Gap Analysis

Criteria: Conduct a gap analysis to describe the nature of a learning or performance problem and propose a potential instructional and/or non-instructional solution and strategies.

Artifact: My performance analysis on improving cyber training for Intelligence Analysis within the Navy

Reflection

For the competency of "conducting a gap analysis," I am using a gap analysis document I wrote for cyber training for Intelligence Analysis within the Navy. In this paper, I conducted a gap analysis of deficiencies in cyber training within the Navy Intelligence Community.

I initially chose this subject because it was a real issue I had to address during my active duty in the Navy. I worked as an intelligence specialist in the cyber community, and the cyber analysis did not identify the training their intelligence specialists needed to succeed operationally. The performance analysis product was a paper I wrote that identified the performance gaps, their causes, and plans to close them. When placing the drivers of the gaps, I also had to identify their root causes. Doing this helped me understand how to potentially fill or correct those gaps.

While working on this document, I recalled a time in the Navy when I had to address a similar issue. I wish I had this assignment and the associated process back then when I worked on the original problem. Learning how to perform a training gap analysis will help me better understand issues in future projects and how to solve them. It also provided me with another tool for conducting a needs analysis.