Future Army Training and Education Capabilities

1. Training and Education (T&E) 2025 Industry ForumPanel 2: Future Army Training and Education Capabilities Ms. Helen A. Remily TRADOC Capability Manager, The Army Distributed Learning Program (18 June 2014)

2. T&E 2025 Industry Forum • Future Army Training and Education Capabilities • Future Army Training and Education Capabilities • Panelists will discuss current execution of the Army Learning Model; the future of Army Training and Education; and TRADOC’s Mobile Initiative. They will also discuss how the Army is leveraging technology as an enabler to deliver content to Soldiers at the point of need and the science and technology gaps that industry may help to address. 2

3. Panel #2: Future Army Training and Education Capabilities • Current Status: • Army transitioning to a learner-centric training & education environment. Leveraging mobile capabilities and information systems to apply blended learning techniques • Technology currently impacting learning: Mobile computing, Open content; E-Books, Augmented reality, Gesture-based computing, and Visual data analysis • Mobile computing primarily limited to CAC enabled Windows-based devices on NIPRNet • Pursuing “Bring Your Own Device” learning environment • Disparate system-centric data; no common standards; limited data sharing; limited integration across systems; user access not optimized; redundant information; one-off solutions developed outside governance; user performance data not-shared • Army current vision for Training and Education described in: • TP 525-8-2, Army Learning Concept 2015,Ch1, 6 Jun 11. • TP 525-8-3, Army Training Concept 2012-2020, 7 Jan 11. • Panel Topic: Future Army Training and Education Capabilities • Moderator: Ms. Helen Remily, TCM The Army Distributed • Learning Program • Members: • Mr. Russ Cloy, Chief, Army Learning Model Task Force, TRADOC G-3/5/7 • COL Tom Trossen, Director, Training Management Directorate • LTC Kyle Reichle, TRADOC Capability Manager Mobile • Mr. Tom Light, Office of the TCM Army Training Information Systems • End Sate:Industry understands the Army’s current and future state of training/education and the science and technology gaps • Future for Training and Education: • DL & mobile supports the Future Holistic Training Environment – Live Synthetic (FHTE-LS) by enabling ability to rapidly access, develop, & distribute learning to the point of need. • Provide users centralized, seamless, persistent access to T&E information and a Common Operational Picture of the Training Environment • Army vision for future learning - An Army learning environment enabled by an adaptive and continuous learning process which develops trained, agile, and adaptive leaders, Soldiers, and Army Civilians with the attributes and competencies to generate and sustain trained and capable units and organizations. • Future T&E Capabilities: • Virtual human / intelligent tutor; 24/7 access to learning capability, Bring Your Own Device • Training Enterprise Scheduling Capability (TESC); Army Training Development Capability (TEDC); Army Learning Content Management Capability (ALCMC); Army Training Management Capability (ATMC); Training Resource Management Capability (TRMC) • Army required capabilities described in • TP 525-8-2, Army Learning Concept 2015,Ch1, 6 Jun 11 (Appendix F). • TP 525-8-3, Army Training Concept 2012-2020, 7 Jan 11 (Appendix B). • Updated capabilities will be in TP 525-8-2, Army Learning Concept for Training and Education 2018-2030 (to be published late 2014).

4. Panel #2 Execution • Presentation and Q&A Concept: • Will ask that questions are held until after the panel presentations. Panel Agenda/Timeline: 5 min Panel introductions/overview (Ms. Remily) • Running Estimate: • Panel Briefs: • 50 minutes • Questions and Answers: • 40 minutes ALM: 10 min The Army Learning Model (Mr. Russ Cloy) ALC for T&E: 15 min Army’s Vision for Learning – Army Learning Concept for Training and Education 2018-2030 (COL Tom Trossen) TRADOC Mobile: 10 min TRADOC Current and Future Mobile Capabilities (LTC Kyle Reichle) Future of ATIS: 10 min The Future of Army Training and Information Systems (Mr. Tom Light)

5. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • The Army Learning Model (ALM) The Army Learning Model Mr. Russ Cloy 5

6. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • The Army Learning Model (ALM) • Current Status: • Implementation is in Phase II of three phase plan • Ph II - leverage pilot programs to test key concepts; share best practices; build strategic buy-in; and establish initial operating capability (IOC) • Ph III focuses on sustainment of ALM through adapted programs of record to achieve full operating capability (FOC) • CG, TRADOC focus for implementation: • Resourcing - models, policy, & practices • Instructional Design Capacity and Innovation • Information Technology - infrastructure and access to networked learning content • Workforce - skills development and personnel management to align with ALM principles and practices • Panel Topic: • TRADOC G3/5/7: Mr. Russ Cloy • Theme: Introduce the audience to what the Army is doing now (the Army Learning Model) and how it frames what we do next. • ALM is an Army imperative and current effort to change the approach to individual learning through a comprehensive shift to 21st Century competencies mapped across learning domains and measured across a career-long learning continuum • ALM leverages outcomes to focus tasks; instructional strategies to determine best methods and delivery; expert facilitators to engage learners in residence and Distributed Learning (DL), and mobile technologies to support the learner at the point of need for a more credible, rigorous and relevant learning experience Future for Training and Education: • Future T&E Capabilities to: . • Synch individual learning events with position requirements independent of Soldier location • Develop, manage, store, & deliver digitized learning content worldwide • Provide on-demand Soldier initiated access to relevant learning content and instruction  • Empower rapid development, update, & sharing of digitized learning content by in-house workforce • Measure relevance of learning outcomes & rapidly adapt to Operational Army needs • Tailor learning to Soldiers’ experience & knowledge level • ALM does NOT focus on any particular technology • The Army Learning Model focuses on opportunities presented by dynamic virtual environments, by on-line gaming, and by mobile learning • Currently oriented primarily on transforming individual Soldier and leader learning in initial military training, professional military education, and functional courses • The next iteration of the concept carries forward the adaptive, learner-centric and career-long approach and merges individual and collective learning (to be discussed by COL Trossen) • . 6

7. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • The Army Learning Model (ALM) 7

8. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • The Army Learning Model (ALM) 8

9. Army Vision for Learning Army’s Vision for Learning Army Learning Concept for Training and Education 2020-2040 COL Tom Trossen 9

10. Army’s Vision and Intent Intent: From the first day of service Soldiers and Army Civilians are immersed in an adaptive and continuous learner-centric training and education system designed to facilitate the mastery of attributes and competencies for mission accomplishment An Army learning environment enabled by an adaptive and continuous learning process which develops trained, agile, and adaptive leaders, Soldiers, and Army Civilians with the attributes and competencies to generate and sustain trained and capable units and organizations. TRADOC Pam 525-8-2, The Army Learning Concept for Training and Education (Draft) 10

11. The Army Concept Framework Focus: 2016-2028 Vision for Learning TRADOC Pamphlet 525-8-2 US Army Learning Concept for 2015, w/ Change 1, June 2011 TRADOC Pamphlet 525-8-3 US Army Training Concept, 2012-2020, January 2011 What the Army Must Do How the Army Fights 4x Leader-Directed 6 x Functional Army Functional Concepts September 2010 Army Functional Concepts September 2010 Army Functional Concepts September 2010 Army Functional Concepts September 2010 Army Functional Concepts September 2010 Army Functional Concepts September 2010 US Army Functional Concepts September 2010 US Army Training Concept January 2011 Army Functional Concepts September 2010 Army Functional Concepts September 2010 Focus: 2020-2040 US Army Operating Concept August 2010 US Army Capstone Concept December 2009 (to be published) Vision for Learning TRADOC Pamphlet 525-8-2 US Army Learning Concept For Training and Education, 2020 -2040 (to be published) US Army Functional Concepts 2015 US Army Functional Concepts 2015 US Army Functional Concepts 2015 US Army Capstone Concept December 2012 US Army Functional Concepts 2015 US Army Functional Concepts 2015 US Army Functional Concepts 2015 US Army Functional Concept for Engagement March 2014 US Army Human Dimension Concept 2014 US Army Learning Concept for Training and Education US Army Operating Concept 2014 What the Army Must Do (to be published) 2x Leader-Directed How the Army Fights 7 x Functional Documents available at URL: http://www.tradoc.army.mil/tpubs/pamndx.htm. 11

12. Summary of the Army Learning Concept for Training and Education 2020-2040 (Draft) Given the operational environment, the Army must improve learning The Military Problem: How does the Army create a learning environment that develops trained, agile, and adaptive leaders, Soldiers, and Army Civilians with the attributes and competencies to generate and sustain trained and capable organizations and units? Central Idea: Adaptive and Continuous Learning Continue a Service-wide campaign to retain and adapt lessons learned to the increasingly competitive security environment. Blend learner-centric training and education with experience to refine capabilities. Develop a career-long continuum of learning to strengthen Army attributes and competencies and generate and sustain mission capable and ready units and organizations. • Components of the Solution: • Embed a career-long earning culture. • Apply attributes and competencies. • Strengthen critical and creative thinking. • Encourage technological proficiency. • Build cohesive combined arms teams. • Refine learning infrastructure. • Provide training support. • Organize learning networks. • Enable reach and feedback. • Improve training management. • Teach, coach, and mentor. • Embody “leaders teach, teachers lead.” • Develop beyond the schoolhouse. • Manage instructional and training • development talent. • Unburden the learner. • Embed training. • Solution Synopsis: • Individual and collective learning. • Learning infrastructure development. • Human capital development. • Learning science and technology application. End State: An Army learning environment enabled by an adaptive and continuous learning process which develops trained, agile, and adaptive leaders, Soldiers, and Army Civilians with the attributes and competencies to generate and sustain trained and capable units and organizations. 12

13. Required Capabilities • Conduct training and education. • Identify training enabler and training resource. • Provide on-demand access to learning content. • Measure, track, and manage general learning outcomes. • Provide persistent access to reach back and subject matter expertise. • Integrate lessons learned and learner feedback. • Train and educate in an unified action context. • Conduct individual learning. • Develop critical and creative thinkers. • Conduct peer-to-peer learning. • Develop cultural literacy. • Require functional and professional attributes, knowledge, and skills. • Strengthen instructor selection. • Develop institutional workforce. • Train and educate Army civilian skills. • Provide training with allies, partners, commercial industry, academia, civic or government organizations. • Provide a continuous adaptive learning model. • Integrate advances in learning technologies. • Require accessible and sharable distributed learning products. • Provide individual and collective training support materials. • Access adaptable digitized learning products • Conduct training and education on organic and issued operational systems. • Track and manage training and education. • Develop cohesive combined arms teams. • Develop training strategies. • Train and educate strategists with regional expertise. 13

14. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • TRADOC Capability Manager Mobile TRADOC Mobile LTC Kyle Reichle “Network the force!” – BG Joseph Martin (3APR14) DCG Combined Arms Center 14

15. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • TRADOC Capability Manager Mobile Panel Topic: TCM Mobile, LTC Kyle Reichle Theme: Introduce TRADOC’s Mobile Initiative • Current Status: • Established TRADOC Project Office (TPO) Mobile AUG13 to provide common direction and address complex issues surrounding the implementation of a TRADOC near-term mobile solution. • Conducted a Limited Use Test (LUT) of five Windows 7 based convertibles or tablets. Recommendation was for Common Access Card-enabled, Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet) accessible, Army Gold Master (AGM) Windows-based mobile devices with physical keyboards. • Installing wireless infrastructure at Centers of Excellence (COEs) and Schools. • Conducted evaluation to assess the ability of mobile devices to support serious gaming and simulations including VBS2 and VBS3. • Establishing a TRADOC Capability Manager (TCM) Mobile to address threshold and objective requirements.. • . Future for Training and Education: • Future T&E Capabilities: • Provide network infrastructure and pervasive wireless connectivity in support of a dynamic learning environment. • TRADOC content delivered to the classroom and to the tactical edge, on demand anytime, anywhere in a fully mobile environment. • BYOAD devices fully functional in a joint environment with full interoperability and access to all forms of content at any security level. • Full virtual human interaction on mobile devices with access capability to any data source both military, interagency, intergovernmental, educational, and social. • Capability for full gaming and simulation on all mobile devices. • TCM Mobile fully functional and serves as the TRADOC central lead to provide governance and common direction associated with the implementation and management of the TRADOC mobile capability. • TRADOC COEs and Schools, to include the Army Reserve and National Guard, have fully capable Wi-Fi NIPR campuses. • TRADOC transitions to Bring Your Own Approved Device (BYOAD) solution providing secure and persistent access to relevant, tailored, and engaging learning experiences through a career-long continuum of learning that is not location-dependant, but accessed at the point of need. • Fully functional APPs workflow capability; physically dispersed development and logically centric certification supported by a TRADOC APPs Marketplace. • Seamless reach-back capability to TRADOC content via BYOAD device. 15

16. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • TRADOC Capability Manager Mobile PROBLEM STATEMENT: Army learning institutions require the right technologies, network infrastructure and content / applications to achieve the Commander’s Army Learning Model (ALM) vision, to include near term solutions to policy, network and mobile device requirements. • 2012 Institutional Education and Training Reforms Study (Braverman) • “Implement ALM including increasing network access by mobile devices, improving ability of training developers to build multimedia training products and increasing quality of DL Products” • “Network infrastructure, information assurance policies and rapid media production requirements are not in sync with ALM implementation” Adding discipline to the process! TRADOC established the TRADOCProject Office (TPO) Mobile in August 2013 to direct this effort, with the appropriate authorities and technical expertise to provide common direction, and navigate complex problems/issues to operationalize mobile learning in support of ALM. 16

17. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • TRADOC Capability Manager Mobile • Current Mobile Capabilities: • Current policy prohibits some devices (iPad / Android) from connecting to secure networks w/o mods or waivers • Current TRADOC learning content is primarily MS-Windows-based • Multiple Windows 7 based convertibles or tablets with Common Access Card-enabled, Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet) accessible, Army Gold Master (AGM) Windows-based mobile devices with physical keyboards. Can be used immediately to meet mobile requirements and needs • Establishing a centralized Mobile Apps Marketplace and Mobile Apps development process and net worthiness to allow schools to develop apps independently • Installing wireless infrastructure at TRADOC Centers of Excellence (COEs) and Schools. • Conducted evaluation to assess the ability of mobile devices to support serious gaming and simulations including VBS2 and VBS3. • Future Capabilities: • Provide network infrastructure and pervasive wireless connectivity in support of a dynamic learning environment. • TRADOC content delivered to the classroom and to the tactical edge, on demand anytime, anywhere in a fully mobile environment. • BYOAD devices fully functional in a joint environment with full interoperability and access to all forms of content at any security level. • Full virtual human interaction on mobile devices with access capability to any data source both military, interagency, intergovernmental, educational, and social. • Capability for full gaming and simulation on all mobile devices. • ALM Phase II • LVC/ITE/IA • Inst. T&E Reforms NIPRNET TCM Mobile Road Map (Enable Access) (Develop mLearning Products) Content Commercial Mobile Apps Dev / Cert 17

18. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • Army Training Information System Army Training Information System Mr. Tom Light 18

19. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda Army Training Information System • Current Status: • Army Training Information System (ATIS) is a discrete set of information resources (hardware, software, and infrastructure) specifically organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, and/or disposition of training information. ATIS leverages persistent technologies to optimize adaptive learning strategies that enable Commanders, Commandants, Soldiers, Leaders, and Civilians to plan, prepare, execute, and assess training, education, and leader development across the operational, institutional, and self-development training domains. Current challenges include: • Disparate System-Centric Data • Limited Data Sharing • User Performance Data Not Shared • Limited Integration Across Systems User Access Not Optimized Panel Topic: Army Training Information Systems: Mr. Tom Light Theme: Introduce the Army’s current and future training information systems. • Future for Training and Education: • Establish ATIS as a Program of Record • Sustain existing applications until ATIS is established • Support TRADOC Army Learning Model implementation • Support ATSC communication services • Operate the Training Support Enterprise Data Center • Training Enterprise Scheduling Capability (TESC) • Army Training Development Capability (ATDC) • Army Learning Content Management Capability (ALCMC) • Army Training Management Capability (ATMC) • Training Resource Management Capability (TRMC) • Future T&E Capabilities: • ATIS future goal for the Army systems: • A Net-Centric Enterprise Solution • Common Standards and Architectures • Maximized Authoritative Data Sharing • Fully Integrated Capabilities • Intuitive Capability for Commanders to Understand, Visualize, Describe, Direct, Lead, and Assess Data • Shared, Discoverable, Authoritative Data Across All Systems • Integrated, Governed System of Systems • Performance Data Readily Available 19

20. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • Army Training Information System Through Architectures & Standards From TODAY To the FUTURE Training Enterprise Scheduling Capability (TESC) Army Training Development Capability (ATDC) Army Learning Content Management Capability (ALCMC) Army Training Management Capability (ATMC) Training Resource Management Capability (TRMC) Providing users centralized, seamless, persistent access to Training and Education information and a Common Operational Picture of the Training Environment 20

21. T&E 2025 Industry Forum Agenda • Discussion Discussion 21