Cast Study: Mission Command Assessment Team

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Michael Cuthbert MNGT 5590 Organizational Behavior Dr. George Hogan February 26, 2013 Case Study: Mission Command Assessment Team The Mission Command Assistance Team (MCAT) mission is to increase the training and readiness of FORSCOM units through assessing their mission command systems (MCS) networks and information systems (NIS) training and readiness, as well as assisting commander in training and mentoring their G6/S6 staffs and embedded Land War Net Forces. The MCAT mission enables commanders to certify proficiency in the set-up and operation of their mission command networks and information systems through focused training and readiness assessments and a comprehensive training and validation support plan. The specific systems that the MCAT focus on are G-6/S-6 Staff & Signal Processes, Network Operations, Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T), Combat Net Radio (CNR), Spectrum Management, Information assurance Program, COMSEC Program, and the following applications (Battle Command Common Services (BCCS) & Battle Command Server (BCS), Command Post of the Future (CPOF), Help Desk operations, SharePoint, and Battle Command Sustainment Support System (BCS3)). The MCAT organization came into existence a little over two years ago because there was a need to help better prepare Brigade S-6 sections to deploy their Mission Command Systems. Brigade S-6 was going to Combat Training Centers (CTC) and failing badly when it came to deploying their systems. There are several issues seriously having a negative effect on the MCAT organization. The two I will discuss in this case study is managerial challenges and personality conflicts. When management started hiring individuals to do the job as trainers and mentors, they did not write a detail job description. The job description mainly look for individuals with Information

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