National Security: An Inventory of Professional Development Activities Intended to Improve Interagency Collaboration and Selected Characteristics (GAO-11-109SP, November 2010)
	An E-supplement to GAO-11-108
	Activity Type: Joint Professional Military Education Programs
	A list of abbreviations is provided at the bottom of the page.
	Activity Name	Providing Agency	Activity Description	Target Audience	2009 Approximate Participation
	Army War College: Master of Strategic Studies	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program that prepares students for strategic leadership in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational environment with core courses, a strategic decision-making exercise, a national security seminar, and other academic work.	Senior-level officers (O-5 - O-6) and civilian interagency and international equivalents	340
	Naval War College, College of Naval Warfare: Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program that produces broadly educated, strategic leaders skilled in critical thinking, strategic analysis, planning, and warfighting in maritime, multiservice, multiagency, and multinational environments.	Senior-level officers (O-5 - O-6) and civilian interagency and international equivalents	260
	Naval War College, College of Naval Command and Staff: Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program intended to produce critically thinking, operational-level leaders who are skilled in Navy and joint planning and are able to apply operational art to maritime, multi-service, multi-agency, and multinational warfighting.	Mid-level officers (O-4) and civilian interagency and international equivalents	320
	Air University, Air War College: Master of Strategic Studies	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program that prepares students to lead in a joint environment at the strategic level across the range of military operations with a focus on the mastery of joint air, space, and cyberspace power and how such power contributes to national security.	Senior-level officers (O-5 - O-6) and civilian interagency and international equivalents	240
	Air University, Air Command and Staff College: Master of Military Operational Art and Science	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program that prepares participants to develop, employ, and command air, space, and cyberspace power in joint, multinational, and interagency operations.	Mid-level officers (O-4) and civilian interagency and international equivalents	510
	Marine Corps War College: Master of Strategic Studies	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program that prepares its students for decision-making across the range of military operations in a joint, interagency, and multinational environment, through the study of national military strategy and theater strategy and plans, within the context of national security policies, decision making, objectives, and resources.	Senior-level officers (O-5 - O-6) and civilian interagency and international equivalents	30
	NDU, National War College: Master of Science in National Security Strategy	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program that provides a grounding in national security strategy and policy and military strategy and operations. Through seminars, lectures, and exercises, the program emphasizes the domestic and international contexts in which national security policy is developed, national security organizations and decision-making processes, and the formulation and implementation of military strategy.	Senior-level officers (O-5 - O-6), civilian  equivalents (GS-14 - GS-15), and international equivalents	220
	NDU, Industrial College of the Armed Forces: Master of Science in National Resource Strategy	DOD	A 10 month, full-time, in-person program that prepares selected military and civilian participants for strategic leadership and success in developing our national security strategy and in evaluating, marshalling, and managing resources in the execution of that strategy.	Senior- to executive-level officers (O-5 and above), USG civilians (GS-14 and above), and international and private industry equivalents	320
	NDU, Joint Forces Staff College: Joint Advanced Warfighting School Master of Science in Joint Campaign Planning and Strategy	DOD	An 11.5-month, full-time, in-person program that develops expert operational and strategic planners, with coursework and research on history and theory of war, national security, military strategy, operational art and campaigning, adaptive planning, and decision making.	Senior to executive-level officers (O-5 - O-6), civilian interagency and international equivalents	40
	NDU, Joint Forces Staff College: Joint and Combined Warfighting School	DOD	A 10-week, full-time, in-person course that develops effective operational-level warfighting planners for joint and combined forces, focusing on national security strategy; joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational capabilities; military theater strategy and campaigning; and joint military planning process and systems.	Senior-level officers (O-4 and above) and civilian interagency equivalents preparing to take a joint duty or similar assignment	1010
	NDU: Capstone	DOD	A 6-week, in-person course consisting of seminars, case studies, informal discussions, visits to key domestic U.S. military commands, and overseas field studies involving interactions with combatant commanders, American ambassadors, embassy staffs, and senior political and military leaders of foreign governments.	Generals and flag officers, interagency civilian SES members, and other executive-level civilian equivalents	200
	Marine Corps Command and Staff College: Master of Military Studies	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program intended to produce critically thinking, operational-level leaders who are skilled in Marine and joint planning and are able to apply operational art to maritime, multiservice, multiagency, and multinational warfighting.	Mid-level officers (O-4) and civilian interagency and international equivalents	200
	Army Command and General Staff College	DOD	A 10-month, full-time, in-person program that prepares selected military and civilian participants to be critical thinking, operational-level leaders, skilled in Army and Joint planning, and able to apply operational skills to maritime, multiservice, multiagency, and multinational war fighting.	Senior-level officers (O-4 and above) and civilian interagency equivalents	1430
		Abbreviations
		DHS: Department of Homeland Security
		DOD: Department of Defense
		DOE: Department of Energy
		FEMA: Federal Emergency Management Agency
		FS: Foreign Service (pay schedule)
		GS: General Schedule
		JPME: Joint Professional Military Education
		NGO: Nongovernmental organization
		NDU: National Defense University
		NNSA: National Nuclear Security Administration
		O: Officer-level (pay schedule)
		ROTC: Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
		SES: Senior Executive Service
		State: Department of State
		Treasury: Department of Treasury
		USAID: United States Agency for International Development
		USDA: United States Department of Agriculture
		USG: United States Government