Provide on-site Oracle SUN Java resources to the Tobacco Transition Payment Program (TTPP) for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA). This program calls for the "tobacco buy-out," helps tobacco quota holders and producers transition to the free market. The Fair and Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 (P.L. 108-357), signed by President Bush on Oct. 22, 2004, ended the Depression-era tobacco quota program and established the TTPP. The program provides annual transitional payments for 10 years to eligible tobacco quota holders and producers. Payments began in 2005 and continue through 2014. Payments are funded through assessments of approximately $10 billion on tobacco product manufacturers and importers. This important production system is utilized by various county offices in creating contracts for tobacco growers that would like to join this payment program. Chameleon is helping FSA enhance and maintain this web-based system and its associated critical contracts and pertinent management reports through on-going Oracle SUN Java application software analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation activities.
Chameleon provides on-site Oracle SUN Java resources to support the strategic Grassland Reserve Program (GRP) for USDA/FSA. This program is a voluntary program for landowners to protect, restore, and enhance grasslands on their property. USDA's NRCS, FSA, and Forest Service implement GRP to conserve vulnerable grasslands from conversion to cropland or other uses and conserve valuable grasslands by helping maintain viable ranching operations. GRP emphasizes support for working grazing operations: enhancement of plant and animal biodiversity: and protection of grassland and land containing shrubs and forbs under threat of conversion to cropping, urban development, and other activities that threaten grassland resources. Chameleon assists FSA in supporting this crucial production system, and equally important, Chameleon assists FSA to migrate this critical legacy system to a much more robust and stable open systems architecture through on-going Oracle SUN Java application software analysis, design, coding, testing and implementation activities.