The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division is organized to meet the numerous training challenges of the twentyfirst century. The Program Directorates have specific delegated authority and oversight for all existing and potential future training products and services within the purview of NAWCTSD.

The Program Directorates are:

     The Aviation Program Directorate includes Navy and Marine Corps training programs, systems, and products relating to the aviation weapon systems, platforms, and environment, including aircraft, missiles, air traffic control, aviation systems, and other related system. It does not include those products which support a Command Control Communications Computers and Intelligence (C4I) or Electronic Warfare (EW) operation mission.

     The Surface Program Directorate includes training programs, systems and products relating to the surface Navy weapon systems, platforms, and environment. This includes training systems supporting surface combat systems, ASW, sonar, propulsion, mobile combat systems, firefighting, damage control, and specialty forces (i.e., Seals and Seabees) as well as other related systems associated with Foreign Military Sales. Support for related training provided by CNET and its subordinate commands can also fall into this area. United States Coast Guard Training Programs are included in the Surface Directorate.

     The Undersea Program Directorate is responsible for planning, development, acquisition and operational support of training programs, systems and products relating to undersea weapon systems, platforms, and environments. This arena includes submarines, submarine systems, integrated undersea surveillance and other related systems.

     The International Program Directorate is responsible for overall Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program integrity, compliance, and administration. As the focal point for all FMS programs, this directorate is responsible for the successful delivery of a wide range of training systems, services and products to more than 25 allied military customers. The execution of international programs is unique in that many projects are accomplished through cooperation with another of the warfare Program Directorates by leveraging off of similar products for domestic programs thus achieving synergism, economy of effort and shared expense. The diversity of products and services currently being procured or under consideration include fire fighting, propulsion and combat systems for surface combatants, transfer of legacy systems to grant-in-aid recipient countries, and analysis of major training requirements and upgrades to existing training pipelines.

     The Cross Warfare Program Directorate includes training programs, systems, services and products relating to Joint Services, multiple warfare areas, and non DOD systems, platforms, environments, and applications. The Directorate provides leadership and support for the development of standards, architectures, and protocols for the interoperability and combined joint training operations within the Department of Defense. This includes serving as the Navy's Distributed Information System (DIS) agent.

     NAWCTSD functions under the competency aligned organizational structure. All projects and programs are managed by Program Directorates using the technical resources, expertise, and material assets supplied by the functional managers. The PD/matrix structure provides the forum and the leadership necessary to ensure that individual programs/projects, functional support, resource utilization and all levels of decision making are kept in balance and proportion with the overall needs and common objectives of NAWCTSD.

     The following NAWCTSD competencies provide support via an Integrated Project Team (IPT) structure to the program directors: (a.) Program Management, (b.) Contracts, (c.) Logistics, (d.) Engineering (includes Instructional Systems), and (e.) Corporate Operations.