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To: LindyBill who wrote (298786)	3/29/2009 11:22:58 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794298

I can't say I disagree much with his analysis. However, I think he minimizes the importance of training. The services need to move away from alignment of equipment, toward the alignment of mission. Navigation is navigation, whether it be surface, or submerged. The same holds true of many other areas common to the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy (like logistics, specific weapons systems, leadership, etc). Despite talk in the past, the services have barely scratched the surface of sharing resources. The waste is huge. Government can play a very important role, such as the role ADL has been playing setting standards, adlnet.gov. Setting standards, allow resources to be cross utilized. But the challenge is huge and the IT talent is severely lacking, along with the leadership. There's no Google operating in this realm and the services could use one. We take for granted the benefits a company like Microsoft provided when computer architecture was in its infancy. Often, a dominant leader helps to clarify the direction an industry should head. That hasn't been true in the computer based training field. So many players, so many standards, the sands shift continuously, adding to cost as everyone attempts to become the proprietary leader. The same must be true in the medical database management arena. No standard, so everyone is trying to be the next Microsoft OS of the Health Care system.