SSB has begun joint operations with Your Talent Coach, to provide online web-based personality evaluations to satisfy various corporate HR requirements including new employee screening, effective Tips for Team Building and Structuring, and overall corporate employee synergistic information to enhance employee productivity, job satisfaction, etc. The site, `Four Strengths,' is being structured to also offer evaluations for individuals seeking coaching and insight into their strengths and suitability for existing or new careers. The evaluations enable a greater understanding of such factors as one's comfort zone under various conditions; how one is likely to react under stress; whether or not one is better suited to work alone or with a team; and more complex issues, such as one's likelihood of prospering better in a highly unstructured environment as an entrepreneur or in a well-defined, secure environment within a large corporation.

The Department of State Foreign Service Institute (FSI) competitively selected SSB, teamed with Edgesource, Inc., to provide on-site assistance for various E-Learning efforts over the next five years. The support is broad in scope and includes web development tasks, database design and development and DBA activities, instructional design, help desk support and overall E-Learning expertise. This tasking by the FSI is an expansion of the support SSB has been providing to other Bureaus at the Department of State for the past 7 years and is complementary to SSB's commercial distance learning efforts.

SSB has completed the final testing of their latest LMS product. The LMS is SCORM-compatible and offers functionality usually found only in the most expensive Learning Management Systems. It runs on windows and UNIX platforms, is designed to be branded for each client's requirements, enables clients to establish multi-tiered permissions and roles for their users, has an intuitive interface and includes numerous utilities and reporting functions that can be tailored to the client's needs. The LMS can be enhanced with several other functions such as job-shadowing, certification tracking and access to blended training. This latest release exploits the lessons-learned from SSB's pioneering e-learning initiatives since 1997.

BAE has been notified by NGA contracts that their Team including SSB will be awarded an IDIQ contract for support in July 2006. The support will require a broad range of skills including software engineering, system engineering, database design and development, analytical support and much more. SSB is pleased to join BAE in providing staffing to NGA on the SMARTS effort.

The Department of State has tasked SSB to enhance the utility of the WebMove Application to include access to a targeted document repository with password access. The controlled access will enable the synchronization of post-specific documentation between the Internet and the Department of State intranet. This initial tasking will demonstrate WebMove's ability to satisfy other more comprehensive e-gov initiatives such as e-clearances and e-document integration.

SSB has successfully completed their web-based Train-the-Trainer curriculum, developed to satisfy the needs of the Intelligence Community. Historically trainers in the Intelligence Community come from either military training schools or homegrown training efforts. Almost all the Trainers in the Intelligence Community are SMEs, but not all SMEs are trainers. New personnel need training to fill analyst gaps, especially as SIGINT analysts. The first step is to ensure that experienced personnel have the proper skills to be a trainer. Initial use of the SSB Train-the-Trainer curriculum will be to certify their trainers internally; afterwards it will be made available to other organizations within the Intelligence Community needing similar credentialing. With this new curriculum, coupled with SSB's distance learning tool-set, SSB continues to demonstrate the ability to provide the highest level of quality support to meet today's Intelligence Community training requirements.