Federal Aviation Administration Awards Contract Option Renewal

Reston, Va., [April 2, 2008]  Applied Knowledge Group (AKG) successfully completed its base year with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under the Knowledge Services Network (KSN) contract and has been awarded the first option renewal. The primary focus for this option will be migrating KSN’s 37,000 Windows SharePoint Services v2.0 users to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). This undertaking includes providing collaboration strategy, change management, training services, technology services, and software application development for KSN. 

Pamela Harris-Vet, AKG’s Director of Professional Services and FAA program Manager notes that, “We are pleased to continue our support of the FAA’s KSN Program as it enters this new phase of change during the migration to MOSS. KSN has fundamentally altered the way FAA organizations work and is becoming the agency’s national collaborative system. It’s an exciting time for AKG and we are proud to continue our support in this effort.”

About Applied Knowledge Group

Applied Knowledge Group Inc. (AKG), founded in 1996 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, is a Microsoft Certified Partner focused on helping government and commercial organizations connect employee knowledge via collaboration strategies, tools and best practice user adoption methods.  At AKG, we link the knowledge of people. Our goal is to support the vision of a Virtual Work Environment (VWE) -- one that overcomes the restrictions of the physical work world to facilitate collaboration, knowledge transfer and more informed business decisions.  To achieve this goal, we focus on four key pillars: People, Process, Technology and Learning. Our services align with these four pillars and include collaboration strategy support, change management and training services, technology services and software application development. Current engagements include a 35,000 seat Microsoft SharePoint implementation for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).  AKG also has current and prior engagements with FedExKinkos, TV Guide, FCI Towers, Inc., The Institute for Defense Analyses, the Knowledge Works Foundation, Weyerhaeuser Corp., Learning Tree International, and the United States Marine Corps.