I.13. Course Level Training Model (CLTM) description
The CLTM supports the POI methodology used in the ITRM: the POI identifies the training resources and requirements for training and educating individual Soldiers in the Army. ITRM provides the Army a systematic process for forecasting and justifying funding requirements for institutional training and education. CLTM uses information generated from tasks in the POI as the metric that links individual readiness requirements to levels of funding. The model is designed to correlate a Soldier's overall readiness to participation in and completion of institutional training tasks.
POI course data is imported from the CAC approved automated development system in web-based CLTM in a one-way exchange of data. Only TRADOC validated POI data is imported from the CAC approved automated development system into CLTM. Currently only equipment data is fed into ITRM for costing, but CLTM also imports ammunition, facilities, and training aids from the CAC approved automated development system.
A CLTM course equipment file is generated by an ITRM pre-process routine and that file is fed into ITRM to produce the direct operating tempo (OPTEMPO)/equipment cost. Direct OPTEMPO costs are based on pricing the POI requirements of equipment to meet the training and education standard. This data is calculated against workload and cost factors to contribute to annual cost at a given institutional training and education readiness level.
Revision/submission. CLTM data will be automatically imported into the web-based CLTM when POI are validated by the TRADOC DCS G-3/5/7 or TOMA . Once TRADOC POI are imported into web-based CLTM and that data is confirmed by the CLTM Administrator and the schools, data will be extracted by TRADOC DCS G-8 (Resource Management) and entered into ITRM for costing.
I.14. CLTM benefits
The web-based CLTM gives HQDA, HQ TRADOC and the schoolhouse a common platform to view POI data. In addition to the equipment information that is imported to ITRM for pricing, the CLTM also creates a report for the schoolhouse that displays the following from the imported POI information:
Course number.
Delivery method.
Course name.
Status date.
Training location.
Management category.
Optimum class size.
Course length.
Class size.
Total academic hours.
Instructor/facilitator contact hours.
Equipment report, facilities report, ammunition report and training aids and devices report rolled up by lesson number, by course and by installation.
I.15. Web-based CLTM
The web-based CLTM homepage can be accessed with the following uniform resource locator: https://cltm.tradocapps.army.mil/login.aspx.
Access is controlled in the form of user identifications (ID) and passwords. Installation users will be granted access for their installation only. Multiple installation access can be permitted as required. The web-based CLTM site is available to all CLTM managers, CAC approved automated development system administrators, and selected key personnel. Access permissions are based on two user roles:
(1) School user. Personnel can make changes (import/delete) to courses at your school. This access level provides the ability to view and run reports for all courses in CLTM, however, the user cannot make changes (add/delete) to courses outside the user’s school.
(2) Viewer user. Personnel can view and run reports for all courses in CLTM, but cannot make changes (import/delete) to any course.
School responsibilities. TRADOC schools are responsible for keeping their TRADOC validated POI data current in the CAC approved automated development system and ensuring it has been imported into web-based CLTM. Accurate and current web-based CLTM data results in accurate and current ITRM direct OPTEMPO requirements. Web-based CLTM has made an impact in the schoolhouse by allowing the schools to view their POI information in an organized and easy to understand fashion; thereby, allowing them to make corrections to their POI in the CAC approved automated development system. The result has been a dramatic improvement in the accuracy of POI information in the CAC approved automated development system. Web access allows all TRADOC schools to keep all TRADOC validated POI information current and HQ to view required resources in real time.
I.16. Institutional Training Resource Model (ITRM) description
ITRM is a HQDA, G-3 sponsored model used to calculate and cost institutional training and education requirements and associated resource requirements. It identifies OPTEMPO funding and life-cycle data of equipment required to teach the course as documented in the POI. Additionally, this model assists with integrating the training and education development manpower requirements with PPBES. ITRM is:
A resource-packaging tool.
A force-to-course model that determines learning product requirements by using the same Active Army (AA) and U.S. Army Reserve (USAR)/Army National Guard (ARNG) force structure used in the TRADOC review of manpower (TRM) process, where it is used to calculate institutional learning product workload and costs.
ITRM is responsive to changes in the force structure and HQDA policy in developing workload requirements. ITRM allows the training and education directorate(s) to focus on the “why” versus the “what”.
Costs are calculated using direct and indirect OPTEMPO. "Direct OPTEMPO" plus "indirect OPTEMPO" equals "the total cost".
ITRM uses an allocation process, which allows requirements identified in one area to be allocated to the benefiting areas.
I.17. ITRM component costs
Component costs. ITRM calculates the requirements for training and education dollars from the POI, table of distribution and allowances (TDA) documents, and known fixed commodities, such as maintenance contracts.
Cost factors. The factors that comprise the total cost of training and education are:
(1) Requirement-based areas: civilian payroll, direct OPTEMPO, and special items of interest; for example, service contracts, automation, one-time procurements, and military training specific allotment (MTSA).
(2) Indirect OPTEMPO is based on how an installation obligates its funding. It shows what it costs historically for general schoolhouse operations.
I.18. Input interfaces to ITRM
The proponent participates in the ITRM process on a daily basis. The following four interfaces feed ITRM to generate the cost requirements for institutional learning products:
CLTM. This model identifies the resources to meet training and education standards. It rates lessons in the POI by readiness categories.
Web PC. This program reflects schoolhouse indirect costs that assist ITRM by allowing resource managers to view and adjust financial accounting data so that indirect OPTEMPO rates project future requirements, not historical errors (such as accounting errors and double-counting).
DA approved workload database. This workload management tool allows managers to prioritize, schedule, and manage development of learning products and projects. It generates the workload requirement for review and approval by the Army command (ACOM) and HQDA.
Special items of interest allow instructors/facilitators and resource managers to identify fixed items that can be reviewed and approved through the chain of command.
I.19. Information interfaces from ITRM
ITRM provides information from feeder data and cost processing with two interface models. This information provides the ability to conduct online analysis or provide printed cost reports.
Analytical Workspace Model . This program displays programming information by year to enable yearly comparisons, decision support, decrement analyses, and cost factor analyses. It also enables budget formulation and the alignment of courses by the MDEP and Army Management Structure among the Army's training/education, manpower, and costing systems.
Training Resource Management Information System (TRMIS). This program allows the cost and workload results from ITRM, TRM, and the flying hour program to be available at the lowest level of detail for cost and workload analyses. For example, course level is the lowest level of detail for ITRM.
