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Integrated Training Area Management Program (ITAM)

Announcements

This page was updated on:
23-Sep-2010

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To obtain additional information regarding the ITAM program contact:

For Fort Richardson ITAM: Brandon Berta

For Fort Wainwright ITAM: Michael Gibson

For Donnelly Training Area ITAM: Chuck Burns

Over the past several decades, external factors such as urbanization; increasing environmental restrictions; and competition for airspace, land, and electro-magnetic spectrum have become a serious challenge for the Army in providing ranges and training lands that are available, accessible, and capable of supporting training and testing requirements. In response to the cumulative weight of these external factors, the Army created the Sustainable Range Program (SRP)

to improve the way in which it designs, manages, and uses its ranges and training lands to ensure long-term sustainability.

To help ensure long-term sustainability of the land, the Army has implemented the Integrated Training Area Management Program (ITAM) as a core component of the SRP. The ITAM Program integrates training land and conservation management practices with stewardship principles to ensure that our training lands remain viable to support current and future training.

The objectives of the ITAM program are to:

Achieve optimal sustained use of lands for the execution of realistic training and testing by providing a sustainable core capability that balances usage, condition, and level of maintenance.

Implement a management and decision-making process that integrates Army training and other mission requirements for land use with sound natural resources management.

Advocate proactive conservation and land management practices by aligning Army training land management priorities with the Army training and readiness priorities.

To help meet these objectives, ITAM has established a systematic framework for decision-making and management of Army training lands that integrates five fundamental components: Training Requirements Integration (TRI); Range and Training Land Assessment (RTLA); Land Rehabilitation and Maintenance (LRAM); Sustainable Range Awareness (SRA) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). These components combine to provide the means to understand how the Army's training requirements impact land management practices, what the impact of training is on the land, how to mitigate and repair the impact, and how to communicate the ITAM message to soldiers and the public.

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