Army to close retiree AKO accounts

On September 20, 2013, the Army published its plan to modernize Army Knowledge Online (AKO). The plan transitions business users to a suite of more secure, interoperable Department of Defense (DOD) services. The improved security requires users to have Common Access Cards (CAC) embedded with users’ personal digital certificates.

The Army will close all accounts for military and civilian retirees and family members, who do not have CACs.

The Army plans to close inactive retiree and family member AKO accounts on December 31, 2013. These are accounts that have not had a password change in over 90 days and are not set to automatically forward email to another government account. The Army will also remove email storage for active retiree and family member accounts on this date. Read more http://ow.ly/qDJEw 

Special thanks to Aaron Pollick for identifying this change to Retiree News