Defense Connect Online Nominated for 2012 Excellence Gov Award
"Defense Connect Online (DCO), the Adobe Connect and XMPP chat deployment at the US Department of Defense run by the Defense System Information Agency (DISA) has been nominated for 2012 Excellence.Gov awards by the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council."

NDU cyber threat workshop receives top honors from DOD
"Using Defense Connect Online, video teleconferencing and multimedia, the workshop was able to create a virtual lab."

Air Force to Use DCO XMPP Chat Client When Instant Messenger Goes Away
"The AF is migrating to DoD enterprise capabilities for better information sharing and greater efficiency. An established DoD instant messaging capability is the Defense Connect Online (DCO) chat function called "Jabber."

National Guard diversity conference to go virtual for minimum cost, maximum impact
"NGB will broadcast the entire conference on the Warrior Network and Defense Connect Online. This will allow soldiers, airmen and civilians - who would otherwise not have the time or resources to travel to a set location - to participate in a very important topic in today's military."

TRADOC holds junior leader forum as part of Unified Quest program
"This Defense Connect Online site provides participants the ability to ask questions of senior Army leaders and the junior leaders who have participated all week in this important Army event."

How knowledge management helps keep the US attack free
"Those tools will be bolstered by DISA's Defense Connect Online, a 380,000-user network that lets personnel exchange unclassified and secret information with authorized mission partners."

Honoring the past while planning for tomorrow
"Those who were unable to attend the briefings were able to watch them live from their computers though Defense Connect Online. This is the first time the technology has been used for Ordnance Week."

Civilian career tips are focus of upcoming webcasts
"Civilian Airmen will learn how to plan for their next job, how education affects their careers and more during webcasts in May and June tailored for specific grade-groups. Webcasts held through DCO."

AFPC officials stream developmental team outbriefs online
"AFPC officials stream developmental team outbriefs online through DCO. Active-duty officers are now able to watch and participate in their career field's developmental team outbriefs online through the Defense Connect Online website."

Adobe Connect Selected in Expanded U.S. DoD Contract
"The multi-year contract is valued at over $93 million and was awarded to Carahsoft Technology Corp., a government IT solutions provider that works in partnership with Adobe Systems Federal, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Adobe. It includes a one-year base period and subsequent one-year options that extend into 2015."

Warfighters incorporate weather into planning with new capability
"We are able to meet warfighters' needs by actively engaging with the user through the use of technical demonstrations broadcasted over Defense Connect Online"

Pentagon's WARCAP Upgrades To New Multipoint VTC Capability in 2011
"WARCAP uses Defense Connect Online (DCO), a software-based VTC system, for informal meetings and document sharing"

DISA incorporates desktop-telepresence across DoD
"The technology is being applied by senior-level leaders, agency employees, and service members alike, according to Colonel Brian Hermann, chief of the Net-Centric Enterprise Services branch. Managed in conjunction by Carahsoft Technology Corp. and Adobe Systems Incorp."

Defense information-sharing program is fully operational
"DISA awarded IBM the initial $17 million NCES contract in 2006. In 2007, it gave Carahsoft Technology Corp. a second contract worth $22 million, to provide the Jabber Extensible Communications Platform to support instant messaging and multiuser text conferencing, and Adobe Connect to support Web conferencing and voice and video teleconferences."

5 ways to use social media for better emergency response
"The Southern Command used the Defense Connect Online site and All Partners Access Network to communicate with a range of organizations involved in relief and rescue efforts after the massive Haiti earthquake earlier this year. Defense Connect Online is a 380,000-user network that lets DOD personnel exchange unclassified and secret information with authorized mission partners. DCO consists of Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro for Web conferencing and Cisco Systems' Jabber chat technology."