# Methods-Transfer Pathway
**Entity class:** Institutional-transfer pathway
## Definition
The **methods-transfer pathway** moves techniques of world-building, characterization, audience analysis, games, simulation, continuity, and production management into defense training, foresight, testing, and intelligence support.
## Relationships
- **institutional interfaces:** [[wiki/USC Institute for Creative Technologies|USC ICT]], [[wiki/Force Writers Room|Force Writers Room]], [[wiki/Army Contracting Command–Orlando|ACC-Orlando]], and [[wiki/Team Orlando|Team Orlando]].
- **historical frame:** [[wiki/Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment and Defense|Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment and Defense]].
- **part of:** [[wiki/Performance-Labor Pathway Family|Performance-Labor Pathway Family]].
- **source:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]].