- The question for Federal entities is where to go from here.

- There needs to be a connection between us and our customer base.

- Federal agencies are reluctant to share information because of the 'rice bowl' mentality. We need to get to more of a 'supermarket' model.

- Creativity is necessary, as there are limited resources available to solve this problem.

- Suggestions for how to build the supermarket model and to better prepare LE:

• Working group to share vision and terminology
• Don't reinvent the wheel
• Develop responsibility for materials
• Vendor contracts for '02 must conform to SCORM standards/ Create SCORM compliant laboratory
• Groups that work not just on the concept, but on the end product as well for each topical area.
• FLX-government database: make sure that this is something valuable to the user; that it will actually need.
• EPA suggests a task force be developed.

- Large course pool for macro view of incident- then a micro view from each agency

- Take advantage of the DoL ADL Co-LAB. The product itself can wait -- possibly become a subset of GATE.

- DoE has a query system to cut down on duplication

- An email group or listserv is an important element; there are already small pockets of groups like this around the government

- Things forming concurrently can galvanize the group for the accreditation of ADL

- ADL format and goals:

• Focused index- results upfront, do a project
• 2 Customer bases: outside users and internal users
• Make sure the target audience is known, and get rid of redundancies.
• Develop all programs in ADL consortium format to get automatic buy-in from all agencies.

- FLETC:

• NIJ as a state and local warehouse
• Lessons learned -- continuously refresh database
• Build the product
• Advisory Group -- who are they: Individual practitioners/users vs. group of consultants/working group

- There is no formal umbrella organization that pulls all of law enforcement together.

- The mentoring aspect is important.

- No significant difference in test scores with distance learning although it may be that by locking a variable, the difference will become apparent.

- Technology exists today to do anything needed, but must interface and prepare users to accept it, since there is resistance to distance learning.

- Course quality must be managed because of the high dropout rate.

- Future generations will be ready for a virtual learning environment and multi-media adds another dimension.

- Make courses interactive and to fill an existing need.

- Get the product requirements firts, and ISTS can hold a sumit and invite an advisory panel, possibly connected with the Government Learning Technology Symposium.

- Main questions are: What is the requirement? What do we want to do? What do we need to do to get there?

- ADL lessons learned and best practices -- requirements online already.

- Common sense approach to categories for courses

- Interagency situation -- benefit from integrating the customer base; leverage resources and capabilites.

Task Force:

1. Draft Mission
2. Develop Draft Force model -- Outreach
3. Requirements (GAP)
4. Products -- Data warehouse, lessons learned, training curriculum
5. Who are we missing? USFA, BJA, USDA grad school, NAPA, WIEH, HDLEST, CFO Council, FAA, TTIG, DoT HazMat Training, DTRA, NEIHS, ADLEST
6. S & L Focus group?
7. Work -- FLX partnership (prototype for branding the group)