Purpose: To train selected Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) to perform duties as Detachment Sergeants or comparable positions at Skill Level 4. The graduate will be able to teach, evaluate, counsel junior leaders, conduct training, and to lead within the Career Management Field. Soldiers will participate in a field training exercise.
Phase Scope: This course is designed to train SFCs and selected promotable SSGs in leadership skills, NCO duties, responsibilities and authority, and on how to conduct performance-oriented training. The two major areas of instruction consist of Combat Survivability and Technical Training designed to prepare Senior NCOs to support operations in the Operational Environment. This course produces battle competent NCOs who are qualified detachment sergeants; evaluators; counselors; conductors or participants in individual and collective training; and teachers of leader skills, knowledge, and attitudes. Cadre personnel assess the students’ leadership potential and evaluate their ability to apply lessons learned to effectively lead their classmates in a tactical environment. SLC provides an opportunity for education, to learn warfighting skills, and to gain experience.
Module A: NCO Common Core Competencies
Give Feedback, Coach, and Mentor
Analyze a Leadership Case Study
Active and Reserve Component Capabilities
Mission Command Warfighting Function
Inform and Influence Audiences
The Rapid Decision and Synchronization Process (RDSP)
Planning and Mission Rehearsals
The Basic Principles of Negotiations
Physical Fitness Program for a Platoon
The Army Maintenance Program at the Platoon/Section Level
Module B: FC Operational Budget
Communicate the Role of the S8/G8
Define the Program Budget Advisory Committee (PBAC)
Identify the Principles of Fiscal Law
Identify Unique Funding Sources
Complete Command Budget Estimate (CBE) and Phase Plan
Identify Common Funding Execution Methods
Determine the GCSS-Army Process Flow
Identify Operational Contract Support
Identify Government Travel Charge Card Procedures
Identify Government Purchase Card (GPC) Procedures
Apply the Funding Economy Act for Goods or Services
Identify Resource Management End-of-Year Close Procedures
Communicate General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) Functions
Process a Cost Transfer in GFEBS
Process a Government Purchase Card (GPC) Transaction
Process Miscellaneous Pay not Subject to PPA
Analyze GFEBS Reporting Process
Module B1: PPBE Week 1
Identify the Cost Analysis Process
Conduct Activity Based Costing (ABC)
Identify Financial Roles of the Department of Defense (DOD)
Identify Military Construction Appropriations (MCA)
Identify Reserve Component (RC) Appropriations
Identify Single Stock Fund (SSF)
Identify the PPBE Process within the DOD
Identify the Research, Develop, and Acquisition (RDA) System
Identify the Working Capital Fund (WCF)
Module B2: PPBE Week 2
Apply Administrative Control of Funds Procedures
Communicate Key Concepts of the Review and Analysis (R&A) Program
Identify Key Elements of Auditing in the Federal Government
Identify the Army’s Manpower Management Process
Identify the Commercial Activities Program
Identify the Principles of Fiscal Law
Identify the Principles of the Management Internal Control Plan (MICP)
Manage Obligation Management Procedures
Prepare an Activity Level Budget
Module C: Disbursing
Prepare Disbursing Statements of Accountability
Perform Deputy Disbursing Officer Functions
Manage a Limited Depository Account (LDA)