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Vision
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VTANG IO - The source of choice for Information Operations education and training
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Mission
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Provide Information Operations education and training for the Total Force, employing Advanced Distributed Learning and professional instructors, to enhance the warfighters' capability.
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History Vermont Air National Guard Information Operations
The Vermont Air National Guard (VTANG) Information
Operations (IO) initiative evolved following the 1998 birth of the
Vermont Army National Guard (VTARNG) IO training effort. Based on some
very early and keen Vermont leadership insight and performance,
regarding the IO training, the Director of the Army National Guard
(ARNG), Major General Schultz, designated the VTARNG as the IO
Training Center of Excellence for the entire Army National Guard.
Norwich University, the nation’s oldest private military
college, played an early and pivotal role, as well, when the Vermont
National Guard (VTNG) turned to them based on the university’s
decades-long experience in distance learning. In
2001, the VTANG and the 39th Information Operations Squadron (39 IOS)
partnered to produce and deliver the first online IO course for the
Air Force Information Warfare Center (AFIWC); subordinate to the Air
Intelligence Agency (AIA) and Air Combat Command (ACC). Norwich
University’s experience and resources were levied to produce a
superb product that has become the pre-requisite to the Air
Force’s Information Operations Integrated Course (IOIC) resident
training at Hurlburt Field, Florida. This course qualifies Air Force
personnel to operationalize IO tactics, techniques and procedures at
the Air Operation Centers (AOC) around the world for the combatant
commanders. Of particular interest, was the
innovative use of some new technology called “the web” to
delivery courseware to students anywhere in the world via the
internet. With the use of a learning management system, or LMS, which
is specifically designed and programmed to deliver courseware via the
web, the new initiative quickly became recognized as a very effective,
efficient and fun way to learn. The retention rate of students is high
and directly related to the quality of design and presentation of the
courseware, and the interactivity between students and
instructors. The VTNG continues to produce such products.
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