A4 Support and Training

A4 is responsible for the provision of training and support services for Air Force activities. Directly subordinate to A4 are A4 Airfield Engineering, A4 Logistics, A4 Maintenance, A1 Training, A4 Coord, A4 AFSC, CO CCC and CO ATESS.

A4 Airfield Engineering (A4 AE)

• Ensures that airfield engineers are organized, trained and equipped to deploy anywhere in the world.
• Supports the Air Force mission through the provision of Infrastructure and Environmental services.
• Provides advice and responds to the Comd 1 Cdn Air Div/CANR with respect to all airfield engineering related issues, including crash-fire-rescue activities; explosive ordnance disposal; nuclear biological chemical defence; geomatics; AE Reserve Program; infrastructure programs and project delivery; infrastructure development planning; and facilities management.

A4 Logistics (A4Log)

• Coordinates and monitors supply, transportation, EME and food services support to air operations.
• Ensures that logistics capabilities of Wings, Forward Operating Locations, Main Operating Bases and commercial airfields are adequate to support operations.
• Coordinates service support and sustainment to deployed forces through NDHQ/NDMC/NDLCC as required.
• Acts as a focal point for all logistics support issues during the preparation, deployment, employment, and redeployment phases of air, joint, and combined operations.

A4 Maintenance (A4Maint)

• Provides Operational Support Planning and Readiness for each of the core fleets.
• Ensures aircraft technicians are employed and developed in accordance with both personnel and maintenance policy and that unit technicians are capable of producing mission ready aircraft.
• Creates, implements and sustains a formal Quality Program, throughout all aspects of AEM.
• Manages aircraft maintenance support issues common to all aircraft operations and provides specialist technical support.
  

A1 Training (A1 Trg)

• Responsible for the development and coordination of operational level training guidance and the production of directives concerning military occupational and specialty training, professional military education for wings, units and training establishments. Core training activities include establishing training production capacity requirements, the setting and maintaining of quality standards, the validation of training and MOC training management activities; training policy, defining directives and agreements, initiating and co-ordinating training activities and performing monitoring functions.

A4 Coordination (A4 Coord)

• A staff comprised of various support trades, providing A4 with the flexibility to coordinate support activities.
• Liaises with operational staff and coordinates support input to the development of operational plans, policies and estimates.
• Coordinates A4 Level 4 Business Plan activities, Defence Planning Guidance/Commander's Planning Guidance input and A4 budget management procedures.
• Acts as principle Point of Contact for all support requirements dealing with NORAD/CANR operations, including the Forward Operating Locations.
• Coordinates Force Protection issues, in concert with A3 staff.

Mission Support Readiness (Msn Sp Rdns)

• Supports the Air Force mission through the synchronization and monitoring of mission support personnel, equipment and training effort to deliver responsive support to operations at home or abroad.
• Includes logistics, communications information systems and airfield engineering personnel and equipment.
• Provides advice and responds to the Director Msn Sp Coord with respect to all mission support readiness issues.

Contingency Capability Centre(CCC)

• A Direct Reporting Unit located in Trenton, ON, CCC’s role is to contribute to the force generation of ready, confident, and skilled individuals and units capable of conducting expeditionary Air Force operations. The unit mission is to facilitate Air Force deployment readiness through the standardization, evaluation, and validation of Deployment Readiness Training (DRT), and ultimately, the confirmation of operational readiness. CCC is the focal point for Air Force DRT and is responsible for the development and implementation of an achievable, directed, enforced, and standardized program. Air Force operational tempo and increasing mission complexity has emphasized the continuing need for a day-to-day priority focus on DRT and capability to fully support Air Force requirements at home and abroad. CCC’s important mandate involves addressing a myriad of operational support requirements and challenges with the goal of assisting Wing Commanders in their critical force generation role.

Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron (ATESS)

• · Although not in the 1 Cdn Air Div/CANR HQ structure, ATESS in Trenton, ON, is a direct reporting unit through A4.
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