Training Design

Training – The Joint Training System is designed to align individual and collective joint training programs with assigned missions consistent with command priorities, required capabilities, and available resources.

Four Phases of the Joint Training System

The Joint Training System (JTS) defines a multi-step approach to identify training requirements, plan, execute, and assess joint training events. First, and foremost, the JTS is focused on war fighting. “The specific objective is to develop a joint training program that bolsters the combatant commanders’ ability to execute the National Military Strategy while simultaneously maintaining high readiness of our forces as a pre-requisite to deterring aggression and responding to crisis. The desired end state is the improved readiness of joint forces, a training and exercise strategy better aligned with the National Military Strategy, improved interoperability, and a more stable process for optimizing the application of scarce resources (dollars, forces, time).” Successful implementation of the ITS depends upon automating the system’s processes so that the development, sharing, and reporting of training information and products is conducted as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Joint Learning Continuum

The concept of a Joint Learning Continuum enables joint force development. The Joint Learning Continuum focuses on creating and sustaining joint qualified personnel and joint leaders capable of effectively integrating and synchronizing national capabilities to successfully implement national security and military strategies.

The Joint Learning Continuum concept is built on the experience that the core competencies and capabilities of the collective Services have been and will continue to be the critical foundation of our military’s ability to achieve national objectives. Joint capability, therefore, is based on effective integration and synchronization of Service-provided capabilities and forces (including multinational and those under unified command).