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Calculated Shard: 152 (from laksa083)

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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa152.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence","crawl_time":1774113069,"first_indexed_time":1415983419,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"org,wikipedia!en,\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence s443","src_root_hash":"17790707453426894952","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Center of excellence - Wikipedia","meta_descriptions":[],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nThe Auburn Performing Arts Center, Julie and Hal Moore Center for Excellence at\nAuburn High School (Alabama)\nis focused on\nperforming arts\n.\nA\ncenter of excellence\n(\nCOE\nor\nCoE\n), also called an\nexcellence center\n, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides\nleadership\n,\nbest practices\n,\nresearch\n, support, or training for a focus area.\nDue to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a \"center of excellence\", in one context, may have completely different characteristics from another. The focus area might be a technology (such as the\nJava software platform\n), a business concept (such as\nbusiness process management\n), a skill (such as\nnegotiation\n) or a broad area of study (such as\nwomen's health\n). A center of excellence may also be formed to revitalize stalled initiatives.\n[\n1\n]\nThe term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area.\n[\n2\n]\n(e.g. the\nRochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science\n).\nWithin an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a\ncompetency center\n, or as a\ncapability center\n, or as an\nexcellence center\n. Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in\nManagement of Portfolios\n, mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff.\n[\n3\n]\nIn technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as\nservice-oriented architecture\nor\nbusiness intelligence\n.\n[\n4\n]\n[\n5\n]\nIn academic institutions, a center of excellence often refers to a team with a clear focus on a particular area of research; such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities.\n[\n6\n]\nSouth America and Asia\n[\nedit\n]\nThe governments of\nGuyana\nand\nIndia\njointly formed the Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the\nUniversity of Guyana\nin 2019.\n[\n7\n]\nIn Australia, the\nAustralian Research Council\n(ARC) funds a competitive grant program for centres of excellence which link a number of institutions within the country and internationally in a specific field of research.\n[\n8\n]\nNew centres are funded every three years and each run for seven years.\n[\n8\n]\n2020-2027:\nARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\nARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course\nARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics\nARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child\nARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals\nARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science\nARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture\nARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology\nARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems\n2017-2024:\nARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions\nARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage\nARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes\nARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems\nARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science\nARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies\nARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery\nARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research\nARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology\n2014-2021:\nARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging\nARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course\nARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology\nARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language\nARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science\nARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies\nARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function\nARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights\nARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics\nARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology\nARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision\nARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis\n2011-2018\nARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics\nARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science\nARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders\nARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid System\nARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems\nARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions\nARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering\nARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions\nARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale\nARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology\nARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research\nARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology\nARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems\n2004\/5-2013\nARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation\n(CCI)\nARC Centre for Complex Systems\nIn the\nPhilippines\n, a center of excellence (COE) is a certification given by the\nCommission on Higher Education\nto departments within a higher education institution (e.g. a college within a university) which \"continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction, research and publication, extension and linkages and institutional qualifications\". Candidates for this certification are referred as centers of development (CODs) by the education body.\n[\n9\n]\nCertificate of the Leading Scientific School of the Russian Federation (leader\nN. Kuznetsov\n), 2018 year\nIn Russia,\nthe Center of Excellence status\n(in Russian it is used notion\nScientific School\n) is granted by the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation since 1996.\n[\n10\n]\nTo obtain the COE status, a group of scientists, usually based on a department at a university or a laboratory at an academic institute, and its leader should have a high scientific reputation and should submit an application, which presents a plan of scientific and educational work for the period of two years, to the council. The council issues a special certificate of the COE status to the leader of the group.\n[\n11\n]\nIn the United Kingdom, schools and sixth forms specialising in an area of curriculum are known as\nspecialist schools\n. These schools are recognised as centres of excellence in their specialist subject areas.\n[\n12\n]\n[\n13\n]\nSchools that attained\nBeacon status\nwere also recognised as centres of excellence,\n[\n14\n]\nhowever this status has been discontinued.\n[\n15\n]\nBusiness and technology\n[\nedit\n]\nWalmart\nis designating certain employee healthcare venues as centers of excellence. In 2013, several regions of the country (Dallas-Fort Worth; Northern Arkansas; Orlando, FL) Walmart is offering employees free treatment when they use the designated CoEs. Treatments are administered to covered employees, who travel to the centers, along with a caregiver, for a course of treatment at the center. Depending on the budgetary outcome, Walmart will be sharing its operational results with other employers, as a method of controlling its healthcare costs.\n[\n16\n]\nFord Motor Company\nopened its Ford Ion Park battery center of excellence, meant to centralize a cross-functional team to accelerate the development of battery and battery cell technology. Electrical batteries would then serve as the basis for all-electric vehicles.\n[\n17\n]\nNorthrop Grumman\nhas invested in a manned aircraft design center of excellence in\nMelbourne, Florida\n. It uses modeling and simulation tools at the center of excellence which predict the performance of its test-bed aircraft, as a method for reducing risk during the process of developing the B-21.\n[\n18\n]\nIn 2013, it designated five centres for excellence in the U.S.\n[\n19\n]\nHuntington Ingalls Industries\nis building out an Unmanned Systems center of excellence, which is working on Boeing's project for the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.\n[\n20\n]\nAsda\n's merchandising centre of excellence in\nLeeds\ncontains \"a full-size model store for mocking up different shelf layouts and a state-of-the-art\nvirtual reality\nlab, where Asda and its suppliers can test store layouts and construction plans\".\n[\n21\n]\nUnum\nopened its IT centre of excellence in\nCarlow\n,\nIreland\nin 2008,\n[\n22\n]\nexpanding it in 2020\n[\n23\n]\npromoting business technology in the U.S.\n[\n24\n]\nand abroad\n[\n25\n]\n[\n26\n]\nIBM Consulting\nlaunched its center of excellence for transformative generative\nAI\nin 2023.\n[\n27\n]\nAlliant Techsystems\n,\nOtis Elevator\n,\nAlcoa\n,\nGreatbatch\n, and\nGE\nhave each used centers of excellence as organizational mechanisms to gain\neconomies of scale\n, when discovering and sharing efficiencies of operation.\n[\n28\n]\nIn the\nhealthcare\nsector, the term often refers to a center that provides sufficient and easily accessible medical services to patients.\n[\n29\n]\nThe\nNational Institutes of Health\n(NIH) of the United States, in 2023, allocated $24 million to create 10 maternal health research centers of excellence.\n[\n30\n]\nIn the British\nNHS\n, the term is almost always used\nsarcastically\n, following its popularisation by Dr Peter Gooderham on the Doctors.net.uk fora.\n[\n31\n]\nIt can often be heard being used to describe\ntertiary centres\nby staff working in district general hospitals.\nIn the European defense community, the\nEuropean Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats\nis a response to\nhybrid warfare\non its periphery; the COE seeks to inform, and also protect its non-\nNATO\ncomponents, as well as its non-\nPESCO\nmembers.\n[\n32\n]\nThe US Department of Defense (DoD) intends to use CoEs that focus on key technologies, such as drones, and commercial satellite imagery.\n[\n33\n]\nUS Army NCO Leadership Center of Excellence in Fort Bliss, Texas\nThe\nArmy\nmaintains numerous Centers of Excellence (CoE) at major universities,\n[\n34\n]\ntraining installations, and other locations:\nAcquisition COE\n[\n35\n]\n-\nHuntsville\n,\nAlabama\nAviation COE\n[\n36\n]\n-\nFort Novosel\n, Alabama\nCyber COE\n[\n37\n]\n-\nFort Gordon\n,\nGeorgia\nFires COE\n[\n38\n]\n-\nFort Sill\n,\nOklahoma\nHuman Resource COE\n[\n39\n]\n-\nFort Knox\n,\nKentucky\nInitial Military Training COE\n[\n40\n]\n-\nFort Eustis\n,\nVirginia\nIntelligence COE\n[\n41\n]\n-\nFort Huachuca\n,\nArizona\nManeuver COE\n[\n42\n]\n-\nFort Moore\n, Georgia\nManeuver Support COE\n[\n43\n]\nFort Leonard Wood\n,\nMissouri\nMedical COE\n[\n44\n]\n-\nJoint Base San Antonio\n(JBSA),\nTexas\nMission Command COE\n[\n43\n]\n-\nFort Leavenworth\n,\nKansas\nNCO Leadership COE\n[\n45\n]\n-\nFort Bliss\n, Texas\nSpace and Missile Defense CoE\n[\n46\n]\n-\nPeterson Space Force Base\n,\nColorado\nSpecial Operations COE\n[\n47\n]\n-\nFort Bragg\n,\nNorth Carolina\nSustainment COE\n[\n48\n]\n-\nFort Gregg-Adams\n,\nVirginia\nTRADOC\noversees ten of these Centers of Excellence, each focused on a separate area of expertise within the Army. These centers train over 500,000 Soldiers and service members each year.\n[\n49\n]\nHomeland Security Centers of Excellence\nCenter for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance\n,\nU.S. Pacific Command\nRochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science\nCenter of Excellence for Stability Police Units\nEuropean Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats\nCross-functional team\n(CFT)\n^\nMark O. George (2010).\nThe lean six sigma guide to doing more with less\n. John Wiley and Sons. p. 261.\nISBN\n \n978-0-470-53957-6\n.\n^\nTarek M. Khalil; L. A. Lefebvre; Robert McSpadden Mason (13 August 2001).\nManagement of technology: the key to prosperity in the third millennium: selected papers from the ninth International Conference on Management of Technology\n. Emerald Group Publishing. p. 164.\nISBN\n \n978-0-08-043997-6\n. Retrieved\n13 February\n2012\n.\n^\nStephen Jenner; Craig Kilford; Office of Government Commerce (January 2011).\nManagement of Portfolios\n. The Stationery Office.\nISBN\n \n978-0-11-331294-8\n.\n^\nEric A. Marks (2008).\nService-oriented architecture governance for the services driven enterprise\n. John Wiley & Sons. p. 271.\nISBN\n \n978-0-470-17125-7\n.\n^\nJames A. Obrien (2007).\nManagement Information Systems\n(Special Indian ed.). McGraw-Hill Education (India). p. 315.\nISBN\n \n978-0-07-062003-2\n.\n^\nNational Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Materials Science and Engineering: Forging Stronger Links to Users (2000).\nMaterials science and engineering: forging stronger links to users\n. National Academies Press. p. 139.\nISBN\n \n978-0-309-06826-0\n.\n^\nCentre for Excellence in IT formally launched\nStaybroeck News; 21 June 2019. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\na\nb\n\"ARC Centres of Excellence\"\n.\nAustralian Research Council\n. 1 June 2018\n. Retrieved\n9 April\n2020\n.\n^\n\"Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development (CoS&CoDS)\"\n. Commission on Higher Education. Archived from\nthe original\non 7 July 2018\n. Retrieved\n31 May\n2019\n.\n^\nthe Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation\n^\nAbramovich S.\n,\nKuznetsov N.\n,\nRazov A.\n(2021).\n\"G.A. Leonov: eminent scholar, admired teacher and unconventional administrator\"\n.\nJournal of Physics: Conference Series\n.\n1864\n(1) (Journal of Physics: Conference Series ed.):\n012066\n.\nBibcode\n:\n2021JPhCS1864a2066A\n.\ndoi\n:\n10.1088\/1742-6596\/1864\/1\/012066\n.\nS2CID\n \n235289395\n.\n{{\ncite journal\n}}\n:  CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (\nlink\n)\n^\n\"LA pilot on the new procedures for the redesignation of specialist schools: Evaluation report spring 2010\"\n(PDF)\n. Archived from the original on 16 October 2010\n. Retrieved\n4 February\n2022\n.\n{{\ncite web\n}}\n:  CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (\nlink\n)\n^\nMalcolm, Dominic (27 March 2008).\nThe SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies\n. SAGE. p. 403.\nISBN\n \n978-1-4739-0291-6\n.\n^\nPotts, Patricia (8 December 2003).\nModernising Education in Britain and China: Comparative Perspectives on Excellence and Social Inclusion\n. Routledge. p. 242.\nISBN\n \n978-1-134-42893-9\n.\n^\nSmith, Emma, \"What Happened to the Beacon Schools? Policy Reform and Educational Equity\", Oxford Review of Education 41.3 (2015): 367-86. Web.\n^\nDaily Briefing (19 Mar 2019) Walmart offers its workers free surgery (with a catch). Now it wants others to do the same.\n^\nJennifer Flake (APR 27, 2021) Ford Accelerates Battery R&D with Dedicated Team, New Global Battery Center of Excellence Named Ford Ion Park\n^\nNorthrop Grumman (April 06, 2021) Early Risk Reduction For The Bomber Of The Future\n^\nNorthrop Grumman designates five centers of excellence in consolidation effort\nMilitary Embedded Systems Magazine; 7 March 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nPaul McLeary (6 May 2021) Huntington's Big Unmanned Plans Start To Gel\n^\nAsda,\nNew Asda centre of excellence opens in Leeds\n, accessed 11 February 2023\n^\nFinance is (finally) embracing IT\nFortune Magazine; 14 September 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nU.S. Insurance Company Unum Expands Technology Centre in Carlow\nIreland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; 18 November 2020. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nUnum Group architect charts a DevOps course to a hybrid cloud future\nZDNet; 10 September 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nUNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre\nDigitalisation World; 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nUnum Finance Chief Stresses Importance of Advocating for Digital Transformation\nThe Wall Street Journal; 19 April 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nIBM Consulting introduces Center of Excellence for generative AI to empower business transformation\nVenture Beat; May 26, 2023. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nJill Jusko (OCT 14TH, 2011) Centers of Excellence Help Manufacturers Stay Ahead in the Game\n^\nFarmer, Paul. 2001. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World -- To Treat or Not to Treat? N Engl J Med 345 (3): 209\n^\nNIH Awards $24 Million To Create 10 Maternal Health Research Centers\nForbes Magazine; 18 August 2023. Accessed 8 November 2023\n^\nCoales, U.; Marks, R.; Pringle, A. (2011).\n\"Peter Gooderham\"\n.\nBMJ\n.\n342\nd2079.\ndoi\n:\n10.1136\/bmj.d2079\n.\nS2CID\n \n220110404\n.\n^\nReid Standish (Jan 18, 2018) Inside a European Center to Combat Russia's Hybrid Warfare\n^\nJaspreet Gill\n( DoD 'hedge strategy' could bring 'element of surprise' to future conflict: Brown\n^\nCenters of Excellence Facts\nFAA\nAccessed 8 November 2023\n^\n\"Acquisition CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Aviation CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Cyber CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Fires CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Human Resources CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Initial Military Training CoE\"\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 2 September 2017\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Intelligence CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Maneuver CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\na\nb\n\"Maneuver CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Medical CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"NCO Leadership CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Space and Missile Defense CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Special Operations CoE\"\n. Archived from\nthe original\non 8 January 2022\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\n\"Sustainment CoE\"\n. Retrieved\n30 September\n2021\n.\n^\nTRADOC home page\naccessdate=2019-05-26","attrs_markdown":"[Jump to content](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#bodyContent)\n\nMain menu\n\nMain menu\n\nmove to sidebar\n\nhide\n\nNavigation\n\n- [Main page](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page \"Visit the main page [z]\")\n- [Contents](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contents \"Guides to browsing Wikipedia\")\n- [Current events](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portal:Current_events \"Articles related to current events\")\n- [Random article](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Random \"Visit a randomly selected article [x]\")\n- [About Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:About \"Learn about Wikipedia and how it works\")\n- [Contact us](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Contact_us \"How to contact Wikipedia\")\n\nContribute\n\n- [Help](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Contents \"Guidance on how to use and edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Learn to edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Help:Introduction \"Learn how to edit Wikipedia\")\n- [Community portal](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Community_portal \"The hub for editors\")\n- [Recent changes](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:RecentChanges \"A list of recent changes to Wikipedia [r]\")\n- [Upload file](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:File_upload_wizard \"Add images or other media for use on Wikipedia\")\n- [Special pages](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:SpecialPages \"A list of all special pages [q]\")\n\n[![](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/icons\/enwiki-25.svg) ![Wikipedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-wordmark-en-25.svg) ![The Free Encyclopedia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/static\/images\/mobile\/copyright\/wikipedia-tagline-en-25.svg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Main_Page)\n\n[Search](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search \"Search Wikipedia [f]\")\n\nAppearance\n\n- [Donate](https:\/\/donate.wikimedia.org\/?wmf_source=donate&wmf_medium=sidebar&wmf_campaign=en.wikipedia.org&uselang=en)\n- [Create account](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Center+of+excellence \"You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory\")\n- [Log in](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Center+of+excellence \"You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. 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The focus area might be a technology (such as the [Java software platform](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Java_\$software_platform\$ \"Java (software platform)\")), a business concept (such as [business process management](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business_process_management \"Business process management\")), a skill (such as [negotiation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negotiation \"Negotiation\")) or a broad area of study (such as [women's health](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women%27s_health \"Women's health\")). A center of excellence may also be formed to revitalize stalled initiatives.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Mark2010-1) The term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area.[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Tarek2001-2) (e.g. the [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science \"Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science\")).\n\n## Organizations\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=1 \"Edit section: Organizations\")\\]\n\nWithin an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a **competency center**, or as a **capability center**, or as an **excellence center**. Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in *Management of Portfolios*, mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff.[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-3) In technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as [service-oriented architecture](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service-oriented_architecture \"Service-oriented architecture\") or [business intelligence](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business_intelligence \"Business intelligence\").[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Eric2008-4)[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-James_MIS-5)\n\n## Academia\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=2 \"Edit section: Academia\")\\]\n\nIn academic institutions, a center of excellence often refers to a team with a clear focus on a particular area of research; such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-NRC2000-6)\n\n### South America and Asia\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=3 \"Edit section: South America and Asia\")\\]\n\nThe governments of [Guyana](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyana \"Guyana\") and [India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India \"India\") jointly formed the Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the [University of Guyana](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Guyana \"University of Guyana\") in 2019.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-7)\n\n### Australia\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=4 \"Edit section: Australia\")\\]\n\nIn Australia, the [Australian Research Council](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Research_Council \"Australian Research Council\") (ARC) funds a competitive grant program for centres of excellence which link a number of institutions within the country and internationally in a specific field of research.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8) New centres are funded every three years and each run for seven years.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8)\n\n2020-2027:\n\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Automated_Decision-Making_and_Society \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Plant_Success_in_Nature_and_Agriculture \"Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture\")\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Synthetic_Biology \"Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems\n\n2017-2024:\n\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Australian_Biodiversity_and_Heritage \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Future_Low-Energy_Electronics_Technologies \"ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology\n\n2014-2021:\n\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis\n\n2011-2018\n\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_All-Sky_Astrophysics \"ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics\")\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Climate_System_Science \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid System\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_the_History_of_Emotions \"ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Population_Ageing_Research \"ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems\n\n2004\/5-2013\n\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Creative_Industries_and_Innovation \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation\") (CCI)\n- [ARC Centre for Complex Systems](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_for_Complex_Systems \"ARC Centre for Complex Systems\")\n\n### Philippines\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=5 \"Edit section: Philippines\")\\]\n\nIn the [Philippines](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines \"Philippines\"), a center of excellence (COE) is a certification given by the [Commission on Higher Education](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commission_on_Higher_Education_\$Philippines\$ \"Commission on Higher Education (Philippines)\") to departments within a higher education institution (e.g. a college within a university) which \"continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction, research and publication, extension and linkages and institutional qualifications\". Candidates for this certification are referred as centers of development (CODs) by the education body.[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-9)\n\n### Russia\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=6 \"Edit section: Russia\")\\]\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b9\/2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg\/250px-2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg)\n\nCertificate of the Leading Scientific School of the Russian Federation (leader [N. Kuznetsov](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikolay_V._Kuznetsov \"Nikolay V. Kuznetsov\")), 2018 year\n\nIn Russia, **the Center of Excellence status** (in Russian it is used notion *[Scientific School](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_School \"Scientific School\")*) is granted by the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation since 1996.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-10) To obtain the COE status, a group of scientists, usually based on a department at a university or a laboratory at an academic institute, and its leader should have a high scientific reputation and should submit an application, which presents a plan of scientific and educational work for the period of two years, to the council. The council issues a special certificate of the COE status to the leader of the group.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-2021-JPCS-Leonov-11)\n\n### United Kingdom\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=7 \"Edit section: United Kingdom\")\\]\n\nIn the United Kingdom, schools and sixth forms specialising in an area of curriculum are known as [specialist schools](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Specialist_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom \"Specialist schools in the United Kingdom\"). These schools are recognised as centres of excellence in their specialist subject areas.[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:9-12)[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-13) Schools that attained [Beacon status](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beacon_status \"Beacon status\") were also recognised as centres of excellence,[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-14) however this status has been discontinued.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-15)\n\n## Business and technology\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=8 \"Edit section: Business and technology\")\\]\n\n[Walmart](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walmart \"Walmart\") is designating certain employee healthcare venues as centers of excellence. In 2013, several regions of the country (Dallas-Fort Worth; Northern Arkansas; Orlando, FL) Walmart is offering employees free treatment when they use the designated CoEs. Treatments are administered to covered employees, who travel to the centers, along with a caregiver, for a course of treatment at the center. Depending on the budgetary outcome, Walmart will be sharing its operational results with other employers, as a method of controlling its healthcare costs.[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-16)\n\n[Ford Motor Company](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ford_Motor_Company \"Ford Motor Company\") opened its Ford Ion Park battery center of excellence, meant to centralize a cross-functional team to accelerate the development of battery and battery cell technology. Electrical batteries would then serve as the basis for all-electric vehicles.[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-17)\n\n[Northrop Grumman](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northrop_Grumman \"Northrop Grumman\") has invested in a manned aircraft design center of excellence in [Melbourne, Florida](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melbourne,_Florida \"Melbourne, Florida\"). It uses modeling and simulation tools at the center of excellence which predict the performance of its test-bed aircraft, as a method for reducing risk during the process of developing the B-21.[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-18) In 2013, it designated five centres for excellence in the U.S.[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-19)\n\n[Huntington Ingalls Industries](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huntington_Ingalls_Industries \"Huntington Ingalls Industries\") is building out an Unmanned Systems center of excellence, which is working on Boeing's project for the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-20)\n\n[Asda](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asda \"Asda\")'s merchandising centre of excellence in [Leeds](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leeds \"Leeds\") contains \"a full-size model store for mocking up different shelf layouts and a state-of-the-art [virtual reality](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_reality \"Virtual reality\") lab, where Asda and its suppliers can test store layouts and construction plans\".[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-21)\n\n[Unum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unum \"Unum\") opened its IT centre of excellence in [Carlow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlow \"Carlow\"), [Ireland](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Ireland \"Republic of Ireland\") in 2008,[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-22) expanding it in 2020[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-23) promoting business technology in the U.S.[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-24) and abroad[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-25)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-26)\n\n[IBM Consulting](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_Consulting \"IBM Consulting\") launched its center of excellence for transformative generative [AI](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence \"Artificial intelligence\") in 2023.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-27)\n\n[Alliant Techsystems](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alliant_Techsystems \"Alliant Techsystems\"), [Otis Elevator](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otis_Elevator \"Otis Elevator\"), [Alcoa](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcoa \"Alcoa\"), [Greatbatch](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greatbatch \"Greatbatch\"), and [GE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Electric \"General Electric\") have each used centers of excellence as organizational mechanisms to gain [economies of scale](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economies_of_scale \"Economies of scale\"), when discovering and sharing efficiencies of operation.[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-28)\n\n## Healthcare\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=9 \"Edit section: Healthcare\")\\]\n\nIn the [healthcare](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Healthcare \"Healthcare\") sector, the term often refers to a center that provides sufficient and easily accessible medical services to patients.[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-29)\n\nThe [National Institutes of Health](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Institutes_of_Health \"National Institutes of Health\") (NIH) of the United States, in 2023, allocated \\$24 million to create 10 maternal health research centers of excellence.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-30)\n\nIn the British [NHS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NHS \"NHS\"), the term is almost always used [sarcastically](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarcasm \"Sarcasm\"), following its popularisation by Dr Peter Gooderham on the Doctors.net.uk fora.[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-31) It can often be heard being used to describe [tertiary centres](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teaching_hospital \"Teaching hospital\") by staff working in district general hospitals.\n\n## Defence\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=10 \"Edit section: Defence\")\\]\n\n### NATO\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=11 \"Edit section: NATO\")\\]\n\nMain article: [Allied Command Transformation § NATO Centres of Excellence](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allied_Command_Transformation#NATO_Centres_of_Excellence \"Allied Command Transformation\")\n\n### Europe\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=12 \"Edit section: Europe\")\\]\n\nIn the European defense community, the [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats \"European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats\") is a response to [hybrid warfare](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hybrid_warfare \"Hybrid warfare\") on its periphery; the COE seeks to inform, and also protect its non-[NATO](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NATO \"NATO\") components, as well as its non-[PESCO](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PESCO \"PESCO\") members.[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-32) The US Department of Defense (DoD) intends to use CoEs that focus on key technologies, such as drones, and commercial satellite imagery.[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-fastFollower-33)\n\n### United States Army\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=13 \"Edit section: United States Army\")\\]\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7c\/NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg\/250px-NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_\$47955275353\$.jpg)\n\nUS Army NCO Leadership Center of Excellence in Fort Bliss, Texas\n\nThe [Army](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army \"United States Army\") maintains numerous Centers of Excellence (CoE) at major universities,[\\[34\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-34) training installations, and other locations:\n\n1. Acquisition COE[\\[35\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-35) - [Huntsville](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huntsville,_Alabama \"Huntsville, Alabama\"), [Alabama](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabama \"Alabama\")\n2. [Aviation COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Aviation_Center_of_Excellence \"United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence\")[\\[36\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-36) - [Fort Novosel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Novosel \"Fort Novosel\"), Alabama\n3. Cyber COE[\\[37\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-37) - [Fort Gordon](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Gordon \"Fort Gordon\"), [Georgia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_\$U.S._state\$ \"Georgia (U.S. state)\")\n4. Fires COE[\\[38\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-38) - [Fort Sill](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Sill \"Fort Sill\"), [Oklahoma](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma \"Oklahoma\")\n5. [Human Resource COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Human_Resources_Command \"United States Army Human Resources Command\")[\\[39\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-39) - [Fort Knox](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Knox \"Fort Knox\"), [Kentucky](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky \"Kentucky\")\n6. [Initial Military Training COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Center_for_Initial_Military_Training \"United States Army Center for Initial Military Training\")[\\[40\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-40) - [Fort Eustis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Eustis \"Fort Eustis\"), [Virginia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia \"Virginia\")\n7. [Intelligence COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Intelligence_Center \"United States Army Intelligence Center\")[\\[41\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-41) - [Fort Huachuca](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Huachuca \"Fort Huachuca\"), [Arizona](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arizona \"Arizona\")\n8. Maneuver COE[\\[42\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-42) - [Fort Moore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Moore \"Fort Moore\"), Georgia\n9. Maneuver Support COE[\\[43\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) [Fort Leonard Wood](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Leonard_Wood \"Fort Leonard Wood\"), [Missouri](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missouri \"Missouri\")\n10. [Medical COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Medical_Department_Center_and_School \"United States Army Medical Department Center and School\")[\\[44\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-44) - [Joint Base San Antonio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joint_Base_San_Antonio \"Joint Base San Antonio\") (JBSA), [Texas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas \"Texas\")\n11. [Mission Command COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Combined_Arms_Center \"United States Army Combined Arms Center\")[\\[43\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) - [Fort Leavenworth](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Leavenworth \"Fort Leavenworth\"), [Kansas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas \"Kansas\")\n12. NCO Leadership COE[\\[45\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-45) - [Fort Bliss](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Bliss \"Fort Bliss\"), Texas\n13. [Space and Missile Defense CoE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Space_and_Missile_Defense_Command \"United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command\")[\\[46\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-46) - [Peterson Space Force Base](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peterson_Space_Force_Base \"Peterson Space Force Base\"), [Colorado](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado \"Colorado\")\n14. [Special Operations COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy_Special_Warfare_Center_and_School \"John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School\")[\\[47\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-47) - [Fort Bragg](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Bragg \"Fort Bragg\"), [North Carolina](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina \"North Carolina\")\n15. [Sustainment COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sustainment_Center_of_Excellence \"Sustainment Center of Excellence\")[\\[48\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-48) - [Fort Gregg-Adams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Gregg-Adams_\$Virginia\$ \"Fort Gregg-Adams (Virginia)\"), [Virginia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia \"Virginia\")\n\n[TRADOC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TRADOC \"TRADOC\") oversees ten of these Centers of Excellence, each focused on a separate area of expertise within the Army. These centers train over 500,000 Soldiers and service members each year.[\\[49\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-49)\n\n## See also\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=14 \"Edit section: See also\")\\]\n\n[![logo](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/4\/4a\/Commons-logo.svg\/40px-Commons-logo.svg.png)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Commons-logo.svg)\n\nWikimedia Commons has media related to [Centers of Excellence](https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Centers_of_Excellence \"commons:Category:Centers of Excellence\").\n\n- [Homeland Security Centers of Excellence](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homeland_Security_Centers_of_Excellence \"Homeland Security Centers of Excellence\")\n- [Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_for_Excellence_in_Disaster_Management_and_Humanitarian_Assistance \"Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance\"), [U.S. Pacific Command](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Pacific_Command \"U.S. Pacific Command\")\n- [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science \"Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science\")\n- [Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_Excellence_for_Stability_Police_Units \"Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units\")\n- [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats \"European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats\")\n- [Cross-functional team](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cross-functional_team \"Cross-functional team\") (CFT)\n\n## References\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=15 \"Edit section: References\")\\]\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Mark2010_1-0)**\n   Mark O. George (2010). *The lean six sigma guide to doing more with less*. John Wiley and Sons. p. 261. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-470-53957-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-53957-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-53957-6\")\n   \n   .\n2. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Tarek2001_2-0)**\n   Tarek M. Khalil; L. A. Lefebvre; Robert McSpadden Mason (13 August 2001). [*Management of technology: the key to prosperity in the third millennium: selected papers from the ninth International Conference on Management of Technology*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=akcZrH5kH60C&pg=PA164). Emerald Group Publishing. p. 164. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-08-043997-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-08-043997-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-08-043997-6\")\n   \n   . Retrieved 13 February 2012.\n3. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-3)**\n   Stephen Jenner; Craig Kilford; Office of Government Commerce (January 2011). [*Management of Portfolios*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=JwvwHxnt9TEC&pg=PA23). The Stationery Office. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-11-331294-8](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-11-331294-8 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-11-331294-8\")\n   \n   .\n4. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Eric2008_4-0)**\n   Eric A. Marks (2008). *Service-oriented architecture governance for the services driven enterprise*. John Wiley & Sons. p. 271. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-470-17125-7](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-17125-7 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-17125-7\")\n   \n   .\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-James_MIS_5-0)**\n   James A. Obrien (2007). *Management Information Systems* (Special Indian ed.). McGraw-Hill Education (India). p. 315. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-07-062003-2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-07-062003-2 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-07-062003-2\")\n   \n   .\n6. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-NRC2000_6-0)**\n   National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Materials Science and Engineering: Forging Stronger Links to Users (2000). *Materials science and engineering: forging stronger links to users*. National Academies Press. p. 139. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-309-06826-0](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-309-06826-0 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-309-06826-0\")\n   \n   .\n7. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-7)** [Centre for Excellence in IT formally launched](https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2019\/06\/21\/news\/guyana\/centre-for-excellence-in-it-formally-launched\/) Staybroeck News; 21 June 2019. Accessed 8 November 2023\n8. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:0_8-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:0_8-1)\n   [\"ARC Centres of Excellence\"](https:\/\/www.arc.gov.au\/grants\/linkage-program\/arc-centres-excellence). *Australian Research Council*. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-9)**\n   [\"Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development (CoS\\&CoDS)\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180707235042\/http:\/\/ched.gov.ph\/centers-excellence-centers-developmentcoescods\/). Commission on Higher Education. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/ched.gov.ph\/centers-excellence-centers-developmentcoescods\/) on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2019.\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-10)** [the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation](https:\/\/grants.extech.ru\/)\n11. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-2021-JPCS-Leonov_11-0)**\n    Abramovich S., Kuznetsov N., Razov A. (2021). [\"G.A. Leonov: eminent scholar, admired teacher and unconventional administrator\"](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F1864%2F1%2F012066). *Journal of Physics: Conference Series*. **1864** (1) (Journal of Physics: Conference Series ed.): 012066. [Bibcode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bibcode_\$identifier\$ \"Bibcode (identifier)\"):[2021JPhCS1864a2066A](https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2021JPhCS1864a2066A). [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\$identifier\$ \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1088\/1742-6596\/1864\/1\/012066](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F1864%2F1%2F012066). [S2CID](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S2CID_\$identifier\$ \"S2CID (identifier)\") [235289395](https:\/\/api.semanticscholar.org\/CorpusID:235289395).\n    \n    `{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list \"Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list\"))\n12. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:9_12-0)**\n    [\"LA pilot on the new procedures for the redesignation of specialist schools: Evaluation report spring 2010\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101016055253\/http:\/\/media.education.gov.uk\/assets\/files\/pdf\/l\/la%20pilot%20-%20evaluation%20report.pdf) (PDF). Archived from the original on 16 October 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2022.\n    \n    `{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown \"Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown\"))\n13. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-13)**\n    Malcolm, Dominic (27 March 2008). [*The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_e1hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT403). SAGE. p. 403. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [978-1-4739-0291-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-4739-0291-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-4739-0291-6\")\n    \n    .\n14. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-14)**\n    Potts, Patricia (8 December 2003). [*Modernising Education in Britain and China: Comparative Perspectives on Excellence and Social Inclusion*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=B3OCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA242). Routledge. p. 242. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [978-1-134-42893-9](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-134-42893-9 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-134-42893-9\")\n    \n    .\n15. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-15)** Smith, Emma, \"What Happened to the Beacon Schools? Policy Reform and Educational Equity\", Oxford Review of Education 41.3 (2015): 367-86. Web.\n16. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-16)** [Daily Briefing (19 Mar 2019) Walmart offers its workers free surgery (with a catch). Now it wants others to do the same.](https:\/\/www.advisory.com\/daily-briefing\/2019\/03\/19\/walmart-coe)\n17. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-17)** [Jennifer Flake (APR 27, 2021) Ford Accelerates Battery R\\&D with Dedicated Team, New Global Battery Center of Excellence Named Ford Ion Park](https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/press-release\/ford-accelerates-battery-rd-with-dedicated-team-new-global-battery-center-of)\n18. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-18)** [Northrop Grumman (April 06, 2021) Early Risk Reduction For The Bomber Of The Future](https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/04\/early-risk-reduction-for-the-bomber-of-the-future\/)\n19. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-19)** [Northrop Grumman designates five centers of excellence in consolidation effort](https:\/\/militaryembedded.com\/unmanned\/isr\/northrop-designates-five-centers-of-excellence-in-consolidation-effort) Military Embedded Systems Magazine; 7 March 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n20. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-20)** [Paul McLeary (6 May 2021) Huntington's Big Unmanned Plans Start To Gel](https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/05\/huntingtons-big-unmanned-plans-start-to-gel\/)\n21. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-21)** Asda, [New Asda centre of excellence opens in Leeds](https:\/\/corporate.asda.com\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/31\/new-asda-centre-of-excellence-opens-in-leeds), accessed 11 February 2023\n22. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-22)** [Finance is (finally) embracing IT](https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/09\/14\/finance-embracing-it-digital-transformation\/) Fortune Magazine; 14 September 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023\n23. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-23)** [U.S. Insurance Company Unum Expands Technology Centre in Carlow](https:\/\/enterprise.gov.ie\/en\/news-and-events\/department-news\/2020\/november\/18112020.html) Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; 18 November 2020. Accessed 8 November 2023\n24. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-24)** [Unum Group architect charts a DevOps course to a hybrid cloud future](https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/unum-group-architect-charts-a-devops-course-to-a-hybrid-cloud-future\/) ZDNet; 10 September 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n25. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-25)** [UNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre](https:\/\/digitalisationworld.com\/news\/29074\/unum-bucks-the-trend-with-private-eco-friendly-data-centre) Digitalisation World; 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n26. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-26)** [Unum Finance Chief Stresses Importance of Advocating for Digital Transformation](https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/unum-finance-chief-stresses-importance-of-advocating-for-digital-transformation-11650360601) The Wall Street Journal; 19 April 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023\n27. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-27)** [IBM Consulting introduces Center of Excellence for generative AI to empower business transformation](https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/ibm-consulting-introduces-center-excellence-generative-ai-empower-business-transformation\/) Venture Beat; May 26, 2023. Accessed 8 November 2023\n28. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-28)** [Jill Jusko (OCT 14TH, 2011) Centers of Excellence Help Manufacturers Stay Ahead in the Game](https:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/operations\/continuous-improvement\/article\/21957989\/centers-of-excellence-help-manufacturers-stay-ahead-in-the-game)\n29. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-29)** Farmer, Paul. 2001. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World -- To Treat or Not to Treat? N Engl J Med 345 (3): 209\n30. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-30)** [NIH Awards \\$24 Million To Create 10 Maternal Health Research Centers](https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeltnietzel\/2023\/08\/18\/nih-awards-24-million-to-create-12-university-hospital-based-maternal-health-research-centers\/?sh=5f7b72c834cf) Forbes Magazine; 18 August 2023. Accessed 8 November 2023\n31. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-31)**\n    Coales, U.; Marks, R.; Pringle, A. (2011). [\"Peter Gooderham\"](https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/342\/bmj.d2079). *BMJ*. **342** d2079. [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\$identifier\$ \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1136\/bmj.d2079](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136%2Fbmj.d2079). [S2CID](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S2CID_\$identifier\$ \"S2CID (identifier)\") [220110404](https:\/\/api.semanticscholar.org\/CorpusID:220110404).\n32. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-32)** [Reid Standish (Jan 18, 2018) Inside a European Center to Combat Russia's Hybrid Warfare](https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/01\/18\/inside-a-european-center-to-combat-russias-hybrid-warfare\/)\n33. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-fastFollower_33-0)** Jaspreet Gill [( DoD 'hedge strategy' could bring 'element of surprise' to future conflict: Brown](https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2022\/06\/dod-hedge-strategy-could-bring-element-of-surprise-to-future-conflict-brown\/)\n34. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-34)** [Centers of Excellence Facts](https:\/\/www.faa.gov\/about\/office_org\/headquarters_offices\/ang\/grants\/coe\/facts) [FAA](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_Aviation_Administration \"Federal Aviation Administration\") Accessed 8 November 2023\n35. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-35)**\n    [\"Acquisition CoE\"](https:\/\/asc.army.mil\/web\/taas\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n36. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-36)**\n    [\"Aviation CoE\"](http:\/\/home.army.mil\/novosel\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n37. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-37)**\n    [\"Cyber CoE\"](http:\/\/home.army.mil\/eisenhower\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n38. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-38)**\n    [\"Fires CoE\"](https:\/\/sill-www.army.mil\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n39. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-39)**\n    [\"Human Resources CoE\"](https:\/\/www.hrc.army.mil\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n40. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-40)**\n    [\"Initial Military Training CoE\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170902155440\/http:\/\/usacimt.tradoc.army.mil\/). Archived from [the original](https:\/\/usacimt.tradoc.army.mil\/) on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n41. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-41)**\n    [\"Intelligence CoE\"](https:\/\/www.army.mil\/USAICoE). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n42. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-42)**\n    [\"Maneuver CoE\"](https:\/\/www.benning.army.mil\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n43. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Wood_43-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Wood_43-1)\n    [\"Maneuver CoE\"](https:\/\/home.army.mil\/wood\/index.php). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n44. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-44)**\n    [\"Medical CoE\"](https:\/\/medcoe.army.mil\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n45. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-45)**\n    [\"NCO Leadership CoE\"](https:\/\/www.ncolcoe.army.mil\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n46. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-46)**\n    [\"Space and Missile Defense CoE\"](https:\/\/www.smdc.army.mil\/ORGANIZATION\/SMDCoE\/). Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n47. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-47)**\n    [\"Special Operations CoE\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220108202847\/https:\/\/www.soc.mil\/SWCS\/index.htm). Archived from [the original](http:\/\/www.soc.mil\/swcS\/index.htm) on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2021.\n48. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-48)**\n    [\"Sustainment CoE\"](https:\/\/alu.army.mil\/alog\/). 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The focus area might be a technology (such as the [Java software platform](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Java_\$software_platform\$ \"Java (software platform)\")), a business concept (such as [business process management](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business_process_management \"Business process management\")), a skill (such as [negotiation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Negotiation \"Negotiation\")) or a broad area of study (such as [women's health](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Women%27s_health \"Women's health\")). A center of excellence may also be formed to revitalize stalled initiatives.[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Mark2010-1) The term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area.[\\[2\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Tarek2001-2) (e.g. the [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science \"Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science\")).\n\nWithin an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a **competency center**, or as a **capability center**, or as an **excellence center**. Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in *Management of Portfolios*, mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff.[\\[3\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-3) In technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as [service-oriented architecture](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service-oriented_architecture \"Service-oriented architecture\") or [business intelligence](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Business_intelligence \"Business intelligence\").[\\[4\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Eric2008-4)[\\[5\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-James_MIS-5)\n\nIn academic institutions, a center of excellence often refers to a team with a clear focus on a particular area of research; such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities.[\\[6\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-NRC2000-6)\n\n### South America and Asia\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=3 \"Edit section: South America and Asia\")\\]\n\nThe governments of [Guyana](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guyana \"Guyana\") and [India](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/India \"India\") jointly formed the Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the [University of Guyana](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Guyana \"University of Guyana\") in 2019.[\\[7\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-7)\n\nIn Australia, the [Australian Research Council](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Research_Council \"Australian Research Council\") (ARC) funds a competitive grant program for centres of excellence which link a number of institutions within the country and internationally in a specific field of research.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8) New centres are funded every three years and each run for seven years.[\\[8\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8)\n\n2020-2027:\n\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Automated_Decision-Making_and_Society \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Plant_Success_in_Nature_and_Agriculture \"Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture\")\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Synthetic_Biology \"Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems\n\n2017-2024:\n\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Australian_Biodiversity_and_Heritage \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Future_Low-Energy_Electronics_Technologies \"ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology\n\n2014-2021:\n\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis\n\n2011-2018\n\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_All-Sky_Astrophysics \"ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics\")\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Climate_System_Science \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid System\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_the_History_of_Emotions \"ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale\n- ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Population_Ageing_Research \"ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research\")\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology\n- ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems\n\n2004\/5-2013\n\n- [ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Creative_Industries_and_Innovation \"ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation\") (CCI)\n- [ARC Centre for Complex Systems](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARC_Centre_for_Complex_Systems \"ARC Centre for Complex Systems\")\n\nIn the [Philippines](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippines \"Philippines\"), a center of excellence (COE) is a certification given by the [Commission on Higher Education](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commission_on_Higher_Education_\$Philippines\$ \"Commission on Higher Education (Philippines)\") to departments within a higher education institution (e.g. a college within a university) which \"continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction, research and publication, extension and linkages and institutional qualifications\". Candidates for this certification are referred as centers of development (CODs) by the education body.[\\[9\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-9)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b9\/2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg\/250px-2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg)\n\nCertificate of the Leading Scientific School of the Russian Federation (leader [N. Kuznetsov](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikolay_V._Kuznetsov \"Nikolay V. Kuznetsov\")), 2018 year\n\nIn Russia, **the Center of Excellence status** (in Russian it is used notion *[Scientific School](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_School \"Scientific School\")*) is granted by the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation since 1996.[\\[10\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-10) To obtain the COE status, a group of scientists, usually based on a department at a university or a laboratory at an academic institute, and its leader should have a high scientific reputation and should submit an application, which presents a plan of scientific and educational work for the period of two years, to the council. The council issues a special certificate of the COE status to the leader of the group.[\\[11\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-2021-JPCS-Leonov-11)\n\nIn the United Kingdom, schools and sixth forms specialising in an area of curriculum are known as [specialist schools](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Specialist_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom \"Specialist schools in the United Kingdom\"). These schools are recognised as centres of excellence in their specialist subject areas.[\\[12\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:9-12)[\\[13\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-13) Schools that attained [Beacon status](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beacon_status \"Beacon status\") were also recognised as centres of excellence,[\\[14\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-14) however this status has been discontinued.[\\[15\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-15)\n\n## Business and technology\n\\[[edit](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=8 \"Edit section: Business and technology\")\\]\n\n[Walmart](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walmart \"Walmart\") is designating certain employee healthcare venues as centers of excellence. In 2013, several regions of the country (Dallas-Fort Worth; Northern Arkansas; Orlando, FL) Walmart is offering employees free treatment when they use the designated CoEs. Treatments are administered to covered employees, who travel to the centers, along with a caregiver, for a course of treatment at the center. Depending on the budgetary outcome, Walmart will be sharing its operational results with other employers, as a method of controlling its healthcare costs.[\\[16\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-16)\n\n[Ford Motor Company](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ford_Motor_Company \"Ford Motor Company\") opened its Ford Ion Park battery center of excellence, meant to centralize a cross-functional team to accelerate the development of battery and battery cell technology. Electrical batteries would then serve as the basis for all-electric vehicles.[\\[17\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-17)\n\n[Northrop Grumman](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Northrop_Grumman \"Northrop Grumman\") has invested in a manned aircraft design center of excellence in [Melbourne, Florida](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melbourne,_Florida \"Melbourne, Florida\"). It uses modeling and simulation tools at the center of excellence which predict the performance of its test-bed aircraft, as a method for reducing risk during the process of developing the B-21.[\\[18\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-18) In 2013, it designated five centres for excellence in the U.S.[\\[19\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-19)\n\n[Huntington Ingalls Industries](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huntington_Ingalls_Industries \"Huntington Ingalls Industries\") is building out an Unmanned Systems center of excellence, which is working on Boeing's project for the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.[\\[20\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-20)\n\n[Asda](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asda \"Asda\")'s merchandising centre of excellence in [Leeds](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leeds \"Leeds\") contains \"a full-size model store for mocking up different shelf layouts and a state-of-the-art [virtual reality](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_reality \"Virtual reality\") lab, where Asda and its suppliers can test store layouts and construction plans\".[\\[21\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-21)\n\n[Unum](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unum \"Unum\") opened its IT centre of excellence in [Carlow](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carlow \"Carlow\"), [Ireland](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Republic_of_Ireland \"Republic of Ireland\") in 2008,[\\[22\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-22) expanding it in 2020[\\[23\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-23) promoting business technology in the U.S.[\\[24\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-24) and abroad[\\[25\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-25)[\\[26\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-26)\n\n[IBM Consulting](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IBM_Consulting \"IBM Consulting\") launched its center of excellence for transformative generative [AI](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence \"Artificial intelligence\") in 2023.[\\[27\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-27)\n\n[Alliant Techsystems](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alliant_Techsystems \"Alliant Techsystems\"), [Otis Elevator](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Otis_Elevator \"Otis Elevator\"), [Alcoa](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcoa \"Alcoa\"), [Greatbatch](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greatbatch \"Greatbatch\"), and [GE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General_Electric \"General Electric\") have each used centers of excellence as organizational mechanisms to gain [economies of scale](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economies_of_scale \"Economies of scale\"), when discovering and sharing efficiencies of operation.[\\[28\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-28)\n\nIn the [healthcare](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Healthcare \"Healthcare\") sector, the term often refers to a center that provides sufficient and easily accessible medical services to patients.[\\[29\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-29)\n\nThe [National Institutes of Health](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/National_Institutes_of_Health \"National Institutes of Health\") (NIH) of the United States, in 2023, allocated \\$24 million to create 10 maternal health research centers of excellence.[\\[30\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-30)\n\nIn the British [NHS](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NHS \"NHS\"), the term is almost always used [sarcastically](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sarcasm \"Sarcasm\"), following its popularisation by Dr Peter Gooderham on the Doctors.net.uk fora.[\\[31\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-31) It can often be heard being used to describe [tertiary centres](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teaching_hospital \"Teaching hospital\") by staff working in district general hospitals.\n\nIn the European defense community, the [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats \"European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats\") is a response to [hybrid warfare](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hybrid_warfare \"Hybrid warfare\") on its periphery; the COE seeks to inform, and also protect its non-[NATO](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NATO \"NATO\") components, as well as its non-[PESCO](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PESCO \"PESCO\") members.[\\[32\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-32) The US Department of Defense (DoD) intends to use CoEs that focus on key technologies, such as drones, and commercial satellite imagery.[\\[33\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-fastFollower-33)\n\n[![](https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/7c\/NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg\/250px-NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg)](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_\$47955275353\$.jpg)\n\nUS Army NCO Leadership Center of Excellence in Fort Bliss, Texas\n\nThe [Army](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army \"United States Army\") maintains numerous Centers of Excellence (CoE) at major universities,[\\[34\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-34) training installations, and other locations:\n\n1. Acquisition COE[\\[35\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-35) - [Huntsville](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Huntsville,_Alabama \"Huntsville, Alabama\"), [Alabama](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabama \"Alabama\")\n2. [Aviation COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Aviation_Center_of_Excellence \"United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence\")[\\[36\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-36) - [Fort Novosel](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Novosel \"Fort Novosel\"), Alabama\n3. Cyber COE[\\[37\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-37) - [Fort Gordon](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Gordon \"Fort Gordon\"), [Georgia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_\$U.S._state\$ \"Georgia (U.S. state)\")\n4. Fires COE[\\[38\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-38) - [Fort Sill](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Sill \"Fort Sill\"), [Oklahoma](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oklahoma \"Oklahoma\")\n5. [Human Resource COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Human_Resources_Command \"United States Army Human Resources Command\")[\\[39\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-39) - [Fort Knox](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Knox \"Fort Knox\"), [Kentucky](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky \"Kentucky\")\n6. [Initial Military Training COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Center_for_Initial_Military_Training \"United States Army Center for Initial Military Training\")[\\[40\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-40) - [Fort Eustis](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Eustis \"Fort Eustis\"), [Virginia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia \"Virginia\")\n7. [Intelligence COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Intelligence_Center \"United States Army Intelligence Center\")[\\[41\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-41) - [Fort Huachuca](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Huachuca \"Fort Huachuca\"), [Arizona](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arizona \"Arizona\")\n8. Maneuver COE[\\[42\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-42) - [Fort Moore](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Moore \"Fort Moore\"), Georgia\n9. Maneuver Support COE[\\[43\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) [Fort Leonard Wood](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Leonard_Wood \"Fort Leonard Wood\"), [Missouri](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missouri \"Missouri\")\n10. [Medical COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Medical_Department_Center_and_School \"United States Army Medical Department Center and School\")[\\[44\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-44) - [Joint Base San Antonio](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joint_Base_San_Antonio \"Joint Base San Antonio\") (JBSA), [Texas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Texas \"Texas\")\n11. [Mission Command COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Combined_Arms_Center \"United States Army Combined Arms Center\")[\\[43\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) - [Fort Leavenworth](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Leavenworth \"Fort Leavenworth\"), [Kansas](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kansas \"Kansas\")\n12. NCO Leadership COE[\\[45\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-45) - [Fort Bliss](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Bliss \"Fort Bliss\"), Texas\n13. [Space and Missile Defense CoE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Army_Space_and_Missile_Defense_Command \"United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command\")[\\[46\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-46) - [Peterson Space Force Base](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peterson_Space_Force_Base \"Peterson Space Force Base\"), [Colorado](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado \"Colorado\")\n14. [Special Operations COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_F._Kennedy_Special_Warfare_Center_and_School \"John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School\")[\\[47\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-47) - [Fort Bragg](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Bragg \"Fort Bragg\"), [North Carolina](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Carolina \"North Carolina\")\n15. [Sustainment COE](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sustainment_Center_of_Excellence \"Sustainment Center of Excellence\")[\\[48\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-48) - [Fort Gregg-Adams](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fort_Gregg-Adams_\$Virginia\$ \"Fort Gregg-Adams (Virginia)\"), [Virginia](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virginia \"Virginia\")\n\n[TRADOC](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/TRADOC \"TRADOC\") oversees ten of these Centers of Excellence, each focused on a separate area of expertise within the Army. These centers train over 500,000 Soldiers and service members each year.[\\[49\\]](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-49)\n\n- [Homeland Security Centers of Excellence](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homeland_Security_Centers_of_Excellence \"Homeland Security Centers of Excellence\")\n- [Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_for_Excellence_in_Disaster_Management_and_Humanitarian_Assistance \"Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance\"), [U.S. Pacific Command](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._Pacific_Command \"U.S. Pacific Command\")\n- [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science \"Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science\")\n- [Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_Excellence_for_Stability_Police_Units \"Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units\")\n- [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats \"European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats\")\n- [Cross-functional team](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cross-functional_team \"Cross-functional team\") (CFT)\n\n1. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Mark2010_1-0)**\n   Mark O. George (2010). *The lean six sigma guide to doing more with less*. John Wiley and Sons. p. 261. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-470-53957-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-53957-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-53957-6\")\n   \n   .\n2. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Tarek2001_2-0)**\n   Tarek M. Khalil; L. A. Lefebvre; Robert McSpadden Mason (13 August 2001). [*Management of technology: the key to prosperity in the third millennium: selected papers from the ninth International Conference on Management of Technology*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=akcZrH5kH60C&pg=PA164). Emerald Group Publishing. p. 164. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-08-043997-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-08-043997-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-08-043997-6\")\n   \n   . Retrieved 13 February 2012.\n3. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-3)**\n   Stephen Jenner; Craig Kilford; Office of Government Commerce (January 2011). [*Management of Portfolios*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=JwvwHxnt9TEC&pg=PA23). The Stationery Office. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-11-331294-8](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-11-331294-8 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-11-331294-8\")\n   \n   .\n4. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Eric2008_4-0)**\n   Eric A. Marks (2008). *Service-oriented architecture governance for the services driven enterprise*. John Wiley & Sons. p. 271. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-470-17125-7](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-17125-7 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-470-17125-7\")\n   \n   .\n5. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-James_MIS_5-0)**\n   James A. Obrien (2007). *Management Information Systems* (Special Indian ed.). McGraw-Hill Education (India). p. 315. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-07-062003-2](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-07-062003-2 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-07-062003-2\")\n   \n   .\n6. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-NRC2000_6-0)**\n   National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Materials Science and Engineering: Forging Stronger Links to Users (2000). *Materials science and engineering: forging stronger links to users*. National Academies Press. p. 139. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n   \n   [978-0-309-06826-0](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-0-309-06826-0 \"Special:BookSources\/978-0-309-06826-0\")\n   \n   .\n7. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-7)** [Centre for Excellence in IT formally launched](https:\/\/www.stabroeknews.com\/2019\/06\/21\/news\/guyana\/centre-for-excellence-in-it-formally-launched\/) Staybroeck News; 21 June 2019. Accessed 8 November 2023\n8. ^ [***a***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:0_8-0) [***b***](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:0_8-1)\n   [\"ARC Centres of Excellence\"](https:\/\/www.arc.gov.au\/grants\/linkage-program\/arc-centres-excellence). *Australian Research Council*. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020.\n9. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-9)**\n   [\"Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development (CoS\\&CoDS)\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180707235042\/http:\/\/ched.gov.ph\/centers-excellence-centers-developmentcoescods\/). Commission on Higher Education. Archived from [the original](https:\/\/ched.gov.ph\/centers-excellence-centers-developmentcoescods\/) on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2019.\n10. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-10)** [the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation](https:\/\/grants.extech.ru\/)\n11. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-2021-JPCS-Leonov_11-0)**\n    Abramovich S., Kuznetsov N., Razov A. (2021). [\"G.A. Leonov: eminent scholar, admired teacher and unconventional administrator\"](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F1864%2F1%2F012066). *Journal of Physics: Conference Series*. **1864** (1) (Journal of Physics: Conference Series ed.): 012066. [Bibcode](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bibcode_\$identifier\$ \"Bibcode (identifier)\"):[2021JPhCS1864a2066A](https:\/\/ui.adsabs.harvard.edu\/abs\/2021JPhCS1864a2066A). [doi](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doi_\$identifier\$ \"Doi (identifier)\"):[10\\.1088\/1742-6596\/1864\/1\/012066](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F1864%2F1%2F012066). [S2CID](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S2CID_\$identifier\$ \"S2CID (identifier)\") [235289395](https:\/\/api.semanticscholar.org\/CorpusID:235289395).\n    \n    `{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list \"Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list\"))\n12. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:9_12-0)**\n    [\"LA pilot on the new procedures for the redesignation of specialist schools: Evaluation report spring 2010\"](https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20101016055253\/http:\/\/media.education.gov.uk\/assets\/files\/pdf\/l\/la%20pilot%20-%20evaluation%20report.pdf) (PDF). Archived from the original on 16 October 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2022.\n    \n    `{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ([link](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown \"Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown\"))\n13. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-13)**\n    Malcolm, Dominic (27 March 2008). [*The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=_e1hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT403). SAGE. p. 403. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [978-1-4739-0291-6](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-4739-0291-6 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-4739-0291-6\")\n    \n    .\n14. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-14)**\n    Potts, Patricia (8 December 2003). [*Modernising Education in Britain and China: Comparative Perspectives on Excellence and Social Inclusion*](https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=B3OCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA242). Routledge. p. 242. [ISBN](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISBN_\$identifier\$ \"ISBN (identifier)\")\n    \n    [978-1-134-42893-9](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:BookSources\/978-1-134-42893-9 \"Special:BookSources\/978-1-134-42893-9\")\n    \n    .\n15. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-15)** Smith, Emma, \"What Happened to the Beacon Schools? Policy Reform and Educational Equity\", Oxford Review of Education 41.3 (2015): 367-86. Web.\n16. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-16)** [Daily Briefing (19 Mar 2019) Walmart offers its workers free surgery (with a catch). Now it wants others to do the same.](https:\/\/www.advisory.com\/daily-briefing\/2019\/03\/19\/walmart-coe)\n17. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-17)** [Jennifer Flake (APR 27, 2021) Ford Accelerates Battery R\\&D with Dedicated Team, New Global Battery Center of Excellence Named Ford Ion Park](https:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/press-release\/ford-accelerates-battery-rd-with-dedicated-team-new-global-battery-center-of)\n18. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-18)** [Northrop Grumman (April 06, 2021) Early Risk Reduction For The Bomber Of The Future](https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/04\/early-risk-reduction-for-the-bomber-of-the-future\/)\n19. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-19)** [Northrop Grumman designates five centers of excellence in consolidation effort](https:\/\/militaryembedded.com\/unmanned\/isr\/northrop-designates-five-centers-of-excellence-in-consolidation-effort) Military Embedded Systems Magazine; 7 March 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n20. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-20)** [Paul McLeary (6 May 2021) Huntington's Big Unmanned Plans Start To Gel](https:\/\/breakingdefense.com\/2021\/05\/huntingtons-big-unmanned-plans-start-to-gel\/)\n21. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-21)** Asda, [New Asda centre of excellence opens in Leeds](https:\/\/corporate.asda.com\/newsroom\/2018\/08\/31\/new-asda-centre-of-excellence-opens-in-leeds), accessed 11 February 2023\n22. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-22)** [Finance is (finally) embracing IT](https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/09\/14\/finance-embracing-it-digital-transformation\/) Fortune Magazine; 14 September 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023\n23. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-23)** [U.S. Insurance Company Unum Expands Technology Centre in Carlow](https:\/\/enterprise.gov.ie\/en\/news-and-events\/department-news\/2020\/november\/18112020.html) Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; 18 November 2020. Accessed 8 November 2023\n24. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-24)** [Unum Group architect charts a DevOps course to a hybrid cloud future](https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/unum-group-architect-charts-a-devops-course-to-a-hybrid-cloud-future\/) ZDNet; 10 September 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n25. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-25)** [UNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre](https:\/\/digitalisationworld.com\/news\/29074\/unum-bucks-the-trend-with-private-eco-friendly-data-centre) Digitalisation World; 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023\n26. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-26)** [Unum Finance Chief Stresses Importance of Advocating for Digital Transformation](https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/unum-finance-chief-stresses-importance-of-advocating-for-digital-transformation-11650360601) The Wall Street Journal; 19 April 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023\n27. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-27)** [IBM Consulting introduces Center of Excellence for generative AI to empower business transformation](https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/ai\/ibm-consulting-introduces-center-excellence-generative-ai-empower-business-transformation\/) Venture Beat; May 26, 2023. Accessed 8 November 2023\n28. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-28)** [Jill Jusko (OCT 14TH, 2011) Centers of Excellence Help Manufacturers Stay Ahead in the Game](https:\/\/www.industryweek.com\/operations\/continuous-improvement\/article\/21957989\/centers-of-excellence-help-manufacturers-stay-ahead-in-the-game)\n29. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-29)** Farmer, Paul. 2001. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World -- To Treat or Not to Treat? N Engl J Med 345 (3): 209\n30. **[^](https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-30)** [NIH Awards \\$24 Million To Create 10 Maternal Health Research Centers](https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaeltnietzel\/2023\/08\/18\/nih-awards-24-million-to-create-12-university-hospital-based-maternal-health-research-centers\/?sh=5f7b72c834cf) Forbes Magazine; 18 August 2023. 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Boilerpipe Text	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Auburn Performing Arts Center, Julie and Hal Moore Center for Excellence at Auburn High School (Alabama) is focused on performing arts . A center of excellence ( COE or CoE ), also called an excellence center , is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership , best practices , research , support, or training for a focus area. Due to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a "center of excellence", in one context, may have completely different characteristics from another. The focus area might be a technology (such as the Java software platform ), a business concept (such as business process management ), a skill (such as negotiation ) or a broad area of study (such as women's health ). A center of excellence may also be formed to revitalize stalled initiatives. [ 1 ] The term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area. [ 2 ] (e.g. the Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science ). Within an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a competency center , or as a capability center , or as an excellence center . Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in Management of Portfolios , mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff. [ 3 ] In technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as service-oriented architecture or business intelligence . [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In academic institutions, a center of excellence often refers to a team with a clear focus on a particular area of research; such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities. [ 6 ] South America and Asia [ edit ] The governments of Guyana and India jointly formed the Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the University of Guyana in 2019. [ 7 ] In Australia, the Australian Research Council (ARC) funds a competitive grant program for centres of excellence which link a number of institutions within the country and internationally in a specific field of research. [ 8 ] New centres are funded every three years and each run for seven years. [ 8 ] 2020-2027: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems 2017-2024: ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology 2014-2021: ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis 2011-2018 ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid System ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems 2004/5-2013 ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI) ARC Centre for Complex Systems In the Philippines , a center of excellence (COE) is a certification given by the Commission on Higher Education to departments within a higher education institution (e.g. a college within a university) which "continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction, research and publication, extension and linkages and institutional qualifications". Candidates for this certification are referred as centers of development (CODs) by the education body. [ 9 ] Certificate of the Leading Scientific School of the Russian Federation (leader N. Kuznetsov ), 2018 year In Russia, the Center of Excellence status (in Russian it is used notion Scientific School ) is granted by the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation since 1996. [ 10 ] To obtain the COE status, a group of scientists, usually based on a department at a university or a laboratory at an academic institute, and its leader should have a high scientific reputation and should submit an application, which presents a plan of scientific and educational work for the period of two years, to the council. The council issues a special certificate of the COE status to the leader of the group. [ 11 ] In the United Kingdom, schools and sixth forms specialising in an area of curriculum are known as specialist schools . These schools are recognised as centres of excellence in their specialist subject areas. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Schools that attained Beacon status were also recognised as centres of excellence, [ 14 ] however this status has been discontinued. [ 15 ] Business and technology [ edit ] Walmart is designating certain employee healthcare venues as centers of excellence. In 2013, several regions of the country (Dallas-Fort Worth; Northern Arkansas; Orlando, FL) Walmart is offering employees free treatment when they use the designated CoEs. Treatments are administered to covered employees, who travel to the centers, along with a caregiver, for a course of treatment at the center. Depending on the budgetary outcome, Walmart will be sharing its operational results with other employers, as a method of controlling its healthcare costs. [ 16 ] Ford Motor Company opened its Ford Ion Park battery center of excellence, meant to centralize a cross-functional team to accelerate the development of battery and battery cell technology. Electrical batteries would then serve as the basis for all-electric vehicles. [ 17 ] Northrop Grumman has invested in a manned aircraft design center of excellence in Melbourne, Florida . It uses modeling and simulation tools at the center of excellence which predict the performance of its test-bed aircraft, as a method for reducing risk during the process of developing the B-21. [ 18 ] In 2013, it designated five centres for excellence in the U.S. [ 19 ] Huntington Ingalls Industries is building out an Unmanned Systems center of excellence, which is working on Boeing's project for the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle. [ 20 ] Asda 's merchandising centre of excellence in Leeds contains "a full-size model store for mocking up different shelf layouts and a state-of-the-art virtual reality lab, where Asda and its suppliers can test store layouts and construction plans". [ 21 ] Unum opened its IT centre of excellence in Carlow , Ireland in 2008, [ 22 ] expanding it in 2020 [ 23 ] promoting business technology in the U.S. [ 24 ] and abroad [ 25 ] [ 26 ] IBM Consulting launched its center of excellence for transformative generative AI in 2023. [ 27 ] Alliant Techsystems , Otis Elevator , Alcoa , Greatbatch , and GE have each used centers of excellence as organizational mechanisms to gain economies of scale , when discovering and sharing efficiencies of operation. [ 28 ] In the healthcare sector, the term often refers to a center that provides sufficient and easily accessible medical services to patients. [ 29 ] The National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States, in 2023, allocated $24 million to create 10 maternal health research centers of excellence. [ 30 ] In the British NHS , the term is almost always used sarcastically , following its popularisation by Dr Peter Gooderham on the Doctors.net.uk fora. [ 31 ] It can often be heard being used to describe tertiary centres by staff working in district general hospitals. In the European defense community, the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats is a response to hybrid warfare on its periphery; the COE seeks to inform, and also protect its non- NATO components, as well as its non- PESCO members. [ 32 ] The US Department of Defense (DoD) intends to use CoEs that focus on key technologies, such as drones, and commercial satellite imagery. [ 33 ] US Army NCO Leadership Center of Excellence in Fort Bliss, Texas The Army maintains numerous Centers of Excellence (CoE) at major universities, [ 34 ] training installations, and other locations: Acquisition COE [ 35 ] - Huntsville , Alabama Aviation COE [ 36 ] - Fort Novosel , Alabama Cyber COE [ 37 ] - Fort Gordon , Georgia Fires COE [ 38 ] - Fort Sill , Oklahoma Human Resource COE [ 39 ] - Fort Knox , Kentucky Initial Military Training COE [ 40 ] - Fort Eustis , Virginia Intelligence COE [ 41 ] - Fort Huachuca , Arizona Maneuver COE [ 42 ] - Fort Moore , Georgia Maneuver Support COE [ 43 ] Fort Leonard Wood , Missouri Medical COE [ 44 ] - Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA), Texas Mission Command COE [ 43 ] - Fort Leavenworth , Kansas NCO Leadership COE [ 45 ] - Fort Bliss , Texas Space and Missile Defense CoE [ 46 ] - Peterson Space Force Base , Colorado Special Operations COE [ 47 ] - Fort Bragg , North Carolina Sustainment COE [ 48 ] - Fort Gregg-Adams , Virginia TRADOC oversees ten of these Centers of Excellence, each focused on a separate area of expertise within the Army. These centers train over 500,000 Soldiers and service members each year. [ 49 ] Homeland Security Centers of Excellence Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance , U.S. Pacific Command Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats Cross-functional team (CFT) ^ Mark O. George (2010). The lean six sigma guide to doing more with less . John Wiley and Sons. p. 261. ISBN 978-0-470-53957-6 . ^ Tarek M. Khalil; L. A. Lefebvre; Robert McSpadden Mason (13 August 2001). Management of technology: the key to prosperity in the third millennium: selected papers from the ninth International Conference on Management of Technology . Emerald Group Publishing. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-08-043997-6 . Retrieved 13 February 2012 . ^ Stephen Jenner; Craig Kilford; Office of Government Commerce (January 2011). Management of Portfolios . The Stationery Office. 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Modernising Education in Britain and China: Comparative Perspectives on Excellence and Social Inclusion . Routledge. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-134-42893-9 . ^ Smith, Emma, "What Happened to the Beacon Schools? Policy Reform and Educational Equity", Oxford Review of Education 41.3 (2015): 367-86. Web. ^ Daily Briefing (19 Mar 2019) Walmart offers its workers free surgery (with a catch). Now it wants others to do the same. ^ Jennifer Flake (APR 27, 2021) Ford Accelerates Battery R&D with Dedicated Team, New Global Battery Center of Excellence Named Ford Ion Park ^ Northrop Grumman (April 06, 2021) Early Risk Reduction For The Bomber Of The Future ^ Northrop Grumman designates five centers of excellence in consolidation effort Military Embedded Systems Magazine; 7 March 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023 ^ Paul McLeary (6 May 2021) Huntington's Big Unmanned Plans Start To Gel ^ Asda, New Asda centre of excellence opens in Leeds , accessed 11 February 2023 ^ Finance is (finally) embracing IT Fortune Magazine; 14 September 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023 ^ U.S. Insurance Company Unum Expands Technology Centre in Carlow Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; 18 November 2020. Accessed 8 November 2023 ^ Unum Group architect charts a DevOps course to a hybrid cloud future ZDNet; 10 September 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023 ^ UNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre Digitalisation World; 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023 ^ Unum Finance Chief Stresses Importance of Advocating for Digital Transformation The Wall Street Journal; 19 April 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023 ^ IBM Consulting introduces Center of Excellence for generative AI to empower business transformation Venture Beat; May 26, 2023. 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Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "Initial Military Training CoE" . Archived from the original on 2 September 2017 . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "Intelligence CoE" . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "Maneuver CoE" . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ a b "Maneuver CoE" . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "Medical CoE" . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "NCO Leadership CoE" . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "Space and Missile Defense CoE" . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "Special Operations CoE" . Archived from the original on 8 January 2022 . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ "Sustainment CoE" . Retrieved 30 September 2021 . ^ TRADOC home page accessdate=2019-05-26
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[![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_Julie_and_Hal_Moore_Center_for_Excellence.jpg/250px-The_Julie_and_Hal_Moore_Center_for_Excellence.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Julie_and_Hal_Moore_Center_for_Excellence.jpg) The Auburn Performing Arts Center, Julie and Hal Moore Center for Excellence at [Auburn High School (Alabama)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_High_School_$Alabama$ "Auburn High School (Alabama)") is focused on [performing arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_arts "Performing arts"). A center of excellence (COE or CoE), also called an excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides [leadership](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership "Leadership"), [best practices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_practice "Best practice"), [research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research "Research"), support, or training for a focus area. Due to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a "center of excellence", in one context, may have completely different characteristics from another. The focus area might be a technology (such as the [Java software platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_$software_platform$ "Java (software platform)")), a business concept (such as [business process management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_management "Business process management")), a skill (such as [negotiation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiation "Negotiation")) or a broad area of study (such as [women's health](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_health "Women's health")). A center of excellence may also be formed to revitalize stalled initiatives.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Mark2010-1) The term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Tarek2001-2) (e.g. the [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science "Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science")). ## Organizations \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=1 "Edit section: Organizations")\] Within an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a competency center, or as a capability center, or as an excellence center. Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in Management of Portfolios, mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-3) In technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as [service-oriented architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture "Service-oriented architecture") or [business intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence "Business intelligence").[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Eric2008-4)[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-James_MIS-5) ## Academia \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=2 "Edit section: Academia")\] In academic institutions, a center of excellence often refers to a team with a clear focus on a particular area of research; such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-NRC2000-6) ### South America and Asia \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: South America and Asia")\] The governments of [Guyana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana "Guyana") and [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India") jointly formed the Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the [University of Guyana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Guyana "University of Guyana") in 2019.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-7) ### Australia \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=4 "Edit section: Australia")\] In Australia, the [Australian Research Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Research_Council "Australian Research Council") (ARC) funds a competitive grant program for centres of excellence which link a number of institutions within the country and internationally in a specific field of research.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8) New centres are funded every three years and each run for seven years.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8) 2020-2027: - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Automated_Decision-Making_and_Society "ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course - ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics - ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child - ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals - ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Plant_Success_in_Nature_and_Agriculture "Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture") - [ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Synthetic_Biology "Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems 2017-2024: - ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Australian_Biodiversity_and_Heritage "ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes - ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems - ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science - [ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Future_Low-Energy_Electronics_Technologies "ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery - ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research - ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology 2014-2021: - ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging - ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course - ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology - ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language - ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science - ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies - ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function - ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights - ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics - ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology - ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision - ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis 2011-2018 - [ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_All-Sky_Astrophysics "ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics") - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Climate_System_Science "ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science") - ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders - ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid System - ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems - ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions - ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering - [ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_the_History_of_Emotions "ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale - ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology - [ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Population_Ageing_Research "ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology - ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems 2004/5-2013 - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Creative_Industries_and_Innovation "ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation") (CCI) - [ARC Centre for Complex Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_for_Complex_Systems "ARC Centre for Complex Systems") ### Philippines \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Philippines")\] In the [Philippines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines "Philippines"), a center of excellence (COE) is a certification given by the [Commission on Higher Education](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Higher_Education_$Philippines$ "Commission on Higher Education (Philippines)") to departments within a higher education institution (e.g. a college within a university) which "continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction, research and publication, extension and linkages and institutional qualifications". Candidates for this certification are referred as centers of development (CODs) by the education body.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-9) ### Russia \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=6 "Edit section: Russia")\] [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg/250px-2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg) Certificate of the Leading Scientific School of the Russian Federation (leader [N. Kuznetsov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_V._Kuznetsov "Nikolay V. Kuznetsov")), 2018 year In Russia, the Center of Excellence status (in Russian it is used notion [Scientific School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_School "Scientific School")) is granted by the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation since 1996.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-10) To obtain the COE status, a group of scientists, usually based on a department at a university or a laboratory at an academic institute, and its leader should have a high scientific reputation and should submit an application, which presents a plan of scientific and educational work for the period of two years, to the council. The council issues a special certificate of the COE status to the leader of the group.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-2021-JPCS-Leonov-11) ### United Kingdom \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=7 "Edit section: United Kingdom")\] In the United Kingdom, schools and sixth forms specialising in an area of curriculum are known as [specialist schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom "Specialist schools in the United Kingdom"). These schools are recognised as centres of excellence in their specialist subject areas.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:9-12)[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-13) Schools that attained [Beacon status](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_status "Beacon status") were also recognised as centres of excellence,[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-14) however this status has been discontinued.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-15) ## Business and technology \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: Business and technology")\] [Walmart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart "Walmart") is designating certain employee healthcare venues as centers of excellence. In 2013, several regions of the country (Dallas-Fort Worth; Northern Arkansas; Orlando, FL) Walmart is offering employees free treatment when they use the designated CoEs. Treatments are administered to covered employees, who travel to the centers, along with a caregiver, for a course of treatment at the center. Depending on the budgetary outcome, Walmart will be sharing its operational results with other employers, as a method of controlling its healthcare costs.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-16) [Ford Motor Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company "Ford Motor Company") opened its Ford Ion Park battery center of excellence, meant to centralize a cross-functional team to accelerate the development of battery and battery cell technology. Electrical batteries would then serve as the basis for all-electric vehicles.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-17) [Northrop Grumman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman "Northrop Grumman") has invested in a manned aircraft design center of excellence in [Melbourne, Florida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne,_Florida "Melbourne, Florida"). It uses modeling and simulation tools at the center of excellence which predict the performance of its test-bed aircraft, as a method for reducing risk during the process of developing the B-21.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-18) In 2013, it designated five centres for excellence in the U.S.[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-19) [Huntington Ingalls Industries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Ingalls_Industries "Huntington Ingalls Industries") is building out an Unmanned Systems center of excellence, which is working on Boeing's project for the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-20) [Asda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asda "Asda")'s merchandising centre of excellence in [Leeds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds "Leeds") contains "a full-size model store for mocking up different shelf layouts and a state-of-the-art [virtual reality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality "Virtual reality") lab, where Asda and its suppliers can test store layouts and construction plans".[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-21) [Unum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum "Unum") opened its IT centre of excellence in [Carlow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlow "Carlow"), [Ireland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland "Republic of Ireland") in 2008,[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-22) expanding it in 2020[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-23) promoting business technology in the U.S.[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-24) and abroad[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-26) [IBM Consulting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Consulting "IBM Consulting") launched its center of excellence for transformative generative [AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence") in 2023.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-27) [Alliant Techsystems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliant_Techsystems "Alliant Techsystems"), [Otis Elevator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Elevator "Otis Elevator"), [Alcoa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa "Alcoa"), [Greatbatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatbatch "Greatbatch"), and [GE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric "General Electric") have each used centers of excellence as organizational mechanisms to gain [economies of scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale "Economies of scale"), when discovering and sharing efficiencies of operation.[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-28) ## Healthcare \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=9 "Edit section: Healthcare")\] In the [healthcare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare "Healthcare") sector, the term often refers to a center that provides sufficient and easily accessible medical services to patients.[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-29) The [National Institutes of Health](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health "National Institutes of Health") (NIH) of the United States, in 2023, allocated \$24 million to create 10 maternal health research centers of excellence.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-30) In the British [NHS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS "NHS"), the term is almost always used [sarcastically](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm "Sarcasm"), following its popularisation by Dr Peter Gooderham on the Doctors.net.uk fora.[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-31) It can often be heard being used to describe [tertiary centres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_hospital "Teaching hospital") by staff working in district general hospitals. ## Defence \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=10 "Edit section: Defence")\] ### NATO \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=11 "Edit section: NATO")\] Main article: [Allied Command Transformation § NATO Centres of Excellence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Command_Transformation#NATO_Centres_of_Excellence "Allied Command Transformation") ### Europe \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=12 "Edit section: Europe")\] In the European defense community, the [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats "European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats") is a response to [hybrid warfare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_warfare "Hybrid warfare") on its periphery; the COE seeks to inform, and also protect its non-[NATO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO "NATO") components, as well as its non-[PESCO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PESCO "PESCO") members.[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-32) The US Department of Defense (DoD) intends to use CoEs that focus on key technologies, such as drones, and commercial satellite imagery.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-fastFollower-33) ### United States Army \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=13 "Edit section: United States Army")\] [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg/250px-NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_$47955275353$.jpg) US Army NCO Leadership Center of Excellence in Fort Bliss, Texas The [Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army "United States Army") maintains numerous Centers of Excellence (CoE) at major universities,[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-34) training installations, and other locations: 1. Acquisition COE[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-35) - [Huntsville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsville,_Alabama "Huntsville, Alabama"), [Alabama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama "Alabama") 2. [Aviation COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Aviation_Center_of_Excellence "United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence")[\[36\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-36) - [Fort Novosel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Novosel "Fort Novosel"), Alabama 3. Cyber COE[\[37\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-37) - [Fort Gordon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gordon "Fort Gordon"), [Georgia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_$U.S._state$ "Georgia (U.S. state)") 4. Fires COE[\[38\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-38) - [Fort Sill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sill "Fort Sill"), [Oklahoma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma "Oklahoma") 5. [Human Resource COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Human_Resources_Command "United States Army Human Resources Command")[\[39\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-39) - [Fort Knox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox "Fort Knox"), [Kentucky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky "Kentucky") 6. [Initial Military Training COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Center_for_Initial_Military_Training "United States Army Center for Initial Military Training")[\[40\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-40) - [Fort Eustis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Eustis "Fort Eustis"), [Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia "Virginia") 7. [Intelligence COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Intelligence_Center "United States Army Intelligence Center")[\[41\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-41) - [Fort Huachuca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Huachuca "Fort Huachuca"), [Arizona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona "Arizona") 8. Maneuver COE[\[42\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-42) - [Fort Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Moore "Fort Moore"), Georgia 9. Maneuver Support COE[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) [Fort Leonard Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Leonard_Wood "Fort Leonard Wood"), [Missouri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri "Missouri") 10. [Medical COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Medical_Department_Center_and_School "United States Army Medical Department Center and School")[\[44\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-44) - [Joint Base San Antonio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Base_San_Antonio "Joint Base San Antonio") (JBSA), [Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas "Texas") 11. [Mission Command COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Combined_Arms_Center "United States Army Combined Arms Center")[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) - [Fort Leavenworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Leavenworth "Fort Leavenworth"), [Kansas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas "Kansas") 12. NCO Leadership COE[\[45\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-45) - [Fort Bliss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss "Fort Bliss"), Texas 13. [Space and Missile Defense CoE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Space_and_Missile_Defense_Command "United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command")[\[46\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-46) - [Peterson Space Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson_Space_Force_Base "Peterson Space Force Base"), [Colorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado "Colorado") 14. [Special Operations COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Special_Warfare_Center_and_School "John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School")[\[47\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-47) - [Fort Bragg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg "Fort Bragg"), [North Carolina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina "North Carolina") 15. [Sustainment COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainment_Center_of_Excellence "Sustainment Center of Excellence")[\[48\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-48) - [Fort Gregg-Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gregg-Adams_$Virginia$ "Fort Gregg-Adams (Virginia)"), [Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia "Virginia") [TRADOC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRADOC "TRADOC") oversees ten of these Centers of Excellence, each focused on a separate area of expertise within the Army. These centers train over 500,000 Soldiers and service members each year.[\[49\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-49) ## See also \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=14 "Edit section: See also")\] [![logo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/40px-Commons-logo.svg.png)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg) Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Centers of Excellence](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Centers_of_Excellence "commons:Category:Centers of Excellence"). - [Homeland Security Centers of Excellence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Centers_of_Excellence "Homeland Security Centers of Excellence") - [Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Excellence_in_Disaster_Management_and_Humanitarian_Assistance "Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance"), [U.S. Pacific Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Pacific_Command "U.S. Pacific Command") - [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science "Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science") - [Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_Excellence_for_Stability_Police_Units "Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units") - [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats "European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats") - [Cross-functional team](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-functional_team "Cross-functional team") (CFT) ## References \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=15 "Edit section: References")\] 1. 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[^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-34) [Centers of Excellence Facts](https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ang/grants/coe/facts) [FAA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration "Federal Aviation Administration") Accessed 8 November 2023 35. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-35) ["Acquisition CoE"](https://asc.army.mil/web/taas/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 36. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-36) ["Aviation CoE"](http://home.army.mil/novosel/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 37. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-37) ["Cyber CoE"](http://home.army.mil/eisenhower/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 38. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-38) ["Fires CoE"](https://sill-www.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 39. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-39) ["Human Resources CoE"](https://www.hrc.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 40. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-40) ["Initial Military Training CoE"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170902155440/http://usacimt.tradoc.army.mil/). Archived from [the original](https://usacimt.tradoc.army.mil/) on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2021. 41. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-41) ["Intelligence CoE"](https://www.army.mil/USAICoE). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 42. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-42) ["Maneuver CoE"](https://www.benning.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 43. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Wood_43-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Wood_43-1) ["Maneuver CoE"](https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 44. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-44)* ["Medical CoE"](https://medcoe.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 45. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-45) ["NCO Leadership CoE"](https://www.ncolcoe.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 46. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-46) ["Space and Missile Defense CoE"](https://www.smdc.army.mil/ORGANIZATION/SMDCoE/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 47. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-47) ["Special Operations CoE"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220108202847/https://www.soc.mil/SWCS/index.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.soc.mil/swcS/index.htm) on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2021. 48. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-48) ["Sustainment CoE"](https://alu.army.mil/alog/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 49. 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Readable Markdown	From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8e/The_Julie_and_Hal_Moore_Center_for_Excellence.jpg/250px-The_Julie_and_Hal_Moore_Center_for_Excellence.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Julie_and_Hal_Moore_Center_for_Excellence.jpg) The Auburn Performing Arts Center, Julie and Hal Moore Center for Excellence at [Auburn High School (Alabama)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_High_School_$Alabama$ "Auburn High School (Alabama)") is focused on [performing arts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performing_arts "Performing arts"). A center of excellence (COE or CoE), also called an excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides [leadership](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership "Leadership"), [best practices](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_practice "Best practice"), [research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research "Research"), support, or training for a focus area. Due to its broad usage and vague legal precedent, a "center of excellence", in one context, may have completely different characteristics from another. The focus area might be a technology (such as the [Java software platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_$software_platform$ "Java (software platform)")), a business concept (such as [business process management](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_process_management "Business process management")), a skill (such as [negotiation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negotiation "Negotiation")) or a broad area of study (such as [women's health](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_health "Women's health")). A center of excellence may also be formed to revitalize stalled initiatives.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Mark2010-1) The term may also refer to a network of institutions collaborating with each other to pursue excellence in a particular area.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Tarek2001-2) (e.g. the [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science "Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science")). Within an organization, a center of excellence may refer to a group of people, a department or a shared facility. It may also be known as a competency center, or as a capability center, or as an excellence center. Stephen Jenner and Craig Kilford, in Management of Portfolios, mention COE as a coordinating function which ensures that change initiatives are delivered consistently and well, through standard processes and competent staff.[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-3) In technology companies, the center of excellence concept is often associated with new software tools, technologies or associated business concepts such as [service-oriented architecture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_architecture "Service-oriented architecture") or [business intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence "Business intelligence").[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Eric2008-4)[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-James_MIS-5) In academic institutions, a center of excellence often refers to a team with a clear focus on a particular area of research; such a center may bring together faculty members from different disciplines and provide shared facilities.[\[6\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-NRC2000-6) ### South America and Asia \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=3 "Edit section: South America and Asia")\] The governments of [Guyana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana "Guyana") and [India](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India "India") jointly formed the Centre for Excellence in Information Technology (CEIT) at the [University of Guyana](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Guyana "University of Guyana") in 2019.[\[7\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-7) In Australia, the [Australian Research Council](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Research_Council "Australian Research Council") (ARC) funds a competitive grant program for centres of excellence which link a number of institutions within the country and internationally in a specific field of research.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8) New centres are funded every three years and each run for seven years.[\[8\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:0-8) 2020-2027: - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Automated_Decision-Making_and_Society "ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course - ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics - ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child - ARC Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals - ARC Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Plant_Success_in_Nature_and_Agriculture "Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture") - [ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Research_Council_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Synthetic_Biology "Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems 2017-2024: - ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Australian_Biodiversity_and_Heritage "ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes - ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems - ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science - [ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Future_Low-Energy_Electronics_Technologies "ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery - ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research - ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology 2014-2021: - ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Molecular Imaging - ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course - ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology - ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language - ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science - ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrated Coral Reef Studies - ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function - ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers of Big Data, Big Models, New Insights - ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics - ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology - ARC Centre of Excellence for Robotic Vision - ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis 2011-2018 - [ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_All-Sky_Astrophysics "ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics") - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Climate_System_Science "ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science") - ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders - ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid System - ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems - ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions - ARC Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering - [ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_the_History_of_Emotions "ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Tera-Scale - ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Wall Biology - [ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_in_Population_Ageing_Research "ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research") - ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology - ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems 2004/5-2013 - [ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Creative_Industries_and_Innovation "ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation") (CCI) - [ARC Centre for Complex Systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_Centre_for_Complex_Systems "ARC Centre for Complex Systems") In the [Philippines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines "Philippines"), a center of excellence (COE) is a certification given by the [Commission on Higher Education](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Higher_Education_$Philippines$ "Commission on Higher Education (Philippines)") to departments within a higher education institution (e.g. a college within a university) which "continuously demonstrates excellent performance in the areas of instruction, research and publication, extension and linkages and institutional qualifications". Candidates for this certification are referred as centers of development (CODs) by the education body.[\[9\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-9) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg/250px-2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2018-Leading-Scientific-school-Center-of-Excellence-Sample.jpg) Certificate of the Leading Scientific School of the Russian Federation (leader [N. Kuznetsov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay_V._Kuznetsov "Nikolay V. Kuznetsov")), 2018 year In Russia, the Center of Excellence status (in Russian it is used notion [Scientific School](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_School "Scientific School")) is granted by the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation since 1996.[\[10\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-10) To obtain the COE status, a group of scientists, usually based on a department at a university or a laboratory at an academic institute, and its leader should have a high scientific reputation and should submit an application, which presents a plan of scientific and educational work for the period of two years, to the council. The council issues a special certificate of the COE status to the leader of the group.[\[11\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-2021-JPCS-Leonov-11) In the United Kingdom, schools and sixth forms specialising in an area of curriculum are known as [specialist schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialist_schools_in_the_United_Kingdom "Specialist schools in the United Kingdom"). These schools are recognised as centres of excellence in their specialist subject areas.[\[12\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-:9-12)[\[13\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-13) Schools that attained [Beacon status](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon_status "Beacon status") were also recognised as centres of excellence,[\[14\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-14) however this status has been discontinued.[\[15\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-15) ## Business and technology \[[edit](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Center_of_excellence&action=edit&section=8 "Edit section: Business and technology")\] [Walmart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart "Walmart") is designating certain employee healthcare venues as centers of excellence. In 2013, several regions of the country (Dallas-Fort Worth; Northern Arkansas; Orlando, FL) Walmart is offering employees free treatment when they use the designated CoEs. Treatments are administered to covered employees, who travel to the centers, along with a caregiver, for a course of treatment at the center. Depending on the budgetary outcome, Walmart will be sharing its operational results with other employers, as a method of controlling its healthcare costs.[\[16\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-16) [Ford Motor Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Motor_Company "Ford Motor Company") opened its Ford Ion Park battery center of excellence, meant to centralize a cross-functional team to accelerate the development of battery and battery cell technology. Electrical batteries would then serve as the basis for all-electric vehicles.[\[17\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-17) [Northrop Grumman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman "Northrop Grumman") has invested in a manned aircraft design center of excellence in [Melbourne, Florida](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne,_Florida "Melbourne, Florida"). It uses modeling and simulation tools at the center of excellence which predict the performance of its test-bed aircraft, as a method for reducing risk during the process of developing the B-21.[\[18\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-18) In 2013, it designated five centres for excellence in the U.S.[\[19\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-19) [Huntington Ingalls Industries](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Ingalls_Industries "Huntington Ingalls Industries") is building out an Unmanned Systems center of excellence, which is working on Boeing's project for the Navy's Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle.[\[20\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-20) [Asda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asda "Asda")'s merchandising centre of excellence in [Leeds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds "Leeds") contains "a full-size model store for mocking up different shelf layouts and a state-of-the-art [virtual reality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality "Virtual reality") lab, where Asda and its suppliers can test store layouts and construction plans".[\[21\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-21) [Unum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unum "Unum") opened its IT centre of excellence in [Carlow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlow "Carlow"), [Ireland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland "Republic of Ireland") in 2008,[\[22\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-22) expanding it in 2020[\[23\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-23) promoting business technology in the U.S.[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-24) and abroad[\[25\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-25)[\[26\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-26) [IBM Consulting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Consulting "IBM Consulting") launched its center of excellence for transformative generative [AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence") in 2023.[\[27\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-27) [Alliant Techsystems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliant_Techsystems "Alliant Techsystems"), [Otis Elevator](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis_Elevator "Otis Elevator"), [Alcoa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoa "Alcoa"), [Greatbatch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatbatch "Greatbatch"), and [GE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric "General Electric") have each used centers of excellence as organizational mechanisms to gain [economies of scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale "Economies of scale"), when discovering and sharing efficiencies of operation.[\[28\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-28) In the [healthcare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare "Healthcare") sector, the term often refers to a center that provides sufficient and easily accessible medical services to patients.[\[29\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-29) The [National Institutes of Health](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health "National Institutes of Health") (NIH) of the United States, in 2023, allocated \$24 million to create 10 maternal health research centers of excellence.[\[30\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-30) In the British [NHS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS "NHS"), the term is almost always used [sarcastically](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm "Sarcasm"), following its popularisation by Dr Peter Gooderham on the Doctors.net.uk fora.[\[31\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-31) It can often be heard being used to describe [tertiary centres](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching_hospital "Teaching hospital") by staff working in district general hospitals. In the European defense community, the [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats "European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats") is a response to [hybrid warfare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_warfare "Hybrid warfare") on its periphery; the COE seeks to inform, and also protect its non-[NATO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO "NATO") components, as well as its non-[PESCO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PESCO "PESCO") members.[\[32\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-32) The US Department of Defense (DoD) intends to use CoEs that focus on key technologies, such as drones, and commercial satellite imagery.[\[33\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-fastFollower-33) [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg/250px-NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_%2847955275353%29.jpg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NCO_Leadership_Center_of_Excellence_Fort_Bliss_$47955275353$.jpg) US Army NCO Leadership Center of Excellence in Fort Bliss, Texas The [Army](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army "United States Army") maintains numerous Centers of Excellence (CoE) at major universities,[\[34\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-34) training installations, and other locations: 1. Acquisition COE[\[35\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-35) - [Huntsville](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsville,_Alabama "Huntsville, Alabama"), [Alabama](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama "Alabama") 2. [Aviation COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Aviation_Center_of_Excellence "United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence")[\[36\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-36) - [Fort Novosel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Novosel "Fort Novosel"), Alabama 3. Cyber COE[\[37\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-37) - [Fort Gordon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gordon "Fort Gordon"), [Georgia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_$U.S._state$ "Georgia (U.S. state)") 4. Fires COE[\[38\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-38) - [Fort Sill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sill "Fort Sill"), [Oklahoma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma "Oklahoma") 5. [Human Resource COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Human_Resources_Command "United States Army Human Resources Command")[\[39\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-39) - [Fort Knox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Knox "Fort Knox"), [Kentucky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky "Kentucky") 6. [Initial Military Training COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Center_for_Initial_Military_Training "United States Army Center for Initial Military Training")[\[40\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-40) - [Fort Eustis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Eustis "Fort Eustis"), [Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia "Virginia") 7. [Intelligence COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Intelligence_Center "United States Army Intelligence Center")[\[41\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-41) - [Fort Huachuca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Huachuca "Fort Huachuca"), [Arizona](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona "Arizona") 8. Maneuver COE[\[42\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-42) - [Fort Moore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Moore "Fort Moore"), Georgia 9. Maneuver Support COE[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) [Fort Leonard Wood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Leonard_Wood "Fort Leonard Wood"), [Missouri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri "Missouri") 10. [Medical COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Medical_Department_Center_and_School "United States Army Medical Department Center and School")[\[44\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-44) - [Joint Base San Antonio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Base_San_Antonio "Joint Base San Antonio") (JBSA), [Texas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas "Texas") 11. [Mission Command COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Combined_Arms_Center "United States Army Combined Arms Center")[\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-Wood-43) - [Fort Leavenworth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Leavenworth "Fort Leavenworth"), [Kansas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas "Kansas") 12. NCO Leadership COE[\[45\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-45) - [Fort Bliss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bliss "Fort Bliss"), Texas 13. [Space and Missile Defense CoE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Space_and_Missile_Defense_Command "United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command")[\[46\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-46) - [Peterson Space Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterson_Space_Force_Base "Peterson Space Force Base"), [Colorado](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado "Colorado") 14. [Special Operations COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Special_Warfare_Center_and_School "John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School")[\[47\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-47) - [Fort Bragg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg "Fort Bragg"), [North Carolina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Carolina "North Carolina") 15. [Sustainment COE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainment_Center_of_Excellence "Sustainment Center of Excellence")[\[48\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-48) - [Fort Gregg-Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Gregg-Adams_$Virginia$ "Fort Gregg-Adams (Virginia)"), [Virginia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia "Virginia") [TRADOC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRADOC "TRADOC") oversees ten of these Centers of Excellence, each focused on a separate area of expertise within the Army. These centers train over 500,000 Soldiers and service members each year.[\[49\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_note-49) - [Homeland Security Centers of Excellence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Centers_of_Excellence "Homeland Security Centers of Excellence") - [Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Excellence_in_Disaster_Management_and_Humanitarian_Assistance "Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance"), [U.S. Pacific Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Pacific_Command "U.S. Pacific Command") - [Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester_Area_Colleges_Center_for_Excellence_in_Math_and_Science "Rochester Area Colleges Center for Excellence in Math and Science") - [Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_Excellence_for_Stability_Police_Units "Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units") - [European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Centre_of_Excellence_for_Countering_Hybrid_Threats "European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats") - [Cross-functional team](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-functional_team "Cross-functional team") (CFT) 1. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Mark2010_1-0) Mark O. George (2010). The lean six sigma guide to doing more with less. John Wiley and Sons. p. 261. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-470-53957-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-470-53957-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-470-53957-6") . 2. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Tarek2001_2-0) Tarek M. Khalil; L. A. Lefebvre; Robert McSpadden Mason (13 August 2001). [Management of technology: the key to prosperity in the third millennium: selected papers from the ninth International Conference on Management of Technology](https://books.google.com/books?id=akcZrH5kH60C&pg=PA164). Emerald Group Publishing. p. 164. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-08-043997-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-08-043997-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-08-043997-6") . Retrieved 13 February 2012. 3. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-3) Stephen Jenner; Craig Kilford; Office of Government Commerce (January 2011). [Management of Portfolios](https://books.google.com/books?id=JwvwHxnt9TEC&pg=PA23). The Stationery Office. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-11-331294-8](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-11-331294-8 "Special:BookSources/978-0-11-331294-8") . 4. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Eric2008_4-0) Eric A. Marks (2008). Service-oriented architecture governance for the services driven enterprise. John Wiley & Sons. p. 271. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-470-17125-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-470-17125-7 "Special:BookSources/978-0-470-17125-7") . 5. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-James_MIS_5-0) James A. Obrien (2007). Management Information Systems (Special Indian ed.). McGraw-Hill Education (India). p. 315. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-07-062003-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-07-062003-2 "Special:BookSources/978-0-07-062003-2") . 6. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-NRC2000_6-0) National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Materials Science and Engineering: Forging Stronger Links to Users (2000). Materials science and engineering: forging stronger links to users. National Academies Press. p. 139. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-309-06826-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-309-06826-0 "Special:BookSources/978-0-309-06826-0") . 7. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-7) [Centre for Excellence in IT formally launched](https://www.stabroeknews.com/2019/06/21/news/guyana/centre-for-excellence-in-it-formally-launched/) Staybroeck News; 21 June 2019. Accessed 8 November 2023 8. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:0_8-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:0_8-1) ["ARC Centres of Excellence"](https://www.arc.gov.au/grants/linkage-program/arc-centres-excellence). Australian Research Council. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 9 April 2020. 9. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-9)* ["Centers of Excellence and Centers of Development (CoS\&CoDS)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20180707235042/http://ched.gov.ph/centers-excellence-centers-developmentcoescods/). Commission on Higher Education. Archived from [the original](https://ched.gov.ph/centers-excellence-centers-developmentcoescods/) on 7 July 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2019. 10. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-10) [the Council for Grants of the President of the Russian Federation](https://grants.extech.ru/) 11. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-2021-JPCS-Leonov_11-0) Abramovich S., Kuznetsov N., Razov A. (2021). ["G.A. Leonov: eminent scholar, admired teacher and unconventional administrator"](https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F1864%2F1%2F012066). Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1864 (1) (Journal of Physics: Conference Series ed.): 012066. [Bibcode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibcode_$identifier$ "Bibcode (identifier)"):[2021JPhCS1864a2066A](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021JPhCS1864a2066A). [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_$identifier$ "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1088/1742-6596/1864/1/012066](https://doi.org/10.1088%2F1742-6596%2F1864%2F1%2F012066). [S2CID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2CID_$identifier$ "S2CID (identifier)") [235289395](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:235289395). `{{cite journal}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_multiple_names:_authors_list "Category:CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list")) 12. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-:9_12-0) ["LA pilot on the new procedures for the redesignation of specialist schools: Evaluation report spring 2010"](https://web.archive.org/web/20101016055253/http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/pdf/l/la%20pilot%20-%20evaluation%20report.pdf) (PDF). Archived from the original on 16 October 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2022. `{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown "Category:CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown")) 13. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-13) Malcolm, Dominic (27 March 2008). [The SAGE Dictionary of Sports Studies](https://books.google.com/books?id=_e1hAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT403). SAGE. p. 403. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-4739-0291-6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4739-0291-6 "Special:BookSources/978-1-4739-0291-6") . 14. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-14) Potts, Patricia (8 December 2003). [Modernising Education in Britain and China: Comparative Perspectives on Excellence and Social Inclusion](https://books.google.com/books?id=B3OCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA242). Routledge. p. 242. [ISBN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_$identifier$ "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-134-42893-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-42893-9 "Special:BookSources/978-1-134-42893-9") . 15. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-15) Smith, Emma, "What Happened to the Beacon Schools? Policy Reform and Educational Equity", Oxford Review of Education 41.3 (2015): 367-86. Web. 16. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-16) [Daily Briefing (19 Mar 2019) Walmart offers its workers free surgery (with a catch). Now it wants others to do the same.](https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/03/19/walmart-coe) 17. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-17) [Jennifer Flake (APR 27, 2021) Ford Accelerates Battery R\&D with Dedicated Team, New Global Battery Center of Excellence Named Ford Ion Park](https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/ford-accelerates-battery-rd-with-dedicated-team-new-global-battery-center-of) 18. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-18) [Northrop Grumman (April 06, 2021) Early Risk Reduction For The Bomber Of The Future](https://breakingdefense.com/2021/04/early-risk-reduction-for-the-bomber-of-the-future/) 19. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-19) [Northrop Grumman designates five centers of excellence in consolidation effort](https://militaryembedded.com/unmanned/isr/northrop-designates-five-centers-of-excellence-in-consolidation-effort) Military Embedded Systems Magazine; 7 March 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023 20. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-20) [Paul McLeary (6 May 2021) Huntington's Big Unmanned Plans Start To Gel](https://breakingdefense.com/2021/05/huntingtons-big-unmanned-plans-start-to-gel/) 21. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-21) Asda, [New Asda centre of excellence opens in Leeds](https://corporate.asda.com/newsroom/2018/08/31/new-asda-centre-of-excellence-opens-in-leeds), accessed 11 February 2023 22. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-22) [Finance is (finally) embracing IT](https://fortune.com/2022/09/14/finance-embracing-it-digital-transformation/) Fortune Magazine; 14 September 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023 23. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-23) [U.S. Insurance Company Unum Expands Technology Centre in Carlow](https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/news-and-events/department-news/2020/november/18112020.html) Ireland Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment; 18 November 2020. Accessed 8 November 2023 24. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-24) [Unum Group architect charts a DevOps course to a hybrid cloud future](https://www.zdnet.com/article/unum-group-architect-charts-a-devops-course-to-a-hybrid-cloud-future/) ZDNet; 10 September 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023 25. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-25) [UNUM bucks the trend with private, eco-friendly, data centre](https://digitalisationworld.com/news/29074/unum-bucks-the-trend-with-private-eco-friendly-data-centre) Digitalisation World; 2013. Accessed 8 November 2023 26. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-26) [Unum Finance Chief Stresses Importance of Advocating for Digital Transformation](https://www.wsj.com/articles/unum-finance-chief-stresses-importance-of-advocating-for-digital-transformation-11650360601) The Wall Street Journal; 19 April 2022. Accessed 8 November 2023 27. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-27) [IBM Consulting introduces Center of Excellence for generative AI to empower business transformation](https://venturebeat.com/ai/ibm-consulting-introduces-center-excellence-generative-ai-empower-business-transformation/) Venture Beat; May 26, 2023. Accessed 8 November 2023 28. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-28) [Jill Jusko (OCT 14TH, 2011) Centers of Excellence Help Manufacturers Stay Ahead in the Game](https://www.industryweek.com/operations/continuous-improvement/article/21957989/centers-of-excellence-help-manufacturers-stay-ahead-in-the-game) 29. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-29) Farmer, Paul. 2001. The Major Infectious Diseases in the World -- To Treat or Not to Treat? N Engl J Med 345 (3): 209 30. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-30) [NIH Awards \$24 Million To Create 10 Maternal Health Research Centers](https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2023/08/18/nih-awards-24-million-to-create-12-university-hospital-based-maternal-health-research-centers/?sh=5f7b72c834cf) Forbes Magazine; 18 August 2023. Accessed 8 November 2023 31. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-31) Coales, U.; Marks, R.; Pringle, A. (2011). ["Peter Gooderham"](https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d2079). BMJ. 342 d2079. [doi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_$identifier$ "Doi (identifier)"):[10\.1136/bmj.d2079](https://doi.org/10.1136%2Fbmj.d2079). [S2CID](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2CID_$identifier$ "S2CID (identifier)") [220110404](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:220110404). 32. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-32) [Reid Standish (Jan 18, 2018) Inside a European Center to Combat Russia's Hybrid Warfare](https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/18/inside-a-european-center-to-combat-russias-hybrid-warfare/) 33. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-fastFollower_33-0) Jaspreet Gill [( DoD 'hedge strategy' could bring 'element of surprise' to future conflict: Brown](https://breakingdefense.com/2022/06/dod-hedge-strategy-could-bring-element-of-surprise-to-future-conflict-brown/) 34. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-34) [Centers of Excellence Facts](https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ang/grants/coe/facts) [FAA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration "Federal Aviation Administration") Accessed 8 November 2023 35. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-35) ["Acquisition CoE"](https://asc.army.mil/web/taas/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 36. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-36) ["Aviation CoE"](http://home.army.mil/novosel/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 37. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-37) ["Cyber CoE"](http://home.army.mil/eisenhower/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 38. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-38) ["Fires CoE"](https://sill-www.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 39. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-39) ["Human Resources CoE"](https://www.hrc.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 40. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-40) ["Initial Military Training CoE"](https://web.archive.org/web/20170902155440/http://usacimt.tradoc.army.mil/). Archived from [the original](https://usacimt.tradoc.army.mil/) on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 30 September 2021. 41. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-41) ["Intelligence CoE"](https://www.army.mil/USAICoE). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 42. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-42) ["Maneuver CoE"](https://www.benning.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 43. ^ [*a](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Wood_43-0) [b](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-Wood_43-1) ["Maneuver CoE"](https://home.army.mil/wood/index.php). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 44. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-44)* ["Medical CoE"](https://medcoe.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 45. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-45) ["NCO Leadership CoE"](https://www.ncolcoe.army.mil/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 46. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-46) ["Space and Missile Defense CoE"](https://www.smdc.army.mil/ORGANIZATION/SMDCoE/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 47. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-47) ["Special Operations CoE"](https://web.archive.org/web/20220108202847/https://www.soc.mil/SWCS/index.htm). Archived from [the original](http://www.soc.mil/swcS/index.htm) on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 30 September 2021. 48. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-48) ["Sustainment CoE"](https://alu.army.mil/alog/). Retrieved 30 September 2021. 49. [^](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_excellence#cite_ref-49) [TRADOC home page](https://www.tradoc.army.mil/) accessdate=2019-05-26
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