PEOPLE OVER PROCESS
Currently, training managers and users have to log in to disparate systems hosted at various sites to manage and manually coordinate training events. As a result, they have to create workarounds for their unique circumstances and are unable to use real-time data in the field.
ATIS is fielding a one-stop training solu- tion for military and civilian personnel that will roll out with limited deployment in fiscal year 2023 and full deployment in fiscal year 2024. Tis system will provide the roughly 2 million Soldiers (active, Reserve, National Guard) and Depart- ment of the Army civilians with timely and cost-effective training, which will support a relevant and ready Army. ATIS will retire 28 cumbersome, duplicative legacy training systems and will stream- line data interfaces among 56 others. Tis single-entry, integrated system will subsume the Digital Training Manage- ment System (DTMS) along with the Army Learning Management System (ALMS). The current environment requires the Soldier to enter duplicate data in multiple systems, often driving him or her to find workarounds just to accomplish day-to-day tasks. Te drive to retire 28 systems and deliver a new, user-friendly, single sign-on training
COMMUNICATION IS KEY
Soldiers discuss how ATIS will help improve the way they access training. (Photos courtesy of ATIS)
experience for the Soldier required a novel approach.
The vision of ATIS is to deliver a customer- focused, worldwide, adaptive Army training enterprise capability to enable training readi- ness for the total force, anytime, anywhere.
ESTABLISHING NEW ACQUISITION NORMS When the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) gener- ated the requirements for ATIS, the program office knew that creating a single-entry training system would be a challenge. Overall, there are over 80 systems that will be subsumed or will feed data to ATIS; some of these systems are authoritative, but many are not, and all need to come together seamlessly. TRADOC also required that ATIS be a marked improvement from what Soldiers are currently using to execute training, and that it be user-friendly.
To address these challenges and meet these requirements, ATIS leveraged the other-transaction authority acquisition strategy to deliver training capabilities to Soldiers quickly, and to engage the user
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community early on and continuously during the system’s development.
ATIS chose the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology to support the devel- opment of the system. SAFe—in contrast to more conventional project management approaches—breaks up work into smaller, digestible system deployments. Developers deliver potentially releasable increments of products on a schedule, gather feedback from Soldiers, and adjust or enhance the products. Tis iterative process amplifies Soldiers’ voices throughout the devel- opment process. Teir feedback enables developers to course-correct and provides guideposts for future product releases.
According to Col. Jonathan Hughes, director of the TRADOC Proponent Office – Army Training Information Systems, “Using an Agile process during the development of ATIS affords the Army multiple touch points to shape the final product. Commanders and Soldiers who
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