Sumtotal Wins 1.5 Million Contract With U.s. Army Defense Ammunition
Sumtotal Wins 1.5 Million Contract With U.s. Army Defense Ammunition Center
SumTotal Systems Nasdaq: SUMT the largest provider of talent and learning solutions received a 1.5million subcontract during its third quarter for continued support of the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center’s DAC current and future global training initiatives. SumTotal will provide hosting operations to support the DAC’s migration to an upgraded version of the SumTotal learning management system LMS and learning content management system LCMS. This upgrade will also expand the capacity of DAC’s student population to well over 100000 users worldwide. SumTotal serves as a subcontractor to SI International Nasdaq: SINT of Reston Va. a provider of information technology and network solutions on this award.
The McAlester Okla.based DAC will use SumTotal Enterprise Suite Version 7.2 an integrated LMS/LCMS software platform to instruct U.S. military personnel on the proper handling of ammunition explosives safety and logistics support to Department of Defense military and civilian personnel other federal agencies and military students from allied nations. SumTotal’s LMS delivers online education via the Internet and its LCMS helps course designers rapidly create an array of content including simulations.
“The LMS can prepare students for facetoface training and also provide a lifeline to their lessons after they get to the field” said William S. Scott distancelearning supervisor DAC Training Directorate. “This helps keep students stay connected to their newly acquired skills and it increases retention. This is crucial to mission readiness and success.”
The primary focus of the DAC is to support ammunition readiness for the 21st century warfighter as well as supporting the global war on terrorism. With the support of SI International and SumTotal the DAC currently provides webbased training to over 25000 students on an annual basis.
“The Defense Ammunition Center is a leader in constructing innovative solutions that are increasing the readiness of the arms ammunition and logistics community.” said James Gill director of Government Solutions for SumTotal. “It is a privilege for us to be part of this missioncritical project and we are honored that DAC and SI International selected us as a partner to continue this important work in support of our warfighters.”
In 2004 SI International won an initial contract to provide an enterprisewide learning solution used to evaluate DAC training courses create webbased training development processes develop a long term Training Plan and implement the SumTotal LMS/LCMS. Under the new contract of which SumTotal is a subcontractor SI International will provide continued support for previous tasks implementation of an Enterprise Resource Planning training solution and design and development of an Arms Ammunition and Explosives AAE web portal. The contract was awarded under the Millennia Lite Functional Area 2 GSA contract vehicle and has a oneyear base period with four oneyear option periods. The contract value is approximately 9 million if all options are exercised.
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