FAOweb Goes Live

The Joint Foreign Area Office Skill Sustainment Pilot Program is the biggest and most important project (to date) for Ideal Imaging. Sponsored by the United States Navy, the web portal was launched globally to over 2500 Foreign Area Officers in March 2010.

What’s FAOweb?

FAOweb is an internet portal available to Foreign Area Officers (FAOs) worldwide, which provides self-paced, job-relevant education modules addressing topics ranging from the ‘interagency process’ to ‘working with interpreters,’ as well as customized language resources developed by the Defense Language Institute. FAOweb also serves as a professional community hub fostering FAO professionalization and interaction within and between the Armed Services.

The target audience for this project includes Foreign Area Officers who represent the four branches of the US Military (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines). They are high-ranking officers which may serve as a Defense Attaché, Security Assistance Officer, or Intelligence Analyst, among many other international roles. As experts in the politics and culture of their assigned country and region, FAOs provide critical guidance ition and execution of defense operations worldwide.

The message FAOweb aims to produce is to be a “one-stop-shop” for collaborative and learning experiences in the FAO field. The FAOs should feel that all necessary tools (learning modules, online discussion boards, video chat, documents, etc) are readily and easily available in one central, online location.