20140927_NIU_CJ7_TREX_SFA guide 3.1

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6.16 NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A). (See Figure 6.5 Organization
Chart) NTM-A is a currently staff directorate in IJC under the ISAF construct. During
RS NTM-A will transition to RS DCOS-OPS and become the CJ-7 Directorate of RS.
NTM-A trains, advises, and assists ANSF training capabilities in order to support
the creation of a capable and enduring force that protects the Afghan population
and denies safe havens to the insurgency. NTM-A key tasks: Promote and develop
sustainable and enduring
training systems to include
institutionalizing sustainable
and enduring training systems
for the ANP and assisting ANA
collective training capability.
Assist with the completion
of force generation of ANSF
capabilities. Finally, NTM-A
promotes the professionalization
of the force through basic
Literacy and Train-the-Trainer
programs. Focus for Literacy and
Language will be transitioned
to ANSF lead in 2014. NTM-A
Institutional Training is a
component of the national
strategic campaign providing
critical enduring capabilities to
professionalize the ANSF through Figure 6.5 NTM-A Organization
a network of training systems.
6.17 The TAA activity undertaken has resulted in institutions moving through a series
of Capability Milestones (CMs), in accordance with an overall programme called the
Unified Transition Plan (UTP). NTM-A oversees the transition of ANSF institutions,
including training establishments and medical facilities. It is assessed that by RS, there
will still be some institution transitions to complete.
6.18 Whereas previously there was significant emphasis on initial fielding of the ANSF
and conducting TAA at the point of training and functional delivery, there has been
a continuous shift in NTM-A focus, as individual establishments have transitioned
through CMs to becoming functionally autonomous. NTM-A is now focused on
advising and assisting institutional HQ leadership and their staff, to increasingly
professionalize their institutions, ethos, and approach. Having enabled the individual
institutions (e.g., branch training schools, military and police training centers), the
emphasis now is to institutionalize a systems approach at the HQ level. In the training
arena, this includes developing a system of internal and external validation, an
inspectorate function, a means of continuous improvement including a lessons learned
process, and engaging with the MAs to enable a Statement of Training Requirement
which in turn will allow for improved forward planning.
6.19 In addition to and in conjunction with the MAs, NTM-A has a capability
development and force generation responsibility; in particular, it has a capability
integration role. NTM-A is the requirements owner for many new capabilities and
thus is responsible for ensuring that integration across the DOTMLPF spectrum is in
place. This will continue under RS when NTM-A is realigned as the DCOS-OPS CJ7
RS. Examples have included literacy and maneuver (Mobile Strike Force) capability.
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