June 1996

Learning Systems International (LSI) is awarded a subcontract on the Social Security Administration (SSA) Intelligent Workstation/Local Area Network (IWS/LAN) contract.

The SSA awards Unisys Federal Systems the IWS/LAN program. This five-year program includes the installation of 56,500 PC workstations and 2,567 laptops in 1,742 token ring LANs in over 1400 sites throughout the United States and its territories. The IWS/LAN program is designed to replace SSA's mainframe, dumb terminal architecture with a distributed processing, client/server architecture. LSI is awarded a subcontract that includes the development and delivery of customized Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) training to support the nationwide rollout of IWS/LAN. The training will be both technical and non-technical and will be highly targeted to specific job classifications and functional tasks. Additionally, LSI will adapt all end-user courseware for accessibility by Employees with Disabilities (EWD) using assistive devices. Specific disabled populations include hearing impaired, mobility impaired, low vision and blind users.

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