IPPS-A FACTO
engagement is critical to this effort. In the last two years alone, we have executed more than 400 engagements with stake- holders throughout the total force Army, as well as with key influencers throughout DOD and Congress. Tese engagements included technical reviews of the system, software demonstrations, deployment briefs, functionality working groups and other events. We captured and applied feedback from stakeholders who will use IPPS-A as part of their day-to-day activ- ities, leveraging the unique insights of total force Soldiers and Army civilians at all levels.
THE DRIVE TO BUILD RELEASE 2 IPPS-A is currently on course to be deployed throughout the Army National Guard. In January 2019, the Army fielded IPPS-A to the Pennsylvania National Guard and conducted a limited user test of the system. Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers integrated IPPS-A into their daily human resources operations and put the
system through its paces. Te test was successful. Now, we are preparing the next states—including Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia—to receive the system. We expect full deployment of IPPS-A throughout the Army National Guard by early 2020.
At every step of this process, we partnered with the Army National Guard to help it become the first component to field the system. We cultivated relationships with each of the 54 state and territory Army National Guard entities as well as National Guard Bureau stakeholders to hear their feedback and inform the build process for Release 2 of IPPS-A. Starting in August 2018, we worked alongside our Pennsylvania National Guard counter- parts to execute three critical events that ultimately would pave the way for IPPS- A’s fielding in the commonwealth.
Troughout these events—the risk reduc- tion event, the system-acceptance test and the limited user test—we leveraged
the Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s extensive expertise to improve the system and meet the needs of the customer. Te Pennsylvania Army National Guard inf luenced the functionality of
the
system—everything from how a Soldier submits a personnel action request to human resources analytics, like the human resources authorization report used by commanders. We also worked closely with the National Guard to ensure that the interfaces with existing authoritative data sources, like the Army Organizational Server – Data Interface and the Reserve Component Manpower System – Guard, accurately and correctly fed data into IPPS-A. Data correctness is an incremental step toward larger efforts of talent management and total force visi- bility. It affects how decisions are made, and the consequences of those decisions have a downstream effect on the Soldiers we support. Pay will be linked to human resources transactions in IPPS-A, so data must be correct.
PUTTING THE SYSTEM THROUGH ITS PACES
Full deployment of IPPS-A throughout the Army National Guard is expected by early 2020. Developers conducted more than 400 engagements with stakeholders throughout the Army, including this system acceptance test in Pennsylvania last fall, capturing and applying feedback from Solders who will use IPPS-A as part of their day-to-day activities.
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