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Helping the FAA to e-Learn

By Gary On
The MIL team supporting the Federal Aviation Administration Working with the FAA, and adhering to workforce development
(FAA) successfully completed the development of 19 e-Learning principles, the team established developmental standards
courses to support the upgrade of PRISM—the FAA’s and guidelines in accordance with FAA specifications and
procurement software—from version 6.5 to 7.2. Lead developers requirements, which included Section 508 requirements and
Gary On and Bill Kistler led the effort and were responsible for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. These standards and
the design and development of the series of courses. MIL staffer guidelines allowed the development team to create courses
Andre Windsor served as the subject matter expert leading the quickly and efficiently, and allowed the team to deliver the courses
development of the course material and learning exercises. under budget and on time. Special thanks to Gerry Stocker
who led the alpha and beta testing, and John Roland and Sonya
The FAA’s e-Learning courses are dynamic multimedia Holland for successfully managing the project and providing
experiences, featuring animation, audio narration, and closed the team with the necessary resources and support to get the job
captioning. The courses are currently accessible on the FAA’s done. Whether it was testing, proofreading and editing course
learning management system (eLMS) and are part of a required materials, or creating the recordings that were used to develop the
curriculum for all PRISM user roles. A key feature that can be demonstrations and simulations, all members of the FAA team
found in these courses is a demonstration/exercise component, were involved in completing this project, and it was truly a team
which plays a recording of functions being executed in a effort.
simulated PRISM environment, followed by an exercise where
the learner can attempt to perform the functions themselves. The Congratulations to MIL’s entire team supporting the FAA on a job
courses also feature a short quiz as an alternative to the exercise well done!
for accessibility reasons.

One for the record books

MIL’s C4IS Sector, headquartered in Lexington Park, MD,
completed an intensive, multi-year business development effort
with the submission of MIL’s Communication Systems Integration
Support (CSIS) proposal to the Naval Air Systems Command.
Led by MIL’s Mr. Dave Larson, the multi-vendor proposal team
navigated the winter holidays and a demanding set of technical
requirements to prepare the large, multi-volume bid. The team
rallied and delivered the massive submission (with the help of
a handcart!) at 10:31 a.m. on January 30th, with 89 minutes to
spare!
After final delivery, Senior VP and Sector Lead, Tom Clark,
seen here with Patrick DeBoe manning the handcart, sent out
his “Special thanks to the C4IS Team for banding together and
showing what is possible when we work as the awesome team that
we are!”
He added, “I can’t thank everyone enough for the effort that went
into this proposal.” He also went on to add his “Special thanks
to Mr. Larson for his dedication and leadership throughout the
process!”
Time will tell if the MIL Team prepared the winning submission,
but win or lose, the team effort was one for the record books!
Awesome job and many thanks goes out to the entire CSIS
Proposal Team!

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