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Signal Center of Excellence Purpose / Agenda PURPOSE: Provide AFCEA-Atlanta an orientation to the Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon.

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AGENDA - Signal Center of Excellence:

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Mission and Vision

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Nested Priorities and Focus Areas

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Task Organization

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Concept of Operations

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Mission Success Rate

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Fort Gordon Task Organization

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Fort Gordon Community Highlights

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Signal Center of Excellence Mission and Vision Mission The United States Army Signal Center of Excellence trains, educates, and develops highly skilled Signal Soldiers and Leaders; and designs, develops and integrates capabilities, concepts, and doctrine in order to build a versatile Signal/Cyber Professional to enable the Army of the 21 st Century. Vision A Center of Excellence that provides ready and relevant doctrine, organizations, LandWarNet capabilities, education, and leaders of character for the Army’s future challenges in support of Unified Land Operations.

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Signal Center of Excellence Nested Priorities and Focus Areas

CSA FOCUS AREAS

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The Nation

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The Joint Fight

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The Profession

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The Army Family

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Leader Development

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Mission Command

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The Squad

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The Human Dimension

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21 st Century Training SIGCoE Focus Areas TRADOC Focus Areas

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Adapt TRADOC

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Leader Development

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Design the Future Force

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Concepts and Doctrine

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Training and Education for the Future

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Army and Joint Training

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Plans and Operations

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Capabilities Development Process and Synch

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Strategic Engagement and Messaging

• Develop, update, approve, and teach 208 courses across 83 distinct sites (AC, RC, MTT) • Digital Master Gunner Course • Future Force Development • Network Service Center – Training (Training & Experimentation) • Support to Brigade Modernization Command - Network Integration Evaluation (BMC NIE) • Connecting Soldiers to Digital Applications (CSDA) • Provide state of the art Training Areas

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Signal Center of Excellence Concept of Operations

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Advanced Individual Training (AIT)

• Training to award MOSs • 30 AIT courses (with phases) with 3213 graduates (01OCT11 – JUL12) •

Officer Training (SC25, 24, 53 and Warrant Officers)

• Develops adaptive leaders • 34 resident & distributive learning (dL) courses with 1984 graduates (FY 12) •

NCO Educational System (NCOES)

• Build Soldier expertise • 21 resident courses with 1547 graduates, Fort Meade with 153 graduates •

Functional Training (SFDB, Joint Operations, S6)

• Training for unique skill sets • 55 total courses •

Other Services

• 7 Distinct ITRO Courses supporting USN, USAF, USMC -

Reserve Training

One Army School System 61 courses (with phases) Enlisted to Officer

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Signal Center of Excellence Success Rate

FY12 • 18,421 students (average load: 3,637 per day)  6,305 USAR and ARNG  456 Airmen, Sailors, and Marines  150 students from 54 countries Network Service Center-Training FY11 – 658 NSC-T Missions FY12 – 619 NSC-T Missions

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Signal Center of Excellence Task Organization

7 Total Number Personnel 22,740 Total Number Dependents 20,273 DCG CSM Commanding General USASigCoE&FG RCWO CFLA QAO RC DOT CoS SIGCoE&FG SGS G-1 G-3 G-4 G-6 G-8

PERSONAL STAFF

SJA IG

Equal Opportunity

PROTOCOL SAFETY CKO STRATCOM RETENTION

ALLIED SVC LNO

NSC BDE 369 442 447 551 73 INTEL RNCOA

TH MI GRP (USA) 480 TH ISR GRP (USAF)

CDID

SENIOR MISSION PARTNERS CO D. (USMC)

G-2 CRD

Experimentation

OCOS TCM - GNE TCM N&S TCM TR

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Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon Task Organization UNCLASSIFIED

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Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon Community Highlights

• Largest employer in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) • Home to 1 of 2 GA National Guard’s Youth Challenge Academy • Created roughly 50,000 jobs in the community • $590M current/programmed construction contracts and purchases • $155M in health care purchased locally • 46,902 military retirees and families live locally •Contributed $384,417 to CFC (2012)

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Signal Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon

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2 nd Brigade Combat Team, 1 st AD, FT Bliss, Texas UNCLASSIFIED

GMR Radio is Out

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NETT-Warrior

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NETT-Warrior Uses Off-the-Shelf Equipment UNCLASSIFIED

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Distraction on the Field of Battle is a Concern UNCLASSIFIED