# Performance-Labor Pathway Family **Entity class:** Analytic model **Domain:** National-security labor interfaces ## Definition The **performance-labor pathway family** separates six possible routes by which performance and production competence can enter national-security work. Each pathway carries its own evidence status; the family model must not be used to assign an intelligence role to a named person without case-specific evidence. ## Pathways - [[wiki/Training-Market Pathway|Training-Market Pathway]] — documented entry into training; observation and familiarization are strongly indicated. - [[wiki/Dual-Skilled Uniform Pathway|Dual-Skilled Uniform Pathway]] — documented interest in reservists and veterans with production skills. - [[wiki/Occupational-Cover Pathway|Occupational-Cover Pathway]] — documented historical precedent; contemporary use is structurally indicated but instance-specific. - [[wiki/Methods-Transfer Pathway|Methods-Transfer Pathway]] — documented transfer of entertainment and game methods into defense research and foresight. - [[wiki/Spotting-Surface Pathway|Spotting-Surface Pathway]] — plausible inference based on placement-rich networks and documented intelligence roles. - [[wiki/Direct Operational Pathway|Direct Operational Pathway]] — documented historical example; contemporary identities and volume remain unobservable. ## Relationships - **evidence method:** [[wiki/Documentary-Structural Inference|Documentary-Structural Inference]]. - **labor base:** [[wiki/Performance Labor and National Security|Performance Labor and National Security]]. - **governing orchestration:** [[wiki/Producer Function|Producer Function]]. - **source:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]].