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 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.
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By Army Spc. Andrew Orillion
USJFCOM Public Affairs
(NORFOLK, Va. – Nov. 12, 2008, 2008) -– The Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capabability (JKDDC) at U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) 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 the 2008 Association for Enterprise Integration's (AFEI) Excellence in Enterprise Integration Award and Training magazine's top award as well as the 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.
"We offer a very cost-effective training solution to Web-based individual training," said JKDDC Deputy Program Director Marty Vozzo. "We are a unifying solution to meet a myriad of our customers' requirements"
Joe Camacho, JKDDC program director, said the award is a validation of JKDDC as a world-class program.
"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," Camacho said. "The award demonstrates how [USFJCOM] can take strategic guidance and create an award winning program that provides direct value to warfighters
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 JKDDC's Joint Knowledge Online's (JKO) online training capability for comprehensive content management architecture.
"It is an operative, strategic level award given to a program that can unify and enable a cost-effect technology solution across a whole enterprise," he said. "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 further explained, "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."
This new process allows JKDDC products to be used independently creating unique training programs that still adhere to DoD guidelines.
"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," Vozzo said.
Like the AFEI award, Camacho sees the Training magazine award as a validation of the hard work of the JKDDC staff.
"It's not only a validation of the hard work that's been done by the superb staff we have here at Joint Knowledge, but it also clearly recognizes that we do have tools, particularly the training and action award, that are available to members of the joint enterprise," said Camacho.
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