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The Information Dominance Center for Excellence (IDCFE) serves as a clearinghouse and facilitator for U.S. Navy Information Dominance Corps (IDC) education.    This includes curricula development, adaptation and execution, coordination of research efforts, and engagement with other Navy, Department of Defense (DoD), and academic and commercial enterprises, institutions, commands, centers and agencies on topics and issues relating to Information Dominance and Decision Superiority.    

The IDCFE was formerly the Information Professional Center of Excellence (IPCOE), expanded in 2010 to cover all communities of the IDC.   IDCFE supports the generation of NPS IDC graduates who leave campus with the right skills to satisfy DoD mission requirements, with education in information, intelligence, human-derived information, cyber operations and networks, space, and oceanographic disciplines. 

IDCFE will also  

* Champion adaptive education for the IDC, focused on operational Fleet needs, with appreciation of the past, mastery of the present and anticipation of the future

* Advocate standardization, organization and management of IDC resources - people, equipment, and information

* Focus research energy on priority issues of concern, and also influence the evolution of existing technologies and acquisition of new technologies used for Information Dominance

* Oversee Information Dominance Warfare Qualification (officer and enlisted) on the NPS campus, and collaborate with other IDC centers for holistic Navy-wide Information Dominance education, training, and qualification planning activities