Performance Technology Center
Overview
In response to Admiral Kramek's streamlining initiatives,
Training Center Yorktown formed the PTC from Training Division resources
in 1996. Designated by Assistant Commandant G-WT as the Coast Guard's
Center of Products Excellence for Interactive Courseware (ICW), the PTC
is a prototype center for improving human performance. It uses human performance
technology techniques and tools to analyze workforce performance problems.
Through continuous research, it identifies the most effective and efficient
emerging technologies that can be designed and developed into the products
and performance supports that help solve those problems.
Organization
PTC organization is divided
into four branches: Performance Analysis, Design & Development, Doctrine,
Acquisition, & Evaluation, and Information
Resource Management. These four branches concentrate on analyzing
workforce performance problems, evaluating solutions to those problem
areas, creating performance supports for improving workforce performance,
designing and building the Coast Guard’s e-learning system and supporting
the training center’s Information Technology needs.
- Performance Analysis
- Analyzes performance problems and identifies appropriate interventions
- Provides HPT support to major Coast Guard acquisitions
- Executes the occupational analysis program for the Coast Guard
- Maintains close ties with the other services and academia
- Provides Front End Analysis (FEA) training
- Design and Development
- Turns innovative prototype designs into actual products,
- Researches state-of-the-industry training and performance technologies,
- Supports G-WTT on the design and creation of the Coast Guard’s
e-learning system,
- Provides HPT support for Coast Guard acquisitions
- Maintains close ties with the other services, industry, and
academia
- Doctrine, Acquisition, & Evaluation
- Develop standardized processes for doctrine development
- Assist with the development of tactical and operational doctrine
- Assist major acquisition projects by utilizing Human Performance
Technology (HPT) processes
- Develop evaluation processes and tools
- Conduct evaluations
- Maintain formal training system manpower requirements and process
determination
- Information
Resource Management
- Provides a broad array of information technology services
to the base (staff and students),
- Provides IT consulting to performance solutions and supports
the training system’s IT initiatives.
PTC Resources