7. Intelligence Community · Minor
Change CIA promotion criteria to reward creative thinking over metrics
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“The Director should implement changes in promotion criteria that reward individuals for creative thinking and quality of recruitments and products rather than numeric metrics or the achievement of benchmarks that are not essential to the mission.”
What has happened
- Not started
CIA promotion criteria are internal and unpublished, and nothing on cia.gov, in the Federal Register or in P.L. 119-60 records a change rewarding creative thinking and quality of recruitments and products over numeric metrics. The Agency's own account of the Director's tenure calls the CIA "the ultimate meritocracy" but names no change to promotion criteria.
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Research log
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Research notes
- P.L. 119-60 Division F section 6503 requires an annual CIA workplace climate assessment — a survey, not a change to promotion criteria — and section 6305 requires an annual IC-wide survey of analytic objectivity. Neither reaches this ask.
- This ask is also covered by a single negative search of the CIA internal-management asks on pp. 208-212.
- Action
- other
- Object
- CIA promotion criteria
- ID
- 548