Foundational Competencies
OPSEC
Social Media/PA
Creative Thinking
Inspiring Actions/Writing
100

There are _____ overarching branches of Foundational Competencies.

What is four? Developing Self, Developing Others, Developing Ideas, & Developing Organizations

100

An information-related capability that preserves friendly essential secrecy by using a process to identify, control, and protect critical information and indicators.

What is OPSEC?

100

Something that you can readily share when someone asks about your time in the military.

What is your AF story/elevator pitch?

100

What General Brown challenged us to do.

What is Accelerate Change or Lose?
100

This describes the future state of an organization, answers the “why” and “how”.

What is a vision/vision statement?

200

This type of Development is the first step of becoming a Foundationally Competent Airman or Guardian within the DAF.

What is Developing Self?

200
This is the OPSEC official mascot.

What is the OPSEC Purple Dragon?

200

Information that is false, but not created or shared with the intention of causing harm.

What is misinformation?

200

The type of thinking going from a lot of ideas and down-selecting to one single answer.

What is convergent thinking?

200

The purpose or goal of an organization, answers the “what” and “who”.

What is a mission/mission statement?

300

This type of Development invests in others to maximize their contributions to the mission by inspiring and providing an environment of continual feedback and learning opportunities.

What is Developing People?

300

When the adversary is capable of collecting critical information and/or indicators, correctly analyzing them, and acting quickly enough to impact friendly objectives.

What is a vulnerability?

300

This job is the focal point and experts who assist commanders, Airmen and Guardians with communication and engagement.

What is Public Affairs/Public Relations?

300

This type of thinking is based in facts, more objective, often related to math/science.

What is Critical Thinking?

300

These four items combined into one tool that can be used to identify shortcomings and broaden opportunities in an organization.

What is a SWOT analysis?

400

These are the four types of Competency Mastery levels.

What are Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and Expert levels?

400

Base Information, Financial Information, Passwords, SSN, date of birth, and Rosters are examples of this.

What is Critical Information?

400

This type of information is based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate.

What is malinformation?

400

The type of thinking typically associated with the arts/humanities.

What is Creative Thinking?

400

There are _______ steps to effective AF communication.

What is seven?

500

_________ means developing new insights into new situations; questions conventional approaches.

What is Creative Thinking?

500

There are _______ steps in the OPSEC Process.

What is five?

500

This type of information is deliberately created to mislead, harm, or manipulate a person, social group, organization, or country.

What is disinformation?

500

The term for using both critical and creative thinking.

What is innovation?

500

This is the final step to effective AF communication.

What is fight for feedback?

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