Prepare assigned personnel to apply processes and method in order to provide analysis, assessment, and develop relevant products for submission to the approval and decision of a JFACC

Staff Officers are capable of understanding the contribution of air power to a joint campaign, and of contributing to an air operations planning group (AOPG) or a JFACC HQ during the execution of an air campaign, in a national or multinational environment, applying NATO processes.

• PO 1. Understand the fundamentals of air operations in a joint campaign
  • Level of command, C2 structure, JFACC organization
• PO 2. Understand the contributions of major functions to the decision cycle of a JFACC HQ
• PO 3. Understand and apply the principles of operational art and design and planning process within the Air contribution to joint strategic and operational planning
  • Understand the major phases and output of operational planning
  • Understand and apply the air power contribution to the development of operational plans
  • Understand the principles of organisation of a air operational planning group (AOPG)
  • Understand the working processes of an AOPG
• PO 4. Understand and apply JFACC process to develop the Air Operations Directive (main effort of the course)
• PO 5. Understand and apply JFACC process to develop the MAOP and ATO
• PO 6. Understand and apply JFACC process in the execution of an air campaign
  • Battle Rhythm
  • Targeting, TST
  • Joint Personnel Recovery and CSAR

Job Performance Outcome: 300 – Advance level (Apply)

Ref:      NATO ACO COPD, Jan 23

             AJP-3.3 (A)Allied Joint Doctrine for Air & Space Operations

AJP-3.3.5 (A) Joint Airspace Control

AJP-3.3.7 CJFACC

AJP-3.3.9 Joint Personnel Recovery

Basic staff skills (how to staff documents, how to prepare and deliver a briefing to an authority)

Basic knowledge of Microsoft Windows® and the common Microsoft Office® applications (Word®, Ppt® and Excel®)

• 1x plenary room, with 25 tables & chairs, teacher desk and chair, 1x computer /projector/ screen, 2x white boards and associated stationary
• 3x (minimum 2x) syndicate rooms with 10 x tables & chairs, 1x computer /projector/ screen, 2x white boards, 2x paper boards and associated stationary
• Ability to deliver basic admin tasks (e.g. printing)