Joint Professional Military Education JPME

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Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)
30 Sept. 2002
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Overview

• Joint Professional Military Education (JPME)
• Background
• Responsibilities of the
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Joint Staff
• Officer Professional Military Education Policy
  (OPMEP)
• Professional Military Education Framework
• Process for Accreditation of Joint Education
  (PAJE)
• JPME Way Ahead

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Officer Professional Development
Education
Experience and self development
Officer Management
Training
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Jointness - Then and Now

• 1986
• Good Quality Officers
• Service Dominated Professional Military Education
  (PME)
• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) had
  little voice in Service PME
• Joint Warfighting Meant Service Deconfliction
• Little Reserve Component Participation in the
  joint fight
• Joint Responsibility and Authority at higher
  ranks
• Resident Education Dominated

• TODAY
• High Quality Joint Officers
• Very High Quality, Low Volume Joint PME
• CJCS accredits all JPME
• Reserve Component involved in all aspects and
  levels of Joint Fight
• Joint Responsibility pushed down to lower levels
• Distance and Distributed Education has matured

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Goldwater-Nichols Act

• Legislation enacted in 1986 with objectives
• Quality - Enhance the quality of officers in
  joint assignments
• Education - Enhance education in joint matters to
  prepare officers for joint duty
• Two Phase system
• Phase I at Service Colleges
• Phase II at Joint Forces Staff College, National
  Defense University, and Industrial College of the
  Armed Forces
• Experience - Produce a cadre of joint officers to
  fill joint requirements and become joint
  experienced senior leaders
• Stability - Promote assignment stability to
  enhance officers joint experience joint
  activities effectiveness

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Pursue Goldwater Nichols Acts Objectives

• Skelton Panel established Pillars of Joint
  Education (1989)
• Joint Student Body - Provide for the joint
  acculturation of the officer corps
• Joint Faculty - Provide for a truly Joint
  perspective from the podium
• Joint Curriculum - Produce a curriculum
  developed by Joint experienced officers for new
  Joint officers
• CJCS Oversight - Ensure that Joint Education
  meets the Chairmans high standards and the
  requirements of the Combatant Commanders

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CJCS Scope of Responsibility
ROTC Academy OCS/OTS
Primary
Continuing Education
Intermediate
Senior
Phase I/II JPME
Continuing Education
CAPSTONE
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Primary JPME Emphasis

• Fundamental concepts of JTF organization, Command
  and Control (C2), employment, and operations.
• Joint doctrine pertinent to the Service doctrine
  being taught at the school.
• Integration of joint and service systems
  supporting the tactical battlespace taught at the
  school.
• Other Services weapons systems pertinent to the
  host-service systems being taught at the school.
• Host service contributions to joint warfighting.

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War College JPME Emphasis

• National Security Strategy
• National Planning Systems and Processes
• National Military Strategy and Organization
• Theater Strategy and Campaigning
• Systems Integration in 21st Century Battlespace

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Accredited Joint Education Colleges

• USA Command General
• Staff College
• Leavenworth, KS
• April 03

• Naval War College
• Newport, RI
• May and Sept 98

• Army War College
• Carlisle, PA
• Nov 98

• National War College
• May 99
• Industrial College of
• the Armed Forces
• Jan 00
• Washington, DC

• Air War College
• Air Command and
• Staff College
• Montgomery, AL
• June and October 02

• Joint Forces Staff College
• Norfolk, VA
• Jan 98

• USMC War College
• May 00
• USMC Command Staff College
• Mar 02
• USMC College of Continuing Education
• Mar 99
• Quantico, VA

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Priorities for Future JPME

• Continue to pursue Goldwater Nichols Act
  requirements through
• Contract Independent JPME/Joint Officer
  Management study
• Advance Jointness
• Expand JPME Audience
• Advanced Distance Education/Learning Technologies
  and Media
• RC JPME
• NCO JPME
• Deepen and Broaden JPME Content

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United States Army War College

• Carlisle Barracks
• Carlisle, Pa
• Center for Land Warfare
• Joint PME
• Masters Degree Granting (With additional course
  work)
• August - June
• Two CONUS Trips

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Naval War College

• Newport RI
• Strategic Focus on Naval Warfare
• Joint PME
• Masters Degree Granting
• Quarter System
• Flexible entry dates
• Individual Travel as Required

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Marine Corps University

• Quantico Va
• Center for Amphibious Warfare
• Joint PME
• No-Masters Degree
• Very Small School
• 18 Students
• Extensive Travel
• Visit all CINCs, Services, Pentagon
• August - June

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Air University

• Maxwell AFB
• Montgomery Al
• Strategic Focus on Air Warfare
• Joint PME
• Masters Degree Granting
• August - June
• International Travel

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National Defense University

• Fort McNair, Wash D.C.
• Commuter School
• Great Access to Speakers
• National War College
• Center for Strategic Thought
• Industrial College of the Armed Forces
• Focus on Acquisition and Logistics
• Truly Joint Focus
• Masters Degree Granting
• International Travel

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Questions?