TACTRIUM™
Department-specific incident command training and simulation built around the resources and response model your personnel actually use.
Fire-Service Training Technology and Professional Development
Training tools and programs built for the fire service
Command Training Systems develops software, professional development programs, command training, and department support for fire departments, instructors, and fire-service professionals.
CTS Products and Services
What we offer
Choose department-specific simulation, professional development, focused command practice, or support for your local training program. CTS Learn lists current course details and availability.
Training from instruction through review
CTS products and services are designed to support instruction, practical training, evaluation, and follow-up.
CTS Learn
Company officer development, incident command, incident safety, training officer development, and exam preparation for fire-service personnel.
Initial Incident Command Lab
A command training program of approximately 10 to 12 hours focused on the first minutes of an incident, decision exercises, TACTRIUM™ practicals, evaluator feedback, and after-action review.
CTS Department Development Services
CTS is developing scoped needs assessment, local training design, implementation support, and review services for departments.
Flagship Platform
TACTRIUM™
Train Command. Test Decisions. Improve Outcomes.
TACTRIUM™ gives fire departments a controlled command training environment built around their own stations, apparatus, staffing, response plans, mutual aid, preplans, and local conditions. Instructors stay in control while participants work through the decisions.
Fire Officer Development
Company Officer Foundations
Company Officer Foundations is the first CTS Fire Officer Development program. The 48-hour pathway addresses leadership, communication, training, safety, administration, prevention, incident command, and practical performance, with current participation options listed on CTS Learn.
Lead
Supervision, trust, coaching, and crew culture
Move beyond rank and focus on the day-to-day work of setting expectations, leading people, addressing performance, and building credibility.
Operate
Command decisions in realistic conditions
Connect classroom concepts to size-up, communications, accountability, resource deployment, critical events, and command transfer.
Apply
Work products, practical evaluation, and after-action review
Use applied assignments, observation, mentoring, practical exercises, and after-action review to document more than attendance alone.
Training Approach
How CTS supports training
Use the tool that fits the objective: build knowledge, practice decisions, review performance, and carry the lessons into follow-up training.
01 DEVELOP
Professional development
Build leadership, supervisory, administrative, and operational knowledge through focused instruction and applied work.
02 PRACTICE
TACTRIUM™ and Command Labs
Put officers into realistic decisions using department-specific simulation or facilitated command exercises.
03 EVALUATE
Performance review
Use defined objectives, rubrics, evaluator observations, and after-action review to discuss performance.
04 IMPROVE
Follow-up training
Turn what you learned into the next training objective, instructor plan, or department training priority.
Work With CTS
Talk with CTS about your training needs
Tell us what you need to improve, who you are training, and how your department operates. We can help identify the right CTS product, program, or service.