# Operating Environment Intelligence (Government and Defense Edition) > Operating Environment Intelligence, Government and Defense edition. 12.5 hours of self-paced learning. $897 for 365 days of access. Offered by Mission Ready Academy, Mission Success Solutions, LLC. URL: https://academy.missionsuccesssolutions.com/courses/operating-environment-intelligence-gov_defense Audience edition: Government and Defense. Plan tier: All-Access. Length: 12.5 hours. Passing score: 80%. Price: $897 for 365 days. Description: Operating Environment Intelligence for government and defense program offices: read an operating region before you commit, and brief a decision leaders can act on. Every consequential decision is made inside an environment the organization does not control. This program teaches a repeatable discipline for reading that environment, judging what it means, and giving a decision-maker something to act on. Nineteen skills in five modules follow five pillars: Frame, Scan, Connect, Judge, and Deliver. You bring a live decision from your own organization, and by the end you hold a completed estimate on it, not notes about a method. It is not a forecasting course and it does not teach research collection. Joint Readiness Rehabilitation Command, a 900-person defense health command serving reserve-component members, military families, and federal civilians at four sites, has ninety days to recommend whether to establish, partner, or decline at a fifth. Target audience: Federal, state, and defense-adjacent program offices assessing an operating region, a partner institution, or a program stand-up. You bring a live decision from your own organization and work it through the whole program. This edition's scenarios, examples, and vocabulary are set in a government and defense organization. The objectives and standards are the same in every edition. Outcomes -- what a learner will be able to do: - Frame an assigned analytic task as a bounded decision, scope it, and produce a rated assumption ledger. - Conduct a complete eight-domain BEARINGS Scan, grade all sources, card all findings, and produce a ranked Blank Map. - Build a cited Link Grid from a card set, run three-order consequence chains, score available leverage points, and classify changes as drift or jolt. - Test evidence against competing explanations, run a structured bias sweep, assign calibrated confidence, and convert findings into so-what lines. - Produce a one-page estimate, build a watchboard, deliver a ninety-second verbal read, and set a refresh rhythm. Prerequisites: - None. Modules (5): ## Module 1. Framing the Question (M1) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Frame an assigned analytic task as a bounded decision, scope it, and produce a rated assumption ledger. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, the case study packet, and a self-selected live analytic task from the participant's own work. Standard: The participant produces a completed Four Corners worksheet whose decision statement contains a verb and at least two named options, a named decider, a deadline with a stated anchoring event, and at least two deal-breakers; a Scope Box with all four edges and at least one reasoned exclusion; and an Assumption Ledger of at least eight entries in which every load-bearing row carries a confidence basis, a test with a named owner, and a trigger. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-1 Framing the Question (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 2. Scanning the Environment (M2) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Conduct a complete eight-domain BEARINGS Scan, grade all sources, card all findings, and produce a ranked Blank Map. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, scan sheets, a supplied mixed source set, and the participant's own framed task from Lesson 1. Standard: The participant produces scan entries for all eight domains including explicit unknowns, a coverage judgment for every domain, at least ten Finding Cards in which no observation field contains inference and every card carries a paired source grade and both dates, and a Blank Map in which every gap is phrased as an answerable question and the top three carry named owners and dates. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-2 Scanning the Environment (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 3. Connecting the Domains (M3) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Build a cited Link Grid from a card set, run three-order consequence chains, score available leverage points, and classify changes as drift or jolt. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, the participant's own card set from Lesson 2, and the case study card set. Standard: The participant produces a Link Grid in which every populated cell cites a card ID and carries direction and strength, with row and column totals computed and at least one coupled pair named; a three-order Then-What Chain whose change statement carries direction and magnitude and whose second order names actors and responses; a Leverage Read selecting exactly two points with reach cited to the grid; and a Drift and Jolt classification in which drift entries carry rate and threshold and jolt entries carry trigger and precursors. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-3 Connecting the Domains (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 4. Judging the Picture (M4) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Test evidence against competing explanations, run a structured bias sweep, assign calibrated confidence, and convert findings into so-what lines. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, the participant's own card set and link grid, and the case study evidence set. Standard: The participant produces a Rival Reads matrix with at least three non-straw-man explanations, non-diagnostic evidence struck, and a named discriminator routed to the Blank Map; a completed six-trap sweep in which every hit carries a recorded correction; confidence bands with stated bases in which findings and projections are banded separately; and so-what lines following the fixed pattern with at least one finding explicitly dropped. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-4 Judging the Picture (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Module 5. Delivering the Decision (M5) Terminal Learning Objective. Action: Produce a one-page estimate, build a watchboard, deliver a ninety-second verbal read, and set a refresh rhythm. Condition: Given facilitated instruction, the Participant Guide, all prior module outputs for the participant's live task, and a timed delivery partner. Standard: The participant produces a one-page estimate whose recommendation appears in the first three sentences, whose so-whats each carry a band, and whose gaps block names owners and dates; a Watchboard of six to ten observable indicators each with threshold, named owner, and pre-agreed action; a verbal read delivered in ninety seconds or less containing all five blocks in order; and a Re-Scan Rhythm assigning an interval to all eight domains. Module length: 2.5 hours. Lessons: - L-5 Delivering the Decision (interactive, 150 minutes, required) ## Enrollment Buy this course alone for $897, or take it under any subscription plan that includes the All-Access tier. 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