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For example,CRGT helped build and now supports Army Knowledge On-Line (AKO), the U.S. Army Chief Technology Office’s (CTO) keystone project and one of the largest intranets in the world. Just one of the major AKO areas to which we contributed is the Army Portal, a customized, encrypted gateway to the intranet. It provides quick access to forms and regulations, installations, change-of-station information, Army news, AKO Knowledge Centers, and more.
Because AKO enables rapid, anytime/anywhere information sharing and collaboration, the Army is achieving stronger Homeland Defense and real-time feedback from the field as well as faster wartime mobilization and completion of time-sensitive missions. In addition to reducing costs of Temporary Duty (TDY) through online meetings, AKO is also providing a means for reliable communications across the globe through secure email, quicker translation services, and easy access to online-searchable archives. CRGT is also a vital contributor to the Army Home Page, another component of AKO. The Army Home Page, which can be found at http://www.army.mil, is the public-facing Web presence for publicly available content.
CRGT provides a wide variety of services to support AKO, including program management. For example, the CTO relied on our program management expertise to: