Joint National Training Capability accreditation and certification programs
These two separate but closely integrated programs work together to achieve the overarching goal of increasing military readiness across the services and combatant commands (COCOMs). To achieve this goal, the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC) accreditation and certification programs identify joint context training shortfalls at training programs and validate that technical enablers required to execute training on joint tasks are available and interoperable.
JNTC Accreditation and Certification seek to ensure that the most realistic joint training possible is available to soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen preparing them to function jointly in an operational environment. They do this by accrediting that joint training programs provide an adequate joint context in which to train and by certifying that adequate training systems and sites are available for joint training and that they are interoperable and supportable. Accreditation and certification identify where capabilities do not meet JNTC standards, or need improvement to support joint training requirements, and provide information to inform cost-effective investment strategies in training systems and infrastructure.
The result of these efforts is a collection of accredited programs, conducted at certified sites using certified systems that can interoperate effectively to provide realistic joint training.
Interoperable live, virtual and constructive training systems at certified sites, providing accredited programs, means that the broad spectrum of joint training needs can be met without geographic or other physical boundaries, that training exercise data is both common and consistently excellent, and that the quality of training is assured.
The focus of JNTC Accreditation is the identification of joint context gaps and seams, referred to as “issues,” at service and COCOM training programs through the collaborative analysis of the specified joint tasks being trained. JNTC accreditation determines whether nominated training programs provide adequate joint context in which to train specified joint tasks.
The focus of JNTC Certification is to ensure that sites and systems used for training in joint tasks meet applicable standards and are interoperable. The JNTC Certification Program includes two complementary components: JNTC Site Certification and JNTC System Certification. Site Certification verifies that all systems, equipment, and facilities used at a specific joint training site meet JNTC criteria and enable training on joint tasks accredited for that site’s supported training program, and that the site can interoperate with the other JNTC certified sites over the Joint Training and Experimentation Network.
JNTC Site Certification reinforces JNTC Accreditation by ensuring that the architecture, systems, equipment, software, supporting infrastructure, etc., that are required to complete training of accredited joint tasks, are available and provide the appropriate joint context while JNTC Accreditation defines the scope of the site certification by identifying which training enablers are required.
JNTC System Certification verifies that systems are acceptable for use for their specified purpose in a joint training environment. System certification is required for all systems acquired by JNTC or funded as a project on an approved JNTC roadmap. Certification is a prerequisite for inclusion of a system in the Joint Force Trainer Toolkit.
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