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ARMY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING DELIVERY SYSTEM (KMTDS)

ARMY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING DELIVERY SYSTEM (KMTDS). Brigadier Amarjit Singh. BACKGROUND. Operational Pull Network Centric Operations - D E-Learning AND Distance Learning – M/L (e-psc, SOATE) Search and access content – I/L (e-libraries)

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ARMY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING DELIVERY SYSTEM (KMTDS)

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  1. ARMY KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING DELIVERY SYSTEM(KMTDS) Brigadier Amarjit Singh Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  2. BACKGROUND • Operational Pull • Network Centric Operations - D • E-Learning AND Distance Learning – M/L (e-psc, SOATE) • Search and access content – I/L (e-libraries) • Collaborative, hybrid learning environment – I/L • Testing and certification – M/I/L (Part B/D, Rtg, Arms/Services, Self Certification) • Multimedia rich (rich services as enabler) – M/I/L • Ubiquitous (wireless as key enabler) – I/L • Minimize management issues – M (Cadre, Value) • Benchmark against national centres of excellence – M/I/L • Policies – MIS, IT Training - M • Technology Push • Networks – bandwidth, rich services • National Knowledge Network (NKN) • Army NGN – KRANTI • Next Generation Computing – SOA, Cloud • Learning Frameworks – Closed, Open, Collaborative, Crowd Sourcing Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  3. HORIZONTALLY INTEGRATED NETWORK

  4. NGN : ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW

  5. NATIONAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK • Encourage collaboration and the creation of new national intellectual assets, enabling the sharing of high-performance computing facilities, e-libraries, virtual classrooms • Includes ERNET, executed by NIC • Next Generation Network (NGN) • Three layers – Core, Distribution, Edge • Backbone - 18 Core Points of Presence (PoPs), 25 Distribution PoPs • Architecture and capabilities similar to Project KRANTI (Network for Spectrum, NFS) network Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  6. NKN TOPOLOGY Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  7. CONCEPT: NKN CONNECTIVITY CME VC A1 NKN MCTE VC BSNL VC MCEME B2 A2 B1 VC VC UNIV A UNIV B 1 GB 100 Mbps Min VPNoBB Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  8. BACKGROUND: ARTRAC/MCTE • MCTE Trg Insp – Mar 11 • Concept Paper – Apr 11 • Army Trg Conf – May 11, CME Pune • Industry Interaction – May-Jun 11 (TCS, Wipro) • NKN Connectivity – Jun 11 • Feasibility Report – Jun 11 • Analysis of Architecture Options • Detailed Architecture – CISCO • Budgeting and MOLTI proposal • Draft Orders for NKN connectivity • Proposal to DG Info Sys Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  9. PREVIEW • Training Environment and Imperatives • Technology Enabled Training Transformation • Vision - Army Training Information Systems • Architecture - Proposed Army KMTDS • Decision Issues/Recommendations Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  10. TRAINING ENVIRONMENT AND IMPERATIVES Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  11. TRAINING ENVIRONMENT • Field Army training facilities • Inadequately connected, enjoy potentially good civil network connectivity • Operational network selectively exploited • Dissemination from Army level establishments • Conduct of online examinations • Limited availability of comprehensive security policies and services pertaining to training methodologies and content • Army Centres of Excellence • Strong capabilities in their respective fields • Limited flexibility in terms of rapid increase or decrease of training loads • No integrated shared information or training content development systems • Training capability not shared with field Army on continuous basis Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  12. TRAINING IMPERATIVES • Training within existing manpower resources • Physical presence of trainees at training institutions to be capped • Training infrastructure be scalable at short notice • Personnel of the field Army to undergo continuous training; be able to do it in a self paced manner • Trainees to access training resources distributed over multiple locations almost concurrently • Training system to become network centric before field Army • Interaction of trainees with training system be captured, preserved and suitably structured to improve institutional knowledge • Adherence to standards - remove methodological barriers between training environments Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  13. TECHNOLOGY ENABLED TRAINING TRANSFORMATION • Connectivity • Convergence • Consolidation and Virtualization • Collaboration • Possibilities • Increase access to knowledge • Provide closer trainee-trainer interaction Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  14. VISION: ARMY TRAINING INFORMATION SYSTEMS • Tools for conceptual leadership and coherence to human resource development efforts of the Army • Synergy in training content generation, exploitation and delivery • Integration of the training establishments, including training centres • Economy and effectiveness • Build the Army Learning Community Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  15. KMTDS ARCHITECTURE Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  16. SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE EXAM LEARNING CONTENT KNOWLEDGE CONTENT CONTENT SERVICE LEARNING SERVICE SERVER CONSOLIDATION NETWORK SERVICES LDAP DHCP DNS NETWORK INTERNET VPN LEASED VPN LEASED LINE ARMY

  17. FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE SERVICES IN A TECHNOLOGY EMPOWERED LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology National Educational Technology Plan 2010, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  18. KMTDS CONCEPT LMS LMS LMS CORE KMS KMS KMS RMS RMS RMS NMS NMS NMS DISTRIBUTION LAYER EDGE LAYER Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  19. KMTDS CONCEPT • High performance, high speed CORE connecting selected centres of excellence • Provide centrally managed and physically distributed Learning Management (LM ) and Knowledge Management (KM) services • Virtualized data centre capabilities for LM and KM data storage and related web applications • Network Management (NM) system - uniform set of network management services - Identity, Authentication, Authorization, Security • Federated Resource Management (RM) system - tools and information necessary for allocation and monitoring of resources and provision of administrative support to training • DISTRIBUTION LAYER • To cover remaining institutions under ARTRAC • Able to use LM and KM services delivered from within the core to build effective LM and KM solutions in a short time without requiring too many physical resources, except for reliable connectivity to Core • EDGE LAYER • Users, field Army and training centres Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  20. TRAINING PERSPECTIVE • Fully integrated, harmonized learning environment • Focus on content of training • Management of training infrastructure by lean organization with specialized capabilities to build, evolve and support technical platforms on a continuous basis • High availability • Trainees perspective • Assist in engaging with training system and faculty on a continuous basis • Able to acquire training without physically attending programs at Army training establishments • Ability to acquire functional certification and promotion qualifications on an ‘on demand’ schedule Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  21. TRAINING PERSPECTIVE • Trainer perspective • At training institutions - ability to track progress of trainees on a continuous basis. • Field Army – back end support as good as training institutions • Management • Automated environment for staff • Plan on and offer facilities for collaborative and virtual class rooms • These would be structured over multiple locations, permitting multi-disciplinary content and study • Army wide class rooms enable delivery of training directly from training institutions to field Army • Self paced and self structured courses available for trainees who volunteer Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  22. ANALOGY: NCREN DISTRIBUTION NODE CORE NODE LAN/MAN Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  23. ANALOGY: NCREN • Learn & Earn Online - Online college credit courses offered by UNCG iSchool and the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) Online Learning • ClassScape - Online formative assessment system • NCTest - North Carolina online End-of-Course tests • NCDesk - North Carolina online test of computer skills • NCWise - Student information management system • LearnNC - Lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text & multimedia, and online courses for teachers and students from the UNC School of Education • NCREN Video Conferencing Services - H.323 video conferencing, satellite uplinking and downlinking, and live and stored video streaming services for the K-20 community Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  24. SECURITY AND CONNECTIVITY - FACTORS • Utilization of operational network for training always constrained • Limited resources • Under specified security model • Overwhelming proportion of training content classified RESTRICTED or less, large volume can be declassified • High security requirements of LM system • Pertain essentially to evaluation of trainees and conduct of examinations or certifications • Readily available and in use technologies can help achieve necessary levels of security • Connectivity with Internet - essential condition of effectiveness of LM and KM systems • Connectivity with NKN - important requirement of future effectiveness of training system Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  25. END TO END SECURITY MODEL: X.805 Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  26. SECURITY: LOGICAL TRANSPORT TLS VPN CME/MCTE/MCEME TLS VPN TLS VPN TRG CENTRE/HRDC OFFICIAL PREMISES TLS VPN TLS VPN HOME Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  27. SECURITY AND CONNECTIVITY - APPROACH • KMTDS must connect to NKN, and to Internet • KMTDS will not connect with Operational Network • Core and Distribution layers can be built using exclusively engineered bandwidth (including physical network) OR leased bandwidth OR NKN bandwidth OR VPN connectivity over Internet • Leased bandwidth may be obtained also from Operational Network where such capacity exists • Connectivity to the training centres of field Army can be arranged by field Army itself using Internet VPNs OR BSNL VPNoBB OR Enterprise VPNs • A policy framework to classify training information as distinct from operational information • Use of multi-layered security architecture • Transport Layer – Layer 2 encryption PLUS IPSsec VPN PLUS Admission Control • Services Layer – Identity and Access Management (IAM) PLUS TLS VPN • Application Services – Application Security INCLUDING Identity, Authorization, Encryption… • Users – Physical measures Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  28. DEPLOYMENT APPROACH • Initial design based on mature industry standard solutions - completed through a process of outsourcing • Effort to concurrently provide connectivity to the NKN for selected Category A establishments that would be key nodes of Core • Utilize NKN to provide for connectivity between Core and Distribution nodes • Deployment phasing • Technologically and organizationally equipped Category A establishments first connected as part of the Core and the centrally managed LM, KM, RM and NM components deployed • Next phase • Establishments located close to Core nodes added to Distribution layer along with their own Edge environments • Prominent formation HQ concurrently connected to appropriate Distribution nodes Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  29. RESPONSIBILITIES AND DEPLOYMENT PLAN • ARTRAC and DGMT – organizing connectivity to NKN • Initial bid by MCTE via DGMT successful • Additional bids due • MCTE - Architecture and design • Core systems • Integrated infrastructure deployed initially at CME, MCEME, MCTE, Delhi(?) • Procurement as an Enterprise Networking Research and Training System through MOLTI or IT Grant • Next phase • All institutions located in and around Mhow, Secunderabad and Pune added to Distribution layer - distribution nodes may be added as part of normal IT infrastructure or via MOLTI route • Core nodes added at Delhi, Bengaluru, ………. • Edge environment • Access VPNs – IT Grant • LANs and wireless access points - procured by institutions and formations through normal IT channels Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  30. FEASIBILITY REPORT Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  31. CURRENT E-LEARNING POLICY • DGMT (MT-10) letter No A/63102/GS/MT-10 dt 10 Aug 05 • Army HQ letter No B/04009/3rd/AITAB/DDG IT (T&P) dt 30 Jun 07 • HQ ARTRAC letter No 915098/Trg (JT&P) dt 05 May 08 • HQ ARTRAC letter No 985103/e-Learning/IT dt 05 Jul 10 • HQ Army AD College letter No 3462/38/EL/G/Trg dt 14 Aug 10 • Army HQ letter No 1603/ASDC/SDG/BIA dt 23 Sep 10 • HQ ARTRAC letter No 985103/e-Learning/IT dt 29 Sep 10 • Army HQ letter No B/05354/Conf/IT/Info Sys dt 13 Oct 10 Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  32. CURRENT E-LEARNING POLICY • The existing policy envisages e-learning as an aid enabling students to assimilate the contents better and will not replace the traditional methods of teaching • Devp of e-learning sys will follow the following phs • Conversion of selected course material into electronic form • Web-based training in a networked environment on availability of communications infrastructure • Completely interactive class rooms • All content should be SCORM compliant. All unstructured content should be converted to structured, SCORM complaint content • In the initial period, each Cat A establishment to host only UNCLASSIFIED content on Army Intranet using freeware LMS such as MOODLE Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  33. CURRENT E-LEARNING POLICY • Preferred that all Cat A establishments should have the same LMS at each location so that inter-workability problems do not arise at a later date. Commonality and standardization is of prime importance as it will ensure easy portability of content from one Cat A establishment to other, till the time a central LMS is extended to all Cat A establishments • Cat A establishments need to formulate content with a view that it has to be extended later to trainees not attending training programs at Cat A establishments. Campus LAN infrastructure should allow for further dissemination of e-learning once it is connected to Army Training Network or suitable link for increasing its reach  Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  34. CURRENT E-LEARNING POLICY • Interoperability / sharing of content between Cat A establishments will ensure wider proliferation of e-learning; content will be available to units and formation for cadre who otherwise remain devoid of formal / institutionalized training. Final objective to be achieved - lessons be run in e-classrooms directly from Portal of any Cat A establishment once all Cat A establishments linked on Army Training Network. Direct connectivity from field formations to Cat A establishments to access e-learning resources will benefit the field Army immensely • IT Training Policy 2010 has been issued with the aim of transforming IA into a network centric force. Availability of bandwidth over Army Intranet remains a concern till 2013. Encryption (for security) is available from comcen to comcen but not up to users  • Most of the material is in open domain and foreign officers attending the courses have access to it. DCOAS (IS&T) has directed that the training material be evaluated from security point of view and necessary steps be taken to downgrade its classification Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  35. CURRENT E-LEARNING POLICY • E-learning progress is necessary not only to improve the training curriculum in training establishments but also to reduce the duration of contact phase of training • Necessary to develop the corresponding infrastructure to cater for future and a benchmark model of end state. Efforts should be made to procure copy of a successful e-learning model in the country or abroad. Option of having two different types of content based on security classification needs to be explored; UNCLASSIFIED content can be hosted on open domain and classified content on Army Intranet Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  36. ADDITIONAL ISSUES • Online Public Domain Content • Online electronic libraries and journals can only be met through a KMTDS like system. “Pulling” all such content from the public domain on to the Army Intranet not viable • Review plans for sharing of content of Army libraries over the Army Intranet •  Two Tier Networks • All advanced armies have two networks - one restricted network for secure military usage and a public network enabling gateway based access to the Internet / other network. For example, SIPRNET, NIPRNET • Army KMTDS provides the second public tier and is, appropriately, focused on training delivery •  Perceived Requirement Vs Implementation Strategy • Network centric aspirations and aspirations for delivery of training to the field Army expressed in existing e-learning policy. Need for standardization and linkage across training establishments expressed. Both not adequately planned for • KMTDS ensures both network centric capabilities and standardization, leaving the majority of establishments and training cadre free to focus on content development Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  37. ADDITIONAL ISSUES • KMTDS as Intranet, As Part of NKN Intranet or Internet • Either option possible, each with its benefits / constraints • These issues applicable only to the Network sub-layer of the KMTDS layer • Learning Services layer would have to be developed as an Army wide service in either case • Entire KMTDS can be moved to the Army’s network (only the network sub-layer changes) as and when portions of the Army Intranet become available for heavy usage post 2013 • KMTDS helps in early development of a network enabled training delivery system ; does not detract from ongoing content development efforts. Use of Army Intranet for delivery of classified content can be pursued concurrently • Software Architecture • KMTDS envisages a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in consonance with current technological best practice • By separating content from Learning (as well as Network) Services, portability of content is ensured and being tied down to a monolithic learning environment developed by any specific vendor is explicitly avoided Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  38. ADDITIONAL ISSUES • Security • Training requirements, particularly e-learning at Cat A establishments, demand connectivity and collaboration between instructors, students and the Learning Environment from residences and other non-class room locations within the campus. Use of wireless access is also desired • Extension of Army Intranet based learning environment to residences, also hosting personnel not subject to military discipline, carries obvious security risks that cannot be discounted. May actually require roll back of certain kinds of connectivity existing in certain campuses • KMTDS does not suffer from such risks. Instead, enables full use of wireless, reducing wired infrastructure requirements Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  39. POC CONFIGURATION: KMTDS LITE INTERNET CLASSES/EXAM INTERNET CORE MHOW INTERNET CORE CORE SECUNDERABAD PUNE CLASSES/EXAM CLASSES/EXAM DISTR DELHI HQ ARTRAC CLASSES/EXAM SHIMLA DELHI

  40. PROG: NKN CONNECTIVITY • Contracts for connectivity for CME Pune and MCEME (PGCIL) issued • Tech feasibility for Mhow given to PIU NKN by RAILTEL • Bid for 10-12 addl institutions being made by HQ ARTRAC Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  41. DECISION ISSUES Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  42. DECISION ISSUES • Services model • Computing model • Application services • Networks • Security • Development • Procurement • Organization • Orders Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  43. OTHER PAYOFFS • Monitored access to Internet • Integration • Joint Services institutions – DSSC, IDS, NDA • INDU • Air Force, Navy, IDS • Integration with commercial wireless networks • Backup network – strategic reach • Access to international high capacity networks through NKN • Security by learning, not by self-denial Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  44. CONCLUSION • Strategic move - IT as a tool for achieving transformation of the training system • Test bed for development of network centric capabilities - entire Army • Radical departure from past practice of attempting to build a training environment on top of the existing operational network • Mature rapidly as true Army knowledge repository with an ability to draw with confidence from national and international knowledge repositories • Enable Army training system to benchmark itself against corresponding academic institutions in civilian domain - establish credentials of Army and its personnel as valuable human resource •  Enable optimal exploitation of Army knowledge base by field Army and provide all personnel with avenues for self growth and certification • Enable Army to plan and utilize training resources in an optimal and effective manner Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

  45. EXAMPLE OPEN LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Military College of Telecommunication Engineering

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