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    <font SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff"><p>**************************************************************************************</p>
    <b><p>The Advanced Management Program (AMP), 7 September - 10 December 1999</b>, is open
    for nominations. The ITM/CP-34 Proponency Office provides TDY funds on a competitive basis
    to CP-34 civilian applicants who are accepted into this program. The AMP, based at the
    Information Resources Management College (IRMC), National Defense University (NDU), offers
    graduate-level IRM courses in an academic context for exploring and understanding
    management requirements and issues associated with new ITM policies and imperatives, such
    as the Clinger-Cohen Act (CIO), Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA), and the
    Federal Acquisition Reform Act (FARA). During the fourteen weeks of the program, g</font><font
    FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">raduates will form managerial partnerships
    to effectively justify, allocate, and apply information resources to mission requirements
    in compliance with regulatory, policy, and ethical standards</font><font
    FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000ff">. </font><font FACE="Times New Roman"
    SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">Beginning September 1999, AMP students will also be able to fully
    qualify for the award of the CIO Certificate. All courses are held at Ft McNair,
    Washington, DC. </font><font SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">The AMP filing deadline to the
    ITM/CP-34 Proponency Office is <b>28 July 1999.</p>
    </b><p>You are encouraged to look within the CP-34 community to reach civilians at the
    GS/GM-13-15 level who demonstrate high potential for senior IRM and CIO leadership roles
    in the Army. </font><font FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">GS-12 applicants
    may be considered under special circumstances with an approved waiver. A minimum of
    bachelor's degree is required for all applicants. Please </font><font SIZE="3"
    COLOR="#0000ff">consider the AMP as a valuable investment in the Army's civilian
    leadership and give widest distribution to this notice. </p>
    <p>The attached announcement provides detailed information about AMP, its goals, and
    application documentation requirements. The AMP filing deadline to the ITM/CP-34
    Proponency Office is <b>28 July 1999 </b>for the semester starting 7 September 1999 and
    ending on 10 December 1999. Application packages should be forwarded to HQDA, ODISC4,
    ITM/CP-34 Proponency Office, ATTN: SAIS-IMP, Rm. 1C710B, 107 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC
    20310-0107. For more information on the AMP, please contact Mr. </font><font FACE="Arial"
    SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000ff">Jim Oliver at (703) 695-9304, DSN 225-9304, or e-mail (<b>olivejs@hqda.army.mil)</b>.<b>
    </b></p>
    </font><font SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff"><p>The Spring AMP starts 3 January 2000 and ends 7
    April 2000. CP-34 applications for the Spring AMP are due to the ITM/CP-34 Proponency
    Office by 4 October 1999. </p>
    </font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000ff"><b><p>Jackie Rustigian</p>
    <p>Director</p>
    <p>ITM Proponency Office</b></font></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<b><font SIZE="6">

<p ALIGN="CENTER">ADVANCED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">(AMP)</font><font SIZE="4"></p>

<p>What is the AMP?</p>

<blockquote>
  </font></b><font SIZE="3"><p>The fourteen week graduate-level<b> Advanced Management
  Program</b> (AMP) provides functional and technical information resources managers with an
  integrated understanding of new policies and imperatives such as the Clinger-Cohen Act of
  1996, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) and the Federal Acquisition Reform
  Act (FARA). Graduates will be able to form effective managerial partnerships to
  effectively justify, allocate, and apply information resources to mission requirements in
  compliance with regulatory, policy, and ethical standards</font><font SIZE="2">.</font> </p>
</blockquote>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><font SIZE="4"><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Why is the AMP important?</p>

<blockquote>
  </b></font><font SIZE="3"><p>The AMP is a forum for government leaders to share
  experiences and enhance their capabilities to transform today&#146;s organization into an
  innovative, competitive, learning enterprise. The goals of the AMP are to:</p>
  <blockquote>
    <p>Develop senior leaders who can effectively work in partnership at all levels to meet
    agency, Department, and national goals relative to information resources.</p>
    <p>Develop leaders with decision-making skills and capabilities to effectively apply
    regulatory requirements to further organizational missions. </p>
    <p>Prepare graduates to plan, manage, and integrate IRM tasks in support of the Chief
    Information Officer to ensure appropriate allocation of resources complying with
    regulation, policy, and ethical standards.</p>
    <p>Develop individual skill in assessing, selecting, and introducing innovative
    technologies for mission effectiveness.</font></p>
  </blockquote>
</blockquote>

<p><font SIZE="4"><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Who attends the AMP ?</p>

<blockquote>
  </b></font><font SIZE="3"><p>The AMP primarily serves the DoD community, but the IRM
  College is also dedicated to promoting government-wide capability and professional
  partnering. To this end, civilian and military DoD employees, federal agency employees,
  state and local government employees and representatives of private industry and
  international governments are recruited at professional levels equal to GS/GM 13-15 and
  military O5-O6. GS/GM 12 and military O4 applicants may be considered under special
  circumstances with approved waiver. A minimum of Bachelors Degree is required.</p>
  </font>
</blockquote>

<p><font SIZE="4"><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>What do AMP students study?</p>

<blockquote>
  </b></font><font SIZE="3"><p>The Core Program, required of all students, provides coverage
  of the elements of IRM from the perspective of the Chief Information Officer and other IRM
  officials. These elements include IRM policy, law and practice; planning and implementing
  an enterprise information infrastructure; aligning technology with organizational
  structure, processes, and human resources; and acquiring technologies to support efficient
  and effective government operations. It includes opportunities for field studies to
  industry and government agencies to see how organizations plan and use information
  technologies. Specialty Track Programs, one chosen by each student, provide in-depth
  education to meet specific IRM-related learning needs of student career tracks. </font></p>
</blockquote>

<p><font SIZE="4"><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>What other benefits does AMP provide?</b></font><font SIZE="3"></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>AMP provides the opportunity to satisfy all requirements for the CIO Certificate, 15
  graduate hours that can be applied towards Masters degrees from selected universities, and
  full qualification for GSA&#146;s 1,000 by the Year 2000 certificate.</p>
  </font>
</blockquote>

<p><font SIZE="3"><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">THE CORE PROGRAM</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>

<p>FOUNDATIONS OF IRM</b> presents an overview of information resource management concepts
and principles, and the mechanisms for policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation
in today&#146;s IRM environment, and the relationships among the political, economic,
social, fiscal, and technological forces that are changing government.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>ENTERPRISE LEVEL PLANNING FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT</b> addresses the politics and
complexity of strategic planning and implementing information infrastructures capable of
delivering desired results, satisfying the mission requirements of the enterprise and
responding to citizens&#146; needs.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>TRANSFORMING WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS</b> focuses on transforming work and processes in
the public sector to create more efficient, effective government operations, emphasizing
the ability of organizational leaders to introduce and align the role of technology with
all aspects of the organization.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITIONS</b> examines policies, issues,
organizational impacts, and management practices in the acquisition of information
technology to support work processes. Approaches for both rapid and custom acquisition of
technologies and current methods in software development and program management are
investigated.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>ISSUES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY</b> addresses management issues associated with
identifying, adopting, and utilizing current and emerging technologies. </p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>DOMESTIC FIELD STUDIES</b> give students opportunities to visit the best corporate and
government information resources practices in use and discuss strategic considerations
with organizational leaders.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">SPECIALTY TRACK PROGRAM</p>

<p>CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS UNDERLYING PUBLIC POLICY</b> focuses on information-related public
policy issues and structures of special relevance to military officers and senior
government officials. Analytic frameworks and their assumptions are examined and applied
to substantive policy issues.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES</b> explores those technologies which are
particularly useful in assisting managers to make better decisions, including artificial
intelligence, expert systems, and neural networks, and provides an overview of the trends
in information systems technology.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>BEST PRACTICES IN CHANGE MANAGEMENT</b> focuses on the changing roles, relationships,
and responsibilities of information technology leaders that are required for effective
planning and use of information resources within organizations.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p>INFORMATION SYSTEMS ACQUISITION</b> provides in-depth examination of IT acquisition
policies and practices including examples of acquisition reform, project and program
management techniques, systems acquisition strategies, and deployment issues.</p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">ELECTIVE STUDIES PROGRAM</b></p>

<p>Students take two courses selected from the following areas for additional study in
parallel with the Core and Specialty Track. The course selection provides students the
opportunity to pursue individual professional interests and acquire specific knowledge and
skills in IRM-related fields of study. </p>

<p>5400-5499 Information Operations Strategies 5521-5535 Information Technologies</p>

<p>5500-5509 Information Resources Strategies 5536-5555 Information Systems Acquisition </p>

<p>5510-5520 Functional Information Management </p>

<p><b>&nbsp;</p>

<p ALIGN="CENTER">APPLICATION PROCESS</b></p>

<p>Submit applications through agency channels to the HQDA, ODISC4, ITM/CP-34 Proponency
Office, ATTN: SAIS-IMP, RM 1C710B, 107 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310-0107. The
application package consists of a DD Form 1556, a one-page resume, and a recommendation
letter from the applicant&#146;s current supervisor. Include in the resume job background,
education, home address, organization, and supervisor&#146;s address and phone number. The
recommendation should include the applicant&#146;s potential in the organization&#146;s
management structure, policy determination, and management practices. Individuals not
meeting minimum requirements must include a request for waiver, signed by their
supervisor, stating why an exception should be considered. </font></p>
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	<blockquote>
	<font SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff"><p>**************************************************************************************</p>
	<b><p>The Advanced Management Program (AMP), 7 September - 10 December 1999</b>, is open
	for nominations. The ITM/CP-34 Proponency Office provides TDY funds on a competitive basis
	to CP-34 civilian applicants who are accepted into this program. The AMP, based at the
	Information Resources Management College (IRMC), National Defense University (NDU), offers
	graduate-level IRM courses in an academic context for exploring and understanding
	management requirements and issues associated with new ITM policies and imperatives, such
	as the Clinger-Cohen Act (CIO), Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA), and the
	Federal Acquisition Reform Act (FARA). During the fourteen weeks of the program, g</font><font
	FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">raduates will form managerial partnerships
	to effectively justify, allocate, and apply information resources to mission requirements
	in compliance with regulatory, policy, and ethical standards</font><font
	FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000ff">. </font><font FACE="Times New Roman"
	SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">Beginning September 1999, AMP students will also be able to fully
	qualify for the award of the CIO Certificate. All courses are held at Ft McNair,
	Washington, DC. </font><font SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">The AMP filing deadline to the
	ITM/CP-34 Proponency Office is <b>28 July 1999.</p>
	</b><p>You are encouraged to look within the CP-34 community to reach civilians at the
	GS/GM-13-15 level who demonstrate high potential for senior IRM and CIO leadership roles
	in the Army. </font><font FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff">GS-12 applicants
	may be considered under special circumstances with an approved waiver. A minimum of
	bachelor's degree is required for all applicants. Please </font><font SIZE="3"
	COLOR="#0000ff">consider the AMP as a valuable investment in the Army's civilian
	leadership and give widest distribution to this notice. </p>
	<p>The attached announcement provides detailed information about AMP, its goals, and
	application documentation requirements. The AMP filing deadline to the ITM/CP-34
	Proponency Office is <b>28 July 1999 </b>for the semester starting 7 September 1999 and
	ending on 10 December 1999. Application packages should be forwarded to HQDA, ODISC4,
	ITM/CP-34 Proponency Office, ATTN: SAIS-IMP, Rm. 1C710B, 107 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC
	20310-0107. For more information on the AMP, please contact Mr. </font><font FACE="Arial"
	SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000ff">Jim Oliver at (703) 695-9304, DSN 225-9304, or e-mail (<b>olivejs@hqda.army.mil)</b>.<b>
	</b></p>
	</font><font SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000ff"><p>The Spring AMP starts 3 January 2000 and ends 7
	April 2000. CP-34 applications for the Spring AMP are due to the ITM/CP-34 Proponency
	Office by 4 October 1999. </p>
	</font><font FACE="Arial" SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000ff"><b><p>Jackie Rustigian</p>
	<p>Director</p>
	<p>ITM Proponency Office</b></font></p>
	</blockquote>
	</blockquote>

	<p> </p>
	<b><font SIZE="6">

	<p ALIGN="CENTER">ADVANCED MANAGEMENT PROGRAM</p>

	<p ALIGN="CENTER">(AMP)</font><font SIZE="4"></p>

	<p>What is the AMP?</p>

	<blockquote>
	</font></b><font SIZE="3"><p>The fourteen week graduate-level<b> Advanced Management
	Program</b> (AMP) provides functional and technical information resources managers with an
	integrated understanding of new policies and imperatives such as the Clinger-Cohen Act of
	1996, the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act (FASA) and the Federal Acquisition Reform
	Act (FARA). Graduates will be able to form effective managerial partnerships to
	effectively justify, allocate, and apply information resources to mission requirements in
	compliance with regulatory, policy, and ethical standards</font><font SIZE="2">.</font> </p>
	</blockquote>

	<p> </p>

	<p><font SIZE="4"><b> </p>

	<p>Why is the AMP important?</p>

	<blockquote>
	</b></font><font SIZE="3"><p>The AMP is a forum for government leaders to share
	experiences and enhance their capabilities to transform todays organization into an
	innovative, competitive, learning enterprise. The goals of the AMP are to:</p>
	<blockquote>
	<p>Develop senior leaders who can effectively work in partnership at all levels to meet
	agency, Department, and national goals relative to information resources.</p>
	<p>Develop leaders with decision-making skills and capabilities to effectively apply
	regulatory requirements to further organizational missions. </p>
	<p>Prepare graduates to plan, manage, and integrate IRM tasks in support of the Chief
	Information Officer to ensure appropriate allocation of resources complying with
	regulation, policy, and ethical standards.</p>
	<p>Develop individual skill in assessing, selecting, and introducing innovative
	technologies for mission effectiveness.</font></p>
	</blockquote>
	</blockquote>

	<p><font SIZE="4"><b> </p>

	<p>Who attends the AMP ?</p>

	<blockquote>
	</b></font><font SIZE="3"><p>The AMP primarily serves the DoD community, but the IRM
	College is also dedicated to promoting government-wide capability and professional
	partnering. To this end, civilian and military DoD employees, federal agency employees,
	state and local government employees and representatives of private industry and
	international governments are recruited at professional levels equal to GS/GM 13-15 and
	military O5-O6. GS/GM 12 and military O4 applicants may be considered under special
	circumstances with approved waiver. A minimum of Bachelors Degree is required.</p>
	</font>
	</blockquote>

	<p><font SIZE="4"><b> </p>

	<p>What do AMP students study?</p>

	<blockquote>
	</b></font><font SIZE="3"><p>The Core Program, required of all students, provides coverage
	of the elements of IRM from the perspective of the Chief Information Officer and other IRM
	officials. These elements include IRM policy, law and practice; planning and implementing
	an enterprise information infrastructure; aligning technology with organizational
	structure, processes, and human resources; and acquiring technologies to support efficient
	and effective government operations. It includes opportunities for field studies to
	industry and government agencies to see how organizations plan and use information
	technologies. Specialty Track Programs, one chosen by each student, provide in-depth
	education to meet specific IRM-related learning needs of student career tracks. </font></p>
	</blockquote>

	<p><font SIZE="4"><b> </p>

	<p>What other benefits does AMP provide?</b></font><font SIZE="3"></p>

	<blockquote>
	<p>AMP provides the opportunity to satisfy all requirements for the CIO Certificate, 15
	graduate hours that can be applied towards Masters degrees from selected universities, and
	full qualification for GSAs 1,000 by the Year 2000 certificate.</p>
	</font>
	</blockquote>

	<p><font SIZE="3"><b> </p>

	<p ALIGN="CENTER">THE CORE PROGRAM</p>

	<p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p>

	<p>FOUNDATIONS OF IRM</b> presents an overview of information resource management concepts
	and principles, and the mechanisms for policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation
	in todays IRM environment, and the relationships among the political, economic,
	social, fiscal, and technological forces that are changing government.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>ENTERPRISE LEVEL PLANNING FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT</b> addresses the politics and
	complexity of strategic planning and implementing information infrastructures capable of
	delivering desired results, satisfying the mission requirements of the enterprise and
	responding to citizens needs.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>TRANSFORMING WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS</b> focuses on transforming work and processes in
	the public sector to create more efficient, effective government operations, emphasizing
	the ability of organizational leaders to introduce and align the role of technology with
	all aspects of the organization.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACQUISITIONS</b> examines policies, issues,
	organizational impacts, and management practices in the acquisition of information
	technology to support work processes. Approaches for both rapid and custom acquisition of
	technologies and current methods in software development and program management are
	investigated.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>ISSUES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY</b> addresses management issues associated with
	identifying, adopting, and utilizing current and emerging technologies. </p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>DOMESTIC FIELD STUDIES</b> give students opportunities to visit the best corporate and
	government information resources practices in use and discuss strategic considerations
	with organizational leaders.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p ALIGN="CENTER"> </p>

	<p ALIGN="CENTER">SPECIALTY TRACK PROGRAM</p>

	<p>CRITICAL FRAMEWORKS UNDERLYING PUBLIC POLICY</b> focuses on information-related public
	policy issues and structures of special relevance to military officers and senior
	government officials. Analytic frameworks and their assumptions are examined and applied
	to substantive policy issues.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>EMERGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES</b> explores those technologies which are
	particularly useful in assisting managers to make better decisions, including artificial
	intelligence, expert systems, and neural networks, and provides an overview of the trends
	in information systems technology.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>BEST PRACTICES IN CHANGE MANAGEMENT</b> focuses on the changing roles, relationships,
	and responsibilities of information technology leaders that are required for effective
	planning and use of information resources within organizations.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p>INFORMATION SYSTEMS ACQUISITION</b> provides in-depth examination of IT acquisition
	policies and practices including examples of acquisition reform, project and program
	management techniques, systems acquisition strategies, and deployment issues.</p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p ALIGN="CENTER">ELECTIVE STUDIES PROGRAM</b></p>

	<p>Students take two courses selected from the following areas for additional study in
	parallel with the Core and Specialty Track. The course selection provides students the
	opportunity to pursue individual professional interests and acquire specific knowledge and
	skills in IRM-related fields of study. </p>

	<p>5400-5499 Information Operations Strategies 5521-5535 Information Technologies</p>

	<p>5500-5509 Information Resources Strategies 5536-5555 Information Systems Acquisition </p>

	<p>5510-5520 Functional Information Management </p>

	<p><b> </p>

	<p ALIGN="CENTER">APPLICATION PROCESS</b></p>

	<p>Submit applications through agency channels to the HQDA, ODISC4, ITM/CP-34 Proponency
	Office, ATTN: SAIS-IMP, RM 1C710B, 107 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310-0107. The
	application package consists of a DD Form 1556, a one-page resume, and a recommendation
	letter from the applicants current supervisor. Include in the resume job background,
	education, home address, organization, and supervisors address and phone number. The
	recommendation should include the applicants potential in the organizations
	management structure, policy determination, and management practices. Individuals not
	meeting minimum requirements must include a request for waiver, signed by their
	supervisor, stating why an exception should be considered. </font></p>
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