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Optimize Training, Ensure Readiness

Fox TMIS Platform

A complete training management solution

Our flagship product Fox is an advanced web-based solution designed to optimize and simplify training and readiness management processes for a wide variety training establishments and operational units. Built on over 30 years of hands-on experience serving the world’s top defense and homeland security forces, the Fox solution improves the operational efficiency and overall effectiveness of your training programs.


Understanding the unique challenges and complex needs facing today’s training organizations, Fox helps organizations design, schedule, deliver, evaluate, and monitor training programs. provides a complete solution designed to optimize the use of costly resources, simplify complex scheduling tasks, ensure qualifications and regulatory compliance, create and deliver course syllabi, improve overall performance, and ensure continuous monitoring of proficiency and readiness levels.

 

Training operation monitoring dashboard

Training operation monitoring

 

Increase throughput with Fox

Comprised of distinct systems and modules designed to meet the complex and ever-changing nature of your needs, this intuitive and user-friendly application is guaranteed to improve throughput and optimize your operations.


Training Needs Analysis
With Fox’s powerful Training Needs Analysis (TNA) module, organizations can design and analyze the success of objective-based training programs according to business and operational needs. With Fox, organizations are able to systematically define job tasks and skills at various levels and use that information to build training programs as well as continuously measure training gaps against learning objectives. 

Curriculum Management
Fox accelerates time-to-competence and increases learning effectiveness through an unparalleled Curriculum Management module that enables the development and ongoing management of course curriculum. Fox enables training developers to build curricula in the structure that exactly meets their needs.

Resource Management
Fox’s advanced Resource Management module improves total resource utilization. Fox ensures that for each training event, the most appropriate resources are selected. The system handles all types of resources¾from training devices to aircraft to instructors¾with the goal of allocating and using resources to improve training efficiency. Resources are apportioned for only the specific hours of need, so they can be freed for additional use. Fox provides training managers with global resource utilization oversight and monitoring capabilities.

Task Management

Fox improves the workflow preparation processes associated with launching and refining training events by automating and standardizing task management. The Task Management module systemizes project management by allowing managers to define tasks, associate them with training events, assign them to be executed, and manage their completion. Managers are able to monitor assignee task progress and be aware of impending due dates through notification alerts.

Training Request Management
Fox simplifies training request planning through flexible user-defined data intake for easy input of training and resource requests. Portal views give a complete picture of the training needs against all available resources in order to plan and schedule training. Trainees register directly through Fox as manager screen views indicate resource allocation, student registration, necessary prerequisites, and instructor certification status for each event.

Training Planning
Planning for complex training and mission operations can be a profound challenge with multitudes of resources to manage, numerous constraints to meet, and compounding scheduling scenarios to plot.  Fox helps forecast, plan, and optimize organizational training and resource allocation through sophisticated simulated scenarios and advanced analytical methodologies. Fox’s time-cost-resource optimization (TCRO) planning and analysis feature automatically models scheduling and resource allocation scenarios thereby avoiding costly, time consuming and erroneous manual planning efforts. Training managers and commanders are able to strategically plan a smoother workflow that increases training program effectiveness and supports achievement of operational objectives.

Scheduling Management
The Fox Scheduling Management module is designed to ensure that training programs and missions are executed with ease and maximum efficiency. With the click of a button Fox synchronizes physical equipment and teaching space with human instructor availability. With cumbersome manual scheduling efforts out of the way, this module leaves managers to focus on the big picture of training management control and decision-making.  

Training Program Management
Fox enables total manager and instructor training program oversight and control. Managers have portal views that show relevant individual and group progress, enabling complete program and achievement monitoring. Fox is highly adaptable and configurable, easily adapting to each organization’s look and feel while it maintains a user-friendly interface. Organizations have control over all aspects of the system–no development skills necessary–in customizing functions to meet organizational requirements.

Qualification & Currency Management
Fox helps qualify and maintain personnel accreditation currency in any sector or industry by managing the complete lifecycle of qualification training.Fox enables easy compliance with the sophisticated and ever-changing criteria required for professional accreditations.  Through the ability to monitor qualifications on an individual and group basis, organizations can ensure that functional operations are staffed with certified and qualified personnel.  Fox’s flexible and robust qualification management solution consists of state-of-the-art tools that support innovative training methods and technology. These advanced management capabilities ensure that both instructors and trainees acquire and maintain the requisite skills and certifications in order to perform their duties.

LMS
Fox’s web-based LMS is a complete learning and knowledge management system intended to encourage the acquisition and transfer of knowledge to key stakeholders within the organization. Fox seamlessly supports integrative learning so that organizations can best deliver programs that meet student learning objectives. It enables organizations to automatically prescribe, deliver and track a set of learning activities based on trainee qualification status, role, and numerous other attributes. The Fox LMS uses a variety of instructional methods including classroom teaching, platform instruction, hands-on training and distance learning. It enables courseware development that is SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) compliant, using standardized learning objects and training materials that are easily merged and highly modular.

Performance Evaluation Management
Fox’s comprehensive Performance Management module is designed to continuously improve trainee performance. Fox delivers unique and fully customizable user-generated evaluation tools that support individual and group-based training analysis. The system tracks and maintains individual performance achievement data, transforming it into valuable training progress information. The system-which works on tablets and mobile devices-effectively captures and evaluates indoor and outdoor training, simulations and performance executions. The information gathered is used to define the skill level of the trainee, analyzed to review performance gaps for improving future training, and archived to satisfy recordkeeping requirements.

Knowledge Testing & Assessment
With Fox’s robust test authoring function, users can build knowledge exams using numerous test configuration options via user-friendly templates. Fox enables users to define remedial learning and retesting pathways, link testing to required skills and activities, and analyze measurements. It facilitates knowledge assessment and grading customized for compliance with regulatory requirements using both multiple methodology scales and descriptive textual remarks. 

Feedback & Surveys
Fox has built-in mechanisms to elicit trainee experience feedback for overall program and service improvement. Through easily customized surveys, internal and external/customer trainees will have the reassuring ability to submit feedback to provide their input on the overall training environment, logistics, training resources, and instructor performance. Collected data will be automatically analyzed, providing your organization with the ability to identify services and deliverables that need to be improved or maintained.

Recordkeeping & Personal File
Instructor and trainee records and other personal information are stored and managed in Fox’s Recordkeeping & Personal File module. As lessons are enhanced, the system maintains all versions for recordkeeping and compliance with governing authorities. Managers can generate and transfer training data to conform regulatory reporting requirements, in any format. Fox also eases the process of closing out the course by delivering the data needed to finalize invoices and issue trainee certification. Fox works with your recordkeeping function to deliver and validate data on the hours of categorized training services received and trainee performance records. Each trainee’s personal records are maintained for the long-term, so that any data Fox captures at any time accumulates and are kept for years down the road.   

Managerial Dashboards
Fox allows managers to focus on the big picture through monitoring dashboards that enable better program control. Fox dashboards also facilitate better decision-making regarding planning, hiring and procurement, and resource allocation. Fox’s customized dashboards present real-time situational readiness data for individuals, teams and units, enabling managers to detect individual and systemic strengths and weaknesses.

Analysis, Trends & Insights
Fox exposes insights from its vasts stores of data to enable a greater understanding of training operations.  Using customized dashboards and a powerful report generator, users can easily analyze data to fine-tune operations, keep abreast of trends, mitigate problems, and leverage success.