Technologies & Tools for Public Safety in The 21st Century
Conference and Exhibition, May 28, 1999, Orlando, Florida

Michael A. Parmentier, Director, Readiness and Training Policy Programs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, presented an overview of the ADL program at the Technologies and Tools for Public Safety Symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Transportation. Mr. Parmentier's presentation includes video interviews with senior White House, Army National Guard, Joint Staff, Public Safety, and Law Enforcement officials explaining how they intend to use learning technologies to meet Public Safety needs in the 21st Century and exciting news about the potential for collaboration between the federal, state and local emergency response units.

Part 1 (13.6 Mb)
Part 2 (11.9 Mb)
Part 3 (17.0 Mb)

The Vice President's Lifelong Learning Summit
Vice President Al Gore, Jr. convened a Summit on "21st Century Skills for 21st Century Jobs " -- a national forum organized to help working Americans get the skills they need to succeed and to ensure employers get the skilled workers they need to stay competitive. His address to the Summit attendees and thousands of satellite-linked participants worldwide is available here. At the Summit, the Vice President announced numerous new federal initiatives and programs, such as the innovative use of technology for training in the federal agencies, that would ensure greater educational opportunities for the American workforce in general.

The Advanced Distributed Learning Video
The ADL Video, featuring Michael Parmentier (Director, Readiness and Training Policy Programs, ODUSD/R-R&T), provides a succinct overview of the ADL initiative, including its goals, history, technical aspects, and much more.

The Maintenance Mentoring System
The Maintenance Mentoring System (MMS), a hand-held tablet PC enabling military and civilian technicians to engage in real-time, on-the-job training using a voice-responsive multimedia program, is demonstrated from the perspectives of the trainer, user, and inventor.

The Army Management Staff College VideoTeleConference with the ADL Leaders
Dean Ursula Lohmann and faculty from the AMSC speak with Michael Parmentier (Director, Readiness and Training Policy Programs, ODUSD/R-R&T) about trainers' and teachers' perspectives of ADL in a question-answer format.