Distance learning efforts garners awards
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability received the Association for Enterprise Integration's Excellence in Enterprise Integration Award and two awards from Training Magazine for excellence in contributions to joint training. Army Spc. Andrew Orillion has the story.
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Narrated by Army Spc. Andrew Orillion, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Marty Vozzo, JKDDC Deputy Program Director and Joe Camacho, JKDDC program director.
Orillion: The Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capabability, or JKDDC, received two accolades recently for its contribution to developing and distributing joint training for joint warfighters through a dynamic global network.
JKDDC, a program that develops and distributes joint training over a network, received both the 2008 Association for Enterprise Integration’s, or AFEI’s, Excellence in Enterprise Integration Award and Training Magazine’s Training Technology in Action Award for Learning Content Management Project of the Year.
AFEI presents its award annually to industry and government programs that apply technology and leadership as a total and innovative enterprise approach to problem solving.
JKDDC won for integrating the joint enterprise of 10 combatant commands, combat support agencies, services, interagency, inter-governmental, and multinational partners into its mission of training joint forces online. Joe Camacho, JKDDC program director, said the award validates JKDDC as a world class program.
Camacho: It validates all of the hard work that we have been doing and the product line we have been producing in support of the warfighters that our deployed in all parts of the globe.
Orillion: The same month the AFEI award was announced, Training magazine, a professional publication which advocates training and workforce development as a business tool, also honored JKDDC with the Training Technology in Action Award for Learning Content Management Project of the Year. The magazine gives the award for outstanding achievement in leveraging innovative learning technology for strategic learning and effect.
According to Camacho, this award specifically recognizes JKO’s online training capability for comprehensive content management architecture.
JKO won for taking a new approach by using its own programmers to create both the JKDDC learning management system and web-based courseware development software, allowing for immediate integration and launch.
Camacho: That is a brand new concept and these are government-off-the-shelf products so they are able to be given to all of the combatant commands and everybody in the joint enterprise at no cost.
Orillion: Marty Vozzo, JKDDC Deputy Program Director said this new process allows JKDDC products to be used independently creating unique training programs that still adhere to DoD guidelines.
Vozzo: Lots of folks out there try hard, lots of organizations attempt to do that but this award just confirms that that we met the DoD standard for interoperability among web-based training products.
For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.
For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Specialist Andrew Orillion. |
