WESCO begins Knowledge Management System for the Marine Corps

Building on Phase 1 success, WESCO leverages core expertise to provide KMS to PM-MERS.

Helena, MT - October 19, 2007

WESCO designed, developed, and implemented all Information Technology capabilities and infrastructure for the US Marine Corps MERS systems integration lab. While performing these tasks they also developed critical expertise in the key areas of knowledge management required to support the equipment design, development, and integration projects undertaken by the lab.

The lab is operational and based at 75 Barrett Heights Drive, Suite #207, Stafford, Virginia, just outside the gates of Quantico Marine Base. Examples of items the lab has already accomplished follow:

• Conducted a combat hunter binocular integration analysis on the ground in Iraq. Resulted in a recommendation that binoculars be available for every marine on combat patrol and recommendations for locating the binoculars so as to minimize potential for injury in case of attack, but still keeping the units at ready.
• Conducted a medical assessment of current injury trends seen by the combat battalions, regiments, and combat support hospital to be used in ensuring that all new equipment lessens the probability of combat injury.
• Conducted skin temperature assessment on the ground in Iraq, to be used in providing equipment and training that can reduce skin temperatures in hot climate battle conditions.
• Conducted a human factors assessment on the recently deployed Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, to be used in ensuring equipment is maximally functional when the Marine is operating from, and/or within, the MRAP vehicle.

WESCO will provide remote management of the laboratory IT infrastructure from Helena, Montana and is undertaking most Knowledge Management System (KMS) application framework development from their Helena offices.

The KMS will operate within a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) infrastructure. Web based services, documents management, work flow, legacy systems integration, and more will be implemented. For example, existing modeling and simulation packages will be integrated within the KMS framework. There will be additional legacy systems that will be reviewed and considered for integration as well.

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