Joint Munitions Command Hosts Ammunition Management Career Program Planning Board

By Linda Loebach (JMC)July 31, 2014

Joint Munitions Command Hosts Ammunition Management Career Program Planning Board
1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption – Shelley Linehan, Ammunition Management Career Program Manager, Department of the Army, leads a discussion with the Ammunition Management Career Program Planning Board, during a July 30 meeting at Joint Munitions Command headquarters at Rock Island Ar... (Photo Credit: U.S. Army) VIEW ORIGINAL
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ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, Ill.--The Joint Munitions Command hosted a meeting, July 30, here, for Career Plan-33 organization and activity career program managers to better assist their ammunition management workforce.

Career program managers representing six commands from across the U.S. and Korea attended.

The Ammunition Management Career Planning Board saw a need to accurately identify competencies that apply to personnel performing ammunition management and logistics duties.

At the meeting, the CPMs discussed ways to facilitate the identification and the prioritization of training and development needed to close workforce competency gaps that are critical for mission success and readiness.

The need arises from the fact that 46 percent of careerists in the ammunition management career field, in U. S. government general schedule positions, will be eligible for retirement by 2019. Army intern programs are one resource to fill the gap. In addition, there will be opportunities for wage schedule careerists who are interested in switching to a general schedule position. But these careerists will need additional training to get there.

Patricia Huber, JMC's deputy to the commander, and the Functional Chief Representative for the CP-33 program, asked the CPMs, "How do we achieve this training and how do we address the non-technical skills this workforce needs?"

The CPMs responded quickly with suggestions to incorporate options such as: the current CP-33 Army Civilian Training Education Development System intern program; the Civilian Education System; continued education, and a proposed certification program.

"It is incumbent upon us to pass along any information shared here to our workforce," said Susan Carlson, Chief of Munitions Division, Department of the Army, Logistics. "So they understand this is how the training is going to be from here on."

"We need to think forward and think strategically," said Robin Jett, Career Program Specialist, from the Ammunition Management Career Program office. "This board is the perfect body to impact the CP-33 program."

From its headquarters at the Rock Island Arsenal, JMC operates a nationwide network of conventional ammunition manufacturing plants and storage depots, and provides on-site ammunition experts to U.S. combat units wherever they are stationed or deployed. JMC's customers are U.S. forces of all military services, other U.S. government agencies and allied nations.