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Extension to contract with U.S. Army to develop mobile learning smartphone App to enhance international relief efforts

Tribal Group plc ("Tribal"), a leading provider of technology products and services to the education, learning and training markets in the UK and internationally, has confirmed a $1m extension to its contract with the U.S. Army as technology partner on the Mobile Learning Environment (MoLE) project. As part of this work, Tribal is collaborating with a team of experts to develop smartphone applications for aid workers to use when responding to international humanitarian emergencies.

This builds on the earlier research and development completed by Tribal for the MoLE project. Tribal will continue to provide support as expert technical adviser and mobile developer. The prototype applications combine the native features of the smartphone with mobile software infrastructure to deliver targeted content and social networking capabilities.

Underpinning the project is Tribal's innovative mobile learning suite, an emerging software platform optimised for sharing critical information and just-in-time learning across all major smartphones and integrating with traditional learning platforms.

MoLE is part funded by the Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), an organization within the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command located at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

Colonel Karl Friedl, Director for TATRC, said: "The mobile application developed in partnership with Tribal has the potential for dramatically improving our ability to organise, train and equip our military responders and enhance communication with other organisations in the field. The practical information that is essential when participating in an operation in unfamiliar areas will be quite literally at our fingertips, and we will be able to gather and communicate information quickly and simply."

A live multi-national trial of the application with partner nations commenced in April 2012.

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