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Structuring on the best of existing state standards, the Common Core State Standards provide a clear and reliable learning goal to help prepare students for college, career, and life. The standards clearly demonstrate what students are expected to learn at each grade level, so that every parent and teacher can understand and support their learning. From Kindergarten through 8th grade, grade-by-grade standards exist in English language arts/literacy and mathematics. From 9th through 12th grade, the

Integrated Studies in Procurement and Acquisitions PROC 6000 Professor Bayless December 14, 2016 Improving the Medical Command’s Acquisition Workforce Abstract The Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) makes up 2% of the Army Acquisition Workforce of more than 37,000 acquisition professionals (Craig A. Spisak, 2016). The Army Medical Command has five acquisition career fields (ACF) that make up its workforce of acquisition professionals; program management, contracting, science and technology managers,

the Army is an organization that closely manages every penny spent to avoid what it considers wasteful spending on inefficient practices. Across the board, within the scope of Army activities exist many practices that are wasteful and take money from other areas of necessity. Medical treatment by way of medical appointments is one such process that has had to undergo a shift in practice as medical appointment failures have risen during intense budget constraints. As an Army major command (MACOM)

the Army is an organization that closely manages every penny spent to avoid what it considers wasteful spending on inefficient practices. Across the board, within the scope of Army activities exist many practices that are wasteful and take money from other areas of necessity. Medical treatment by way of medical appointments is one such process that has had to undergo a shift in practice as medical appointment failures have risen during intense budget constraints. As an Army major command (MACOM)

without regard to race, color, gender, religion, or national origin, and provide an environment free of unlawful discrimination and offensive behavior.” The mission of the equal opportunity is pretty clear to myself. The program protects everyone in the army no matter what race, sex, religious preference, etc. from discrimination from anyone. The equal opporunity program is considered a commanders program. They should be able to point out discrimination against a soldier and do

Identify and Explain the Purpose and Actions of any Four Phases of the Army Organizational Life Cycle Model The Army’s Organizational Life Cycle Model contains eight phases (U.S. Army War College, 2015-2016). This paper identifies and explains four of those phases, acquisition, training, distribution, and deployment. The process the U.S. Army utilizes to fill the units they design with personnel to fight and win the nation's wars, equipment to own the air and the night, money to put fuel into

Unquestionably, there is a problem in the US Army with drafting and implementing strong tobacco policies at the local level. Currently, US Army installations draft polices that do not comply with federal law and Department of Defense (DoD) regulations. There is a lack of consistency and enforcement in tobacco policies across commands (Jahnke et al., 2011). The Department of Defense has an opportunity to standardize a strong tobacco free policy that can be implemented at the local level to combat

The integration and management of enterprise services is complex and accomplished only through constant and evolving attention. US Army Functional Area 53A, Information System Management, trains staff officers to, “…integrate diverse forms of enterprise services…that must operate seamlessly in support of the Army and JIIM operations worldwide” (Fort Gordon Knowledge Management Office, 2012). One system encountered by 53As is the consumer of enterprise level technological services: the end user

For Army counterintelligence to be adequately effective against its adversaries, US Army Intelligence and Security Command should release control of Army counterintelligence elements. Once released, all counterintelligence agents should be reconstituted into a new Counterintelligence Corps. Looking to the past and the Counterintelligence Corps during World War II and the Korean War, the Army could recreate the most functional form of Counterintelligence it has ever had. Currently agents are assigned

intent of this work is to review and analyze the literature available in the field of virtual environments (VE) and education. In particular, the author will look at VE in the military education of seniors noncommissioned officers (NCO) at the United States Army Sergeants Major Academy (USASMA). This review investigates what are the developments in VE with emphasis in military education, what cost benefits (in any) VE provide, the professional development of facilitators who use VE in their educational