Civilian leader development overhauled.(army transformation )(Brief article)

As a part of its overall transformation, the Army is changing civilian leader development by speeding up implementation of the Civilian Education System (CES). The transformation is driven in part by the Army's growing reliance on civilians in an environment in which uniformed leaders are increasingly focused on warfighting missions.

CES is a series of four centralized, progressive, and sequential courses: foundation, basic, intermediate, and advanced. The foundation course is designed for civilians entering the Army and will be taught entirely by distributed learning. The basic course is geared toward civilians who exercise direct leadership. The intermediate course …