Executive Summary

This RCAF Training Modernization Strategy (TM Strategy) describes a coordinated approach to the development and support of a future technologically enabled, integrated Air Force training system, referred to as the "FAFTS." Throughout this document, links will be made to the RCAF Strategy's strategic objectives and related RCAF Campaign Plan lines of operation that clearly demonstrate how the TM Strategy supports the greater RCAF vision.

Instability in the global defence and security environment is increasing due to the actions of both state and non-state actors around the world; an agile training system is needed for this environment. The FAFTS will consist of individual training and education, operational training and collective training. This training continuum is the foundational system that supports RCAF readiness, force generation and operational excellence. Lessons learned and analytics must feed back into the system to ensure training is improved continuously.

The operating strategy describes how the RCAF will train. As the overarching enabling strategy in this document, it informs the following:

• The technology-enabled learning strategy provides a framework with which new aircraft/asset programmes can assess procurement options for technology-enabled learning (TEL). It is based on four design principles that are enabled by a digitalized learning environment, or Total Learning Architecture: distributed learning, multi-purpose reconfigurable trainers, ubiquitous learning and networked training.
• The training-management strategy centres on organizing the current training model of schoolhouses into an RCAF Campus construct. Fully aligned with CAF individual training and education modernization, the RCAF Campus construct will provide an efficient training organization that is more closely aligned with modern instructional design and delivery techniques, better enables training management, and permits economies while integrating the legacy schoolhouses into a single system of systems.
• The operational training–infrastructure strategy enables effective and sustainable infrastructure and supports acquisition strategies by laying the path to modernizing and consolidating infrastructure, supported by a robust learning support centre. This concept builds upon the existing designs of Canadian learning institutions to combine training into a single environment.
• The capability development, support and sustainment strategy conceptualizes the entire FAFTS as a distinct capability. Emphasizing good governance and an understanding of stakeholder roles, this enabling strategy outlines the development, support and sustainment of the FAFTS.

Together, these enabling strategies set forth the TM Strategy's vision: an integrated system of training aligned with the force-development, force-generation and force-employment systems that is based on sustainable, scalable and flexible system-design principles as well as rooted in our aviation heritage, ethos and leadership philosophy. Implementation of the TM Strategy will allow the FAFTS to provide the degree of training flexibility and scalability that is necessary for the RCAF to meet readiness requirements and the challenges of a complex and uncertain future global threat environment.