It’s called NCO 2020, a revolutionary initiative by U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command to develop a deliberate, data-driven process to assess the needs of tomorrow’s NCO professionals. The first step was to find out what NCOs thought about our current noncommissioned officer education system and draw recommendations and insight from across the Army.

Do you have the desire and discipline to be a drill sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve? A new initiative is looking to recruit talented sergeants through sergeants first class and select E-4’s to become the next trainers, coaches and mentors in the Army Reserve.

2014 is the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Army Drill Sergeant School. The school, conducted by TRADOC, is one of the most recognizable courses in the Army. First established in 1964, the school is now located at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Graduates are responsible for training coaching, counseling, and mentoring thousands of soldiers each year.

The Army Career Tracker is a web base tool available in AKO that helps army professionals reach the highest levels of their career. Everyone’s doing it, the act site averages about 4,000 users per week and more than 25,000 goals have been created. Soldiers and their leaders build goals together, and can also request for other users to become their mentors through the system. It integrates training, education and on –the-job experience into one easy to use interface.