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The former Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) has been renamed the Surface Combat Systems Training Command (SCSTC) as part of a larger CSCS realignment. Since the establishment of CSCS under the Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) in 2004, there have been an increasing number of changing factors within our naval force and throughout the globe.  These changing factors, which precipitated the realignment, include an increase in fleet size and composition (platforms and capabilities), the return of Strategic Competition, rapid pace of upgrades to combat systems and the implementation of virtual training technology. 
 
The realignment of CSCS to SCSTC sets the foundation for realizing Ready, Relevant Learning (RRL) tenets: establishing career-learning continuums (1110, 6120, 6180, electronics technician (ET), fire controlman (FC), fire controlman (Aegis) (FCA), interior communications electrician (IC), gunner’s mate (GM), mineman (MN), operations specialist (OS), and sonar technician, surface (STG)) and a pivot to virtual learning in fleet concentration areas. 
 
SCSTC is a training organization of over 6,500 staff and students across 12 global locations.  SCSTC implements culture of excellence and warrior toughness by building a Surface Warrior mindset to complement the technical and tactical skillsets of building the kill chain and closing the fire control loop.

SCSTC fulfills a similar training mission for international partners who operate U.S. manufactured systems. This training enables our allies’ operational capability as well as fostering interoperability with U.S. forces.
 
SCSTC directly supports Commander, Naval Surface Forces (CNSF) and Commander, Naval Surface Force, Atlantic (CNSL) by providing individual training and basic phase support to Surface Forces as well as to Commander, Naval Air Forces (CNAF), Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic (CNAL), and Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC).  

SCSTC has strong partnerships with numerous training organizations to include Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC), Surface Warfare Schools Command (SWSC), Afloat Training Group Pacific / Afloat Training Group Atlantic, and Commander, Naval Information Warfare Training Group (NIWTG).

SCSTC, with our surface community partners and force development counterparts, provide system and platform specific combat systems training to a growing surface Navy.  We continue to train our warfighters so that our Navy can fight and win! 

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Commander Todd Arnold

Cmdr. Todd Arnold enlisted in the U.S. Navy in June 1990. He received his bachelor’s in Finance from Old Dominion University and was commissioned via the Enlisted Commissioning Program in 2002.
 
Arnold’s sea tours include division officer, USS Mitscher (DDG 57), where he qualified officer of the day, surface warfare officer, engineering officer of the watch, and command duty officer while completing one U.S. 5th Fleet (C5F) / U.S. 6th Fleet (C6F) deployment; ship-to-shore officer, Amphibious Squadron 2 (PHIBRON 2), where he completed a surge deployment to United States European Command and United States Naval Forces Southern Command; engineering officer, USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79), where he guided the ship from a selective restricted availability through a composite training unit exercise; material officer; Amphibious Squadron 4 (PHIBRON 4), where he completed an eight-month Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group deployment to the C5F/C6F areas of responsibility; and most recently, executive officer, USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41), where he guided the ship through a 24-month Chief of Naval Operations availability.
 
His shore assignments include operational test and evaluation force for ashore; operational test director for the Rolling Airframe Missile; tactical mentor at Afloat Training Group Norfolk; and his most recent assignment was at Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command working as the N8/N9’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense/Ballistic Missile Defense requirements officer. He reported as executive officer, Surface Combat Systems Training Command (SCSTC) Hampton Roads Nov. 2019. 

Arnold’s personal awards include multiple Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals and Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals.
 

Last Updated: 28 April 2022

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