intelligence analysis background

This document http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/humancapital.pdf includes comments on the generation gap, courses on critical thinking, etc. It also suggests on page 12 that there will be quality standards for analytic products.

I think I've traced the course to http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2006hls/noftsinger.pdf.

These slides mention a web based tool (http://www.ai.sri.com/~seas/index.html) which is

... developed for intelligence analysts that records analytic reasoning and methods, supports collaborative analysis across contemporary and historical situations and analysts...

Some fun: what the world might look like in 2020 from a US intelligence persepective: http://www.foia.cia.gov/2020/2020.pdf