WHERE IS THE WHAT?
“There are a lot of resources,” Craig Spisak, director of the Army Acquisition Support Center, told me. “You just have to find them.”
It’s not an all-or-nothing issue, however. Tere are a number of well-designed, useful (and in some cases, indispensable) web resources available to the Army Acquisition Workforce to help them stay on top of their careers. So, in an effort to pull together some of the sites that civilian workforce members need to know and use, here is a short list of highly beneficial links.
At the top of the list are the milSuite Civilian HR site (https://
www.milsuite.mil/book/community/spaces/Civ-HR) and the Army Civilian Personnel Online (CPOL) site (https://acpol.
army.mil/ako/cpolmain). Te latter is, as it promises, “a one- stop site that provides access to all the information you may need as a civilian personnel employee.” It replaced http://cpol.
army.mil/index.html, which ceased to exist as of Oct. 1. Te milSuite Civilian HR site offers many of the same links as CPOL and may eventually replace it. It provides a host of resources that a private-industry employee might find on a company intranet,
from time-charging on ATAAPS (DOD’s Automated Time Attendance and Production System) and pay stubs (MyPay) to the Defense Travel System and retirement (the Trift Savings Plan), plus a whole lot more. It’s not perfect, but it’s an excel- lent resource. And it’s easy to make suggestions to improve it because of milSuite’s interactive features.
Virtually all of the linked sites there require a Common Access Card (CAC) to log in. MilSuite requires registration, but it’s open to those who have a DOD CAC through a simple process. MilSuite uses the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting Sys- tem (DEERS), which serves military members, retired service members and their dependent family members, among other beneficiaries, to validate users before creating an account—so, if you’re in DEERS, you should have no problem. And milSuite offers a great deal of utility to users, with interactive functions far too numerous to mention here.
Army acquisition personnel should also have the website of the U.S. Army’s Office of the Director for Acquisition Career Management (DACM) at the top of their bookmarks list. Go to
http://asc.army.mil/web/dacm-office/ for Army acquisi- tion career-related information, including the DACM News and links to several career management sites, notably the Career Acquisition Management Portal (CAMP) to manage official records and apply for certification, the Army Training Require- ments and Resources System (ATRRS) to register for Defense Acquisition University (DAU) training, and the DAU iCatalog to find certification and training requirements and courses.
Finally, there’s webmail via Microsoft’s Outlook web email app. Go to
https://web.mail.mil to check your email. You’ll need your CAC. While you’re there, send us links that you find par- ticularly useful so that we can add them to our repository on Army AL&T News online at
ArmyALT@gmail.com.
MR. STEVE STARK is senior editor of Army AL&T magazine. He holds an M.A. in creative writing from Hollins University and a B.A. in English from George Mason University. In addition to more than two decades of editing and writing about the military, science and technology, he is, as Stephen Stark, the best-selling ghostwriter of several consumer health-oriented books and an award-winning novelist.
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