The goal of this five-day course is to (1) Provide participants with the knowledge and skills to establish, manage and work within a JIC through multimedia lectures and individual and group activities, (2) Provide participants the opportunity to apply advanced public information skills during a multi-day functional exercise (FE) designed to test the participants’ abilities to analyze, coordinate, process and create information in a fast-paced, realistic environment, (3) Through a tabletop exercise (TTX), encourage participants to evaluate their processes to help them generate new ideas, products, or ways of viewing challenges or situations, and (4) Encourage participants to improve their processes and ensure every action has a measurable relevance for each identified audience, including senior leadership.