24 March 2009

1. Integrated Training for Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations 24 March 2009 World Wide Joint Training and Scheduling Conference Interagency Initiatives

2. Interagency Initiatives • Senior Leader Roundtable on Integrated Reconstruction and Stabilization Operations training (SLRt) • Bi-Annual meeting to address whole-of-government R&S training • Agreement with Department of State and US Agency for International Development for Iraq and Afghanistan Provincial Reconstruction Team pre-deployment training • Civilian agency training support for Joint Civil/Military Operations • PRT “returnee pipeline” support to the Combat Training Centers • USA/USMC IA role-player contract re-write • Identification and training of DoD Civilian IA Training Specialists • Civilian agency pre-deployment training at Camp Atterbury • State Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization • Co-chair Training, Education, Exercise, and Experimentation Sub-PCC • Developing deployable civilian agency capability for R&S operations

3. Senior Leader Roundtable Update BACKGROUND • Fifth meeting 16 April to address whole-of-government training • Co-chaired by State, USAID, and DoD • Recognized need to develop an integrated approach to training for R&S Operations • Seeking efficiencies in whole-of-government training, particularly in R&S Operations

4. Senior Leader Roundtable Update GOALS OF THIS EFFORT • Support the development of the Interagency Management System (IMS) with training, education, exercise and experimentation • Synchronize tasks in NSPD-44 and DoDD 3000.05 • Create Civ-Mil synergy for R&S training

5. Senior Leader Roundtable Update Institutionalize an integrated U.S. government (USG) R&S pre-deployment training regimen with focus on current operations. • Working with Iraq Policy Operations Group (IPOG) and Afghanistan Interagency Operations Group on initiatives • All PRT pre-deployment training consolidated at Camp Atterbury, Indiana • Pre-deployment training initiatives • Conduct DoD familiarization course w/field exercise at Camp Atterbury • USA/USMC hiring former civilian agency personnel to: • provide realism in IA training at Service Training centers (CTCs, MSTP) • manage contract role-players • Prepare scenarios for PRT pre-deployment students participating in Service Training centers • Act as civilian agency POC at training centers • Civilian agencies agree to support hiring process and maintain currency • PRT pre-deployment students participate in Service Combat Training Center training • Returning PRT members cycle through training centers on return • Prospective Iraq PRT members interface with BCT/RCT in CONUS • Current Iraq PRT members meet with BCT during RSOI at Camp Taji Challenges: • Exchange of Letters between agencies • DoD unit rotation concept differs from civilian agency individual replacement

6. Senior Leader Roundtable Update Each USG entity agrees to designate an organization to serve as the R&S Training Coordinator. The R&S Training Coordinators will be charged with collation of their Agency's requirements, internal prioritization, and adjudication of integrated R&S training support requests. • Two parallel, but linked initiatives: • 9 Agencies identified Training & Education System Agency Training Coordinators (TESAC) to coordinate Training, Education, Exercises, and Experiments (TEEE) requirements for CRC • Collate and adjudicate USG Agency participation in TEEE and testing events • IA Training Coordinators coordinate agency exercise and training requirements thru Civilian Military Activities Review Team (CMART) • Agencies committed to channel all requests for unit, staff & collective training, exercises and experimentation thru CMART • Business rules in review to establish CMART as central clearing house for TEEE, and report to TEEE sub-PCC Challenges: • Achieving consensus a slow process • Language often a barrier (speak the same language, but mean different things)

7. Senior Leader Roundtable Update Develop a USG-wide, web-based, integrated R&S operations training knowledge portal that builds on related initiatives • S/CRS begun three-phase initiative to consider full range of KM/IT requirements • Phase One -- Needs Assessment: • Conduct gap analysis to Identify discrepancies between the “As-Is” and “To-Be” states • Phase Two – Analysis of Alternatives and Requirements Definitions: • integrating GIS mapping/planning tools, • managing CRC personnel databases, • determining KM/IT business requirements and goals, and developing alternative solutions • Phase Three – Comprehensive KM/IT Business Plan • TEEE reviewing requirements for on-line courseware for CRC members. Challenges: • Ease of access vs. controlling access • Determining USG system to leverage and getting consensus

8. Senior Leader Roundtable Update Explore opportunities and funding strategies to leverage existing USG R&S training capability to support inter- and intra-agency training needs. Focus on the possibility of sharing or co-investing in existing reconstruction and stabilization infrastructure where practical Work group directed to use available capacity across the USG as the first choice to address Civilian Response Corps (CRC) training/education infrastructure needs • Developed Key Skill requirements, training assumptions, and curricula to meet CRC training requirements • Developed IA Planner (level 1) training and education • Includes requirement for participation in exercise/operation to meet qualification and certification standards • Developing Annual/Specialized, pre- and post-deployment requirements • Coordinating with JS/J7 on exercise opportunities Challenges: • Available capacity • Synchronizing schedules • Ensuring equitable treatment of training objectives

9. Long Term Strategy Development • Sustain NSPD-44 training initiatives and develop whole of government integrated training strategy. • Key focal areas include: • Develop a whole-of-government integrated Reconstruction and Stabilization training strategy to support R&S planning, addressing equitable incorporation of all agency training requirements and a lessons learned process. • Integrated and synchronized R&S training for other than PRT-related training. • Develop a strategy to integrate whole-of-government participation in R&S exercises, including a policy to equitably incorporate all participant training requirements. • Improve familiarity of respective USG entity culture, capabilities, and limitations.

10. Long Term Strategy Development • Key focal areas include (cont’d): • Coordinated, consolidated, and integrated USG Lessons Learned • Coordinated DoS, USAID & DoD Congressional engagement strategy focused on fulfilling integrated training requirements • Broaden participation to include all agencies likely to assume a role in the Civilian Response Corps in FY08/09.

11. Integrated Training for R&S Operations • Take aways: • Senior Leaders addressing whole-of-government issues • Active participation by a broad spectrum of IA players • Initiatives cover DoD and IA community training concerns • COCOM exercise participation vs. IA as active participants, not training aids • Identification of Agency Training Coordinator to prioritize/channel IA training • Working with Services/civilian agencies to improve current and future PRT pre-deployment training

12. Recommendations? What’s missing? Understanding the IMS Getting the WOG to embrace an expeditionary mindset Other Interagency Requirements? Planning integration Best Practices Training tools that help with conflict assessment Online Resources What hasn’t worked? Training to anticipated needs Real World Gaps in training Lessons Learned

13. Working Group Wrap-up • Recommendations on solutions for current issue slides: • New issues to submit for this conference? • What can we do to advance preparation of DoD individuals, units, and staffs for conducting integrated operations? • What can OSD, the Joint Staff, and the Services do to assist the Combatant Commands? • What can the Combatant Commands do to better prepare?

14. BACK UP slides

15. Interagency Initiatives Issues previously considered • Developing habitual IA relationships • Lack of IA PME • IA response thru simulation • Lack of IA training within DoD • IA integration funding • IA Exercises/Experimentation • IA shortfalls in DoD exercises • IA Senior Mentors • Prioritization of COCOM training requirements

16. Senior Leader Roundtable Update • How we got here • TIM2 addressed interagency/intergovernmental issues • Sought whole-of-government solutions • Moved from OSD/Policy to OSD/P&R Spring ‘07 • Training Transformation (T2) identified IA participation as a significant COCOM/Service training shortfall • DoDD 3000.05 “training policy that promotes interoperability with relevant U.S. Departments and Agencies” • Government-wide initiative • NSPD-44 • OSD/P&R initiated a series of workshops • Resulted in Senior Leader Roundtable with four meetings at the Deputy Under Secretary Level • Hosted by DoD, USAID, S/CRS • Overarching policy discussion • Attended by 21 Senior Leaders from USDA, USIP, DoC, OPM, HHS • Agreed to address broad spectrum of Integrated Training for R&S Operations issues • Limited to Reconstruction and Stabilization by NSPD-44 • Broadened to consider civilian agency training