{"id":103810,"date":"2024-01-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=103810"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:37:12","slug":"asc-sends-hr-experts-to-europe-to-provide-ipps-a-training-to-405th-afsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=103810","title":{"rendered":"ASC sends HR experts to Europe to provide IPPS-A training to 405th AFSB"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n The sergeant major of Army Field Support Battalion-Germany, Sgt. Maj. Randy Leyba, directs a question about the Army\u2019s new online human resources system to Master Sgt. Timothy Fisher from U.S. Army Sustainment Command during Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army training at the 405th Army Field Support Brigade Jan. 30. Fisher and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Katrina Watkins from ASC\u2019s directorate of personnel and administration (G-1) traveled to Europe to provide IPPS-A training to the 405th AFSB.
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KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany \u2013 At the request of the 405th Army Field Support Brigade, two subject matter experts on the new Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army from U.S. Army Sustainment Command at Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, traveled to Europe and provided IPPS-A training to the brigade, Jan. 29 to Feb. 2.<\/p>\n

Representatives from the 405th AFSB\u2019s four battalions from the Netherlands, Italy and two locations in Germany \u2013 as well as the brigade headquarters in Kaiserslautern \u2013 took part in the IPPS-A training presented by representatives from ASC\u2019s directorate of personnel and administration (G-1).<\/p>\n

According to the official IPPS-A website at https:\/\/ipps-a.army.mil, IPPS-A provides essential capabilities to the Army in total force visibility, talent management and auditability. The Army\u2019s legacy human resources systems and databases were stove piped and mostly did not talk to each other. IPPS-A modernizes Army HR by managing talent, reducing information technology and military pay costs, and improving Soldiers\u2019 lives through transparency and mobile capabilities.<\/p>\n

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Katrina Watkins is the senior HR technician at ASC G-1. She traveled to Germany with Master Sgt. Timothy Fisher to present the training to the 405th AFSB. Watkins said having this face-to-face, hands-on interaction with the 405th AFSB and its battalions during the week-long training helps bring continuity from the headquarters at ASC down to the HR teams on the ground here in Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe us being here is extremely important. We\u2019re here showing them that we are in this together, we\u2019re a team, and we can build our base of knowledge on IPPS-A and be better together,\u201d said Watkins.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m grateful to be here,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m glad the 405th asked us to come here. This is a great opportunity to meet the brigade and battalion HR specialists face-to-face because a lot of our interactions previously have been on MS Teams or over phone calls. Now that we are here in person, by being here they can ask us all the questions they need, and the communication and comradery have been awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Watkins said the transparency IPPS-A offers to everyone is one of its greatest attributes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny action that\u2019s happening \u2013 from leaving the Soldier\u2019s hands and going up the chain of command to HRC to get approved \u2013 it\u2019s all being tracked,\u201d said Watkins. \u201cBack in the day, sometimes an award would get left in a Soldier\u2019s desk or lost. Or a pay action would get lost in the system, or somebody forgot to process it and send it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

With IPPS-A, everything is tracked, Watkins said. Everything is accounted for, and there\u2019s visibility for the Soldiers to see where their awards are or where their actions are going. Commanders can now approve an award or action on the spot, and when it\u2019s approved the award or action goes straight to the Soldier\u2019s Interactive Personnel Electronic Records Management System, or iPERMS.<\/p>\n

\u201cIPPS-A is efficient, it\u2019s transparent, and it provides visibility to everybody,\u201d Watkins added.<\/p>\n

IPPS-A is an online HR system that provides integrated personnel, pay, talent and data capabilities in a single system. The system gives Soldiers the ability to view, track and initiate HR transactions, and it supports readiness and talent management. IPPS-A improves records accuracy and auditability, and Soldiers have 24\/7 access via a website or mobile app.<\/p>\n

The 405th AFSB is assigned to ASC and under the operational control of the 21st Theater Sustainment Command, U.S. Army Europe and Africa. The brigade is headquartered in Kaiserslautern, Germany, and provides materiel enterprise support to U.S. Forces throughout Europe and Africa \u2013 providing theater sustainment logistics; synchronizing acquisition, logistics and technology; and leveraging U.S. Army Materiel Command\u2019s materiel enterprise to support joint forces. For more information on the 405th AFSB, visit the official website<\/a> and the official Facebook site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The sergeant major of Army Field Support Battalion-Germany, Sgt. Maj. Randy Leyba, directs a question about the Army\u2019s new online human resources system to Master Sgt. Timothy Fisher from U.S. Army Sustainment Command during Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army training at the 405th Army Field Support Brigade Jan. 30. Fisher and Chief Warrant Officer 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103812,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103815,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103810\/revisions\/103815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}