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AKO's Medical function has soldiers medical records, including DNA, past physical exam, and status of deployment readiness. These courses can help soldiers with promotion points, and also later be transferred into college credits.ĪKO's Finance function allows soldiers to access their financial records, including Leave and Earning Statement, Housing allowances, Food allowances, etc.

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These learning programs allow soldiers and DA civilians opportunities to enrich their educations, such as business courses which are free of charge. ĪKO's Training function allows soldiers and DA (Department of Army) civilians to access Army online education such as Army e-learning Program, Army Learning Management System, Army Correspondence Course Program, Army transcript, US Army Reserve Virtual University, etc.

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One example of an AKO BPM application is 'Wounded Warrior,' a case management software for the diagnosis and rehabilitation of soldiers wounded in the field. The process capabilities of AKO's underlying technology have been rolled out to AKO organizations for the development and delivery of Business Process Management applications. Guest accounts include the following:Ī primary function of Army Knowledge Online is its web-based e-mail and collaboration capabilities.

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Unlike a full account, guest accounts require an Army sponsor with an authorized full account. Authorized full accounts do not require any sponsorship to register, and include the following: There are two different types of accounts on Army Knowledge Online, a full account and a guest account. Users Īs of October 2010, all active duty, reserves, and national guard soldiers are required to register an account on AKO. The project has run through various incarnations and later project leaders, but still the fundamentals of this system apply: centralized name spacing of email (with webmail access), white pages, unification of data conduits, central capability of authentication and repudiation of credentials and the ability to remotely access content. Early Project Officers for AKO were charged to develop, research and expand the portal to benefit Army Users Worldwide and to grow the system from its less than auspicious roots. This early project led to A2OL (America's Army Online), but legal concerns over this name and the parallelism to other commercial vendors caused the Army Project team to seek a new name.

History and development ĪKO was established in the late 1990s as an experimental outgrowth of a project of the General Office Management Office. AKO currently has 2.3 million registered users, and supports over 350K users logging in up to a million times a day as well as receiving and delivering on average 12 million emails daily. Users can build custom access control lists for each piece of content they own to determine the audience allowed to see or use their content. Appian provides the foundation for all information dissemination, knowledge sharing, process management and collaboration across AKO. AKO has also been expanded to the broader DoD community through Defense Knowledge Online, essentially just a rebranding.ĪKO is an integrated suite of a number of commercial-off-the-shelf products including the Appian Business Process Management (BPM) Suite technology. AKO has been deemed 'the world's largest intranet.' One of every two deployed Soldiers accesses the portal daily for mission and personal purposes, and in 2008 AKO recorded its one-billionth login. AKO provides the Army with a single entry point for access to the Internet and the sharing of knowledge and information, making AKO the Army's only enterprise collaboration tool operating throughout the Department of the Army (DA) worldwide. All users can build pages, create file storage areas, and create and participate in discussion on the portal. All members of the Active Duty, National Guard, Reserves, Army civilian, and select contractor workforce have an account which grants access to Army web assets, tools and services worldwide. Enterprise services are provided to these customers on both classified and unclassified networks, and include portal, e-mail, directory, discovery, and single sign-on functionality. Army Knowledge Online (AKO) provides web-based enterprise information services to the United States Army, joint, and Department of Defense customers.

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