Army Portal.

• Position: Readers Forum

I was delighted to read Sandra Erwin's article on Army Knowledge Online (AKO), tided "Army Portal Web Site is Marketers' Dream" (November 2002). I thought your readers might like to know that while AKO does provide access to distance-and-distributed learning programs, its scope of use goes well beyond "training and education," as stared in the story.

AKO is the crux of the Army's strategy to transform itself into a "network-centric, knowledge-based force" and is the Arm/s single point of entry into a robust and scalable knowledge-management system accessible from any Internet connection. Today, over 1.1 million subscribers, deployed anywhere in the world...