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Command prepares 10th Mountain Division for Afghanistan A USJFCOM team will conduct Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise 10-3, an exercise designed to prepare the 10th Mountain Division for challenges they will face in their deployment to Afghanistan. • Comment on this article at USJFCOMLive

Adaptive Course of Action (ACOA)

The Adaptive Course of Action (ACOA) collaboration capability allows operational planners at all levels of command to input, modify, and view the development of joint operation plans as they are being created, based on access privileges. This helps geographically separated planners to work jointly to rapidly conduct planning and make decisions.

Taught at U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Deployment Training Center’s (JDTC), the ACOA training course is a two-day certificate awarding course taught at Fort Eustis, Va., or by JDTC’s mobile training teams. A final U.S. secret clearance is required to attend.

The course uses ACOA’s classified electronic information-sharing environment to train students to use the following ACOA capabilities:
• Creating or generating messages and orders: Users can create or generate applicable Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES) orders from ACOA’s pre-formatted templates throughout the planning process
• Creating or modifying plan information: ACOA’s collaboration capability allows planners at the national strategic, theater strategic, operational, and tactical levels to input, modify, and view the development of operation plans as they are created
• Developing and selecting courses of action: ACOA provides a “science and art” structured approach to develop, analyze, and select courses of action that support the decision-making process
• Identifying and assigning forces: Force providers select forces for each developed specified and implied task from ACOA’s Force Deployment Management Tool. Unit information provides the data to generate the JOPES Time-Phased Force Deployment Data
• Creating Presentations: ACOA provides the capability to quickly generate presentations from information in the system

JDTC’s ACOA course is essential for any member of the joint planning and execution community who develops or modifies operational planning information, generates JOPES orders or messages, develops courses of action or assigns forces to specified or implied tasks.

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