The Armed Forces Casualty Assistance Readiness Enhancement System (AF-CARES), Version 1.0
Abstract
This report provides details of the implementation of a forms assistance tool designed to help personnel charged with carrying out the United States Army's Casualty Assistance mission. The need for this tool has arisen with the expansion of casualty operations in the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the growing complexity of the system of benefits provided to the surviving family members of soldiers who are killed, and the high level of emphasis placed on executing this mission with compassion and precision. The software tool, called the Armed Forces Casualty Readiness Enhancement System (AF-CARES 1.0), provides form filling assistance and access to case data in a stand alone application. The system uses a run time data representation of the case and an extensible markup language specification for the library of supported forms to automate the routing tasks common to every case of filling out a significant number of forms. The software automatically fills forms and provides access to the forms for viewing, printing, and editing. The software also provides a persistent save file format and case file reader for managing cases over time. AF-CARES 1.0 has been deployed to all of the regional Casualty Assistance Centers (CACs) with 76 users participating in an Army Knowledge Online (AKO) knowledge center implemented to facilitate deployment, support, and the identification of capability gaps against an objective software assistance capability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 08, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA468110
Entities
People
- Dale L. Henderson
Organizations
- United States Military Academy