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BearingPoint,
Inc. and Open Text Corp.’s Corechange division said
they were chosen by the United States Army to customize and
deploy a worldwide training portal for 42,000 Army medics.
The
portal, known as 91W after the classification of medics who
have advanced training in nursing and combat medicine,
will be powered by Coreport, a portal framework developed
by Open Text’s Corechange division, and based on Microsoft
server technology.
BearingPoint is responsible for the strategy,
design, and implementation of the portal.
The portal will
provide medics, officers, and other army personnel with secure
and personalized, role-based access
to content, applications, services, and productivity tools.
By utilizing the 91W portal, medics throughout the world
can review training materials, search medical cases, and
communicate with instructors and trainees. Medics and trainees
also will access the 91W portal through Army Knowledge Online
(AKO), a Web site serving more than one million military
personnel.
“This is a ground-breaking project
for us,” says Colonel
Frederick E. Gerber, U.S. Army Medical Service. “The
91W portal will help the U.S. Army achieve its goal of increasing
medical readiness.”
Under the contract, BearingPoint
will integrate existing and future medical education documents,
content, applications,
and services. The portal will provide a single homepage
for 91W medics that will deliver all medical training throughout
their term of service, helping the Army reach its goal
of
cross training its entire field of medics.
The portal,
which was designed by BearingPoint, employs an innovative
graphical user interface, modeled after a
UH-60
Blackhawk helicopter cockpit.
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