Air Force Academic Institution Portal Leveraging the AI Portal to Reach Airmen

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Air Force Academic Institution PortalLeveraging
the AI Portal to Reach Airmen
BAM Technologies, LLC
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Overview

• Air Force Systems
• AI Portal
• Goals Benefits
• Features
• Upgrades
• Reaching the Airman
• Air Force Virtual Education Center (AFVEC)
• My Enlisted Development Plan (MyEDP)
• Education Center of Excellence (ECoE)

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Air Force System

• Education Training Flight (ETF) Portal
• Central TA Management (CTAM) Portal
• Academic Institution (AI) Portal
• Virtual Education Center (Student Portal)

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AI Portal Goals Benefits

• Goals
• Promote Business Process Sharing between Academic
  Institutions (AI) and Air Force Education Systems
  
• Develop and Implement Common Framework to
  Facilitate Communications between Systems
• Adopt a Service Orientated Architecture (SOA)
• Benefits
• Visibility through the Virtual Education Center
• Promote programs
• Contribute content
• Return on Investment (ROI)
• Reduced paperwork
• Business-to-business interface
• Faster processing
• Faster payments
• Improved Student Services

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AI Portal Features

• Web Services
• Data Services
• Reports
• Content Management
• Customer Relations Management

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AI Portal Features

• Service Orientated Architecture
• Uses Web Services
• Transparent to customer
• Easy to Interface
• Security
• Data Services
• Off-line processing
• Flexibility with existing systems
• Quick implementation
• Used to Exchange
• Grades
• Invoices
• TA Authorizations
• Programs
• Schedules

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AI Portal Features

• Reporting
• See how you are doing!
• Broken down by Site (Installation)
• Individuals and Enrollments
• Total TA

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AI Portal Features

• Content Management
• Contact Info
• Degree Programs
• Schedules
• Catalogs
• Registration Info
• Custom landing page
• AU/ABC Registration and Tracking

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AI Portal Upgrades

• Improved User Interface
• Updated Web-Services Standards
• On-line Invoicing
• Enhanced Reporting
• Course Catalog Publishing
• Descriptions
• Prerequisites
• Class Schedule Publishing
• Dates
• Tuition Costs
• Customer Relations Management
• Submit Trouble Tickets
• Track Status

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Reaching Airmen

• Air Force Virtual Education Center
• Search Engine
• Enlisted Development Plan

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Virtual Education Center is Entry Point for Air
Force Students

• Accessed through AF Portal
• 81 Education Sites
• 40 Reserve Sites
• 49 ANG Sites
• 7 Learning Resource Centers
• Over 180,000 Registered Students
• Active Duty
• Reserve
• Guard
• DoD Civilians
• Over 750,000 Avg. Weekly Hits
• Top 2 AF Portal Application

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Search Engine

• Airmen use AFVEC as their search engine to locate
  educational opportunities and programs
• Degrees
• Associate
• Baccalaureate
• Masters
• Programs
• AU ABC
• Certificate
• Language and Culture
• Course offerings
• Course delivery

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MyEDP

• Provides a synchronized, user-centric approach to
  distribution, presentation and management of
  content
• Tailored to individual needs based on rank,
  career field and service component
• Delivers self-service tools to enlisted member
• Renders all relevant education, training, job
  experience and leadership data into a common
  interface in real-time
• Provides users distinct views to their data in
  relationship to their career path.

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Centralizing TA

• Education Center of Excellence

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Air Force TA Centralization Education Center of
Excellence

• What does it mean for the school?
• Invoicing
• Only mechanism to invoice will be through the AI
  Portal
• Mandatory as of 1 Sep 08
• Grades Processing
• TA Authorizations

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More Information

• AI Portal Site Address
• https//aiportal.acc.af.mil/aiportal
• Email Contact and Registration
• aiportal_at_bamtech.net
• POC Steve Walker
• [phone]