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have a record that parallels that of their military counter- parts. And while TOPMIS feeds automatically into the Career Acquisition Personnel and Position Management Information System (CAPPMIS), the systems that the Guard and Reserve use do not.
What that’s meant for National Guard and Reserve Soldiers is that they’ve had to record separately the data in their ORB or ERB in their ACRB. Tat will no longer be the case for reservists, as of approximately August or September of this year. Guardsmen and -women will have to wait a bit longer, as will the active-duty Army, while IPPS-A continues rolling out.
If that weren’t sufficiently chaotic, those in the Reserve compo- nent who also are civilian acquisition professionals will still have the ACRB until every Army employee has been rolled into IPPS-A.
IPPS-A is crushing a lot of stovepipes. Indeed, Johnson said in an email exchange with Army AL&T, IPPS-A will subsume more than 30 systems and eliminate more than 300 interfaces. IPPS-A will reduce complexity, as well, with 154 business processes across all three components shrunk to 34.
ORB AND ERB EXTINCTION But wait! Tere are more extinctions coming. Te ORB and ERB are also headed that way, as IPPS-A’s outward ripples continue. IPPS-A will replace them with the Soldier Record Brief (SRB).
“Te Army is pursuing a three-in-one solution with the SRB,” Johnson said, “meaning that all three components, enlisted and officers, will all have the same standardized document to display their career information. Te [Army National Guard] will be the first component to use SRB live in the system during our Release 2 fielding. As we define the design and build of Release 3,” he continued, “the program is working on a prototype of the new talent profile, which will incor- porate 25 talent areas and provide a holistic view of Soldiers’ skills and abilities.”
Which could mean, despite its name, that the Soldier Record Brief won’t actually be brief because, unlike its predecessors, it’s going to have a lot of detail that will provide a good deal more value to the Army.
“Te SRB is an incremental step toward larger talent manage- ment efforts,” Johnson said. “Te talent profile that is currently
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being developed in partnership with HRC [the U.S. Army Human Resources Command] and the Army’s Talent Manage- ment Task Force will describe every Soldier’s talents at a granular level and piece together data elements across five domains: knowledge, skills, behaviors, experience and readi- ness. Te talent profile will contain more than twice the data elements that are currently collected in our legacy systems.”
Civilians, Johnson said, are not currently incorporated into IPPS-A’s design. If that changes, then a similar talent profile will have to be developed to meet that cadre’s needs.
CONCLUSION So, what does all of this mean for those with an ACRB? For most, not a lot—just yet. But for those who will be directly affected by the phased extinction of the ACRB, it will be a big deal.
Tose affected will still have a CAPPMIS account to access and edit the individual development plan, maintain continu- ous learning points and keep a record of all acquisition courses completed. Because the ORB and ERB will go away with the rollout of IPPS-A, users will want to make sure that the information contained in their ORB or ERB is reflected in CAPPMIS. And accurate ORBs or ERBs should translate to accurate Soldier Record Briefs.
Tat shouldn’t be a burden on anyone, just something to watch. Te transition will reduce data repetition, eliminate the need to proactively update the ACRB and save time to focus on other priorities.
For more information, contact Lt. Col Ryan Leonard, Army Reserve, at
ryan.d.leonard.mil@
mail.mil or 703-664- 5719; or Lt. Col. Teresa Childs, Army National Guard, at
teresa.e.childs.mil@
mail.mil or 703-664-5722.
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 and S&T, he is the best-selling ghostwriter of several consumer- health oriented books and an award-winning novelist. He is Level II certified in program management.
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