Professionalizing the Force: Certification and Competency in the U.S. Army
Abstract
The American people trust the Army to achieve the Nation s goals and they afford the Army a great deal of professional autonomy to determine what right looks like. The Army will maintain such autonomy only as long as it remains effective in its service to the client. Professional certification of the ability of Army professionals and their units to fulfill responsibilities and perform assigned duties is the best method to maintain and demonstrate service effectiveness. Current Army certification processes and frameworks, however, are not sufficient to reverse worrisome trends, meet future challenges, or sustain the desired professional culture and meritocracy of the Army Profession. Army wide proliferation of the tenets from several Army Aviation and Field Artillery certification programs could help the Army achieve its desired professional endstate. A new competency assessment framework, proposed within, can institutionalize the certification tenets and behaviors necessary to professionalize competency throughout the Total Army.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA589445
Entities
People
- Paul A. Mele
Organizations
- United States Army War College