In his letter to U.S. Office of Personnel Management Director Janice R. Lachance who is also the chair of the Task Force, the President stated: "You have clearly demonstrated the need to accelerate the federal government's use of learning technology to provide its employees with high-quality training opportunities."

"Now that the President has approved our recommendations, we will start creating the initiatives that will make the use of learning technology a viable and cost-effective tool for addressing the training needs of our work force," said Lachance.

Recommendations made by the task force include establishing a Learning Technology Steering Committee and a resource center, both of which will play a major role in promoting technology-based learning. In addition, the task force recommended initiatives to raise the awareness of agency decision-makers about the advantages of using technology to train their employees.

The Task Force was created in January 1999 by Executive Order 13111 and is comprised of senior-level officials from all cabinet-level departments and selected agencies. It was charged with developing a strategy to increase the use of technology-based training (TBT) in the federal government.

Copies of the report, Technology: Transforming Federal Training, are located at www.opm.gov/UsingIT and Technology-Taskforce.gov.