Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army
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Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A) is a United States Army acquisition program that seeks to integrate human resources and pay for all Army Soldiers. It provides online tools and replaces older Army human resource systems. It also provides talent management capabilities and is essential to the Army's People Strategy. IPPS-A provides three main capabilities: Total Force Visibility, Talent Management and the ability to successfully complete audits.[1] It has successfully fielded to the Army National Guard (ARNG) and was scheduled to field to the active and reserve components by December 2021.[2]
On 17 January 2023 IPPS-A Release 3 is now available to soldiers in all three components — Active Army, Reserve, and National Guard.[3][4] For example, a soldier can show a Self-professed Talent to the Army, using the "TAM Soldier Workplace" tile in Release 3 IPPS-A;[5]: minute 45:52 This would then show up in the "Soldier Talent Profile".
Fielding was delayed in October 2021 during the system acceptance test; issues with importing data from existing personnel systems have delayed the live transfer of action requests to, or from, IPPS-A until September 2022.[6][7] The 20 September 2022 cutover to IPPS-A was delayed, as data from legacy Recruiting software and data to Defense Manpower Data Center software was not yet stable.[8][9]
- New equipment training (NET)
IPPS-A is accessible via one's smartphone.[10] [11]
- Connecting data from, or to existing personnel systems
[12][8][9] As of 23 January 2023 TRICARE coverage of 17,110 soldiers and 8,000 family members was restored, except for 25 Soldiers. Coverage had been interrupted during the GoLive event one week earlier.[13]
Form DD214 and the Transition Processing System are a work in process for the week from 23 to 30 January 2023; discharge forms and separation orders required to get access to Veterans Affairs disability pay, retirement pensions, the G.I. Bill, etc. are unavailable for this period.[14]
- ARNG pay issues
- IPPS-A action requests
Organization
[edit]The IPPS-A implementation is a partnership between the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology and the Army G-1 with Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and Technology and Business Architecture Integration.[19] [20][6]
- Army Reserve (USAR)
- Active Army
- A uniform payday schedule
Previous Army payroll software allowed soldiers to select either a monthly payday, or a semimonthly payday. As part of IPPS-A, on 1 October 2022 the Army switches to a semimonthly payday, on the 15th and on the last day of each month, for long-term active-duty Soldiers.[25]
See also
[edit]- Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) — for both military members and retirees
References
[edit]- ^ "About". The Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- ^ Rempfer, Kyle (March 31, 2020). "Army Guard finishes ditching personnel paperwork for new online system". Army Times. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- ^ U.S. Army Public Affairs (17 January 2023) Army set to expand use of new digital HR and talent-management system
- ^ IPPS-A (17 January 2023) Release 3 is Live for all component users!!
- ^ IPPS-A (17 January 2023) IPPS-A Release 3 Leader Course (Consolidated)
- ^ a b Winkie, Davis (October 7, 2021). "Army delays IPPS-A launch, delaying '21st century' HR platform". Army Times.
- ^ IPPS-A (Oct 2021) ARNG data
- There are over 600 individual data elements, critical to a Soldier’s human resources record managed by IPPS-A Release 2.
- This will build the backbone of an ARNG Soldier’s data in IPPS-A Release 3.
- Clear all the errors on the Assignment tiles. Getting those down to zero will be critical to assisting Soldiers to convert to IPPS-A Release 3.
- Look at all Expiration of Term of Service (ETSs) and Mandatory Removal Date (MRDs), see who is scheduled to discharge and coordinate with Soldiers accordingly.
- ^ a b Davis Winkie (15 Aug 2022) Army’s long-delayed HR platform launch in jeopardy — again IPPS-A was not yet reliably connecting with 1) legacy recruiting systems, or 2) Defense Manpower Data Center (soldier medical insurance, other benefits). CACI International is the integrator.
- ^ a b U.S. Army Public Affairs (12 Aug 2022) Army to delay transition period ahead of IPPS-A Release 3
- ^ Release 3 (R3) NET (deadline 31 July 2022) New equipment training (NET) website
- ^ Lauren C. Williams (17 January 2023) Army Debuts Improved Smartphone-Friendly Pay System "Starting Jan. 17, more than 1 million soldiers will be able to try out the new, more automated HR system".
- ^ IPPS-A (25 Mar 2020) IPPS-A deployment to ARNG states
- ^ Davis Winkie (23 Jan 2023) Health benefits interrupted for 17,000+ soldiers by HR platform launch
- ^ Davis Winkie (25 Jan 2023) Troops can’t get discharge forms or retire due to Army’s HR transition
- ^ Blaire Edgerton (June 1, 2018) ARNG Talks, IPPS-A Listens
- ^ Devon L. Suits, Army News Service (March 2, 2020) IPPS-A integration to hit key milestone in March
- ^ IPPS-A (2021) IPPS-A Release 2.1 (ARNG)
- ^ IPPS-A (July 2022) IPPS-A action requests To/From Soldiers
- ^ "Our Leadership/Organization". The Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- ^ Devon L. Suits (2 Mar 2020) IPPS-A integration to hit key milestone in March
- ^ Tania McGilton ARNG & USAR, IPPS-A News (2 March 2020) IPPS-A Integration to Hit Key Milestone in March
- ^ Release 3 Training (July 2022) Complete your Release 3 Training!!
- Leaders/Approvers: Complete mandatory Leader Course NLT 31 July 2022.
- HR Professionals/Field Users: Complete Sub-Category Training NLT 31 July 2022.
- Soldiers: The Self-Service course is strongly recommended to save time and trips to S1.
- ^ Tania McGilton IPPS-A News, Newsletter, Release 3 (13 July 2022) IPPS-A On the Quick, Issue 7
- ^ IPPS-A (2020) IPPS-A Self-Service Course: Intro & Access 4:47 video clip
- ^ Mark Orders-Woempner (27 Jul 2022) Army to switch all active-duty Soldiers to semimonthly pay Oct. 1