The Army Knowledge Awards (AKA) Program, sponsored by the Army Chief Information Office, provides recognition for outstanding examples of initiatives that exploit knowledge management tools and promote Army-wide knowledge sharing. These initiatives might be enhanced collaborative processes that improve warfighter or organizational decision-making, learning, and development. Alternatively, they might incorporate technology and re-engineering to achieve process transformation, such as improving operational effectiveness and the flow of products, services, and knowledge to the user in a real time, critical method. These enterprise solutions are applicable at the MACOM, functional community, or Army level.

This year's winners are:

• Knowledge Transformation Initiative: The eNova Program, US Army Armament Research, Development Engineering Center (ARDEC), Knowledge Management Office

• Enterprise/Cross-functional Solution: 59th Signal Battalion SigNet Data Management Zone, 59th Signal Battalion

• e-Army Initiative: Wireless LAN Type Accreditation, Project Manager, Defense Communications and Army Switched Systems (PM DCASS)

• Knowledge Management in Battle Command: ABC E SoS Test Portal, Program Executive Office for Command Control Communications Tactical (PEO C3T).

Army Knowledge Management (AKM) is the Army's strategy to transform itself into a network-centric, knowledge-based force. The vision of AKM is "a transformed Army, with agile capabilities and adaptive processes powered by world class network-centric access to knowledge, systems, and services, interoperable with the joint environment." AKM's strategic goals are to:

1. Adopt governance and cultural changes to become a knowledge-based organization.
2. Integrate Knowledge Management Concepts and Best Business Practices to Promote the Knowledge-Based Force.
3. Manage the Infostructure as an enterprise to enhance capabilities and efficiencies.
4. Institutionalize Army Knowledge Online as the enterprise portal to provide universal, secure access for the entire Army.
5. Harness Human Capital for the Knowledge-Based Organization.