In this article–by former Director of National Intelligence VADM Mike McConnell; former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (and later, Director of the CIA), GEN Mike Hayden; Dr. Ron Sanders, who served as the first IC Chief Human Capital Officer and wrote the article; and Mike Richter esq., former Civilian Joint Duty Program Manager for Sanders–the authors trace the often-frustrating history of the Intelligence Community’s revolutionary civilian ‘joint duty’ program. Authorized by the IRTPA, the program was patterned after the one pioneered by the US military in the later 1980’s and 1990’s, and while its early IC history was challenging, it was successfully implemented beginning in mid-2007, more than two years after it was initially authorized. Eventually, the program received the prestigious Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government in 2009. (https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/static/13-IRTPA-Civilian-Joint-Duty-Program.pdf).