New automation tool enhances transaction capabilities.

The Security Cooperation Information Portal (SCIP) is one of the latest automation tools available to the security cooperation community. The SCIP was originally envisioned as a "portal" product, providing Military Standard Requisitioning and Issue Procedures (MILSTRIP) transaction input capabilities, allowing users to query consolidated case, case line, requisition and supply discrepancy report information extracted daily from the Defense Security Assistance Management System (DSAMS) and Army, Navy and Air Force legacy systems.

Enhancements were made over the past two years in order to broaden its appeal to a larger constituency. In addition to the original case information community, a second community, the Security Assistance Officer (SAO) Toolbox Community, was specifically developed for daily SAO and combatant command (COCOM) use.

The two major features of the SAO toolbox are the selective proxy feature and the End Use Monitoring (EUM) application. The selective proxy feature allows authorized Department of Defense military and civilian personnel, and other U.S. government employees, such as Foreign Service Nationals (FSNs), to access selective .mil sites normally restricted from use by users with non- .mil accounts. The proxy feature is selective, in that any .mil web site made available through SCIP must be approved by DSCA and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Headquarters organizations before it can be loaded into the SCIP production environment's access control list.

The EUM application was developed to provide a secure, centralized, internet-based product, which would provide both SAO, COCOM, and international customer users with a common standard methodology for performing inventories of items requiring EUM or Enhanced EUM reporting. Material acquired through grant programs, and certain material obtained through Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programs or Cooperative Production programs require a confirmed visual inventory, at the item serial number level, on a periodic basis.

Using extracts from the DSAMS and DSCA 000 systems, and information gleaned from manufacturer records, as well as previous in-country inspections and delivery records, the EUM Program Management (PM) office at DSCA Headquarters incrementally populates the SCIP EUM database with item-level detail on the various defense articles included under this program.

Based on planned and delinquent inventory reports, the in-country U.S. government representative can perform required inventories and interactively update the respective inventory records in SCIP. In addition, the DSCA EUM program manager will be able to programmatically establish inventory inspection frequencies, and readily monitor compliance with the required inventories.

To obtain your SCIP account, or to receive more information concerning SCIP Case Information and/or the SAO Toolbox features, please feel free to contact the following e-mail address: [e-mail].