Prepare for the future at joint course - Updates
Army Communicator, Spring, 2003
by Reynold Palaganas
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Are you involved
in exercise-planning conferences such as Lucky Sentinel, Ulchi
Focus Lens, Combined Endeavor or Grecian Firebolt?
Are you an action officer or senior NCO supporting signals intelligence, space
operations or theater missile-defense command-and-control initiatives? Or, are
you a Training and Doctrine Command systems manager, project manager action
officer or Defense Department civilian who deals with a myriad of
interoperability issues/key performance parameters in the command, control,
communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance
transformation arena?
If any of these
situations describe you, then the Joint Command, Control, Communications,
Computers and Intelligence Staff and Operations Course stands ready to support
your joint C4I educational needs. JC4ISOC is four weeks long, is taught seven
times during the fiscal year and is sponsored by the Joint Staff/J-6.
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First established in January 1978 by the deputy secretary of defense as a
joint C3 systems course at the Armed Forces Staff College, JC4ISOC is now one
of the resident courses under the Joint Command, Control and Information
Warfare School, Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Va. JCIWS's
mission is to educate and train company- and intermediate-level military staff
officers, senior NCOs and their Defense Department civilian equivalents in the
concepts, applications and procedures associated with C4I and information
operations in a joint and multinational environment.
To support the warfighter's needs in a network-centric, capabilities-based
force, the JC4ISOC curriculum takes a generalist approach. The program meets
the school's objectives and supports the college's mission by emphasizing a
broad understanding of the joint C4I environment and C2 process, as well as
operating, planning and managing current joint C4I systems. The course provides
quality C4I instruction for the joint community on topics such as Joint Vision
2020, joint interoperability, battle-space systems, Global Information Grid, information assurance and JTF C4I planning.
Reviews from past
students indicate the course's value to their current and upcoming assignments.
For instance, an Air Force colonel said, "I would have been 300 percent
more effective in the job (I had) if I had attended that (JC4ISOC) course. ...
Yes, the information was that beneficial, especially that part about the C4I
contacts and points of contact!"
The course accommodates
up to 25 students. Remaining available course dates for this FY are Class 035,
April 21-May 16; Class 03-6, June 2-27; and Class 03-7, Aug. 4-29. For more
information, see the annual JC4ISOC message issued to major commands and joint
agencies of all services announcing FY course dates and prerequisites, or the
separate message disseminated a few weeks before the start of each class.
Students must
possess a top secret/sensitive compartmented information clearance and be
cleared for SCI indoctrination before arrival. Students' commands must fund
their own travel, per diem and billeting, which includes a five-day field trip
to the Washington, D.C., area for "up close and personal" experiences
with joint agencies and organizations.
Administrative
information is available through the "welcome aboard" and
"general information" sections of the JFSC website at
https://www.jfsc.ndu.edu/ (click on JCIWS link).
JC4ISOC
quota-control point of contact is Lt. Cdr. Katherine Mayer, DSN 646-6320,
commercial (757) 443-6320, email [email protected] or [email protected].
Army faculty representatives are LTC Katherine Bryant, DSN 646-6328, or myself, DSN 646-6331 or commercial (757) 443-6328/6331.
LTC Palaganas has been assigned as a C4I instructor with JFSC
since September 2002. His previous assignment was as commander, 54th Signal
Battalion,
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