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WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 19, 2017) -- Army personnel: A much needed innovated change is coming your way! The Integrated Personnel and Pay System (IPPS-A) is an online Human Resources system that will provide integrated personnel, pay, and talent management capabilities in a single system that is easy to use and provides transparency.
IPPS-A will offer benefits such as: Soldier online self-service portal, real real-time 24/7 global online access, improved pay accuracy and timeliness, reductions in processing time, a secure, auditable database to secure your information, allowing leaders to see the knowledge and skills of our Soldiers – ensuring the right person is in the right job at the right time, and streamlined transitions between Active Duty, Reserve, and Guard.
Col. James (Darby) F. McNulty, Project Manager, Program Manager, IPPS-A, has been working with the Army to determine the requirements for an integrated personnel and pay system, and has been partnered with industry to design, build and maintain it.
“Today we use forty-plus different systems that do HR, pay, and personnel across all three components for all 1.1 million soldiers in the Army,” McNulty said. “IPPS-A is going to take it into a single platform with compensation as the centerpiece.”
According to McNulty, IPPS-A provides total force integration, talent management, and accountability. Additionally, he states that, for the first time ever, everything will be in one system.
“Today we have 157 business processes that do HR and they are largely different across the three components,” McNulty said. “With IPPS-A we are going to be taking it down to about 34 common business processes and all but one is common to all three components.”
IPPS-A is designed to meet the unique needs of each component. However, there are common business processes that are unique to each. With IPPS-A, the Soldier’s duty status will simply be changed in the system and switch from Active to Guard component.
“With the current system, months will go by before pay catches up,” McNulty said. “IPPS-A will allow soldiers to be paid more timely and efficiently.”
Now, Soldiers on traditional status, who don’t normally have access can check the status of their orders, awards and financial and medical records.
Master Sgt. Porter Washington, Army National Guard Integrated Personnel and Pay System Liaison Noncommissioned Officer (LNO) Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) describes the changes, to the business processes, not being so much a process change, but rather, as an enhancement.
“You no longer have to open six systems to get the information you need on a Soldier,” Washington said. “IPPS-A makes the process more productive, makes it easier for leadership, and greatly reduces manual entry of physical paper documentation for HR actions.”
IPPS-A will make life easier for Guardsmen and their families. Guardsmen will have online access to their own comprehensive personnel and pay record from any common access card-enabled computer and the ability to electronically initiate HR request for review and approval, 24 hours a day.
“This has been a long time coming,” said 1st. Sgt. Brian Jones, U.S. Property and Fiscal Office (USPFO) D.C., Pay and Exam Chief. “Trying to unify the pay and personnel transaction systems for the Army is a really important process.”
Jones described the current pay and personnel systems as outdated and complex. He is looking forward to the IPPS-A system to streamline HR processes.
“National Guard units are spread across the 54 states and territories which creates a challenge,” Jones said. “This is one reason why the last attempt of integrating pay and personnel systems was not successful,”
Mathew Meillier, Staff Sgt., USPFO D.C., Lead Military Pay Technician, conveyed his excitement that IPPS-A will allow for one system to be used instead of several.
“We can do everything in one place instead of having four different systems to process different types of pay,” Meillier said.
Lt. Col. Scott Farish, Deputy Chief of Staff Personnel, D.C. Army National Guard, is a strong proponent of IPPS-A.
“It’s going to move us to the next generation,” Farish said. “At first I was not excited, however, after seeing leadership listen to feedback, implement that feedback, and learn from industry’s best practices – I strongly support IPPS-A. Just know that it’s coming and we’re going to be here to train you – we are lucky being so close to IPPS-A headquarters and can get immediate training from the subject matter experts located in Crystal City. We will have the best-trained team in the Nation.”
For more information about the IPPS-A program, please visit http://www.ipps-a.army.mil.
| Date Taken: | 05.19.2017 |
| Date Posted: | 05.19.2017 19:21 |
| Story ID: | 234562 |
| Location: | WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, US |
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