The Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability has the responsibility to integrate the various individual training services with other knowledge, education, and training services. This integration enables Joint training to be managed as a continuum by allowing different content sources to be used by trainers to reinforce and amplify each other. There are two semantic loci around which the Joint content can be organized - the individual warfighter and the tasks the warfighter carries out within the battlespace. Each locus supports a star-topology information network. Around the individual warfighter, we organize characterizing information such as, "What is my job?" "What are my roles and responsibilities within my unit?" "Where am I in my career?" "What is my experience?" Around the tasks, we organize information such as, "What training is available for this task?" "Who is supposed to carry it out?" "What is the corporate knowledge about this task?"

JKDDC has characterized this learning in three areas - on the job experience, collective training, and individual training - to merge the information networks. The resulting structure supports the integration of the different knowledge services to develop individual training solutions for the warfighter. Additionally, this network allows crosswalking requirements against capabilities. Examples of the types of integration that are supported by the information network are:

• When a new lesson learned is published, we can identify which personnel have been recently trained in that area and forward it to them.

• If a commander has to cross-fill a Joint billet, he can identify who are the best trained people for that billet within his organization.

• When a warfighter receives new orders to a Joint billet, they can determine what training they need and from where it is provided.

• Exercise planners can select prerequisite or post-exercise mitigation training options from a list targeted to the training objective of concern.