The NCSU/APHIS Plant Pest Forecast (NAPPFAST) System is an internet tool for plant pest modeling using georeferenced climatological weather data.  The system is a joint venture between the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), North Carolina State University (NCSU), and the information technology company ZedX, Inc.  The NAPPFAST System is designed to support the predictive pest mapping needs of the Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) program and the risk assessment activities of the Pest Epidemiology Risk Assessment Laboratory (PERAL).  The development of NAPPFAST is sponsored by the CAPS program.  You can read more in the Journal article from Plant Disease or in our latest 2009 annual report.