JPME update - Education - joint professional military education - Brief Article

Joint Force Quarterly, Summer, 2002

The Director of the Joint Staff and leaders of the intermediate and senior colleges met in May 2002 to discuss issues in joint professional military education (JPME) to include the following:

* Expansion of access to advanced JPME for the total force. Under the National Defense University, work is underway to develop a course for Reserve officers. Incorporation of lessons learned from a test conducted last year have aided in developing a pilot course consisting of a mix of resident and distributive learning to be instituted in 2003.

* Interactive multimedia CD-ROM for senior NCOs in joint duty assignments. This is the first JPME effort tailored to the needs of NCOs in the field and fleet. It will facilitate assimilation and increase contributions to the joint team. The disc will be in production by late summer 2002 and made available through unified commands in autumn 2002.

* Accreditation of JPME Phase I at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College has been renewed through 2007 and the Air War College and Air Command and Staff College are scheduled for reaffirmation visits later in the year.

* Efforts to speed joint lessons learned from the battlefield to the schoolhouse.

* Congress has called for an independent study of joint officer management and education in 2002-2003. This is the first congressional examination of these two areas since the late 1980s.

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