Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) Campus was designed by a pan-CAF partnership as part of the Individual Training and Education Modernization Initiative launched by the Armed Forces Council in 2010. The Commander of the Canadian Defence Academy leads the initiative under the auspices of the Chief of Military Personnel as the Functional Authority for Individual Training and Education.
The CAF Campus Operational Framework serves as the blueprint for CAF Campus, which is a performance-oriented learning architecture that is agile, integrated and responsive to the contemporary operating environment and CAF institutional requirements. It has been designed to prevent strategic gaps and deficiencies and move the current Individual Training and Education system into the future and ensure that individuals are provided with the competencies required to maintain operational readiness.
Displacing the current stovepiped approach, CAF Campus will enable the strategic synchronization of plans, opportunities and investments to improve Individual Training and Education while reducing the burden on personnel and resources. Innovative approaches that fuse modern methodologies with the latest technology-enabled Individual Training and Education solutions will accelerate learning, improve retention, encourage critical thinking, and enable easy access to realistic Individual Training and Education at the point-of-need.
CAF Campus will modernize the Individual Training and Education system in three domains:
Overall, CAF Campus represents a fundamental shift from the traditional Individual Training and Education paradigm and is the first systemic rationalization of the Individual Training and Education system in the CAF’s history. It will resolve long-standing concerns raised by the leadership, various reviews, the Individual Training and Education community and CAF members.