“NATO approved" certification for the Joint Target Folder (JTF) course

Achieved the 6th NATO certification for the courses of the Joint Air Operations School, the first Defense training reality that meets NATO quality standards.

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Historic day for the Joint Air Operations School and for the total Defense sector, which can boast the 6th course delivered with the highest "NATO Approved" certification and published in the NATO Education and Training Opportunities Catalog (ETOC). This is the Joint Target Folder (JTF) entirely designed and built by the Joint Institute of Guidonia, with the cooperation with the Joint Effects and Targeting Division of the Operational Command of the Joint Forces Summit (COVI).

The course aims to provide future NATO targeteers with the skills to develop and prepare - through specific NATO tools and applications - the information and details necessary for operational commanders to pursue tactical and operational objectives through the assigned forces, after evaluating the elements of criticality, vulnerability and estimates of possible collateral damage, as well as providing assessments on the pursuit of the desired effects and the results achieved.

The JTF, which represents one of the few training opportunities in the field of folder production available within the Atlantic Alliance, has had a long and in-depth evaluation by the competent Department Head of the Allied Command for Transformation (ACT) of Norfolk USA, the command responsible for the formation, doctrine and transformation of the military instrument of NATO, before obtaining the maximum qualification of "NATO Approved", as proof of the innovative and advanced competence by now widely recognized at the Aerocooperation School also in the international arena.
This level of certification is granted by ACT only to those educational and training opportunities that individual countries and/or international organizations make available and that NATO considers capable of bridging the training gaps in those specific sectors, provided by national or coalition training realities already accredited by the Alliance, as reference training centres.