ADL Mission

Enhancing the quality, quantity, and accessibility of warfighter data to increase DoD mission effectiveness and optimization.

ADL Purpose

Delivering a competitive advantage by upskilling our warfighters to outpace our adversaries.

About Us

The ADL Initiative architects and delivers critical IT infrastructure needed to support core readiness by linking the skills needed for successful and lethal mission success and comparing them to warfighter capability. When there is a mismatch, we point to the efficient upskill opportunities to achieve warfighter readiness. Our DoD Learning Enclave (DLE) platform enables effective command and control, readiness reporting, and data-driven force management decision-making. This integration provides DoD senior leaders, training managers, manpower analysts, and service leaders with the essential data needed for informed decision-making.

The Advanced Digital Learning (ADL) Initiative is a government program reporting to the Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA), under the Director, DHRA, and is one of ten functional mission areas of the Defense Support Services Center (DSSC). We work collaboratively with the public and private sectors to develop standards, tools, and business systems that facilitate the collection and sharing of learning data for data-driven decision-making across the DoD. This work enables critical information and resource sharing among DoD Components, creating efficiencies and maximizing DoD-wide investments in enterprise digital learning.

Key Objectives

• Enabling Interoperability: Providing state-of-the-art, affordable, and convenient business systems for DoD military and civilian personnel that ensure distributed learning systems and data are interoperable across different platforms and organizations.

• Supporting Policy and Governance: Leading the way in digital learning policy and technical guidance for the DoD community.

Enabling Interoperability: Providing state-of-the-art, affordable, and convenient business systems for DoD military and civilian personnel that ensure distributed learning systems and data are interoperable across different platforms and organizations.

Supporting Policy and Governance: Leading the way in digital learning policy and technical guidance for the DoD community.

Through our structured and adaptive approach, the ADL Initiative continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of digital learning, benefiting not only the DoD but also other government organizations, academia, and the private sector.

Our Impact

The ADL Initiative saves time and money for the DoD (and Federal government) by creating and implementing technology interoperability specifications and associated policy, identifying and eliminating inter-Service and interagency duplications of effort, and matching stakeholders with needs to those with solutions. We improve the effectiveness and efficiency of decision-making by linking readiness with training and education.