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The University of Maryland Center for Advanced Study of Language (CASL) is the national laboratory for advanced research and development on language and national security, located in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 2003 under Department of Defense funding as a University Affiliated Research Center (UARC), CASL is a partnership between the University of Maryland and the United States Government whose mission is to improve the language performance of the U.S. Government workforce. CASL is now the largest language research center in the United States.
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CASL studies:
- Second-language acquisition (SLA)
- Technology use
- Performance and analysis
- Less commonly taught languages and cultures
- Cognitive neuroscience
CASL is dedicated to addressing the language needs of the Intelligence Community (IC). Founded in 2003 as a DoD university affiliated research center, CASL’s mission is to defend and protect the United States by improving language readiness and capabilities.
CASL is charged with bringing the best of academe and industry to the hardest government problems; providing the knowledge, resources, and technologies critical to analyst job performance; advancing workforce readiness for both regular and surge capabilities; improving operational performance; and underpinning critical leadership decisions on immediate and future staffing, technologies, and analyst workflow design and management.
Vision
The premier strategic research partner to the DoD and IC on the most critical and challenging language problems, ultimately infusing language research into day-to-day job performance as well as critical leadership decisions that directly affect mission.
Strategy
Other News
According to press reports, Edward Snowden worked at the CASL for less than a year in 2005 as a "security specialist" in what one report calls one of the National Security Agency (NSA)'s "covert facilities."