IWTC Virginia Beach MTS Program Inspires Collaboration and Innovation

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VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES

04.01.2018

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Center for Information Warfare Training

Virginia Beach, Va. -- Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Virginia Beach leverages its master training specialist (MTS) qualified members to increase the effectiveness of courses across the information warfare community.

IWTC Virginia Beach continues to uphold high standards and ensures standardized training for personnel achieving the MTS qualification. David Williams, IWTC Virginia Beach command training specialist, continues to reshape the program, utilizing MTS qualified Sailors to improve courses and increase quality of instruction command wide. Once a Sailor qualifies as a MTS, they also become a MTS mentor and take on the responsibility of guiding MTS candidates through the qualification process, serving as an interdepartmental evaluator, and participating as a voting member on MTS boards. MTS mentors sustain IWTC Virginia Beach’s instructional knowledge and expertise, maintaining the overall health of the program.

Under the new initiative, MTS mentors are aligned to specific IWTC Virginia Beach courses, assisting with course development and maintenance with an overall goal of continuous improvement of course delivery and instruction. Course supervisors work with their MTS mentor teams to develop project milestones and action items to keep progress on track.

Additionally, MTS mentors assist Williams with instructor sustainment training and course supervisor lessons ensuring IWTC Virginia Beach instructors have the most current tools available to deliver world-class training and maintain courses in a dynamic environment. Instructors learn a multitude of lessons to include: standardization of course documents; instructor development plans; and internal course reviews, maximizing IWTC Virginia Beach’s ability to cross-utilize instructors gaining new and fresh expertise.

"The master training specialist designation provides recognition for outstanding individual effort and fosters greater command training professionalism," said Cmdr. Andrew Boyden, commanding officer for IWTC Virginia Beach. "MTS-qualified instructors not only demonstrate highly effective teaching skills and a comprehensive understanding of curriculum management, but also take a leadership role in mentoring, instructing, and evaluating instructors and curriculum."

MTS mentors constantly foster a learning mindset throughout the command. Most importantly, the instructors can rely on each other for help regardless of which course they instruct. The mentorship program goes beyond the qualification process and gets to the heart of community training, inspiring collaboration and innovation while energizing the MTS program.

IWTC Virginia Beach currently offers 65 courses of instruction in information technology, cryptology, and intelligence with an instructor and support staff of 280 military, civilian, and contract members who train over 6,400 students every year at five training sites in the Hampton Roads area. One of four school houses for Center for Information Warfare Training, it also oversees learning sites at Jacksonville and Mayport, Florida; Kings Bay, Georgia; and Groton, Connecticut to continue aligning IW community training.

IWTC Virginia Beach, as part of the Center for Information Warfare Training, provides a continuum of training to Navy and joint service personnel, preparing them to conduct Information Warfare (IW) across the full spectrum of military operations.

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• Date Taken: 04.01.2018
• Date Posted: 04.01.2018 05:46
• Story ID: 271371
• Location: VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA, US