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DoD to pull web portal offline

The Defense Department will close the Defense Knowledge Online portal due to lower than expected numbers of users. In its place, DoD will launch the Enterprise ...

Federal News Network Staff

July 21, 2011 6:24 pm

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The Defense Department announced it is closing down the Defense Knowledge Online portal. The closure comes because the number of users lagged behind expectations, DoD said, according to a report on Defense Systems.

The online portal, which was modeled on an earlier Army-specific one, will shut down in the middle the next fiscal-year. In its place, the department will begin a shift toward the Enterprise Services Portal Branch.

The Pentagon said the latter aims to provide file sharing, access to other enterprise services and a marketplace for mobile apps.

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