Complex Contingency Operations

Chika Onaka from the Center for Civil Military Relations
Chika Onaka from the Center for Civil Military Relations (Camber Corporation), instructs a Bangladeshi military officer in the intricacies of humanitarian food distribution in Exercise Shanti Doot 3 in Bangladesh

To be a world leader in the improvement of educational and training programs that strengthens the ability of the USG and the international community to respond to the full range of Complex Contingency Operations and Stability, Security, Transition, Reconstruction (SSTR) Operations.

1. Defense & Security Decision-Making

Civil-Military Relations

  • Policy & Strategy Development
  • Defense Transformation/Restructuring
  • Defense Planning and Execution

Defense Management

  • MOD Organization
  • Roles & Missions of Armed Forces
  • Personnel Management
  • Strategic Communication & Public Affairs
  • Intelligence Agencies & Operations

International Defense Acquisition Resource Management (IDARM)

  • Offers practical concepts and tools nations can use to strengthen
    • National Defense Acquisition
    • Procurement
    • Logistics
    • Project Management Processes and Decision Making Systems

2. Defense Institution Building

Defense Policy & Strategy

Human Resource Development

  • Military Education & Education Enhancement
  • Defense Planning, Budgeting and Resource Management
  • Logistics & Infrastructure
  • Civil-Military Relations and Interagency Coordination


3. Civil-Military Response to Terrorism

Terrorism and Natural Calamities such as the Epidemic of Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

CSI's Training and Educational Programs Highlight

  • Numerous terrorism associated principles and concepts
  • National and regional response strategies
  • Drafting plans and policies for clients to manage the problem of terrorism and other natural calamities


4. Stability, Security, Transition, Reconstruction

Disaster Management and Mitigation

  • Disaster management training services
  • Improve the readiness of the client to handle emergency situations
  • Educating planners and responders about various norms for managing disaster situations
    • Refugees and displacement of citizens
    • Public health and environmental issues

Includes Natural, Technologic, and Climatological Disasters

Humanitarian Assistance

  • Designed to help first responders to complex humanitarian emergencies perform more effectively in the new dynamic mission area

Preparation for and Conduct of Security, Stability, and Transition Operations

  • Relieving the immediate suffering of a crisis

Prepare Personnel in Dealing with the Long-term Recovery and Redevelopment Issues

Peacekeeping

  • The primary objective of this training is to equip the recipient nation(s) with the essential knowledge and skills required to participate and conduct peacekeeping operations
  • Camber conducts workshops, seminars, courses and exercises for individuals and organizations responsible for peacekeeping operations
  • Training and consulting services to nations desiring to establish their own national or regional training centers for peacekeeping operations

5. Educational Support to Operational Cdrs

Exercise Development & Support

Leader Development for Education for Sustained Peace (LDESP)

 

6. Publication & Research

Curriculum Development

Text Books

Studies & Analysis