Development of a Civil Engineer Corps Community Portal Prototype

The Civil Engineer Corps (CEC) is a relatively small Navy community consisting of approximately 1300 officers, Billet locations for the CEC range from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia to Keflavik, Iceland, CEC officers have a broad range of professional skills including contract management, public works management, Seabee operations, and other various fields, The information associated with these fields is abundant, and a common point of reference would be beneficial to all members, The community is wide spread and requires the ability to disseminate information as efficiently as possible to all corners of the world, Currently, information resources are available in both print and electronic forms in numerous locations, This thesis explores the concept of providing a single on-line location where CEC officers can go to access the information they need, This thesis provides a summary of the development of a working prototype web portal, which grants the community access to the vast amounts of information available, The intent of the thesis is to explore the possibilities of how modern web-based technologies can be leveraged to provide a wealth of information to hundreds of officers around the world, In addition to the web development necessary for this prototype, the project also includes the development of the relational database to deliver data to the portal,Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA is the author of 'Development of a Civil Engineer Corps Community Portal Prototype', published 2002 under ISBN 9781423508410 and ISBN 1423508416.