Command Sergeant Major / Sergeant Major,
As we continue to make progress, I want to provide you with some important updates, guidance, and resources. Please help me with the dissemination of this information to your formations.
Personnel Asset Inventory (PAI) Reconciliation
It is essential that the Army can see the overall strength of all components to align force composition to meet mission requirements, advise Congress on budgetary requirements, and ensure necessary recruiting targets are met. This will also help HRC better see your formations so they can give you replacements based on Active Component Manning Guidance.
Your help is needed to do this.
HR Professionals and Leaders
must prioritize PAI reconciliation to (1) correct Failure to Gain/Failure to Lose (FTG/FTL) discrepancies in IPPS-A, and (2) ensure current and future iterations of IPPS-A reflect accurate information.
Active Component Commanders are to conduct Personnel Asset Inventory (PAI) reconciliation between 15 October 2024 and 15 November 2024. For details, review the
HQDA EXORD 024-24 (FRAGO 1) Army-Wide Personnel Asset Inventory (PAI) (Final).pdf.
We encourage you to utilize our resources and job aids to assist with reaching 100% accountability and to leverage IPPS-A’s Service for Analytics and Business Intelligence Reports (SABIR) capabilities to forecast mission requirements.
The following job aids can help:
You may find all these job aids (and many others) here:
Resources,
S1Net, and
Training Aids.
Switchover/Switchback Exercise
Like every good system and process, we need to ensure we have a backup plan in the event of an emergency. IPPS-A is no different. From Thursday, 24 October through Saturday, 26 October 2024, we held a server switchover/switchback exercise.
The design of this exercise was meant to test the system’s ability to operate from primary to secondary data center during a potential disruptive event or real-world disaster and is a federally mandated annual event designed to improve the system. In the simplest terms, we needed to see if we can effectively “jump TOCs” without losing capability.
Thank you to all of your Soldiers who participated (some unknowingly since the point was to provide seamless operations)! While there were a few issues identified, the IPPS-A team quickly identified and corrected those problems. We are now more prepared for real-time catastrophes that would otherwise prevent us from doing HR functions.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)-PayPer Mismatch (PPM) Stats
Good news! Pay-impacting CRM aged cases continue to drop across the Active Component Divisions, decreasing from 120 last month to only 71 total. What does that mean for you? Less Soldiers getting incorrectly paid!
Please thank your teams for using these IPPS-A items to support Soldier Pay concerns and encourage them to continue to make this a priority.
Resources
Please reiterate to your Soldiers that there are many great IPPS-A products designed to help them. They should check out the latest manuals and training aids at the
IPPS-A Website and
S1Net.
Remind your NCOs that IPPS-A is
a Soldier system! With help from the field, we can ensure the Army is ready for anything. Please communicate with your units and plan accordingly.
Thank you for continuing to support and for empowering your NCOs. Please let me know if you have any questions or need help — we are here for you!
V/r,
SGM Paul J. Smith
Senior Enlisted Advisor
DCS - G1, IPPS-A FMD
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