•    Serve as a roundtable for reporting educational projects, a clearinghouse for educational ideas, and a strategic think-tank for establishing educational priorities.

•    Function as a cooperative body, capable of agile response and flexible configuration for the purpose of developing collaborative, efficient solutions to educational needs.

•    Engage high-level, cross-agency conversations regarding education and mission that recognizes the unique mission of each department and their resources, mandate, etc.

•    Cooperative venture, where individual agencies identify, develop and share resources by agreement.

•    Serve as a model for comparable regional RIIEs that may emerge in other regions of the world.