NETSAFA

* NETSAFA, USCG and USMC sees better activity alignment and are gaining insight into actual mission costs.

NAVAIR Pax River, Maryland NAVSEA Crystal City, Virginia SPAWAR San Diego, California NETSAFA Pensacola, Florida USMC Quantico, Virginia NAVICP Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NOLSC Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania Coast Guard Washington, D.C.

Under the tutelage of the DSCA chief information officer and DISAM, LCDR Jamel Weatherspoon and Ronald Elliott at the Naval Education and Training Security Assistance Field Activity (NETSAFA) fulfilled the programming and development effort.

In addition to updating local databases, the IMSO web also delivers information to databases maintained by NETSAFA and SATFA where each site then processes the data for further integr ation into their respective applications.

This was a lesson learned in the implementation and development of NETSAFA's IMSO and SAG web site application, WEB STATIS.

LCDR Jamel Weatherspoon is a Foreign Military Assistance Specialist at NETSAFA. He has a master's degree in Information Systems Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.