United States Department of Agriculture eGovernment Program

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######### Agricultural Research Service (ARS) 

######### eGovernment Tactical Plan

May 8, 2002

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**CONTENTS:**

[[I.]{.smallcaps} [ARS Overview]{.smallcaps} 3](#ars-overview)

[A. Mission/Vision 3](#a.-missionvision)

[B. Major Customer and Stakeholder Groups
3](#major-customer-and-stakeholder-groups)

[C. Core Functions and Major Programs
5](#c.-core-functions-and-major-programs)

[D. Key Challenges 6](#d.-key-challenges)

[[II.]{.smallcaps} [USDA eGovernment Mission, Vision, Strategic Goals
and Objectives]{.smallcaps}
8](#usda-egovernment-mission-vision-strategic-goals-and-objectives)

[A. USDA eGovernment Mission and Vision
8](#a.-usda-egovernment-mission-and-vision)

[B. eGovernment Goals & Objectives 8](#b.-egovernment-goals-objectives)

[[III.]{.smallcaps} [Current ARS eGovernment Efforts]{.smallcaps}
9](#current-ars-egovernment-efforts)

[A. Citizens 9](#a.-citizens)

[B. Public and Private Partners 15](#b.-public-and-private-partners)

[C. Employees and the Enterprise 19](#c.-employees-and-the-enterprise)

[[IV.]{.smallcaps} [Supporting Opportunities in USDA's eGovernment
Strategic Plan]{.smallcaps}
23](#supporting-opportunities-in-usdas-egovernment-strategic-plan)

[[V.]{.smallcaps} [Proposed ARS eGovernment Opportunities]{.smallcaps}
30](#proposed-ars-egovernment-opportunities)

[[VI.]{.smallcaps} [Funding Summary for eGovernment]{.smallcaps}
92](#funding-summary-for-egovernment)

[A. Funding Summary of Proposed ARS eGovernment Initiatives
92](#funding-summary-of-proposed-ars-egovernment-initiatives)

[B. Current IT Spending by Goal 95](#b.-current-egov-spending-by-goal)

[[Appendix A: ARS eGovernment Steering Committee Members]{.smallcaps}
96](#appendix-a-ars-egovernment-steering-committee-members)

Appendix B: ARS Baseline of Existing eGovernment Applications 97

# [ARS Overview]{.smallcaps}

## A. Mission/Vision

> *ARS Mission:*
>
> The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) conducts research to develop
> and transfer solutions to agricultural problems of high national
> priority and provides information access and dissemination to:

-   Ensure high-quality, safe food and other agricultural products,

-   Assess the nutritional needs of Americans,

-   Sustain a competitive agricultural economy,

-   Enhance the natural resource base and the environment, and

-   Provide economic opportunities for rural citizens, communities, and
    society as a whole

## 

> *ARS Vision:*
>
> Leading America towards a better future through agricultural research
> and information.

## Major Customer and Stakeholder Groups

> ARS is the principal in-house research agency of the U.S. Department
> of Agriculture (USDA) and through the National Agricultural Library
> (NAL) leads in the information revolution by forging partnerships and
> exploring new methods and technologies that advance open and
> democratic access to information. ARS research has long been
> associated with high production and environmentally sensitive farming
> techniques. The impact of ARS research extends far beyond the farm
> gate and the dinner table. Agricultural research is also about human
> health, the development of agricultural-based industrial products, new
> biotechnology techniques, and research to providing solutions to a
> wide range of problems related to agriculture. These problems range
> from the ongoing battle to protect crops and livestock from costly
> pests and diseases to improving the quality and safety of agricultural
> commodities and products, determining the right mix of nutrients for
> humans from infancy to old age, making the best use of natural
> resources, and ensuring profitability for producers and processors
> while keeping costs down for consumers.
>
> ARS also includes the Administrative and Financial Management (AFM)
> unit that provides administrative and financial management services
> for the Research, Education and Economics (REE) mission area.
>
> ***1. Customers\--***Individuals or organizations that directly use
> ARS products or services. Although its composition changes, the
> following list indicates the breadth of ARS' customer base:

Producers (farmers, growers, and ranchers) and processors

National and international organizations

Advocacy groups

Commodity and futures markets

International trade organizations

International science and research organizations

USDA and other Federal action and regulatory agencies

Scientific community

Medical community

> Health and dietary community
>
> Environmental community
>
> State and local governments
>
> News media
>
> Land-grant universities
>
> Libraries
>
> Citizens
>
> REE mission area agencies
>
> ***2. Stakeholders\--***Organizations or individuals that have an
> interest in the work of ARS but do not directly use the agency's
> products. The following list reflects the breadth of the agency's
> stakeholders.
>
> Legislative branch
>
> Executive branch
>
> ARS employees
>
> National and international organizations

Producer and processor organizations

> Food and commodity organizations

Foreign countries/governments

Trade organizations

> Environmental organizations

Retail organizations

> Consumer organizations
>
> Land-grant Universities

#### 

#### **3. Beneficiaries**\--Individuals whose well-being is enhanced by the agency's activities, information, and technology**.**

> Domestic and foreign consumers of U.S. agricultural products and
> technologies

#### 

> ***2. Public and Private Partners***
>
> ***Partners---***ARS works collaboratively with scientists and other
> professionals in other Federal or State agencies, universities, or
> private sector entities in addressing issues of mutual interest. ARS
> scientists and other professionals communicate research results and
> transfer new technologies from the agency to other scientists
> (Federal, State, and private sector scientists), institutions of
> higher education, producers, product and process developers,
> consumers, and other end users through publications, conferences,
> workshops, web-based resources, and consultations; and cooperative
> agreements, patents, and licenses.

Figure 1: Major Public/Private Partner Organizations

  ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
  **Major Organization/Industry Groups**            **Estimated Total
                                                    Number Served**

  Colleges and Universities                         215

  Science and Research Organizations                42

  Government Agencies                               8
  ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------

> ***3. Employees***
>
> ARS' employees are located at USDA headquarters and at regional
> offices and at ARS laboratories across the U.S.

Figure 2: Major Employee Groups

  ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
  **Employee Groups**                               **Estimated Total
                                                    Number**

  Headquarters Employees                            530

  Regional Office and Laboratory Employees          8,470
  ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------

## 

## C. Core Functions and Major Programs

ARS' policy is to maintain the essential combinations of scientific
expertise, fiscal and information resources, and facilities required to
meet the needs of the agency's national programs. These core
capabilities are a defining feature of the agency and can be mobilized
to address national crises and other emerging problems.

> ARS' core business functions include basic, applied, and developmental
> research, information collection and dissemination, and
> document/library management.
>
> The agency has organized its research activities into 22 National
> Program areas and the National Agricultural Library.

###### Figure 3: National Programs

+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------+
| **Core Functions/Major Programs**               | **Budget**          |
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------+
| National Programs                               | \$ 937 Million      |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Food Animal Production                      |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Animal Health                               |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Animal Pests and Parasites                  |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Animal Well-Being and Stress Control        |                     |
|     Systems                                     |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Aquaculture                                 |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Human Nutrition                             |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Food Safety (animal and plant products)     |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Water Quality and Management                |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Soil Resource Management                    |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Air Quality                                 |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Global Change                               |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Rangeland, Pasture, and Forages             |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Manure and Byproduct Utilization            |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Integrated Agricultural Systems             |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Plant, Microbial and Insect Genetic         |                     |
|     Resources, Genomics, and Genetic            |                     |
|     Improvement                                 |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Plant Biological and Molecular Processes    |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Plant Diseases                              |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Crop Protection and Quarantine              |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Crop Production                             |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Quality and Utilization of Agricultural     |                     |
|     Products                                    |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Bioenergy and Energy Alternatives           |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Methyl Bromide Alternative                  |                     |
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------+
| National Agricultural Library:                  | \$22 Million        |
|                                                 |                     |
| > Web Presence (including Partnerships)         |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Information Centers                         |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Invasive Species                            |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   AgRef                                       |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Digital Desktop Library Initiative          |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   AgNIC                                       |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   National & International Alliances --       |                     |
|     AGRIS, SCIENCE.GOV                          |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   FSRIO                                       |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| > Information & Knowledge Management            |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   NAL Agricultural Thesaurus                  |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   NAL Information Collection                  |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   AGRICOLA                                    |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   National Digital Library for Agriculture    |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Digital Preservation                        |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   ELMS                                        |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Electronic Document Delivery                |                     |
|                                                 |                     |
| -   Standards Development                       |                     |
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------+
| Administrative and Financial Management         | \$21 Million        |
+-------------------------------------------------+---------------------+

### 

## D. Key Challenges

> The abundance and affordability of the American food supply are
> chiefly due to U.S. agricultural research. The Nation's ability to
> sustain this plentiful and inexpensive food supply continues to be
> paramount. But in recent years, consumer and producer attention have
> expanded somewhat to other areas of concern, such as food safety and
> quality, the relationship of agriculture and the environment, the
> profitability of the agricultural enterprise, and the impact of
> Government regulations, land use restrictions, and economic options
> that diminish the supply of farm and grazing land.
>
> The long-term sustainability of the Nation's food and fiber production
> systems will be determined not only by the continued profitability of
> farming and ranching, but also by how these production systems affect
> the environment. The capacity of U.S. agriculture to adapt to
> environmental changes is also a concern, as are availability and
> quality of natural resources. Another key environmental issue is how
> human activities affect weather patterns, atmosphere, composition,
> soil and water quality, and productivity.
>
> Global population increases, demographic changes, and economic growth
> will substantially increase the demand for agricultural products and
> lead to development of new markets. At the same time, increased
> agricultural efficiency in other countries will force U.S. agriculture
> to be more competitive.
>
> Many of the challenges are information based, and electronic
> information is expensive. These challenges include identifying and
> disseminating key information resources in a user-friendly, timely
> manner, and appropriate format - to deliver the right information at
> the right time to the right people.

# [USDA eGovernment Mission, Vision, Strategic Goals and Objectives]{.smallcaps}

##  A. USDA eGovernment Mission and Vision

> **USDA eGovernment Mission**
>
> *"Transform and enhance the delivery of USDA's programs, services and
> information.\"*
>
> **USDA eGovernment Vision**
>
> *"USDA, electronically available any place, any time."*

## B. eGovernment Goals & Objectives

+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **Goal**          | **Objectives**                                   |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **Goal 1:         | 1.  Promote a stable, safe, and affordable food  |
| Citizens**        |     supply and improve nutritional status        |
|                   |                                                  |
| Improve citizens' | 2.  Enhance the efficiency and commercial        |
| knowledge of and  |     viability of agricultural producers and      |
| access to USDA to |     promote the expansion of agricultural trade. |
| enhance service   |                                                  |
| delivery.         | 3.  Increase the capability of all citizens,     |
|                   |     especially those living in rural             |
|                   |     communities, to benefit from eGovernment     |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | 4.  Provide the public with information and      |
|                   |     services to benefit from and preserve        |
|                   |     natural resources and the environment        |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **Goal 2: Public  | 1.  Empower organizations by providing           |
| and Private       |     appropriate and meaningful data and          |
| Organizations**   |     knowledge for timely decision-making         |
|                   |                                                  |
| Enhance           | 2.  Enable business transactions with partners   |
| collaboration     |     through user-friendly applications and       |
| with public and   |     seamless integration across the Department   |
| private sector    |                                                  |
| organizations to  | 3.  Streamline oversight, regulatory, and        |
| develop and       |     cooperative activities with standardized     |
| deliver USDA's    |     electronic solutions                         |
| mission.          |                                                  |
|                   | 4.  Provide leadership in intergovernmental      |
|                   |     initiatives to improve service delivery      |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+
| **Goal 3:         | 1.  Foster seamless collaboration to make        |
| Employees and the |     informed decisions and minimize redundancy   |
| Enterprise**      |     to achieve USDA's mission                    |
|                   |                                                  |
| Improve internal  | 2.  Increase USDA employees' skills,             |
| efficiency by     |     understanding, access and use of available   |
| promoting         |     eGovernment tools                            |
| enterprise-wide   |                                                  |
| solutions.        | 3.  Develop and enhance administrative and       |
|                   |     support functions that satisfy employee and  |
|                   |     enterprise needs in an effective, efficient  |
|                   |     and interoperable manner                     |
|                   |                                                  |
|                   | 4.  Create and maintain a management and         |
|                   |     technical infrastructure capable of          |
|                   |     supporting USDA's eGovernment vision         |
+-------------------+--------------------------------------------------+

#   {#section-6 .unnumbered}

# [Current ARS eGovernment Efforts]{.smallcaps}

## A. Citizens

+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| **Name**     | **Description**                                       |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| **           | The *Agriculture Network Information Center* (AgNIC)  |
| Agricultural | ( is the pre-eminent agricultural informaton Internet |
| Network      | portal, providing high-quality electronic             |
| Information  | agricultural information and resources by means of a  |
| Center       | distributed, collaborative partnership model.         |
| (AgNIC)**    | Partnership in this voluntary alliance includes the   |
|              | National Agricultural Library (NAL), land-grant       |
|              | universities (libraries and agricultural extension),  |
|              | and other organizations in cooperation with citizen   |
|              | groups and government agencies. Serving as an         |
|              | interface to the land-grant system, AgNIC brings      |
|              | together information resources created by a           |
|              | combination of Federal and State efforts. Currently,  |
|              | there are 40 partners covering 37 subject areas. In   |
|              | 1994, NAL assumed the AgNIC leadership role and       |
|              | serves as the AgNIC center by hosting and             |
|              | coordinating program activities.                      |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The AgNIC World Wide Web service began with a         |
|              | simplistic interface and structure in 1995. By 1998,  |
|              | the use of free software (ROADS: Resource             |
|              | Organization and Discovery Services) enabled the      |
|              | eventual "cross-searching" of partner sites with a    |
|              | single interface. Several resource databases have     |
|              | been established using this technology. To enhance    |
|              | usability, the AgNIC Technology Working Group has     |
|              | moved from a gateway (directing the user to resources |
|              | on the same topic) to a portal (customizable,         |
|              | comprehensive subject coverage -- one-stop-shop).     |
|              | Current implementation of state-of-the-art technology |
|              | will allow a portal interface to the AgNIC system and |
|              | partner resources. Users will be able to establish a  |
|              | "MyAgNIC" interface, defining the Web page they see   |
|              | based on their information needs. Searching all AgNIC |
|              | resources will be possible from that single           |
|              | interface.                                            |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| USDA-DHIA    | Number range CHAPTERThe Animal Improvement Programs   |
| Genetic      | Laboratory (AIPL) has implemented an enhanced system  |
| Evaluation   | for the calculation and delivery of national genetic  |
| System       | evaluations of dairy cattle, and that system is       |
|              | increasing the genetic merit of the U.S. dairy        |
|              | population for milk yield by an additional 6 gallons  |
|              | of milk per successful breeding. The additional       |
|              | annual economic value of the genetic merit of dairy   |
|              | cattle that has resulted from breedings since the     |
|              | implementation of the enhanced system is estimated to |
|              | be over \$60 million annually to U.S. dairy producers |
|              | and U.S. con­sumers. Because genetic improve­ment is    |
|              | permanent, those gains are perpetuated and will be    |
|              | compounded over the years.                            |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The AIPL web site                                     |
|              | ([http://aipl.arsusda.gov](http://aipl.arsusda.gov/)) |
|              | makes genetic information on the U.S. dairy           |
|              | population instantaneously and directly avail­able to  |
|              | the industry. Electronic file transfer allows         |
|              | earlier, simpler, and more equitable access to        |
|              | infor­mation by all users than is possible through     |
|              | traditional delivery systems. Simultaneous delivery   |
|              | of genetic eval­uation in­formation, which had been a   |
|              | U.S. dairy in­dustry con­cern when using tra­di­tional    |
|              | mail and ex­press delivery services, is now possible   |
|              | regardless of time zones. A sys­tem with unique        |
|              | passwords also was developed to en­sure that access to |
|              | organi­zation specific files is limited to authorized  |
|              | organizations only, thus maintaining data security    |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The resulting gains possible in production efficiency |
|              | are expected to increase U.S. pro­ducer income, which, |
|              | in turn, will be transformed into reduced cost of     |
|              | dairy products for American consumers. Since 1980,    |
|              | retail dairy product prices have increased at an      |
|              | inflation rate of nearly 20% less than for all foods  |
|              | and consumer products because the aver­age milk price  |
|              | at the farm has not increased. Gains in production    |
|              | efficiency also help keep U.S. cattle, semen, and     |
|              | embryos in demand internationally.                    |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Electronic   | While most of its 3.5 million items are in print, NAL |
| Information  | has been acquiring electronic information products    |
| Products in  | for the NAL collection for more than 20 years.        |
| the NAL      | Examples include databases, data sets, and electronic |
| Information  | journals.                                             |
| Collection   |                                                       |
|              | For almost a decade NAL has executed a policy of      |
|              | preferring electronic format to print. However, an    |
|              | essentially flat budget since 1996 has limited NAL's  |
|              | ability to fund expensive licenses. NAL is developing |
|              | its Digital Desktop Library Initiative as a means to  |
|              | provide electronic information to UDSA employees. The |
|              | initiative is described separately in the **Current   |
|              | Efforts, Employees and the Enterprise** sections.     |
|              |                                                       |
|              | More and more USDA publications are "born digitally." |
|              | In order to continue to act as a repository for these |
|              | publications and provide long-term access, NAL began  |
|              | to lead the USDA Digital Publications Preservation    |
|              | Steering Committee in 1998. This initiative is also   |
|              | described separately in Section C.                    |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| NAL          | As the world\'s largest agricultural information      |
| Specialized  | resource, the National Agricultural Library is the    |
| Information  | host for vital electronic material in support of      |
| Centers and  | USDA\'s initiatives. In this successful endeavor, NAL |
| Web Services | uses a variety of electronic methods for providing    |
|              | services including specialized web sites, an online   |
|              | reference request model, and an SDI (Selective        |
|              | Dissemination of Information) model.                  |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The NAL\'s specialized information centers provide    |
|              | access to comprehensive and essential information     |
|              | resources. World Wide Web access to these resources   |
|              | enhances information availability and dissemination.  |
|              | Customers are able to access information and submit   |
|              | queries 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Specialized    |
|              | information centers include Invasive Species, Food    |
|              | and Nutrition, Food Safety, Alternative Farming       |
|              | Systems, Water Quality, Rural Information and Rural   |
|              | Health Services, Animal Welfare, and Technology       |
|              | Transfer. Specialized Web sites for Invasive Species, |
|              | Agricultural Law, and Biotechnology are a result of   |
|              | NAL\'s collaborative efforts with contemporaries.     |
|              |                                                       |
|              | AgRef (agref@nal.usda.gov) is NAL\'s online reference |
|              | service providing electronic services within the      |
|              | guidelines of the NAL User Fee Policy. Requests come  |
|              | from a wide variety of customers including USDA       |
|              | scientists, educational institutions, foreign         |
|              | entities, the private sector, and the general public. |
|              | In concert with other reference efforts such as the   |
|              | Library of Congress Collaborative Digital Reference   |
|              | Service Initiative, the NAL is able to electronically |
|              | exchange queries that are outside of the scope of NAL |
|              | resources.                                            |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The *Current Awareness Literature Service* (CALS)     |
|              | (http://www.nal.usda.gov/cals/cals.htm) is a          |
|              | Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) service  |
|              | that caters primarily to ARS researchers and          |
|              | administrators. CALS works with individual            |
|              | researchers to develop search strategies in order to  |
|              | locate appropriate bibliographic citations in the     |
|              | scientific literature. These search strategies are    |
|              | run against available databases at regular intervals, |
|              | usually corresponding to how often the database is    |
|              | updated (generally weekly or monthly). Citations      |
|              | retrieved by the search strategies are then           |
|              | automatically sent to clients by email.               |
|              |                                                       |
|              | NAL works with partners to develop specialized Web    |
|              | sites for Invasive Species, Agricultural Law, and     |
|              | Biotechnology. *Invasivespecies.gov* ( is the gateway |
|              | to Federal efforts concerning invasive species. This  |
|              | site includes information on the impacts of invasive  |
|              | species and the Federal government\'s response, as    |
|              | well as selected species profiles, and links to       |
|              | agencies and organizations dealing with invasive      |
|              | species issues. Invasivespecies.gov is also the Web   |
|              | site for the National Invasive Species Council, which |
|              | coordinates Federal responses to the issues and       |
|              | challenges. The National Biological Information       |
|              | Infrastructure is a broad-based, collaborative        |
|              | program amongst federal, state, international,        |
|              | non-government, academic, and private industry        |
|              | partners.                                             |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The Food Information Team at the National             |
|              | Agricultural Library facilitates information access   |
|              | through the Web sites, bibliographic databases,       |
|              | listservers, and publications that they produce for   |
|              | general and specific audiences. Funding for these     |
|              | efforts is provided by USDA agencies including ARS,   |
|              | ERS, FSIS, FNS and ODS, U.S. Department of Health and |
|              | Human Services, National Institutes of Health. The    |
|              | information products and programs of the Food         |
|              | Information Team include a broad scope of important   |
|              | services:                                             |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The *Food Safety Research Information Office* (FSRIO  |
|              | -- http://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio) was established at  |
|              | NAL to support the food safety research community     |
|              | with an online database. Launched in July 2001, this  |
|              | database is a tool for food safety research and       |
|              | policy planning. FSRIO services are provided in       |
|              | cooperation with the National Institutes of Health,   |
|              | the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for     |
|              | Disease Control and Prevention, public institutions,  |
|              | and on a voluntary basis, private research interests. |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The *Foodborne Illness Education Information Center*  |
|              | (http://www.nal.usda.gov/foodborne/) provides         |
|              | databases and Web sites for food safety professionals |
|              | and the public. The center is part of an interagency  |
|              | agreement among NAL, the USDA Food Safety and         |
|              | Inspection Service (FSIS), and the Food and Drug      |
|              | Administration (FDA). USDA and FDA established the    |
|              | center as part of a national campaign to reduce the   |
|              | risk of foodborne illness and to increase knowledge   |
|              | of food-related risks from production through         |
|              | consumption. The center\'s primary function is the    |
|              | development and maintenance of two databases. The     |
|              | Foodborne Illness Educational Materials Database is a |
|              | compilation of citations to consumer and food worker  |
|              | educational materials developed by universities;      |
|              | private industry; and local, state, and federal       |
|              | agencies. The Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points |
|              | (HACCP) Training Programs and Resources Database      |
|              | provides up-to-date listings of HACCP training        |
|              | programs and HACCP resource materials. Its intended   |
|              | users are educators, trainers, extension field staff, |
|              | FSIS personnel, FDA personnel, private sector food    |
|              | processing plants and organizations, and others       |
|              | interested in identifying HACCP training resources.   |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The *Healthy School Meals Resource System*            |
|              | (http://schoolmeals.nal.usda.gov/) is a collaborative |
|              | effort among NAL, the USDA's Food and Nutrition       |
|              | Service, Child Nutrition Programs and the University  |
|              | of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and Food        |
|              | Science to provide a database and Web site for child  |
|              | nutrition program staff. School lunch software        |
|              | programs are evaluated for accuracy and ease of use   |
|              | in schools.                                           |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The *Food Stamp Nutrition Connection* ( is a database |
|              | and Web site containing resources for the food stamp  |
|              | professional. This collaborative effort among NAL,    |
|              | the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, Food Stamp     |
|              | Program, and the University of Maryland's Department  |
|              | of Nutrition and Food Science provides valuable       |
|              | information to those working with food stamp programs |
|              | around the U.S.                                       |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The *Child Care Nutrition Resource System*            |
|              | (http://www.nal.usda.gov/Childcare) is a              |
|              | collaborative effort among NAL, the USDA's Food and   |
|              | Nutrition Service, Child Nutrition Programs and the   |
|              | University of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and  |
|              | Food Science. This service provides recipes,          |
|              | resources, and information on preparing nutritious    |
|              | means and food safety. Day care providers who         |
|              | participate in the USDA's Child and Adult Care Food   |
|              | Program (CACFP) and receive reimbursement for meals   |
|              | served will find the information useful.              |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The *WIC Works Resource System* () is a collaborative |
|              | resource among NAL, the USDA's Food and Nutrition     |
|              | Service, Supplemental Food Program Division and the   |
|              | University of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and  |
|              | Food Science. This system offers a database and a Web |
|              | site containing resources for WIC nutritionists.      |
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| Nutrient     | Number range CHAPTERThe Nutrient Data Laboratory      |
| Data         | (NDL), Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center,    |
| Laboratory   | Agricultural Research Service, United States          |
| eGov Efforts | Department of Agriculture maintains the National      |
|              | Nutrient Databank (NNDB). NDL recently integrated the |
|              | NNDB data handling process used in conducting mission |
|              | critical research for authoritative food composition  |
|              | database developments. NDL's major product release is |
|              | the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference     |
|              | (SR). This integrated NNDB data handling system has   |
|              | allowed NDL to improve electronic access to food      |
|              | composition data. NNDB improvements have allowed NDL  |
|              | to change from paper SR publications to annual        |
|              | disseminations of the SR online in several electronic |
|              | data formats as well as allowing NDL to make          |
|              | additional database product releases. NDL's Web site, |
|              | [[www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp,]                    |
|              | {.underline}](http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp,) |
|              | was established in 1992. In 1996, NDL provided users  |
|              | with an online search of SR. Electronic SR releases   |
|              | have been made annually. These annual SR releases,    |
|              | combined with the online SR search and the 2001       |
|              | release of Reports of Single Nutrients, other NDL     |
|              | database products and additional Web site             |
|              | improvements, have driven the number of unique        |
|              | visitors to NDL's Web site from 9200 a month in 1998  |
|              | to 40,300 a month for the 1^st^ quarter of fiscal     |
|              | year 2002. Links to NDL's Web site rose from 1000 in  |
|              | the Spring of 2001 to over 2000 by January 2002.      |
|              |                                                       |
|              | NDL's products and services are readily available for |
|              | online access by the public through our Web site and  |
|              | online SR Search. NDL provides SR and our other       |
|              | products in several electronic data formats for use   |
|              | by our customers. NDL's data is used by virtually all |
|              | state and federal agencies whose charters contain     |
|              | public food and health concerns. SR nutrient data     |
|              | serve as the core for most commercial and applied     |
|              | nutrient databases and many foreign databases. USDA   |
|              | nutrient data are widely used in metabolic and        |
|              | epidemiologic research, dietary treatment of disease, |
|              | dietary guidance for healthy individuals, and         |
|              | planning and implementation of national nutrition     |
|              | policy. In addition, USDA nutrient data are used for  |
|              | special purpose applications by food companies and    |
|              | trade associations as well as by research             |
|              | institutions.                                         |
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| George E.    | The George E. Brown Jr. a National Laboratory for     |
| Brown        | basic research on the chemistry, physics, and biology |
| Salinity     | of salt-affected soil-plant-water systems. The        |
| Laboratory   | Laboratory web site,                                  |
| Web Site     | [http://www.ussl.ars.usda.gov/]{.underline}, is used  |
|              | to                                                    |
|              |                                                       |
|              | distribute work/information to our customers in a     |
|              | number of areas including: publications, models,      |
|              | databases, and salinity in agriculture are available  |
|              | for scientists, and students.                         |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Research Publications under the authorship or joint   |
|              | authorship of staff                                   |
|              |                                                       |
|              | members of the Salinity Laboratory published since    |
|              | the establishment of                                  |
|              |                                                       |
|              | the Laboratory. Soil chemical and physical computer   |
|              | models and their manuals are available to our         |
|              | customers and colleagues for download through our FTP |
|              | server. For each down load, basic information is      |
|              | requested from our contacts and saved to our customer |
|              | database for future update notification. Examples of  |
|              | databases available via the Web site include: 1)      |
|              | Biography on Salt Tolerance, 2) Salt, Chloride, and   |
|              | Boron Tolerance for Crops and Ornamentals, and 3)     |
|              | Salt Tolerant Plants and Their Uses.                  |
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| USDA Pollen  | This website was developed to meet three primary      |
| Website      | needs and objectives. The first was to show and       |
|              | explain what pollen can tell us about insects,        |
|              | especially insect pests. Topics such as the reference |
|              | collection, collection techniques, and research       |
|              | techniques tell and show how to process and store     |
|              | pollen reference material and how to remove pollen    |
|              | from insects. The second objective was to show        |
|              | various light and scanning electron micrographs from  |
|              | the reference collection. Researchers and others can  |
|              | view these micrographs to assist in identification of |
|              | modern pollen. There are few palynologists in the     |
|              | world. It is impossible for each palynologist to have |
|              | a collection of pollen for all of the plants in the   |
|              | world. Thus, books, websites, etc. with properly      |
|              | identified light and SEM micrographs are very         |
|              | important because they help fill the gap between what |
|              | one collection has and another does not have.         |
|              | Palynologists worldwide view these micrographs to     |
|              | help them in identification of pollen. The final      |
|              | objective for this website was to provide linkages to |
|              | other pollen websites. This way, anyone interested in |
|              | obtaining more information about pollen can begin to  |
|              | look up the information. Stakeholders include: other  |
|              | palynologists, ecologists, K-12 teachers, university  |
|              | professors, geologists, anthropologists, allergists,  |
|              | paleontologists, climatologists, entomologists, etc.  |
|              | The website may be accessed at                        |
|              | [http://pollen.usda.gov](http://pollen.usda.gov/) .   |
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| Aerial       | Spray droplet spectra classification (DSC) is a       |
| Atomization  | relatively new term that is already appearing on some |
| Models for   | crop protection product labels to assist applicators  |
| Crop         | in controlling spray drift. Some of the               |
| Protection   | classification terms are the same as previously used  |
| Product      | for generic descriptions such as fine or coarse       |
| Label        | sprays, but these terms now have very specific        |
| Compliance   | meaning relative to droplet size ranges. The terms,   |
| and Spray    | ranging from very fine (VF) through fine (F), medium  |
| Drift        | (M), coarse (C), very coarse (VC), to extremely       |
| Mitigation   | course (XC), are derived from standards developed by  |
|              | the ASAE. With product label directions-for-use       |
|              | having the force of law, it is imperative that        |
|              | pesticide applicators understand the terminology and  |
|              | have means for establishing system performance for    |
|              | producing sprays with DSC as specified on product     |
|              | labels. Ground applicators can use charts supplied by |
|              | nozzle manufacturers for DSC, but aerial applicators  |
|              | need additional information to attain label           |
|              | specifications because of the tremendous influence of |
|              | airspeed on spray droplet size and DSC. A survey of   |
|              | aerial operators was conducted to determine the spray |
|              | nozzles and operating conditions in predominant use   |
|              | by both fixed-wing and rotary-wing spray application  |
|              | industries. This information was used to design and   |
|              | conduct a series of wind tunnel atomization studies   |
|              | and to subsequently develop a series of computer      |
|              | spreadsheet models. Aerial applicators can select a   |
|              | model for their nozzles and input their specific      |
|              | operational conditions into the spreadsheet model to  |
|              | determine droplet spectra classification category and |
|              | percentage of fine droplets subject to spray drift.   |
|              | This capability will permit aerial operators to       |
|              | comply with crop protection label requirements for    |
|              | applying sprays with a specific droplet spectra       |
|              | classification and to adjust operating conditions to  |
|              | mitigate spray drift. These interactive spreadsheet   |
|              | models can be constructed from equations presented in |
|              | technical publications but are more readily available |
|              | from the website:                                     |
|              | <http://apmru.usda.gov/downloads/downloads.htm>.      |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Recent regulations in Arkansas specify that aerial    |
|              | applicators of herbicides must have their operations  |
|              | certified to apply sprays with DSC of Medium or       |
|              | larger according to ASAE standards. The models,       |
|              | available on the website, are being used and accepted |
|              | for the required certifications. Proposed regulations |
|              | issued by EPA for product label language also refer   |
|              | to the ASAE standards, and will require compliance    |
|              | that aerial applicators can meet through use of the   |
|              | models available on the Unit website.                 |
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## B. Public and Private Partners

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| **Name**     | **Description**                                       |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| **Computer   | Accurately measuring pasture yield is key to          |
| Simulations  | budgeting forage in grazing systems; however,         |
| of Forage    | producers often do not accurately measure pasture     |
| Production** | yields because they are not convinced that it pays.   |
|              | ARS scientists at the Pasture Systems and Watershed   |
|              | Management Research laboratory, University Park,      |
|              | Pennsylvania, in collaboration with farmers and       |
|              | extension specialists in Maryland, West Virginia, and |
|              | Pennsylvania, are using the computer-based Dairy      |
|              | Forage System Model (DAFOSYM) to simulate the         |
|              | economic effects of inaccuracies in estimating forage |
|              | production on pasture. Results showed that accurately |
|              | measuring forage production in pastures can save      |
|              | producers up to \$80 per acre of pasture per year,    |
|              | depending on the type of grazing system used. Thus,   |
|              | the use of an accurate, computer-based method of      |
|              | measuring forage, and regular monitoring of pastures  |
|              | can substantially reduce production costs for         |
|              | grazers.                                              |
|              |                                                       |
|              | A new version of DAFOSYM has been released for        |
|              | worldwide distribution on the Internet. It includes a |
|              | new user help system with a reference manual          |
|              | documenting the scientific basis for the model. Model |
|              | applications include educating and training farm      |
|              | consultants, developing production guidelines for     |
|              | producers, teaching of college level courses, and     |
|              | defining or prioritizing research in dairy            |
|              | production.                                           |
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| **Electronic | The National Plant Germplasm System preserves the     |
| Information  | genetic diversity of plants that include about        |
| for Plant    | 500,000 accessions. The germplasm accessions are      |
| Germplasm**  | located at plant germplasm repositories throughout    |
|              | the United States.                                    |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The system is managed by an extensive database that   |
|              | is publicly available on the Internet via the Genetic |
|              | Resources Information Network (GRIN). Using this      |
|              | database, users can determine the characteristics of  |
|              | germplasm of interest and then order selected         |
|              | germplasm for crop improvement. The records can be    |
|              | accessed at                                           |
|              | [[http://www.ars_grin.gov                             |
|              | /npgs/.]{.underline}](http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/.) |
|              | New plant germplasm accessions are continuously added |
|              | at repositories and these are included in the         |
|              | database. In addition, many germplasm accessions for  |
|              | crops are characterized each year for desirable       |
|              | qualities such as cold hardiness or disease           |
|              | resistance. These data are added to the GRIN as they  |
|              | are determine so that users can find that most useful |
|              | plant germplasm to us in crop breeding programs.      |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Customers/Stakeholders/Beneficiaries for the NPGS     |
|              | system include everyone concerned with improving      |
|              | agricultural crops and commodities. Direct customers  |
|              | are primarily government, university and private      |
|              | plant breeders throughout the world. Because most of  |
|              | our agricultural and horticultural crops are not      |
|              | native to the United States, it is necessary to       |
|              | develop a plant germplasm system that is mutually     |
|              | beneficial to both countries that provide plant       |
|              | germplasm and those that use plant germplasm.         |
|              | Managing this extensive national and international    |
|              | germplasm acquistion, preservation and                |
|              | characterization program requires a well-developed    |
|              | data information system.                              |
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| Electronic   | The Eastern Regional Research Center (ERRC),          |
| Availability | Wyndmoor, PA has developed the Pathogen Modeling      |
| of Pathogen  | Program (PMP) for use by the food industry to         |
| Modeling     | estimate pathogen behavior in food. The program is    |
| Program      | disseminated to interested users through the Internet |
|              | (<http://www.arserrc.gov/mfs/>) or via CDROM. In      |
|              | Fiscal Year 2001, 860 copies of the PMP were          |
|              | downloaded (latest release is the 6.0 version). The   |
|              | information has been used in the development of risk  |
|              | assessment models and has been incorporated in Food   |
|              | Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) regulations and  |
|              | performance standards. FSIS has made plans to         |
|              | distribute the PMP 6.0 CDROM to approximately 2000    |
|              | small and very small meat and poultry processors. The |
|              | technology has also been transferred to users in over |
|              | 50 countries. ERRC scientists have also collaborated  |
|              | with Decisionalysis, Inc. in the development of an    |
|              | expert system for the PMP. ERRC and the U.K.          |
|              | Institute for Food Research (IFR) have a joint        |
|              | interest in databases (informatics of Predictive      |
|              | Microbiology information that facilitates model       |
|              | development. IFR and ERRC are contributing            |
|              | mathematical modeling skills and PMP data sets,       |
|              | respectively, towards the production of a robust      |
|              | online relational database, *ComBase,* which is       |
|              | scheduled for release in 2002.                        |
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| NAL          | The NAL Agricultural Thesaurus 2002 edition contains  |
| Agricultural | over 56,000 terms that cover broad and detailed       |
| Thesaurus    | aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines.        |
|              | Serving many purposes in an electronic information    |
|              | system, the thesaurus is useful as a consistent       |
|              | vocabulary for describing, organizing and classifying |
|              | agricultural materials such as books, articles,       |
|              | catalogs, databases, patents, games, educational      |
|              | materials, pictures, slides, film, videotapes,        |
|              | software, other electronic media and Web sites. The   |
|              | thesaurus is hierarchically arranged and may be used  |
|              | to enhance customers' search of an information        |
|              | system, either automatically or manually. Integration |
|              | of the thesaurus within an electronic information     |
|              | system, for example to support browse trees, provides |
|              | a way to improve search results without requiring     |
|              | that customers use the thesaurus. Number range        |
|              | CHAPTER                                               |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Primary customers include USDA agencies, libraries,   |
|              | AgNIC partners, and others needing subject terms to   |
|              | describe agricultural resources or to enhance search  |
|              | results of agricultural information systems. The      |
|              | Internet allows open, free access to the NAL          |
|              | Agricultural Thesaurus to customers all over the      |
|              | world. Due to the availability of low cost thesaurus  |
|              | software, the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus is quick and |
|              | inexpensive to deliver to online customers. A CGI     |
|              | script, MultiCGI, allows customers to search by       |
|              | term(s) or browse subject categories. Complete        |
|              | alphabetical and classified reports, which are        |
|              | typical of paper-based thesauri, are presented online |
|              | in HTML format or available to customers as ASCII     |
|              | files. Government agencies may send online proposals  |
|              | or comments, which are directed immediately via email |
|              | to the NAL Thesaurus Staff. Metadata tags are used to |
|              | describe the NAL Agricultural Thesaurus*.*            |
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| Uniform      | The Uniform Soybean Tests, Southern States is an      |
| Soybean      | annual soybean testing program designed to assist     |
| Tests,       | state and federal (public) soybean breeders in        |
| Southern     | evaluating potential of breeding lines. Currently the |
| States       | Uniform Test involves public breeders collecting data |
|              | from 42 locations across 17 southern states. All data |
|              | is compiled and placed on the web at                  |
|              | h                                                     |
|              | ttp://msa.ars.usda.gov/ms/stoneville/cgpr/paris.html. |
|              | Data are utilized by breeders to determine potential  |
|              | of lines for use as germplasm or release as           |
|              | cultivars. In addition, private soybean breeders      |
|              | utilize the information in developing hybridization   |
|              | plans from germplasm materials obtained from public   |
|              | soybean breeders.                                     |
|              |                                                       |
|              | New technologies have greatly assisted in efficiency  |
|              | and speed with which the Uniform Tests Report can be  |
|              | completed. Large amounts of data can be handled       |
|              | quickly and accurately and placed in readily          |
|              | accessible locations such as the web for fingertip    |
|              | access for customers. Electronic mail has also        |
|              | greatly enhanced communication efforts, resulting in  |
|              | an increased level of clarity with a substantial      |
|              | reduction in time.                                    |
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| National     | The National Cotton Variety Testing (NCVT) Program,   |
| Cotton       | developed from recommendations of the Joint Cotton    |
| Variety Test | Breeding Policy Committee, is a uniform system of     |
|              | reporting data from cotton-yield trials across the US |
|              | Cotton Belt. The trials are conducted annually at     |
|              | selected locations involved in the variety-testing    |
|              | programs of the cooperating State Agricultural        |
|              | Experiment Stations and the Agricultural Research     |
|              | Service. The National Cotton Variety Testing          |
|              | Committee is responsible for coordinating program     |
|              | plans from year to year.                              |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The NCVT is the compilation and publication of        |
|              | studies conducted over the entire cotton belt (13     |
|              | states) inclusive of 10 (ten) structured regional     |
|              | tests. Since 1993, the publications, have been made   |
|              | available on-line at:                                 |
|              | <htt                                                  |
|              | p://msa.ars.usda.gov/ms/stoneville/cgpr/rayburn.html> |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Program Headquarters are located in the Crop Genetics |
|              | & Production Research Unit, Jamie Whitten Delta       |
|              | States Research Center, United States Department of   |
|              | Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service,          |
|              | Stoneville, Mississippi, in cooperation with the      |
|              | agricultural experiment stations of Alabama,          |
|              | Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Louisiana,    |
|              | Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina,    |
|              | Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas. The NCVT has     |
|              | been in existence since 1960 and raw data is archived |
|              | and maintained by the NVCT staff.                     |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Customers of the NCVT data include, but are not       |
|              | limited to, researchers, breeders, oil mills, textile |
|              | mills, commercial entities, growers, ginners,         |
|              | marketing service, and buyers.                        |
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| FORMIS Ant   | FORMIS 2001 (<http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~formis> ) is |
| Bibliography | a composite of several ant literature databases. It   |
|              | contains citations for a large fraction of the        |
|              | world\'s ant literature (about 30,000 references).    |
|              | This database is designed to allow convenient         |
|              | searches of titles, keywords and abstracts when       |
|              | available. Citations from this database can be        |
|              | exported to create specialty databases or personal    |
|              | reprint indexes. FORMIS 2001 is used to assist        |
|              | researchers in identifying and locating important     |
|              | research about ants.                                  |
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| Insect Sound | This is a library of sounds                           |
| Library      | (<http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~rmankin> ) compiled to   |
|              | provide conveniently accessible reference information |
|              | for training researchers and scouts in the use of     |
|              | acoustic technology as an insect detection tool.      |
|              | Users listen to and analyze insect sounds and noises  |
|              | available in the reference library and submit sounds  |
|              | from their experiences to develop additional          |
|              | reference information.                                |
|              |                                                       |
|              | This library is used by researchers and scouts to     |
|              | identify insect sounds and distinguish them           |
|              | interfering background sounds.                        |
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| TOPAZ,       | TOPAZ is a software system for automated analysis of  |
| Topographic  | landscape topography from digital elevation models    |
| Para         | that was developed cooperatively by the Dr. Jurgan    |
| meterization | Garbrecht, Agricultural Research Service, U.S.        |
| Software     | Department of Agriculture, USA and Prof. Lawrence     |
|              | Martz, Department of Geography, University of         |
|              | Saskatchewan, Canada. The primary objective of TOPAZ  |
|              | is the rapid and systematic identification and        |
|              | quantification of topograhic features in support of   |
|              | investigations related to land-surface processes,     |
|              | hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, assessment of land |
|              | resources, and management of watersheds and           |
|              | ecosystems. Typical examples of topographic features  |
|              | that are evaluated by TOPAZ include terrain slope and |
|              | aspect, drainage patterns and divides, channel        |
|              | network, watershed segmentation, subcatchment         |
|              | identification, geometric and topologic properties of |
|              | channel links, drainage distances, representative     |
|              | subcatchment properties, and channel network          |
|              | analysis.                                             |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Dissemination of the model and user support is        |
|              | provided through our website, where users can obtain  |
|              | general information, download the most current        |
|              | version of the model along with user's manuals, and   |
|              | submit questions. Researchers and numerous agencies   |
|              | from around the world have obtained TOPAZ in this     |
|              | manner.                                               |
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| Soil and     | A simulation model called SWAT (Soil and Water        |
| Water        | Assessment Tool) was developed by ARS to simulate the |
| Assessment   | impact of land management on environmental quality in |
| Tool - SWAT  | watersheds. SWAT is free to the public and can be     |
|              | downloaded from the web. SWAT is currently being used |
|              | across the country by the US EPA (Environmental       |
|              | Protection Agency) to assess water quality problems   |
|              | (sediment, nutrients, pesticides and bacteria) and to |
|              | determine management practices that will enhance the  |
|              | environment. It is used by consultants, university    |
|              | scientists, and other federal and state agencies. The |
|              | model and all documentation (equations, input/output  |
|              | descriptions) are readily available from the          |
|              | internet. A user interface using a geographic         |
|              | information system (GIS) has been developed to assist |
|              | users in developing model inputs and displaying model |
|              | outputs. The GIS interface reduces model application  |
|              | time from months to days. All of the data required to |
|              | run the model in the US is also supplied to the user. |
|              | This includes soil, topographic and land use maps,    |
|              | daily weather data, and databases for plants,         |
|              | tillage, fertilizer and pesticides. With the aid of   |
|              | the internet, GIS and database management systems,    |
|              | the SWAT model is being used extensively for          |
|              | environmental assessment and planning. The website    |
|              | for SWAT is <http://brc.tamus.edu/swat.>              |
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## C. Employees and the Enterprise

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| **Name**     | **Description**                                       |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| **National   | The National Agricultural Library\'s (NAL) Digital    |
| Agricultural | Desktop Library                                       |
| Library      | (<http://www.nal.usda.gov/usda/digitop.htm>) provides |
| Digital      | continuous, convenient and essential access for USDA  |
| Desktop      | staff to important electronic information             |
| Library      | resources--the databases, directories, journals, news |
| Initiative   | services, and statistics they need to do their jobs.  |
| Pilot        | Access to these digital resources is made possible by |
| Phase**      | combining NAL and other USDA funding to obtain        |
|              | USDA-wide licenses and providing them through an NAL  |
|              | Web. The Digital Desktop Library is in its formative  |
|              | stages and more descriptive information is contained  |
|              | in the proposed ARS eGovernment Opportunities section |
|              | of this eGov document.                                |
|              |                                                       |
|              | USDA research, education, and                         |
|              | Congressionally-mandated programs are enhanced by     |
|              | easy access to data. By providing USDA staff with the |
|              | ability to search for information and retrieve        |
|              | relevant documents immediately, the digital desktop   |
|              | library increases the productivity of its users. A    |
|              | digital collection of resources eliminates multiple   |
|              | procurements, as well as the handling and storage of  |
|              | their paper-and-ink equivalents throughout USDA.      |
|              | Electronic access enables the capture of usage data,  |
|              | sot that content can be selected in accordance with   |
|              | user needs and resource usefulness.                   |
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| **           | The Agricultural Research Information System (ARIS)   |
| Agricultural | is the result of a redesign of a legacy system, RMIS  |
| Research     | (Research Management Information System) developed in |
| Information  | 1983. The objective of the system is to support and   |
| System       | service ARS and the National Program Staff (NPS) in   |
| (ARIS) --    | the management and documentation of the ARS national  |
| Phase I**    | research programs. ARIS enables the NPS and the       |
|              | Budgeting and Program Management Staff (BPMS) to      |
|              | manage funding at the research project level.         |
|              |                                                       |
|              | ARIS provides an electronic method to collect,        |
|              | analyze, review and report ARS Research Program       |
|              | information. ARIS is a management tool that assists   |
|              | ARS program decision-making and is Web accessible     |
|              | throughout the ARS organizational structure (more     |
|              | than 100 locations). The system documents research in |
|              | progress, research objectives, anticipated outcomes,  |
|              | research accomplishments, budgetary data and the      |
|              | personnel involved in the research and support of the |
|              | program. Selected data from the ARIS system is made   |
|              | publicly available through the National Program Staff |
|              | Web page                                              |
|              | ([http:/                                              |
|              | /www.nps.ars.usda.gov](http://www.nps.ars.usda.gov/)) |
|              | and the Current Research Information System (CRIS)    |
|              | Web page                                              |
|              | ([http://                                             |
|              | cris.csrees.usda.gov](http://cris.csrees.usda.gov/)). |
|              | ARIS has enhanced the ability of customers to search  |
|              | and retrieve data, generate reports, make use of      |
|              | interoperability with standard programs (word         |
|              | processing, spreadsheets), and facilitates the        |
|              | transfer of data to the public Web sites.             |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Implementation of Phase I of ARIS has recently been   |
|              | launched. The phase primarily involved the migration  |
|              | of existing RMIS data into the new ARIS database.     |
|              | Phase II will involve enhancing system functionality  |
|              | by developing interfaces for other administrative and |
|              | program functions to create an integrated "one-stop"  |
|              | source of all information. Phase II will be completed |
|              | in FY 2004.                                           |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| **AGRICOLA** | *AGRICOLA* (AGRICultural OnLine Access) organizes,    |
|              | describes, and makes accessible selected literature   |
|              | and research in agriculture in more than 75           |
|              | languages. The bibliographic database contains over 4 |
|              | million citations to the agricultural literature      |
|              | created by the National Agricultural Library and its  |
|              | cooperators.                                          |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Production of AGRICOLA records began in 1970, but the |
|              | database covers materials in all formats, including   |
|              | printed works from the 15th century onward. The       |
|              | records describe publications and resources           |
|              | encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied    |
|              | disciplines, including animal and veterinary          |
|              | sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry,       |
|              | aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming        |
|              | systems, agricultural economics, extension and        |
|              | education, food and human nutrition, and earth and    |
|              | environmental sciences. Although AGRICOLA does not    |
|              | contain full-text materials, thousands of AGRICOLA    |
|              | records are linked to online full-text documents,     |
|              | with new links being added every day. AGRICOLA is     |
|              | searchable on the World Wide Web at                   |
|              | http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98.                         |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The World Wide Web allows open, free access to        |
|              | AGRICOLA by customers all over the world. Thousands   |
|              | of on-line publications are readily available to      |
|              | users via the Internet through links from             |
|              | bibliographic records to the full-text documents.     |
|              | Further enhancements to the basic database            |
|              | architecture will allow additional                    |
|              | functionality.Number range CHAPTER                    |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| REE          | Number range CHAPTERThe Personal Property Division    |
| Procurement  | (PPD) uses the AFM/PPD Website to publish:            |
| O            | procurement opportunities and REE procurement         |
| pportunities | preference program and outreach information for       |
|              | vendors, prime contractors, and subcontractors;       |
|              | acquisition and personal property policy guidance,    |
|              | regulations, and priority alerts for personnel; an    |
|              | inventory of required procurement reports for agency  |
|              | procurement and management personnel; customer        |
|              | surveys and feedback; and on-line training for agency |
|              | personnel on "Greening the Government" initiatives.   |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Acquisition and personal property information is      |
|              | quickly posted, updated, and communicated to REE      |
|              | agencies and responsible functional personnel to      |
|              | ensure immediate dissemination. Program delivery is   |
|              | enhanced because the "how to" of procurement and      |
|              | personal property processes are provided to PPD       |
|              | customers to facilitate their activities. The         |
|              | "Greening the Government" training module on PPD's    |
|              | website was developed to be an economical way to      |
|              | ensure those who needed to take this training were    |
|              | able to do so without the necessity of using formal   |
|              | training sessions and hard copy training material.    |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| Acquisition  | The Acquisition Workforce (AWF) SystemNumber range    |
| Workforce    | CHAPTER automates the accumulation and tracking of    |
| (AWF) System | acquisition workforce information and reporting       |
|              | requirements for REE. This enhanced the delivery of   |
|              | service in terms of PPD responsibilities, providing   |
|              | and updating information more quickly to users. AWF   |
|              | data and reports are provided to the Department in a  |
|              | data file that is more accurate and takes less time   |
|              | to compile. This information can be made available    |
|              | electronically to customers.                          |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| USDA Digital | The *USDA Digital Publications Preservation Steering  |
| Publications | Committee* is a national committee developing a       |
| Preservation | long-term strategy to ensure that the growing body of |
| Steering     | USDA digital publications is systematically           |
| Committee    | identified, prioritized, preserved, and archived to   |
|              | ensure the long-term availability of this information |
|              | to the citizens of the United States. This effort is  |
|              | developing policies and methodologies for long-term   |
|              | electronic information preservation, addressing an    |
|              | area of great need not only in the USDA, but also     |
|              | elsewhere in the federal government. Under the        |
|              | leadership of NAL, this committee includes            |
|              | representatives from the USDA Office of the Chief     |
|              | Information Officer, Departmental mission areas, and  |
|              | key external stakeholders, such as the agricultural   |
|              | research community, agribusiness, and other federal   |
|              | agencies. The work of the committee may be tracked at |
|              | http://preserve.nal.usda.gov:8300/npp/npp.htm.        |
|              |                                                       |
|              | Customers include citizens, USDA staff, business and  |
|              | industry, students, researchers, government and       |
|              | others. The USDA Publications Preservation Initiative |
|              | will improve collaboration among agencies, provide    |
|              | efficient access to significant preserved digital     |
|              | USDA publications, and provide otherwise unavailable  |
|              | resources to primary customers such as citizens, USDA |
|              | staff, business and industry, researchers, students,  |
|              | government and others.                                |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
| National     | The purpose of the National Agricultural Library's    |
| Agricultural | (NAL) *Document Delivery Service*                     |
| Library      | (http://www.nal.usda.gov/ddsb/) is to provide access  |
| Document     | to materials in the premier agricultural library      |
| Delivery     | collections of the world. Researchers and scientists  |
| Service      | within USDA and throughout the international          |
|              | agricultural community submitted 140,000 requests to  |
|              | NAL for articles, books, and audiovisuals during FY   |
|              | 2001. NAL filled 75% of the requests from the NAL     |
|              | collection and was able to obtain an additional 11%   |
|              | from other institutions around the world. The primary |
|              | customers are the staff of USDA located worldwide and |
|              | research libraries and institutions located           |
|              | throughout the U.S. and internationally. In addition, |
|              | NAL provides primary service to educators, food       |
|              | service workers and others with whom we have "special |
|              | arrangements" such as the 1890s and 1994 Land Grant   |
|              | Universities and the Egyptian National Agricultural   |
|              | Library.                                              |
|              |                                                       |
|              | The Document Delivery Services Branch (DDSB) is       |
|              | continuously seeking to convert services from         |
|              | paper-based, manual operations to electronic          |
|              | operations to reduce service delivery time and        |
|              | enhance customers' abilities to request materials.    |
|              | Newer technological developments such as the          |
|              | RELAIS^TM^ and Ariel^TM^ software have been           |
|              | implemented to speed electronic delivery of articles  |
|              | to customers. In addition, NAL selects document       |
|              | providers who will deliver directly to the patron     |
|              | rather than to NAL, which also reduces delivery time. |
|              | NAL is also investigating new software to automate    |
|              | the request creation and submission process so that   |
|              | it is more customer friendly and results in valuable  |
|              | usage data to enable NAL to tailor further the        |
|              | services we provide. NAL's goal is to enable          |
|              | customers to submit and track requests and receive    |
|              | their materials electronically in the shortest amount |
|              | of time possible.                                     |
+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------+

# [Supporting Opportunities in USDA's eGovernment Strategic Plan]{.smallcaps}

+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
| **Major   | **USDA eGovernment      | **Scope**  | **Agency        |
| Goal**    | Initiative**            |            | Contribution\   |
|           |                         |            | and             |
|           |                         |            | Involvement**   |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
| > **C     | Web Presence            | Enter      | Participating   |
| itizens** |                         | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
|           | Portals Strategy        | Enter      | Participating   |
|           |                         | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
| >         | EGrants                 | Enter      | Participating   |
|  **Public |                         | prise-wide |                 |
| > and     |                         |            |                 |
| > Private |                         |            |                 |
| > Organi  |                         |            |                 |
| zations** |                         |            |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
| > **      | **Document              | Enter      | Participating   |
| Employees | /Records/Correspondence | prise-wide |                 |
| > and the | Management and Workflow |            |                 |
| > Ent     | Tools**                 |            |                 |
| erprise** |                         |            |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
|           | Food Safety and         | Enter      | Participating   |
|           | Security Tools          | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
|           | Content/Knowledge       | Enter      | Participating   |
|           | Management              | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
|           | eLearning               | Enter      | Participating   |
|           |                         | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
|           | eProcurement            | Enter      | Participating   |
|           |                         | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
|           | Human Resouces Online   | Enter      | Participating   |
|           |                         | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+
|           | Financial Management    | Enter      | Participating   |
|           | Tools                   | prise-wide |                 |
+-----------+-------------------------+------------+-----------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Web Presence          |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Enhance USDA web      |                      |                       |
| presentation to       |                      |                       |
| improve usability and |                      |                       |
| provide a consistent  |                      |                       |
| customer experience.  |                      |                       |
| This initiative will  |                      |                       |
| allow all users to    |                      |                       |
| navigate USDA's web   |                      |                       |
| sites and portals     |                      |                       |
| based on their        |                      |                       |
| desired tasks or      |                      |                       |
| topics, rather than   |                      |                       |
| organizational        |                      |                       |
| structure. Standard   |                      |                       |
| user-interface        |                      |                       |
| guidelines will be    |                      |                       |
| developed for a       |                      |                       |
| consistent look and   |                      |                       |
| navigation across all |                      |                       |
| USDA sites and        |                      |                       |
| web-based             |                      |                       |
| applications.         |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| USDA-wide             | No                   | All Goals             |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   ARS is            |                      |                       |
|     participating in  |                      |                       |
|     the Business Case |                      |                       |
|     Analysis          |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   ARS is able to    |                      |                       |
|     provide expertise |                      |                       |
|     in web site       |                      |                       |
|     design and        |                      |                       |
|     development as    |                      |                       |
|     well as content   |                      |                       |
|     management        |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Improved          |                      |                       |
|     dissemination of  |                      |                       |
|     Agency research   |                      |                       |
|     and program       |                      |                       |
|     information       |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Public at large   |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Public and        |                      |                       |
|     private research  |                      |                       |
|     organizations;    |                      |                       |
|     colleges and      |                      |                       |
|     universities;     |                      |                       |
|     other government  |                      |                       |
|     agencies; and     |                      |                       |
|     other research,   |                      |                       |
|     educational, and  |                      |                       |
|     agricultural      |                      |                       |
|     organizations     |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Portals Strategy      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| A portal would        |                      |                       |
| provide a             |                      |                       |
| customer-centric      |                      |                       |
| unified browsing      |                      |                       |
| experience. In a      |                      |                       |
| portal, content and   |                      |                       |
| applications can be   |                      |                       |
| drawn in from         |                      |                       |
| multiple agencies. A  |                      |                       |
| portal strategy will  |                      |                       |
| improve service by    |                      |                       |
| giving various        |                      |                       |
| constituencies/user   |                      |                       |
| groups multiple       |                      |                       |
| interaction points    |                      |                       |
| for accessing         |                      |                       |
| information and data. |                      |                       |
| This initiative       |                      |                       |
| includes the          |                      |                       |
| definition of a       |                      |                       |
| portal strategy to    |                      |                       |
| ensure the Department |                      |                       |
| is implementing       |                      |                       |
| customer-centric      |                      |                       |
| portals consistently  |                      |                       |
| and in a manner that  |                      |                       |
| can be integrated     |                      |                       |
| with other Department |                      |                       |
| applications. This    |                      |                       |
| strategy will define  |                      |                       |
| guidelines of how a   |                      |                       |
| portal should be      |                      |                       |
| structured, when a    |                      |                       |
| portal is necessary,  |                      |                       |
| and the products to   |                      |                       |
| use when creating a   |                      |                       |
| portal.               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| USDA-wide             | No                   | Objectives 1.3, 1.4,  |
|                       |                      | 2.1, 2.2, 2.4         |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   ARS is            |                      |                       |
|     participating in  |                      |                       |
|     the Business Case |                      |                       |
|     Analysis          |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Enhances          |                      |                       |
|     functionality of, |                      |                       |
|     and improve       |                      |                       |
|     access to the     |                      |                       |
|     Agency's          |                      |                       |
|     information,      |                      |                       |
|     products, and     |                      |                       |
|     services          |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Improves customer |                      |                       |
|     service, and the  |                      |                       |
|     quality of        |                      |                       |
|     presentation, by  |                      |                       |
|     coordinating      |                      |                       |
|     research results  |                      |                       |
|     with those of     |                      |                       |
|     other programs    |                      |                       |
|     and services      |                      |                       |
|     throughout the    |                      |                       |
|     Department        |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Allows for more   |                      |                       |
|     interoperability  |                      |                       |
|     with other        |                      |                       |
|     Agencies' web     |                      |                       |
|     applications,     |                      |                       |
|     hardware          |                      |                       |
|     platforms, etc.   |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Enhances the      |                      |                       |
|     profile of the    |                      |                       |
|     Agency's research |                      |                       |
|     by improving the  |                      |                       |
|     search            |                      |                       |
|     capabilities on   |                      |                       |
|     other sites which |                      |                       |
|     increases the     |                      |                       |
|     number of         |                      |                       |
|     customers and     |                      |                       |
|     improves their    |                      |                       |
|     productivity      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Citizens,         |                      |                       |
|     public/private    |                      |                       |
|     organizations,    |                      |                       |
|     business          |                      |                       |
|     partners,         |                      |                       |
|     employees, and    |                      |                       |
|     the Department    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| eGrants               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Provide a central     |                      |                       |
| source for all        |                      |                       |
| o                     |                      |                       |
| rganizations/agencies |                      |                       |
| that receive USDA     |                      |                       |
| grant assistance to   |                      |                       |
| access, apply for,    |                      |                       |
| and manage awards for |                      |                       |
| all USDA grants. USDA |                      |                       |
| agencies will be able |                      |                       |
| to manage the grant   |                      |                       |
| lifecycle online from |                      |                       |
| customer applications |                      |                       |
| through USDA          |                      |                       |
| financial             |                      |                       |
| disbursements.        |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Inter-Departmental    | Yes                  | Objective 2.2, 2.4    |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   ARS participation |                      |                       |
|     in Business Case  |                      |                       |
|     Analysis          |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Increased         |                      |                       |
|     efficiency in all |                      |                       |
|     phases of         |                      |                       |
|     cooperative       |                      |                       |
|     agreement         |                      |                       |
|     processes         |                      |                       |
|     including         |                      |                       |
|     pre-award, award, |                      |                       |
|     and               |                      |                       |
|     administration    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Will include all  |                      |                       |
|     levels of         |                      |                       |
|     organization in   |                      |                       |
|     final             |                      |                       |
|     implementation,   |                      |                       |
|     including local,  |                      |                       |
|     regional and      |                      |                       |
|     headquarters      |                      |                       |
|     staff             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Document/R            |                      |                       |
| ecords/Correspondence |                      |                       |
| Management and        |                      |                       |
| Workflow Tools        |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| ARS is working with   |                      |                       |
| the USDA OES and OCIO |                      |                       |
| to develop the        |                      |                       |
| Executive             |                      |                       |
| Correspondence        |                      |                       |
| Tracking System       |                      |                       |
| (EXCTS) provides for  |                      |                       |
| the creation,         |                      |                       |
| modification,         |                      |                       |
| storage,              |                      |                       |
| distribution,         |                      |                       |
| retrieval,            |                      |                       |
| classification, and   |                      |                       |
| management of         |                      |                       |
| executive             |                      |                       |
| correspondence and    |                      |                       |
| other documents. The  |                      |                       |
| means for             |                      |                       |
| distribution includes |                      |                       |
| a robust ad hoc       |                      |                       |
| workflow system that  |                      |                       |
| permits documents to  |                      |                       |
| be electronically     |                      |                       |
| routed for review and |                      |                       |
| clearance/approval.   |                      |                       |
| The primary customers |                      |                       |
| are the Office of the |                      |                       |
| Executive Secretariat |                      |                       |
| (the Secretary of     |                      |                       |
| Agriculture's         |                      |                       |
| Correspondence        |                      |                       |
| Management Unit),     |                      |                       |
| USDA Agencies and the |                      |                       |
| Department as a       |                      |                       |
| whole. The goal of    |                      |                       |
| this phase of the     |                      |                       |
| project is to provide |                      |                       |
| a means of handling   |                      |                       |
| correspondence and    |                      |                       |
| documents             |                      |                       |
| electronically from   |                      |                       |
| start to finish from  |                      |                       |
| one organization to   |                      |                       |
| another in a seamless |                      |                       |
| fashion, with the     |                      |                       |
| capability of         |                      |                       |
| searching across      |                      |                       |
| Agencies' systems for |                      |                       |
| relevant information. |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Enterprise-wide       | Yes                  | Objective 3.1         |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Participating in  |                      |                       |
|     Executive         |                      |                       |
|     Correspondence    |                      |                       |
|     Tracking System   |                      |                       |
|     (EXCTS)           |                      |                       |
|     development       |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Participating in  |                      |                       |
|     business case     |                      |                       |
|     development       |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   \$150,000 was     |                      |                       |
|     contributed by    |                      |                       |
|     ARS in FY 2001    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Version control   |                      |                       |
|     for documents;    |                      |                       |
|     permanent records |                      |                       |
|     of actions;       |                      |                       |
|     improved access   |                      |                       |
|     to data through   |                      |                       |
|     searching         |                      |                       |
|     electronic        |                      |                       |
|     information;      |                      |                       |
|     facilitate rapid, |                      |                       |
|     accurate transfer |                      |                       |
|     of information    |                      |                       |
|     and improved      |                      |                       |
|     response time to  |                      |                       |
|     queries; ability  |                      |                       |
|     to share          |                      |                       |
|     information among |                      |                       |
|     and within        |                      |                       |
|     Agencies          |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Secretary of      |                      |                       |
|     Agriculture;      |                      |                       |
|     Deputy,           |                      |                       |
|     Assistant, and    |                      |                       |
|     Undersecretaries  |                      |                       |
|     and               |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   REE Agencies      |                      |                       |
|     staff,            |                      |                       |
|     scientists,       |                      |                       |
|     program managers  |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Agricultural      |                      |                       |
|     institutions and  |                      |                       |
|     businesses,       |                      |                       |
|     academic          |                      |                       |
|     institutions,     |                      |                       |
|     general public    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Food Safety and       |                      |                       |
| Security Tools        |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Establish             |                      |                       |
| interdepartmental     |                      |                       |
| capabilities for      |                      |                       |
| collaboration,        |                      |                       |
| real-time data        |                      |                       |
| collection, and       |                      |                       |
| tracking and          |                      |                       |
| retrieval of port and |                      |                       |
| plant specific data   |                      |                       |
| regarding food and    |                      |                       |
| animals. All          |                      |                       |
| Government parties    |                      |                       |
| responsible for food  |                      |                       |
| safety will have      |                      |                       |
| real-time access for  |                      |                       |
| data entry and        |                      |                       |
| tracking data for     |                      |                       |
| decision-making       |                      |                       |
| purposes and for      |                      |                       |
| investigations into   |                      |                       |
| causes of food borne  |                      |                       |
| illnesses which can   |                      |                       |
| be coordinated across |                      |                       |
| USDA agencies as well |                      |                       |
| as other Federal and  |                      |                       |
| state agencies.       |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| FSIS, FSA, MRP, ARS   | No                   | Objective 2.3         |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Agency is         |                      |                       |
|     participating in  |                      |                       |
|     Business Case     |                      |                       |
|     Analysis          |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| > ARS and other USDA, |                      |                       |
| > Federal and State   |                      |                       |
| > partners will be    |                      |                       |
| > able to effectively |                      |                       |
| > respond to          |                      |                       |
| > emergencies,        |                      |                       |
| > quickly communicate |                      |                       |
| > and respond to      |                      |                       |
| > outbreaks of        |                      |                       |
| > foodborne illness,  |                      |                       |
| > and quickly         |                      |                       |
| > investigate threats |                      |                       |
| > of bioterrorism.    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| > ARS employees,      |                      |                       |
| > other USDA, Federal |                      |                       |
| > and State           |                      |                       |
| > employees, industry |                      |                       |
| > partners            |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Content/Knowledge     |                      |                       |
| Management            |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Develop Departmental  |                      |                       |
| solutions for         |                      |                       |
| managing the          |                      |                       |
| development,          |                      |                       |
| approval, publishing, |                      |                       |
| sharing, and          |                      |                       |
| classification of web |                      |                       |
| pages, documents,     |                      |                       |
| multimedia, official  |                      |                       |
| records, and          |                      |                       |
| correspondence.       |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Enterprise-wide       | No                   | Objective 3.1         |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Agency            |                      |                       |
|     representatives   |                      |                       |
|     are participating |                      |                       |
|     on Business Case  |                      |                       |
|     Analysis          |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   NAL will          |                      |                       |
|     contribute        |                      |                       |
|     Agricultural      |                      |                       |
|     Subject Headings  |                      |                       |
|     and experience    |                      |                       |
|     with metadata,    |                      |                       |
|     information       |                      |                       |
|     standards, and    |                      |                       |
|     information       |                      |                       |
|     management.       |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Benefits to the   |                      |                       |
|     agency will be    |                      |                       |
|     that streamlined  |                      |                       |
|     content creation  |                      |                       |
|     and publication   |                      |                       |
|     to the Internet   |                      |                       |
|     and Intranet will |                      |                       |
|     prompt            |                      |                       |
|     information       |                      |                       |
|     sharing,          |                      |                       |
|     cost-savings, and |                      |                       |
|     better service to |                      |                       |
|     citizens and      |                      |                       |
|     others over time. |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Department web    |                      |                       |
|     site content      |                      |                       |
|     contributors      |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Department        |                      |                       |
|     publications      |                      |                       |
|     content           |                      |                       |
|     contributors      |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   Office of         |                      |                       |
|     communications    |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   All agencies      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| eLearning             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Develop a             |                      |                       |
| Department-wide       |                      |                       |
| eLearning curriculum  |                      |                       |
| platform to           |                      |                       |
| facilitate online     |                      |                       |
| training. A           |                      |                       |
| curriculum management |                      |                       |
| system will allow     |                      |                       |
| employees and         |                      |                       |
| citizens to track     |                      |                       |
| their progress in     |                      |                       |
| completing a          |                      |                       |
| pre-defined           |                      |                       |
| curriculum, register  |                      |                       |
| for new courses, and  |                      |                       |
| allow management and  |                      |                       |
| trainers to track     |                      |                       |
| progress and add new  |                      |                       |
| coursework to the     |                      |                       |
| online repository.    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Enterprise-wide       | Yes                  | Objective 3.2         |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   An ARS employee   |                      |                       |
|     is a member of    |                      |                       |
|     the USDA business |                      |                       |
|     case team. AFM    |                      |                       |
|     provides on-line  |                      |                       |
|     courses through   |                      |                       |
|     Element K. The    |                      |                       |
|     AFM eGov Council  |                      |                       |
|     will explore      |                      |                       |
|     other e-learning  |                      |                       |
|     possibilities     |                      |                       |
|     including net     |                      |                       |
|     conferencing.     |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Lower cost and    |                      |                       |
|     greater outreach  |                      |                       |
|     for career        |                      |                       |
|     enhancing and     |                      |                       |
|     skills enhancing  |                      |                       |
|     training.         |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Other USDA        |                      |                       |
|     Agencies are      |                      |                       |
|     members of the    |                      |                       |
|     USDA business     |                      |                       |
|     case team.        |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

# 

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| eProcurement          |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Implement the         |                      |                       |
| Integrated            |                      |                       |
| Acquisition System    |                      |                       |
| (IAS)Number range     |                      |                       |
| CHAPTER, a Web-based  |                      |                       |
| eProcurement solution |                      |                       |
| designed to procure   |                      |                       |
| goods and services    |                      |                       |
| and to streamline and |                      |                       |
| automate acquisition  |                      |                       |
| processes and         |                      |                       |
| contract management.  |                      |                       |
| Businesses are        |                      |                       |
| experiencing          |                      |                       |
| significant cost      |                      |                       |
| savings by shifting   |                      |                       |
| their procurement to  |                      |                       |
| the Internet. In an   |                      |                       |
| effort to lower costs |                      |                       |
| and utilize           |                      |                       |
| market-based          |                      |                       |
| solutions wherever    |                      |                       |
| possible, agencies    |                      |                       |
| will move to          |                      |                       |
| paperless contracting |                      |                       |
| processes.            |                      |                       |
| Procurement data will |                      |                       |
| be linked to          |                      |                       |
| financial systems,    |                      |                       |
| making the payment    |                      |                       |
| process faster and    |                      |                       |
| more accurate. The    |                      |                       |
| Department's IAS      |                      |                       |
| Program Management    |                      |                       |
| Office is leading     |                      |                       |
| this initiative to    |                      |                       |
| obtain a contractor   |                      |                       |
| to work with all USDA |                      |                       |
| agencies to develop   |                      |                       |
| and implement IAS.    |                      |                       |
| PPD is working on     |                      |                       |
| behalf of REE with    |                      |                       |
| the Procurement       |                      |                       |
| Modernization Office  |                      |                       |
| (PMO) on the IAS      |                      |                       |
| Integrated Steering   |                      |                       |
| Board and associated  |                      |                       |
| subcommittees on this |                      |                       |
| initiative.           |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Enterprise-wide       | Yes                  | 3.3                   |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   To meet the       |                      |                       |
|     Department's      |                      |                       |
|     mandate for a     |                      |                       |
|     USDA-wide         |                      |                       |
|     integrated        |                      |                       |
|     acquisition       |                      |                       |
|     system and to     |                      |                       |
|     implement it with |                      |                       |
|     as minimal        |                      |                       |
|     disruption to     |                      |                       |
|     services as       |                      |                       |
|     possible in REE   |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   All REE customers |                      |                       |
|     who submit        |                      |                       |
|     procurement       |                      |                       |
|     requests and all  |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
|   procurement/support |                      |                       |
|     personnel will    |                      |                       |
|     have to change    |                      |                       |
|     the way they do   |                      |                       |
|     business in terms |                      |                       |
|     of using IAS when |                      |                       |
|     it's transitioned |                      |                       |
|     and implemented.  |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   Reliable          |                      |                       |
|     procurement       |                      |                       |
|     related financial |                      |                       |
|     data, lower       |                      |                       |
|     purchasing costs, |                      |                       |
|     reduced lead time |                      |                       |
|     to complete       |                      |                       |
|     acquisitions,     |                      |                       |
|     improved customer |                      |                       |
|     service, support  |                      |                       |
|     for integrated    |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
|   planning/budgeting, |                      |                       |
|     and increased     |                      |                       |
|     opportunities for |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
|   small/disadvantaged |                      |                       |
|     businesses        |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   All               |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
|   procurement/support |                      |                       |
|     personnel; all    |                      |                       |
|     REE customers     |                      |                       |
|     submitting        |                      |                       |
|     requisitions      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Human Resources       |                      |                       |
| Online                |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Participate in        |                      |                       |
| aNumber range CHAPTER |                      |                       |
| pilot test of the     |                      |                       |
| Consolidated          |                      |                       |
| Administrative        |                      |                       |
| Management System     |                      |                       |
| (CAMS) for our NASS   |                      |                       |
| customers. CAMS is    |                      |                       |
| made up of several    |                      |                       |
| modules including     |                      |                       |
| SF-52 (request for    |                      |                       |
| personnel action)     |                      |                       |
| submission,           |                      |                       |
| performance appraisal |                      |                       |
| documents, and awards |                      |                       |
| documents. CAMS is a  |                      |                       |
| paperless system in   |                      |                       |
| which NASS State      |                      |                       |
| Statistical Offices   |                      |                       |
| can submit the        |                      |                       |
| above-mentioned       |                      |                       |
| documents, including  |                      |                       |
| electronic            |                      |                       |
| signatures/approvals, |                      |                       |
| to NASS HQ. The       |                      |                       |
| documents, upon HQ    |                      |                       |
| approval, can be      |                      |                       |
| electronically        |                      |                       |
| transmitted to the    |                      |                       |
| ARS Human Resources   |                      |                       |
| Division.             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Enterprise-wide       | Yes                  | Objective 3.3         |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   ARS HRD will      |                      |                       |
|     carefully review  |                      |                       |
|     the pilot test to |                      |                       |
|     determine if CAMS |                      |                       |
|     should be rolled  |                      |                       |
|     out REE-wide. A   |                      |                       |
|     cost benefit      |                      |                       |
|     analysis will be  |                      |                       |
|     critical.         |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   To reduce the     |                      |                       |
|     amount of time it |                      |                       |
|     takes to submit   |                      |                       |
|     and approve       |                      |                       |
|     paperwork         |                      |                       |
|     associated with   |                      |                       |
|     personnel         |                      |                       |
|     actions, awards,  |                      |                       |
|     and performance   |                      |                       |
|     appraisals.       |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   HR                |                      |                       |
|     S                 |                      |                       |
| pecialists/Assistants |                      |                       |
|     who provide HR    |                      |                       |
|     services to NASS  |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   NASS managers,    |                      |                       |
|     supervisors, and  |                      |                       |
|     employees         |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

# 

+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Name of Initiative:   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Financial Management  |                      |                       |
| Tools                 |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Brief Description:    |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| The Foundation        |                      |                       |
| Financial Information |                      |                       |
| System (FFIS) has     |                      |                       |
| been implemented. It  |                      |                       |
| allows customers to   |                      |                       |
| process accounting    |                      |                       |
| transactions,         |                      |                       |
| research transactions |                      |                       |
| and vendor records,   |                      |                       |
| perform purchasing    |                      |                       |
| and disbursement      |                      |                       |
| transactions, and     |                      |                       |
| perform review of     |                      |                       |
| financial data.       |                      |                       |
| Employees access FFIS |                      |                       |
| from their desktop    |                      |                       |
| computers to          |                      |                       |
| efficiently enter     |                      |                       |
| financial             |                      |                       |
| transactions on       |                      |                       |
| documents, update     |                      |                       |
| tables from document  |                      |                       |
| data, post document   |                      |                       |
| data to journals, and |                      |                       |
| generate reports      |                      |                       |
| using table and       |                      |                       |
| journal information   |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Level/Scope:          | Quicksilver          | USDA eGovernment      |
|                       | Initiative?          | Goals Met:            |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Enterprise-wide       | No                   | Objective 3.3         |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Contribution,  |                      |                       |
| Participation, and    |                      |                       |
| Impact:               |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   The ARS Financial |                      |                       |
|     Management        |                      |                       |
|     Division was      |                      |                       |
|     responsible for   |                      |                       |
|     leading this      |                      |                       |
|     effort, the       |                      |                       |
|     largest           |                      |                       |
|     development and   |                      |                       |
|     implementation    |                      |                       |
|     initiative        |                      |                       |
|     undertaken by     |                      |                       |
|     USDA and the REE  |                      |                       |
|     mission area in   |                      |                       |
|     many years. It    |                      |                       |
|     involved          |                      |                       |
|     re-engineering    |                      |                       |
|     all financial and |                      |                       |
|     accounting        |                      |                       |
|     business          |                      |                       |
|     practices for     |                      |                       |
|     each agency,      |                      |                       |
|     extensive work    |                      |                       |
|     with the          |                      |                       |
|     contractor and    |                      |                       |
|     Department to     |                      |                       |
|     design, test and  |                      |                       |
|     implement the new |                      |                       |
|     system, detailed  |                      |                       |
|     training for more |                      |                       |
|     than 500 new      |                      |                       |
|     system users,     |                      |                       |
|     converting        |                      |                       |
|     thousands of      |                      |                       |
|     prior year        |                      |                       |
|     accounting        |                      |                       |
|     records, and      |                      |                       |
|     planning for      |                      |                       |
|     system support,   |                      |                       |
|     help desk         |                      |                       |
|     operations, and   |                      |                       |
|     long term         |                      |                       |
|     training.         |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Agency Benefits:      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   FFIS maintains a  |                      |                       |
|     standard general  |                      |                       |
|     ledger from which |                      |                       |
|     a variety of      |                      |                       |
|     external reports  |                      |                       |
|     can be produced   |                      |                       |
|     and provides      |                      |                       |
|     financial         |                      |                       |
|     managers with     |                      |                       |
|     timely and        |                      |                       |
|     reliable          |                      |                       |
|     information.      |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| Key Stakeholders      |                      |                       |
| Involved:             |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+
| -   ARS financial     |                      |                       |
|     management staff  |                      |                       |
|                       |                      |                       |
| -   All REE fund      |                      |                       |
|     managers and      |                      |                       |
|     financial         |                      |                       |
|     management staff  |                      |                       |
+-----------------------+----------------------+-----------------------+

# [Proposed ARS eGovernment Opportunities]{.smallcaps}

+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
| **Major     | **Initiative**                          | **Scope**    |
| Goal**      |                                         |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
| > *         | Community Nutrition Mapping Project     | Age          |
| *Citizens** | (CNMap)                                 | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | **NDL Web Site Recipe Program**         | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
| > **Public  | Agricultural Organism Systematics       | Age          |
| > and       | Information                             | ncy-Specific |
| > Private   |                                         |              |
| > Orga      |                                         |              |
| nizations** |                                         |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Animal Manure and Byproducts Decision   | Age          |
|             | Support System                          | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | An Integrated Farm System Model for     | Age          |
|             | Strategic Evaluation of the Economic    | ncy-Specific |
|             | and Environmental Impacts of            |              |
|             | Alternative Production System           |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | An Integrated System to Improve         | Age          |
|             | Technical and Economic Efficiencies in  | ncy-Specific |
|             | Production, Market, and Utilization of  |              |
|             | South Carolina Cotton                   |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | ARS Internet Publication Initiative     | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Climate Data Access System              | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Electronic Availability of the          | Age          |
|             | Phosphorus Index for Improved Watershed | ncy-Specific |
|             | Protection                              |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Electronic Clearinghouse for ARS        | Age          |
|             | Areawide Pest Management Program for    | ncy-Specific |
|             | Russian Wheat Aphid and Greenbug        |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Electronic Networking for the Northeast | Age          |
|             | Pasture Research and Extension          | ncy-Specific |
|             | Consortium                              |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Expert System, Label Data and           | Age          |
|             | Formulation Modules                     | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | FoodLink Search Online                  | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Food Survey Automated Methods and       | Age          |
|             | Reporting                               | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | National Center for Plant Information   | Age          |
|             | (NCPI)                                  | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | National Digital Library of Agriculture | Age          |
|             | (NDLA)                                  | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Nutrition and Aging Research Highlights | Age          |
|             | from HNRCA                              | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Pecan Breeding and Genetics             | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Pesticide Management Web Site           | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Real-time Weather, Photosynthesis and   | Age          |
|             | Water Use Facility at the USDA/ARS      | ncy-Specific |
|             | Appalachian Fruit Research Station,     |              |
|             | Kearneysville, WV                       |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Standardization, Upgrade/Establishment, | Age          |
|             | and Maintenance of ARS Location         | ncy-Specific |
|             | Websites                                |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Technology Opportunities Bulletin       | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Transfer of Research and Product        | Age          |
|             | Development for Improved Phosphorus     | ncy-Specific |
|             | Management Available on the Web         |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Water Use, Climatic, and Hydrologic     | Age          |
|             | Data for the Southern Great Plains      | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Web Page for the National Center for    | Age          |
|             | Cool and Cold Water Acquaculture        | ncy-Specific |
|             | (NCCCWA)                                |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
| >           | Agricultural Research Information       | Age          |
| **Employees | System (ARIS) -- Phase II               | ncy-Specific |
| > and the   |                                         |              |
| > E         |                                         |              |
| nterprise** |                                         |              |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Enterprise Architecture                 | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Executive Correspondence Tracking       | Age          |
|             | System (EXCTS)                          | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | Extramural Tracking System (ETS)        | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+
|             | NAL Digital Desktop Library             | Age          |
|             |                                         | ncy-Specific |
+-------------+-----------------------------------------+--------------+

NOTE: Budgetary and other information not included for some of the
following initiatives will be provided as it becomes available.

+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| Name of     |             |      |      |             |             |
| Initiative: |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| Community   |             |      |      |             |             |
| Nutrition   |             |      |      |             |             |
| Mapping     |             |      |      |             |             |
| Project     |             |      |      |             |             |
| (CNMap)     |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| D           |             |      |      |             |             |
| escription: |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| CNMAP       |             |      |      |             |             |
| ([www       |             |      |      |             |             |
| .barc.usda. |             |      |      |             |             |
| gov/bhnrc/c |             |      |      |             |             |
| nrg/](http: |             |      |      |             |             |
| //www.barc. |             |      |      |             |             |
| usda.gov/bh |             |      |      |             |             |
| nrc/cnrg/)) |             |      |      |             |             |
| is an       |             |      |      |             |             |
| application |             |      |      |             |             |
| that        |             |      |      |             |             |
| provides    |             |      |      |             |             |
| information |             |      |      |             |             |
| on          |             |      |      |             |             |
| variables   |             |      |      |             |             |
| which serve |             |      |      |             |             |
| as key      |             |      |      |             |             |
| indicators  |             |      |      |             |             |
| on the      |             |      |      |             |             |
| nutritional |             |      |      |             |             |
| status of   |             |      |      |             |             |
| America's   |             |      |      |             |             |
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|             |             |      | 2.4  |             |             |
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| -   Number  |             |      |      |             |             |
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| > -- System |             |      |      |             |             |
| > Imp       |             |      |      |             |             |
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|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|  world-wide |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|  (directly) |             |      |      |             |             |
|     and     |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|   customers |             |      |      |             |             |
|     (       |             |      |      |             |             |
| indirectly) |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| Associated  |             |      |      |             |             |
| Information |             |      |      |             |             |
| Collections |             |      |      |             |             |
| (*with OMB  |             |      |      |             |             |
| control     |             |      |      |             |             |
| numbers):*  |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| -   N/A     |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| Major       |             |      |      |             |             |
| Milestones  |             |      |      |             |             |
| & Timeline: |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| -   FY 2002 |             |      |      |             |             |
|     --      |             |      |      |             |             |
|     Acquire |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|    licenses |             |      |      |             |             |
|     for at  |             |      |      |             |             |
|     least 5 |             |      |      |             |             |
|     large   |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|   publisher |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
| collections |             |      |      |             |             |
|     of      |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|  electronic |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|    journal, |             |      |      |             |             |
|     and 3   |             |      |      |             |             |
|     major   |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|   databases |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
| -   FY 2003 |             |      |      |             |             |
|     --      |             |      |      |             |             |
|     Acquire |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|    licenses |             |      |      |             |             |
|     for     |             |      |      |             |             |
|     more    |             |      |      |             |             |
|     key     |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|   journals, |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
| scientific, |             |      |      |             |             |
|     legal,  |             |      |      |             |             |
|     and     |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|  management |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|   databases |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| Performance |             |      |      |             |             |
| Measures:   |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| -   Track   |             |      | -    |             |             |
|     usage   |             |      |    F |             |             |
|     of      |             |      | ocus |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|   resources |             |      |   gr |             |             |
|     in      |             |      | oups |             |             |
|     order   |             |      |      |             |             |
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|     content |             |      | stak |             |             |
|     based   |             |      | ehol |             |             |
|     on user |             |      | ders |             |             |
|     needs.  |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      | will |             |             |
| -   Annual  |             |      |      |             |             |
|     report  |             |      |   be |             |             |
|     on the  |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      | held |             |             |
|   available |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |   at |             |             |
|   resources |             |      |      |             |             |
|     and     |             |      |    l |             |             |
|     usage   |             |      | east |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|  statistics |             |      | annu |             |             |
|     will be |             |      | ally |             |             |
|     issued  |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |   to |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |   ob |             |             |
|             |             |      | tain |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |    f |             |             |
|             |             |      | eedb |             |             |
|             |             |      | ack, |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |   ga |             |             |
|             |             |      | ther |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      | sugg |             |             |
|             |             |      | esti |             |             |
|             |             |      | ons, |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |  and |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |  arr |             |             |
|             |             |      | ange |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      |  new |             |             |
|             |             |      |      |             |             |
|             |             |      | serv |             |             |
|             |             |      | ices |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| Estimated   |             |      |      |             |             |
| Budg        |             |      |      |             |             |
| et/Spending |             |      |      |             |             |
| Data:       |             |      |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+
| **FY2002:** | **FY2003:** | **F  |      | **FY2005:** | **FY2006:** |
|             |             | Y200 |      |             |             |
| \           | \           | 4:** |      | \           | \           |
| $12,000,000 | $14,500,000 |      |      | $17,600,000 | $19,390,000 |
|             |             | \$15 |      |             |             |
|             |             | ,900 |      |             |             |
|             |             | ,000 |      |             |             |
+-------------+-------------+------+------+-------------+-------------+

#  

# [Funding Summary for eGovernment]{.smallcaps} 

## 

## Funding Summary of Proposed ARS eGovernment Initiatives

## 

  --------------- ------------------------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
  **Type**        **eGovernment            **FY 2002   **FY 2003   **FY 2004   **FY 2005   **FY\
                  Initiative**             Budget**    Budget**    Budget**    Budget**    2006\
                                                                                           Budget**

  **Agency        Community Nutrition      \$15,000    \$100,000   \$200,000   \$200,000   \$200,000
  Initiatives**   Mapping Project (CNMAP)                                                  

                  NDL Web Site Recipe                  \$260,000                           
                  Program                                                                  

                  Agricultural Organism    \$900,000   \$900,000   \$900,000   \$900,000   \$900,000
                  Systematics Information                                                  

                  Animal Manure and                                                        
                  Byproducts Decision                                                      
                  Support System                                                           

                  An Integrated Farm       \$150,000   \$154,600   \$159,100   \$163,900   \$168,500
                  System Model for                                                         
                  Strategic Evaluation of                                                  
                  the Economic and                                                         
                  Environmental Impacts of                                                 
                  Alternative Production                                                   
                  System                                                                   

                  An Integrated System to                                                  
                  Improve Technical and                                                    
                  Economic Efficiencies in                                                 
                  Production, Market, and                                                  
                  Utilization of South                                                     
                  Carolina Cotton                                                          

                  ARS Internet Publication                         \$1 mil.                
                  Initiative                                                               

                  Climate Data Access                  \$15,000    \$2,000     \$2,000     \$2,000
                  System                                                                   

                  Electronic Availability  \$105,700   \$108,900   \$111,500   \$93,300    \$96,100
                  of the Phosphorus Index                                                  
                  for Improved Watershed                                                   
                  Protection                                                               

                  Electronic Clearinghouse             \$6,000     \$6,000     \$6,000     \$6,000
                  for ARS Areawide Pest                                                    
                  Management Program for                                                   
                  Russian Wheat Aphid and                                                  
                  Greenbug                                                                 

                  Electronic Networking    \$25,000    \$25,800    \$26,500    \$27,300    \$28,100
                  for the Northeast                                                        
                  Pasture Research and                                                     
                  Extension Consortium                                                     

                  **eGovernment            **FY 2002   **FY 2003   **FY 2004   **FY 2005   **FY\
                  Initiative**             Budget**    Budget**    Budget**    Budget**    2006\
                                                                                           Budget**

                  Expert System, Label                 \$307,000   \$470,000               
                  Data and Formulation                                                     
                  Modules                                                                  

                  FoodLink Search Online   \$50,000    \$75,000    \$100,000   \$100,000   \$100,000

                  Food Survey Automated    \$100,000   \$300,000   \$500,000   \$300,000   \$300,000
                  Methods and Reporting                                                    

                  National Center for      \$1.5 mil.  \$1.6 mil.  \$1.7 mil.  \$1.8 mil.  \$1.9 mil.
                  Plant Information (NCPI)                                                 

                  National Digital Library \$8.6 mil.  \$16.9 mil. \$34.5 mil. \$39.4 mil. \$44.4 mil.
                  of Agriculture (NDLA)                                                    

                  Nutrition and Aging      \$4,600     \$6,000     \$8,000     \$7,000     \$6,000
                  Research Highlights from                                                 
                  HNRCA                                                                    

                  Pecan Breeding and       \$10,000    \$10,000    \$10,000    \$10,000    \$10,000
                  Genetics                                                                 

                  Pesticide Management Web                                                 
                  Site                                                                     

                  Real-time Weather,       \$33,000                                        
                  Photosynthesis and Water                                                 
                  Use Facility at the                                                      
                  USDA/ARS Appalachian                                                     
                  Fruit Research Station,                                                  
                  Kearneysville, WV                                                        

                  Standardization,         \$8,000     \$40,000    \$8,000     \$7,000     \$6,000
                  Upgrade/Establishment,                                                   
                  and Maintenance of ARS                                                   
                  Location Websites                                                        

                  Technology Opportunities                                                 
                  Bulletin                                                                 

                  Transfer of Research and \$80,700    \$82,700    \$84,700    \$72,900    
                  Product Development for                                                  
                  Improved Phosphorus                                                      
                  Management Available on                                                  
                  the Web                                                                  

                  Water Use, Climatic, and \$80,000    \$80,000    \$80,000    \$80,000    \$80,000
                  Hydrologic Data for the                                                  
                  Southern Great Plains                                                    
  --------------- ------------------------ ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------

  ----------- -------------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------
              **eGovernment        **FY 2002   **FY 2003   **FY 2004   **FY 2005   **FY\
              Initiative**         Budget**    Budget**    Budget**    Budget**    2006\
                                                                                   Budget**

              Web Page for the     \$2,000                                         
              National Center for                                                  
              Cool and Cold Water                                                  
              Acquaculture                                                         
              (NCCCWA)                                                             

              Agricultural         \$1.3 mil.  \$940,000   \$960,000   \$980,000   \$1 mil.
              Research Information                                                 
              System (ARIS) --                                                     
              Phase II                                                             

              Enterprise           \$250,000   \$3 mil.    \$3 mil.    \$4 mil.    \$4.5 mil.
              Architecture                                                         

              Executive                                    \$750,000               
              Correspondence                                                       
              Tracking System                                                      
              (EXCTS)                                                              

              Extramural Tracking                                                  
              System (ETS)                                                         

              NAL Digital Desktop  \$12 mil.   \$14.5 mil. \$15.9 mil. \$17.6 mil. \$19.4
              Library                                                              mil.
  ----------- -------------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------

##  

## B. Current eGov Spending by Goal

+---------------------------------+------------------+----------------+
|                                 | **Total IT       |                |
|                                 | Spending**       |                |
+---------------------------------+------------------+----------------+
|                                 | **FY02**         | **FY03**       |
+---------------------------------+------------------+----------------+
| ### Citizen/Partners            | \$2,075,000      | \$2,023,000    |
+---------------------------------+------------------+----------------+
| **Employees/Enterprise**        | \$32,874,000     | \$36,418,000   |
+---------------------------------+------------------+----------------+
| ### TOTAL                       | **\$34,949,000** | **             |
|                                 |                  | \$38,441,000** |
+---------------------------------+------------------+----------------+

#  [Appendix A: ARS eGovernment Steering Committee Members ]{.smallcaps}

> Gary Rich, OCIO, Chair
>
> Dave Rust, NPS
>
> Pamela Mason, NPS
>
> Eleanor Frierson, NAL
>
> Melanie Gardner, NAL
>
> Sandy Miller-Hays, IS
>
> Richard Brenner, OTT
>
> Dave Carter, AFM
>
> Curtis Wilburn, AFM
>
> Joanne Holden, BARC
>
> Amy Rossman, BARC