBJECTIVE
This special project will develop a graduate 12-credit Civil Information Management
certificate. This includes articulating the learning elements and methodology of the
curricula, developing intellectual and online learning materials for that program, conducting
a pilot course for United States Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command, and
after action review of the course. This effort responds to call in numerous reviews for
development of curricular materials for Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations and other
participants in stability and civil military operations. Alongside the existing USACAPOC/NPS
certificate Stability, Security and Development in Complex Operations, a new curriculum on
Civil Information Management will be designed to provide an additional option as one of
three programs needed for a proposed hybrid modular MA program for USACAPOC
Reserve soldiers. [HSJr1]
BACKGROUND
The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Global Public Policy Academic Group (GPPAG) has
taken a leading role in efforts to develop curricula on the civil dimension of military
operations, working with USACAPOC, Active Duty Civil Affairs, other relevant stakeholders
and colleagues at sister institutions[HSJr2] .
The civil dimension of military operations is well-understood as vital to mission success, as
demonstrated in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Iraq, the Horn of Africa, the Philippines and other
post-Cold War US military deployments. The Unconventional nature of complex operations
involves multinational military units, civilian branches of government, NGOs/IOs, host nation
governments and forces, and the local population. Understanding the gaps in information is
key in designing solutions for greater interoperability, coordination, and knowledge
integration[HSJr3] .
The need for educational materials on the management of civil information is particularly
acute today, given the increasing number of missions and organizations now concerned
with civil-military planning and execution. Civil Information Management (CIM) is the
process of collecting, organizing, and analysis of civil data for utilization. The diffusion of
this information should be distributed to all partners within the area of operations in order to
create a more comprehensive civil common operational picture. The common operational
picture will permit the coordination and harmonization of civil military operations that are
derived from the civil data (FM 3-05.40 Civil Affairs Operations, 3-17-3-18).
An example of using civil information management is the Complex Operations Wiki,
developed by Milcoord for the Office of Naval Research, with NPS engaged in both design
and implementation. The purpose of the Complex Operations wiki is to be an open
foundation for practitioners involved in training, planning, designing and executing Counterinsurgency (COIN), Stability Operations (SO) and Irregular Warfare (IW) operations. The
Complex Operations wiki functions around topics of policy, strategic planning, operations,
management, development, intelligence, support and most importantly, research. In
contrast to existing document centric information portals, Complex Operations Wiki
collaboration centers around chunked knowledge, which is semantic knowledge centered
on facts and relationships about a common vocabulary. This includes a combination of
knowledge from doctrine field manuals such as FM 3-07 Stability Operations, reference
knowledge from authoritative sources like Afghanistan Human Terrain, facts and
relationships from social science theory and models, quantitative knowledge from social
science databases such as Global Terrorism Database and current knowledge from
authoritative sources like the CCO portal. This in part assists and benefits conducted
research, training and education and civil-military operations in which agencies and
organizations operate congruously[HSJr4] .
The field of civil information management is developing rapidly. The CIM domain is highly
networked in terms of the participants and technology. A CIM curriculum will include a
combination of theory and application. CIM touches upon a variety of disciplines, including
information sciences and organizational behavior. A CIM program should develop research
skills as well as understanding of human and technical systems. For these reasons,
scholarly and instructional texts are not currently developed for CIM. We aim to address this
gap. The NPS team will work with practitioners to tailor the program to the particular needs
of the Civil Affairs and other stakeholder communities. Faculty from relevant disciplines will
convene symposia to map out the knowledge base, and develop instructional materials
such as texts to provide the intellectual foundation for scholarship on CIM, as well as
practical instruction to develop practitioner skills.[HSJr5]
Products
·
Practitioner stakeholder needs assessment for CIM learning objectives and curricular
goals.
·
Symposia and instructional materials.
·
Development of three course graduate certificate proposal to the NPS Academic
Council (12 credit hour program to eligible students)
·
Pilot course with a class size of 20 students.
·
Academic Evaluation for each student that successfully completes the certificate
course.[HSJr6]
Proposed Timeline
The overall project timeline - subject to mutually-agreed modification to meet
student/program needs - is developed to provide execution of the first pilot CIM certificate
before March 2014. Upon completion, the sponsor and NPS will complete a revised
timeline for future project initiatives[HSJr7] .
Acceptance of Deliverable(s):
USACAPOC POC[HSJr8]
Points of Contact
NPS Points of Contact (POCs) are as follows:
 Technical POC and PI – Dr. Karen Guttieri, Assistant Professor, Global Public Policy
Academic Group Naval Postgraduate School (NS/LA) 281 Stone Road Qrts. C Bldg.
#281 Monterey, CA 93943, 831-8696-5275, guttieri@nps.edu
· Academic Chair - Charles LaCivita, Global Public Policy Academic Group, Halligan Hall
Room Ha-M5, 629 Dyer Road, Monterey, CA 93943, 831-656-2306, clacivita@nps.edu
 Research Office– Danielle Kuska, Director, NPS Research and Sponsored
Programs, 1 University Circle, Monterey CA 93943-5000, 831.656.2099[HSJr9]
PROPOSED BUDGET
IV. BUDGET SUMMARY
TOTAL FACULTY/SUPPORT LABOR - Salary and Benefits
$
276,254.00
TOTAL TRAVEL
$
26,000.00
TOTAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES
$
5,802.18
TOTAL OTHER (Contracts, Assistance Agreements,
Tuition & Fellowships, Miscellaneous, and Cost Centers)
TOTAL DIRECT COSTS
$
77,000.00
$
385,056.18
TOTAL INDIRECT COSTS
$
112,943.82
TOTAL PROPOSAL COST
$
498,000.00
BUDGET JUSTIFICATION
The following is justification for the requested direct reimbursable education funds.
Faculty Support: Funds are required for partial support of faculty and staff who will be
involved in this effort. The Principal Investigators will be responsible for project oversight.
Contract Support: contracting is required to provide funds for technical and administrative
support. The Principal Investigator or Chair will be responsible for oversight.
Travel: Funds are to cover travel of faculty, staff, and students to meet with sponsors, subject
matter experts, and/or to present and/or attend relevant conferences.
This is a proposed budget. Unless otherwise indicated by the sponsor, the lead researcher
will assume that it is the sponsor's intent to maximize the research benefit and to have the
lead researcher exercise good judgment regarding the expenditure of funds. That judgment
may include transfer of funds from one budget category to another with no increase in cost
to the sponsor.
Payment Schedule:
MIPR to NPS[HSJr10]
President, Code 21
1 University Circle
Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, Ca 93943
Deliver to:
Funds receipt funds@nps.edu
Copy to:
PI: Dr. Karen Guttieri
Financial POC: Upamao (Sola) Leao 831-656-7644 uleao@nps.edu
Selected References[HSJr11]
DoD Instruction 3000.05, "Military Support for Stability, Security, Transition, and
Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations", September 16, 2009
National Security Presidential Directive / NSPD-44, “Management of Interagency Efforts
Concerning Reconstruction and Stabilization”, December 7, 2005
Hicks, Kathleen and Christine Wormuth. "The Future of U.S. Civil Affairs Forces: A Report
of the CSIS International Security Program" CSIS, February 2009.
Guttieri, Karen and Volker Franke. “Picking Up the Pieces: Are United States Officers
Ready for Nation Building?” Journal of Political and Military Sociology (forthcoming)
Guttieri, Karen and Jessica Piombo, editors. Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to
Peace and Democracy? Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008.
Guttieri, Karen. “Unlearning War: U.S. Military Experience with Stability Operations.” In
Organizational Learning in the Global Context, edited by Leann Brown, Michael Kenney and
Michael Zarkin. London: Ashgate, September 2006.
Gundersen, Jon et al., "Sharing the Space: A Study on Education and Training for Complex
Operations." Washington, DC: US Institute of Peace and Consortium for Complex
Operations, 2008.
Guttieri, Karen and Jessica Piombo (eds). Interim Governments Washington, DC: US
Institute of Peace Press, 2008.
Mahoney, J. “Qualitative Methodology and Comparative Politics” Comparative Political
Studies, February 1, 2007; 40(2): 122 - 144.
Miles, M. B. & Huberman, A. M. 1994. Qualitative data analysis (Second ed.). Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Moore, Gregory. "Research Methods for International Relations Studies: Assembling an
Effective Toolkit" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies
Association 48th Chicago, Feb 28, 2007.
Simon, H. A. 1973. The structure of ill-structured problems. Artificial Intelligence, 4: 181202.
Schram, Sanford F. and Brian Caterino, Making political science matter : debating
knowledge, research, and method. New York : New York University Press, 2006.
U.S. Department of Defense. “Military Support for Stability, Security, Transition, and
Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations. Directive Number 3000.05.” November 28, 2005.
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
FACULTY BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Karen Guttieri
Assistant Professor
Naval Postgraduate School
Global Public Policy Academic Group
281 Stone Road Qrts. C Bldg. #281
Monterey, CA 93943
guttieri@nps.edu | 831-869-5275
Karen Guttieri is a faculty member of the Global Public Policy Academic Group at the Naval
Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. She is an award-wining teacher who led the
development of curricula for stability, security and development in complex operations
(SSDCO), endorsed by SOCOM, CAC and TRADOC. Her scholarship on military
operations in civilian environments analyzes dynamics of transitions, strategic implications
of them, and normative issues such as standards for civilian care. Dr. Guttieri has edited
the Complex Operations Case Study Series for the Center for Complex Operations, and
published many articles and book chapters on civil affairs, evaluative metrics, international
law, cognitive psychology, and military learning. She co-edited Interim Governments - a
book on transitional regimes. Current research seeks to engage in fresh ways the now
standard debates around globalization and national security issues. A native of California,
Dr. Guttieri earned her doctorate in Political Science at the University of British Columbia in
Vancouver, Canada. She joined the Naval Postgraduate School in 2001 after conducting
post-doctoral research at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation
(CISAC).
[HSJr1]This
project will develop a graduate 12-credit certificate Joint Civil Information
Management (JCIM). This includes articulating the learning elements and methodology of
the curricula, developing intellectual and on-line learning materials for that program,
conducting a pilot course for Joint Civil Affairs Community and after action review of the
course. This effort responds to call in numerous reviews for development of curricular
materials for Civil Affairs, Psychological Operations and other participants in full spectrum
operations. Alongside the existing USACAPOC(A) / NPS certificates: Stability, Security and
Development in Complex Operations and Civil Military Operations and Rule of Law, a new
curriculum on Joint Civil Information Management will be designed to provide an additional
option as one of three programs needed for a proposed hybrid modular MA program for the
Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Communities.
[HSJr2]The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Global Public Policy Academic Group
(GPPAG) has taken a leading role in efforts to develop curricula on the civil dimension of
military operations, working with USACAPOC(A), Active Duty Civil Affairs, other relevant
stakeholders and colleagues at sister institutions.
[HSJr3]2 and 3 paragraphs leave as is, except change CIM to JCIM.
[HSJr4]4 Paragraph – delete in its entirety. Do not list a system, even if it is an NPS
sponsored system. DA CIO is shutting down non-programs of record systems and
reviewing legacy systems. Keep the proposal to systems agnostic and concentrate on the
theory of information management, strategic planning and analysis. These three points
should be considered the classes for the cohort.
[HSJr5]5 Paragraph – Change all CIM to JCIM
[HSJr6]Change from CIM to JCIM – first bullet
[HSJr7]Change CIM to JCIM – second line
[HSJr8]SOCOM, USASOC, USACAPOC(A) and SWCS
[HSJr9]Change from MIPR to UFR
[HSJr10]Change from MIPR to UFR
[HSJr11]Recommend adding the following:
Harris, Jeane G. “Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results”, 2010
Gladwell, Malcolm. “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”,
New York: Hachette Book Group, 2002
Lehrer, Jonah. “Imagine: How Creativity Works”. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publishing, 2012
Taleb, Nassim N. “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable”, New York:
Random House, 2010
Army Tactics, Techniques and Procedures, (ATTP 3-57.50), Civil Information Management.
Joint Requirements Oversight Counsel Memorandum JRCOM 162-11
Flynn, Michael T. Major General, Pottinger, Matt, Capt, USMC, and Batchelor, Paul D.
Defense Intelligence Agency, “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant
in Afghanistan”. January 2010.
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