The Joint Planning Support Element's (JPSE) Joint Planners Course (JPC) is an "in-house" course designed to ensure JPSE personnel have a common baseline of joint planning knowledge as they transition into their joint operational billets and conduct follow-on individual and collective training. The course is required training for all new JPSE personnel and is the foundational training requirement for personnel employ-ability.

JPSE personnel are trained as members of a joint planning group to apply operational art, operational design, and the joint planning process (JPP) in order to create a joint task force level operations order (OPORD) with Annex A.

JPC provides training grounded in current joint doctrine. The curriculum is organized around the seven steps of the JPP and operational design. It also provides an overview of JTF organization, an understanding of how strategic guidance shapes JTF planning, Commander's Communication Synchronization, and an appreciation of incorporating all elements of national power.

The course emphasizes working within a Joint Planning Group, interagency and multinational coordination, writing orders, and briefing senior leaders. The emphasis on these topics requires participants to break from their tactical level experiences and be inclusive of the non-DoW contributions to mission accomplishment.

JPC is offered quarterly and consists of 10 training days (8:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.) spanning a two-week period. The first five days focus on conceptual planning: operational design methodology and JPP steps 1 & 2. The second week focuses on detailed planning: incorporating conceptual products into JPP steps 3-7. At the end of the course, students are required to provide a complete OPORD with Annex A and provide a course of action decision brief to a senior JPSE leader. 

Although JPC is primarily designed as an internal training course for JPSE personnel, students from other commands and interagency partners are welcome to attend on a "space-available" basis via a standby list. As it gets closer to the execution of each course, we give any remaining seats not filled by JPSE personnel to people on the standby list (we contact "standbys" four to five weeks out). There is no cost to attend JPC as a guest; however, your parent command is responsible for any associated travel, per diem and lodging costs. All classroom materials are provided by JPSE.

Please register through the Joint Event Management Information System (JEMIS)

NOTE:  Non-JECC personnel should only register via the “JPSE Joint Planners Course (JPC): Standby Roster (NON-JECC personnel)” event in JEMIS. Registering for the JPC standby roster in JEMIS DOES NOT guarantee a student seat, only consideration for placement if space is available. Applicants must have a current SECRET security clearance to attend the JPC.

1. Select “Register for an Event”
2. Select a common access card (CAC) logon option that applies to you
3. Select “Click Here for Training Courses”
4. Scroll to the bottom of the page
5. Select the radio button on the left of the event you wish to register
6. After reading any special instructions, scroll down to complete registration fields and then select “Register”

Additional questions should be directed to: