Frontline lands cyber training contract with Air Force

 

San Antonio Business Journal - October 20, 2006

 

The U.S. Headquarters Air Force Security Forces Command (AFSFC) at Lackland Air Force Base has signed a contract worth up to $1.4 million with San Antonio-based Frontline Systems Inc. to provide online training to its Security Forces personnel.

Although the contract is with Frontline Systems, the work will be done through NoWaitMedia LLC, a joint partnership between Frontline and locally based BroadRamp Inc.

The contract, says Bob Sanchez, chairman with Frontline Systems, will be to provide multimedia electronic books, called ME-Books, for four years to the Security Forces Command.

"We are proud to be a part of an initiative that improves the capabilities of our security forces," Sanchez says. "These capabilities are extremely important particularly during times of high military activity."

The Air Force Security Force members are the military police for the U.S. Air Force and provide protection for national security assets, including fighter jets, bombers, nuclear bombs and nuclear missiles. Their main function is protection for all Air Force personnel, property and operations.

Individuals in this program go through more than 13 weeks of training at the Security Forces Academy located at Lackland Air Force Base.

The ME-Book contains searchable content, ability to print multi-level user content, embedded video, audio, interactive content, printable text, Internet hyperlinks language translation narration, and interactivity within one single application, three-level access security and login system.

"The AFSFC has volumes of exportable training, and its effectiveness is magnified when delivered through the ME-Book's interactive multimedia format," explains Sean Darwish, CTO with NoWaitMedia. "There is so much more detail that can be conveyed in a video and that is an advantage the Air Force can really benefit from."

Sanchez adds that the content will be delivered to the Air Force through NoWaitMedia's Content Delivery System (CDS) technology developed by BroadRamp. That technology delivers multimedia content over a broadband Internet connection and a standard Internet browser, eliminating the need for a traditional media player.

"The selection of our CDS technology further solidifies our position in the future of content delivery," says Sanchez.