Army Career Tracker (ACT)

ACT, as a portal, links the Army's leadership development initiatives and lifelong learning as a continuum of service throughout one's career and beyond. Effective self-development and leader development require that individuals plan and capture their career goals and objectives within the Army training and leader development systems. Effective self-development and leader development require a system that allows the Soldiers and Army Civilians to:

• See: Give the ability for the individual to see their past accomplishments and their potential career development opportunities in a single easy to use interface.
• Understand: Provide context to the data being aggregated and provide recommendations to the individual on what courses of action to take to further develop their concerns.
• ACT: Once a course of action has been decided upon, give the ability to take action on this decision.

One Army School System (OASS)

The One Army School System is one such initiative designed to enhance the Institutional Army's support of the Army Force Generation (ARFORGEN) model. The current initiative at Fort Carson, Colo. will lead to a multi-component NCO Academy Table of Allowances and changes to WLC regionalization and distribution policies, which will accomplish the following:

• Streamline WLC student throughput.
• Gain training efficiencies in the planning and conduct of WLC throughout the Army.
• Achieve standardization of NCO Academy force structure throughout the Army.

Upon full implementation, the One Army School System will provide increased training and education by leveraging the available resources of all three Army Components and establish multi-component facilities to train future warriors.

Structured Self-Development (SSD)

Self Development is a key area and one of three domains of training and leader development. Structured Self Development (SSD) is planned, goal-oriented learning that reinforces and expands the depth and breadth of an individual's knowledge base, self awareness, and situational awareness. It complements institutional and operational learning, enhances professional competence, and meets personal objectives. The self development domain has three components: structured, guided and personal development. As an enabler to lifelong learning, SSD and Guided Self Development (GSD) bridge the gap between the institutional and operational domains in support of NCOES transformation. Enabling a train-ahead approach, the SSD consists of five levels of mandatory development spread across a Soldier's career. It will be supported by a robust evaluation and feedback process that includes self-assessment tools, the increased use of advanced technology like the Army Career Tracker, a secure test environment, achievable requirements, and policies that set the conditions for continuous growth. When fully implemented, SSD and GSD will improve Army readiness by integrating self-development into a lifelong learning approach. Lifelong learning is important to the entire Army, and for NCOs it is critical to foster an environment of continuous learning, since the challenges that face our NCOs are continuous.
Army Posture Satement for SSD
SSD Catalog

Army Learning Concept (ALC) 2015

TRADOC is championing the Army Learning Concept for 2015. General Dempsey believes that in order to increase rigor, maintain relevancy, and prevail in the competitive learning environment, we have to change. Our current models have not kept pace with the rapid pace of change, the demands of Soldiers rotating in and out of the fight and a continuous influx of Soldiers with significant "digital literacy." We all recognize the challenge and are working to adapt our learning models. We're changing our assumptions to look at the problem differently, because we know we can't afford to come up with the same solutions. Our solutions must consider emerging technologies and how Soldier's employ these technologies in their daily lives. TRADOC is reaching out to experts inside and outside the military to help in this effort.
Army Learning Concept 2015

Noncommissioned Officers Education System

The NCOES provides noncommissioned officers (NCO) with progressive and sequential leader, technical, and tactical training relevant to the duties, responsibilities, and missions they will perform in operational units after graduation. The training and education process for the NCO starts with an initial, branch–immaterial, leadership development course; followed by a basic, branch-specific level; an advanced, branch-specific level; and culminates with a branch- immaterial senior level course.
Army Posture Statement for NCOES
Army posture Statement for NCO Cohort