The Core HQ is made up of the following areas:

• Corporate Business
• Training Plans
• Training Management
• Generic Education and Training Centre

Corporate Business

Corporate Business is responsible for:

• Co-ordination of No 22 (Trg) Gp business, including assimilation of briefing material, cross briefings, IiP, Communications Strategy and Information Management.
• Strategy and advice to No 22 (Trg) Gp members and the No 22 (Trg) Gp Command Board on No 22 (Trg) Gp Continuous Improvement.
• Formulation and implementation of the No 22 (Trg) Gp Business Continuity Plan.
• Development of No 22 (Trg) Gp Estate Strategy.
• Future Strategy for the Air Cadet Organisation.
• International Defence Training (IDT) – Training in support of Defence Diplomacy and marketing and selling spare RAF training capacity to UK and overseas customers.
• Providing a graphics design, multimedia, photography and video service to No 22 (Trg) Gp and the wider RAF.
• Providing a modern photocopying and printing service to Air Command at RAF High Wycombe.

Training Plans

Training Plans are responsible for developing and implementing RAF formal individual training/education policy and strategy. The main areas of responsibility are:

• Training Policy.
• Accreditation.
• Audit & Evaluation.
• Training Requirements & Pipeline Management.
• Command and control of the Training Analysis Centre located at RAF Halton.

For further information please see the RAF Learning Forces website

Training Management

The responsibilities of Training Management include the implementation of new, or revised, training i.e. training that is not formal trade or branch training. Such training can be individual or collective. DACOS TM has Command and Control responsibility for the School of PT at Cosford and for the Force Development Training Centres at Grantown-on Spey, Fairbourne, Crickhowell and the Joint Services Adventurous Training Unit at Llanrwst. The Defence Survival Evasion Resistance and Extraction Training Organisation with units based at HMS Sultan, RAF St Mawgan and Chicksands is also under DACOS TM command.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Conducting Staff Advisory Visits in respect of PEd and TD activity on all RAF stations and units (including OCUs).
• Management and development of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Extraction (SERE) Training.
• Provision of Force Development Training capacity for all phases of training.
• Management of Adventurous Training.
• RAF Fitness Training Policy.
• Determining and staging Continued Professional Development (CPD) programmes for Admin (Trg) officers, PEdOs, and PTIs, as well as overseeing PEd and PTI selection and formal training.

Generic Education and Training Centre

The increasingly complex and dynamic environment facing the UK today and in the future necessitates greater investment in education and skills development of RAF personnel. Having studied the requirements in detail, the Generic and Education and Training Centre GETC are now responsible for managing the introduction of improvements to generic development. The term generic relates to all the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are common to personnel at each rank, irrespective of their particular specialisation.

The GETC was formed on 1 Oct 07 through amalgamation of the RAF Leadership Centre, Air Warfare Training Management Team, Force Development (FD) Support Group and the 22 (Trg) Gp Generic Training staffs.

The GETC are responsible for the introduction of the RAF pattern of Professional Military Development (PMD)(Air) for office and airmen to ensure sufficient formal learning opportunities are embedded into routine activity and career development courses. Making maximum use of blended learning techniques to support short timely and regular mandatory educational uplifts.

• Utilising residential courses, on-unit face to face (and FD) activities, tutor supported distance learning and e-learning
• Introduction of a warrent officer development programme
• Reprofiling the junior officer command and staff training course
• Re-profiling and extending senior officer command staff training course.

The GETC are responsible for the introduction of effective communications training for all personnel. The creation of the Generic Education and Training Requirement (GETR) that identifies the breath, depth and timind of the necessary learning event and indicates the associated methods of delivery.

Visit the websites for more information on the GETC, GETR and PMD(A) Online

RAF Leadership Centre

The RAF Leadership Centre (at RAF Cranwell) intends to improve leadership throughout the RAF ensuring that the delivery of Air Power is done more efficiently and effectively. It formulates leadership policy and strategy and conducts research into leadership issues. Using through life learning and existing and emerging training courses such as the Airmen's Command Squadron and intermediate level Command and Staff training allied to work-based interventions with Force Development Squadron activity.

The Centre:

• Provides practical support to training agencies and RAF personnel.
• Sponsors education in leadership through its Masters Programme and other courses.
• Projects and pursues contacts with other organisations to search for leadership improvements to capture best practice.
• Administers the RAF Mentoring Scheme open to all RAF personnel.

Unleashing the power of one's subordinates to meet the challenges and changes that face every area of the RAF is the core of good military leadership. The method that should be used is Mission Command. Therefore, the Centre's main effort is to ensure that every member of the RAF understands the tenets of Mission Command.

Generic Education and Training Requirement

The Generic Education and Training Requirement (GETR) is a framework containing the non-specialist education and training requirements of the common skills and knowledge necessary for the preparation of our personnel for the frontline. This critical register will be the management tool used by the non-specialist training organisations to sharpen their focus of delivery across the spectrum of ranks from AC to Wg Cdr.

The GETR role:

• Provide clear direction on the timing and depth of non-specialist education and training requirements for individuals by rank and length of Service through career life.
• Maintain and update the GETR in conjunction with RAF Leadership Centre, Air Power/Air Warfare and Force Development sponsors.
• Translate DGT&E policy affecting RAF generic development.
• Ensure GETR outputs are DSAT compliant and Equality proof.
• Allocate optimum delivery methods and media for generic training and education.
• Link GETR entries to National Occupational Standards, other governmental competency standards and accreditation opportunities where possible.
• Contribute to generic through life training and education policy staffing activity.

The GETR is one of the tools with which the RAF non-specialist, generic training and education organisations will be able to address the 'warfighter first' ethos and continuously maintain a flexible, adaptive and agile response to the needs of the frontline.

Air Power/Air Warfare

The role of the Air Warfare Training Management Team (AWTMT), at RAF Cranwell is to develop Air-Minded personnel to effectively operate in, and contribute to, the joint and coalition expeditionary environment. It was set up to manage the through-life development of air power knowledge which also helps to promote the 'warfighter first' philosophy for all RAF personnel. A key driver is one of CAS’s strategic priorities:

'Improve our people’s ability to clearly articulate the contribution that air power – and the RAF – makes to UK Defence'

Key points:

• A coherent through-life learning programme in air power knowledge and air warfare skills is being introduced for officers up to Wg Cdr rank.
• A 2-week Basic Air Warfare Course (BAWC) has been incorporated into the new Initial Officer Training Course (IOTC).
• Air power uplifts during Phase 2, specialist training, and intermediate level Command and Staff Training are being co-ordinated within the AWT Programme.
• A 4-week Higher Air Warfare Course (HAWC) is now mandatory for officers promoted to Wg Cdr.
• The AWT Programme includes air power education and training conducted as part of Force Development activity.
• A coherent through-life learning programme in air power knowledge and air warfare skills to be introduced for SNCOs and other ranks.

The AWTMT is responsible for a series of innovative blended learning (or e-learning) Air Power Study Packs (APSPs) that will provide core learning material for the majority of RAF personnel. These will be available via the Defence Learning Portal (DLP), or exceptionally, via standalone CD. Designed to be studied progressively with an online assessment at the end of each study pack, the APSPs are summarised as follows:

• APSP1 – ‘The Development of Air Power’. APSP1 is historical in nature outlining the development of air power alongside the evolution of the RAF. Based on the lectures delivered on the early Operational Studies (OS) syllabus during Initial Officer Training (IOT), it centres on a timeline approach which progressively introduces air power concepts through consideration of the RAF contribution to operations since its formation.
• APSP2 – ‘Air Power Fundamentals’. APSP2 introduces some of the key aspects of UK defence policy whilst also considering what makes air power unique. At a very high level, it also considers joint and coalition operations and introduces the RAF air power contribution to the Core Air and Space Roles (CASPRs). Source material is drawn from the later OS lectures and is introduced through a very simple conflict scenario.
• APSP3 – ‘The Application of Air Power’. APSP3 will reinforce the concepts introduced in APSP2, specifically the CASPRs, where topics such as Rapid Global Mobility (RGM) are considered in detail. Further aspects of operating in a joint and multinational environment will be explored, together with the introduction of some of the more specialist topics such as the Estimate Process, Space and the impact of UAVs. Drawing on the lectures delivered to IOT students on the BAWC, completion of APSP3 will provide a good base level understanding of air power and air warfare.

Providing air power in support of UK Defence Policy is the business of everyone in the RAF regardless of rank, branch, or specialisation. Within the TLTE HQ, the main effort of the AWTMT is to promote operational effectiveness through the enhanced understanding of air power and air warfare issues by all RAF personnel.

Force Development Support Group

The Force Development Support Group (FDSG) is formed under OC RAF Leadership Centre at RAF Cranwell. The aim of the Group is to provide a single point-of-focus for Force Development Squadrons (FDS), FD Training Squadrons and FD Training Centres in all matters relating to FD.

The role:

• Interpret for FD use the policy determined by FD Domain Sponsors (DS).
• Coordinate the FD work of the DS, exploit synergy between them and obtain and interpret FD-relevant operational feedback.
• Provide a consultative service to FD deliverers and give guidance on FD programme content.
• Provide external validation of FD trg.
• Develop and maintain a process for recording and tracking FD-acquired competencies.
• Ensure trg is provided for non-RAF TLB areas.
• Develop a process that will create and maintain a formally-recognised FD Trg Instructor cadre.

The FDSG intends to provide some form of FD trg to the cadet organisations, the University Air Squadrons (UASs) and the Reserves.

The FDSG is responsible for Leaflets 2410 and 2415 (The Conduct of FD Activities on Stns, and the Purpose and Organisation of Staff Rides respectively), the approval of staff rides funding and the FD Activity budget.