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A few things are keeping us busy here in JC4ISOC. Some highlights include:
- To better support students trying to get to the course (especially given today’s high OPTEMPO), the Joint C4I Staff and Operations Course recently restructured the course and reduced the length to three weeks. We will no longer spend a week up in Washington, DC but will still VTC in many of the highlight events from previous DC trips. We are also coordinating to have additional VTCs with COCOM J6s and some Intel agencies.
- The JC4ISOC has been accredited by the American Council on Education. Students graduating from the JC4ISOC are eligible to receive up to 4 graduate credits (2 semester hours in communications and intelligence systems and 2 in information security).
- The capstone event for the JC4ISOC is the C4I Practical Exercise. It focuses on the C4I planning of an expeditionary projection of joint forces into a combatant command conducting operations in a humanitarian environment. Crisis Action Planning (CAP) is emphasized, as is joint employment of operational, communications, and intelligence resources. The exercise involves the challenges confronting a Combatant Command as it transitions to a joint task force in responding to a humanitarian crisis. It capitalizes on the modern technology available in the Joint Force Staff College's war-gaming suites. Students play the role of the Combatant Commander's staff conducting extensive staff estimates of the situation, and transitions to the role of the Joint Task Force producing detailed operational mission analysis. The exercise ends with a mission analysis briefing to a role-playing Combatant Commander. Students get a full appreciation of CAP and operational mission analysis. The exercise has been consistently praised as an outstanding way of comprehensively applying all the course's learning objectives.
- Army officers (Active Duty, National Guard, Reserve) who attend the three week JC4ISOC are eligible to receive an Additional Skill Identifier (ASI) 3K, Joint Command, Control, Communications Staff and Operations. Graduates can update this on their Officer Record Brief (ORB) under the military education field by providing a copy of the JC4ISOC graduation certificate to their local servicing unit MILPO or National Guard/reserve administrative support unit. JC4ISOC course code is listed as "DMJ" for awarding of the ASI annotation.
- Most of the unclassified presentations in the JC4ISOC course are available to the students on a CD-ROM, which is included in the Graduation packet.
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