<div dir="ltr"><h1>DoD Sets New Policies on Language, Culture Knowledge</h1><div class=""> <span class="">Published: <a href="http://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/dod-sets-new-policies-on-language-culture-knowledge/" title="1:02 pm" rel="bookmark">September 4, 2015</a></span><br>More in: <a href="http://www.fedweek.com/news/federal-managers-daily-report/" rel="category tag">Federal Manager's Daily Report</a></div> <div class=""><p>DoD
has issued revised policies for a Defense Language, Regional Expertise
and Culture Program, stating that those capabilities “are enduring
critical competencies essential to the DoD mission and must be managed
to maximize” them.</p><p>Under the guidance, all personnel are to be
screened on entering federal service and also at times afterward for
foreign language proficiency. That skill is to be encouraged through
means such as paying foreign language proficiency pay and authorizing
time for self-managed and classroom programs to maintain and improve
proficiency.</p><p>“As mission dictates, the DoD will make full use of
available language proficiency, regional expertise, and cultural
capabilities without regard to Service or DoD agency affiliation,
consistent with law and DoD policy,” it says.</p><p>Further, “civilian
personnel deploying to foreign territories must possess or have access
to an appropriate capability to communicate in the languages of the
territories of deployment and at least have a rudimentary understanding
of the region and associated culture(s).”</p><p><a href="http://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/dod-sets-new-policies-on-language-culture-knowledge/">http://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/dod-sets-new-policies-on-language-culture-knowledge/</a><br></p></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/" target="_blank">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************</div>
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