The site is free, but Ms. Zitko said users who bought copies of ship manifests and photos had spent enough money that the online operation was helping finance the continuing restoration of Ellis Island.
The deputy director for the organized crime agency's international unit, David Armond, said the operation was helped by his agency's links with the French Customs Investigation Service, the British Virgin Islands police and the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre-Narcotics, a European agency that coordinates operations aimed at combating drug trafficking.
The European operations are helping G.E. rebuild its image in Europe, where hard feelings still linger from G.E.'s aborted effort to acquire Honeywell in 2001.
While GM's fast-growing China operations are helping to offset the automaker's problems in the United States, it ultimately will need to do better on its home turf to restore its financial health.
The resources shift will leave the United States better able to respond to provocations and better able to launch operations like Operation Damayan that is helping millions of people in the Philippines recover from the impact of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda.
Additionally, apps like Learn with Homer and Operation Math are helping kids improve reading, vocabulary and math skills by using spy themes, clever animations and leader boards where kids can rack up points.
She was self-conscious about her age and weight when Shawn took out the camera, and she didn't begrudge us our politics or the fact that a 28-year-old in tattoos and aviators had shown up at the military operation she was helping to run.
American Special Operations troops are helping several African armies hunt down the group's phantom of a leader, Joseph Kony, who is believed to be hiding in a remote corner of the Central African Republic.
Ms. Lillis said she was bracing for a busy summer, and because word was out about her operation online, she was helping people with lost pets all over the country.
Ray Anderson, the league's executive vice president for football operations, said: "He's helping drive home the message that officiating isn't as easy as it looks to folks.
