Mission Context

To support its global education mission, the U.S. Army requires a robust platform for synchronous, instructor-led education and asynchronous, self-paced learning to ensure Soldiers meet Professional Military Education (PME) requirements and maintain critical certifications.

Historically, the Lifelong Learning Center (LLC) functioned as the Army’s platform for structured, “instructor-in-the-loop” education, enabling educators and Soldiers to manage course materials and submissions. Since the Legacy LLC’s creation, ATIS Learning, a Moodle-based system, was developed and operated independently for asynchronous, student-paced training.  

Core Challenge

For years, the Army operated separate educational systems, resulting in:

• High Costs: Legacy LLC licensing fees cost the Army approximately $6M annually.
• Redundant operations: Separate support teams and infrastructure were required for each system.
• Disjointed user experience: Soldiers were forced to switch between interfaces and login systems, requiring course owners and instructors to understand how to manage both systems.
• Data fragmentation: Leadership was unable to access a unified, automated view of Soldier training and education records.

Tactical Application

The Army partnered with LMI’s contract team supporting ATIS to consolidate its Legacy LLC into a unified Moodle Workplace architecture hosted within cARMY AWS 2.0, now called ATIS Education.

LMI began with a comprehensive analysis to validate that Moodle Workplace met all schoolhouse requirements previously handled by the legacy system, including scheduled courses, live classroom capabilities, learner and instructor workflow during live trainings, performance and scale under class-time loads, and proof of participation.

With validation complete, the team began building the infrastructure, tackling the environment in stages and establishing deployment pipelines and system images. Rigorous testing, security audits, and close collaboration with LLC subject matter experts ensured courses were rebuilt in the new environment with minimal mission downtime. LMI then helped facilitate a smooth transition to ATIS Education through Level 1, 2, and 3 user support during onboarding, minimizing the retraining window.

• ‍Timeline: Ideation to completion in five months from June 2025 to October 2025.  ‍
• Scope: Unified backend support for enterprise learning into a single, cloud-based structure.

Operational Impact

The consolidation of Army education into a modernized infrastructure, ATIS Education, delivers operational and fiscal benefits, contributing to enhanced Total Force readiness:

• Save $6M annually by using an existing Moodle-based LMS.
• Enable more responsive training cycles by standardizing updates and streamlining deployment pipelines.
• Reduce cognitive burden by consolidating systems into a unified platform.
• Accelerate updates, patching, and deployments via shared infrastructure within cARMY AWS 2.0, ensuring cyber compliance and maintaining 99% operational uptime.
• Enhance user experience to reduce training time for Soldiers and instructors.
• Optimize resources and improve fiscal efficiency across Army education.
• As of March 2026, ATIS Education serves 50,000 active monthly users, across 100,000 enrollments, in 5,300 courses.

In the near future, ATIS Learning and ATIS Education will deliver unified records management, integrating synchronous and asynchronous data into the Individual Training Record to provide a holistic, unified view of Soldier proficiency.

By consolidating and modernizing its education infrastructure, the Army has established a scalable, cost-effective platform that streamlines training, enhances readiness, and provides leaders with a unified view of workforce proficiency.