Information Technology for Training Systems

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This project funds information technology systems that support Army Training. The five systems under FM8 are described below. Of those, the Army Training Information System (ATIS) is the Army's priority and the focus of the major investment in FM8. ATIS directly supports two of the four Army Unit Readiness Priorities - Training and Leader Development and an enabler for the Manning and Equipping. 1. Army Training Information System (ATIS). The Army currently lacks an enterprise level Common Operational Picture (COP) of the training environment. The ATIS is designated a Defense Business System (DBS) that will develop, integrate, test, deliver, operate, and maintain an enterprise capability for the Army training and education communities. Existing training information systems do not provide Commanders, leaders, Soldiers, and civilians a centralized COP of the training environment that enables persistent, consistent access to the Training and Education information and products necessary to support readiness to meet emerging threats. Annual costs to maintain current legacy systems is ~$75M. Without ATIS, Army organizations will continue to develop and maintain a multitude of training information systems that are not part of an enterprise, thus inhibiting efficient use of training resources, (people, time, money, material) that directly impacts the ability for units to meet readiness objectives. ATIS will replace the functionality in 28 primary and 70 supporting information training systems with a single, integrated, user-friendly and technologically current system that will support management of the following training functions for 1.8M users: - Training Development. Provides ability to develop and coordinate information, including training packages, training events, courses, and exercises. - Training Management. Provides centralized ability to access and manage information, including individual and collective/unit training that supports mission tasks and individual training records. - Enterprise Scheduling. Provides a single integrated set of applications to schedule training resources, including transportation, classrooms, ranges, supplies, and mandated legal/social individual and unit training. - Content Management. Provides centralized access to training information anytime, anywhere, including educational and professional instruction. - Resource Management. Provides ability to manage availability/sustainability of training enablers and resources. ATIS is a Category II Defense Business System and will follow the Business Capability Acquisition Cycle (BCAC) in accordance with DoD 5000.75. ATIS Acquisition, Testing and Development phase will be executed as a single-vendor logical follow-on to the competitively awarded prototyping effort under Other Transaction Authority (OTA), as specifically authorized by 10 U.S.C Section 2371b, in accordance with the Acquisition Strategy. OTA is a streamlined method for transitioning successful prototype projects into follow-on production. Contract award scheduled for FY20, Q2. Following are the Release capabilities: - First Release (R1) - Operational, Training and Readiness Support. R1 shall provide, as a minimum, Training Management capability with elements from Training Development, Enterprise Scheduling with readiness reporting capability. Training Management includes access to individual and collective/unit training records aligned to mission tasks. The Training Development encompasses assembling training information to include training plans, training events, courses, and exercises. The Enterprise Scheduling enables users to schedule training classrooms or ranges for unit training. The authorized released system shall be scaled to support, as a minimum, 500 sustained, concurrent users. The Release shall ensure coverage of organizations across the spectrum of all six Warfighting Functions (Intelligence, Movement and Maneuver, Fire Support, Command and Control, Protection and Sustainment). The Release shall support users that are geographically dispersed. - Second Release (R2) - Operational Force Support. R2 shall provide, as a minimum, three capabilities in support of the Operational Force: Training Management, Enterprise Scheduling, and Resource Management. The Release shall support the expanded capabilities over a larger, more diverse and geographically dispersed section of the force with focus on FORSCOM and Brigades. The Release shall support 12,000 sustained, concurrent users. The Release shall support 1.02M unique active users annually. - Third Release (R3) - Full Capability Support. The final release shall deliver the remaining ATIS capability: Training Development and Learning Content Management, as well as completion of remaining requirements across all five capability areas. The Learning Content Management hosts the learning content and makes it available for Soldiers to take training anytime, anywhere. The Release shall support 50,000 Sustained, concurrent users. The Release shall support 1.8 million unique active users annually. The final Release will subsume all remaining legacy systems by FY 2024. The next four systems are not part of the ATIS Development program. 2. DLPT5 Content Analysis, Categorization & Modeling Development of DLPT5 Content Analysis, Categorization and Modeling (CACM) capabilities. For integration within the DLIFLC MIT LL TIDWA Domino system. These capabilities are in direct response to DLIFLC's DoDI assigned responsibilities for DLPT item bank maintenance, psychometric analysis and informed pool management, and closely support the DLPT Validity Framework. MIT LL Networked Pronunciation Feedback Program (NETProf) expansion will allow for further expansion and further utilization of the existing NetProF products for DLIFLC faculty and students. To reach higher levels of proficiency in foreign languages the planned dialog system would give an advantage to DLIFLC teachers to help students gain advances through practicing speaking using this new dialog system, and the connected NetProF improvement system for pronunciation for longer utterances. This feasibility study will help set new parameters for developing very advanced language teaching systems that otherwise could not be supported. This is in support of the 2+/2+/2 plan. 3. Universal Course Authoring Tool / The UCAT (Universal Curriculum and Assessment Tool) will serve as the primary curriculum and assessment development tool for curriculum development projects in meeting the directives from higher headquarters to transition into a new, digital learning environment. UCAT will support the delivery of curriculum and assessment products on a variety of different platforms in support of both resident and non-resident programs. UCAT consists of server-side applications and associated web services, databases, and client-side components which are currently under development. 4. The Army Career Tracker is leader development tool that leverages Army's prior investments to integrate education, training, assignment, self-development and other systems by linking these valuable technologies and resources into a common user-friendly portal across 1.35 million users consisting of enlisted, officers, and civilians. Users can search multiple education and training resources, monitor career development, and receive advice from their leadership. ACT provides single-site, easy access, and offers a complete and personalized career picture not available until now. ACT allows users to manage career objectives and monitor progress towards career requirements and goals. ACT provides an integrated approach to supporting military and civilian personnel's personal and professional development which capitalizes on the mutual (personnel and Army) need for life-long learning. The unique inter-relationship between the user's personal growth and development, and the Army's need for Soldiers to be continuously developing, building and cultivating a culture of life-long learning is critical for the Soldier's and Army's success. Users manage their lifelong learning career objectives, monitor progress towards career development and goals, search multiple Army education and training resources, and receive personalized advice from their supervisor and Army leadership. Completed development will modernize the Army Career Tracker (ACT) system to render web pages correctly base on the size of the screen. Responsive Web Design (RWD) is an approach to web design that renders web pages based on the size of the device's display screen (e.g., computer, tablet, and phone). This allows the site to load quickly and ensures the display appears as if it were made expressly for the device being used. RWD improves user experience by displaying messages, links, and controls in a logical manner regardless of the device. The actual presentation may not look the same across different devices; rather the rendering will depend on the Operating System (OS), screen size, screen resolution, and other factors. Implementing RWD on ACT would be a step forward toward allowing ACT to render better on tablets and other mobile devices (e.g., mobile phones). 5. Enhancement of Army Training Models (ATM) will provide the resources to build and sustain readiness requirements in a standardized process for automated methodology development and resource allocation in support of the Army's training needs.

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Publication Date: Oct 01, 2021
Source ID: FM8_0605013A_5_2040_PB_2021

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