U.S. Army:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – The under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness recently certified the United States Strategic Command’s Joint Ballistic Missile Defense Education and Training Center, operated by the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense at Schriever Air Force Base, as a Joint Center of Excellence, the first joint organization so designated.
A Center of Excellence is defined as a premier organization providing exceptional products and services in an assigned area of expertise with unique requirements and capabilities. The Suffolk, Virginia-based Joint Staff Force Development Directorate spent a year preparing the requirements for the designation.
JBTEC training fills a critical gap between service-, joint- and theater-based training.
“Previously available missile defense training consisted of system training and top-off training. System training focuses on system capabilities and tends to be service specific. Combatant command top-off training focuses on system employment tactics and procedures,” said Pat McNelis, a current JBTEC instructor.
