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ATP-3.3.2.2
National JTAC programme managers, STANEVAL and training staff, and the contractors delivering close air support training or evaluation services under contract to a national programme.
ATP-3.3.2.2 is NATO's Allied Tactical Publication setting the minimum qualification, evaluation and currency requirements for a Joint Terminal Attack Controller, binding a nation through STANAG 3797.
ATP-3.3.2.2 is NATO's Allied Tactical Publication, Edition C, Version 1, promulgated in February 2024, setting the minimum training, evaluation and currency requirements for a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC), the individual authorised, from a forward position, to direct combat aircraft engaged in close air support. Its purpose is standardisation, not tactics: it exists so a JTAC qualified under one nation's programme is recognised as competent by another NATO or partner nation, without each alliance member having to separately vet every individual it works alongside. Participating nations record their agreement to use it in STANAG 3797, and each then runs its own national JTAC programme against the minimum requirements this publication sets.
Two things this document is often assumed to be, it is not. It is not the close air support procedures manual: the tactics, techniques and procedures a terminal attack control is actually judged against sit in ATP-3.3.2.1, and ATP-3.3.2.2 requires a control to be conducted "in accordance with" that document rather than describing how to conduct one itself. And it is not a certification scheme: the document's own language is "qualified" for an individual and "accredited" for a national programme, and neither is a certificate an organisation holds.
Each nation appoints a National Programme Manager as the focal point for its JTAC programme: setting policy, reviewing national regulations against NATO and operational requirements, tracking positive and negative trends, and, where a nation contracts out part of the work, validating that any contracted CAS provider complies with this publication. Underneath that sits a national Standardization and Evaluation (STANEVAL) programme, led by a Chief of STANEVAL, that develops the evaluation system, reviews evaluation records, and manages or delegates evaluations to JTAC-Evaluators. A National Instruction Programme governs who is allowed to teach: only a qualified JTAC-Instructor may instruct a JTAC trainee in terminal attack control, though Subject Matter Experts can support classroom and role-playing elements.
Initial qualification runs through an accredited JTAC course, completion of the tasks set out in the publication's Mission Essential Task List, a defined set of logged controls carried out under instruction, and a passed initial evaluation. A JTAC who is not a native English speaker must also hold a documented English-language profile against STANAG 6001 before qualifying. None of this is a single pass-fail moment held once: qualification has to be actively maintained, with a control due at least every 6 months, the full set of task and control requirements renewed within a 12- to 18-month window depending on the item, and a recurring evaluation passed at least every 18 months (clause 4.2). Miss those windows and the qualification lapses - the document sets out, item by item, what an unqualified JTAC has to complete, and under whose supervision, to regain it, and a JTAC who is qualified and holds a valid evaluation at the start of a deployment keeps that qualification for the deployment's duration even if a window would otherwise have expired.
A JTAC becomes eligible for the JTAC-Instructor (JTAC-I) role after at least a year of experience as a qualified JTAC (clause 5.1.1), a nationally approved instructor upgrade, and written designation by an approved authority; a JTAC-I becomes eligible to become a JTAC-Evaluator (JTAC-E) on the same pattern, after at least a year of experience as a qualified JTAC-I (clause 5.2.1), with NATO requiring only the initial JTAC-E evaluation rather than a recurring one, since a JTAC-E is separately re-evaluated as a JTAC and JTAC-I on the normal 18-month cycle. Contractors can hold either role where a nation authorises it, but only if they previously qualified while serving as a member of that nation's armed forces, and a contractor JTAC-E may not evaluate another contractor JTAC-I or JTAC-E.
Every JTAC carries a Training and Evaluation Folder, on paper or in an equivalent digital form, holding designation letters, a log of every terminal attack control performed and the associated task completion, training and refresher documentation (including the English-language proficiency certificate), evaluation records, and formal course diplomas. A National Waiver process lets a nation temporarily relax a qualification requirement, authorised at no lower than a defined senior rank, time-limited, and reported in full at the nation's next accreditation visit.
Because a fratricide risk sits behind every close air support mission, this publication's own implementation is separately verified: a nation's JTAC programme is accredited under ACO Directive 075-012, the NATO directive that standardises the accreditation process for national programmes "throughout NATO and Partner Nations." That is a programme-level check, run on a nation's whole programme, and it is distinct from the qualification an individual JTAC, JTAC-Instructor or JTAC-Evaluator earns nationally through a course, logged controls, and a JTAC-Evaluator's assessment against the publication's own grading criteria. Neither an accredited programme nor a qualified individual is the same thing as a company holding a certificate: nothing in this publication describes a scheme an organisation can be certified against.
ATP-3.3.2.2 sits under STANAG 3797, the agreement recording nations' commitment to use it. It requires controls to be conducted in accordance with ATP-3.3.2.1, which is itself covered by STANAG 7144, and it sets its language-proficiency bar against STANAG 6001, alongside the related publication ATrainP-5 on language proficiency levels. None of these is optional reading for a national programme: the publication treats them as the source for content it deliberately does not repeat.
ATP-3.3.2.2 is an operational and personnel standard, not a management system: the actual work of qualifying, evaluating and keeping a JTAC current happens in a course, on a range, in the air and in a national STANEVAL programme, not in software. ComplyTrain's role here is informational. It gives a national JTAC programme, or a contractor delivering CAS training or evaluation services under contract, a controlled place to hold the paperwork this publication depends on: designation letters, the Training and Evaluation Folder's training, evaluation and course-completion records, the English-language proficiency documentation a JTAC who is not a native speaker needs, and the waiver register a Programme Manager has to produce at an accreditation visit. It can also track the currency windows this publication sets, so a lapsed control or an evaluation due for renewal shows up before it becomes a loss of qualification.
ComplyTrain does not run a JTAC course, conduct a terminal attack control, perform a JTAC, JTAC-Instructor or JTAC-Evaluator evaluation, or accredit a national programme; those stay with the qualified individuals and the national and NATO authorities this publication names. What applies to a given programme, and which other Allied Publications come with it, is set by the customer's own requirements and the accreditation process, not by us; our standards explorer shows what sits alongside ATP-3.3.2.2, and we are glad to talk through what a specific programme needs.
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Not by itself. It binds a nation through STANAG 3797, the agreement participating nations use to record their commitment to it; a nation then runs its own JTAC programme against the publication's minimum requirements, and several nations have recorded specific reservations to parts of it at promulgation.
ATP-3.3.2.2 governs the JTAC programme: who qualifies, how, and how they stay current. ATP-3.3.2.1 carries the close air support tactics, techniques and procedures a terminal attack control is actually judged against. ATP-3.3.2.2 requires a control to be conducted in accordance with ATP-3.3.2.1 rather than describing the procedure itself.
No. The publication's own language is that an individual becomes "qualified" as a JTAC, JTAC-Instructor or JTAC-Evaluator, and that a national programme is "accredited." Neither is a certificate a company can hold, and the document names no scheme under which an organisation is certified.
Yes, where the national regulation authorises it, but only for someone who previously qualified in that role while serving as a member of that nation's armed forces, and who continues to meet the same qualification requirements as a military JTAC-I or JTAC-E.
The publication treats loss of qualification as recoverable rather than final: it sets out, situation by situation, which missing tasks, controls or evaluation have to be completed, and under whose supervision, before a JTAC regains qualified status. A JTAC who is qualified and holds a valid evaluation at the start of a deployment keeps that qualification for the deployment's duration.
Edition C, Version 1, promulgated in February 2024, effective on receipt and superseding Edition B, Version 1.
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