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As mentioned in this earlier article…, SAT testing has discovered a number of serious problems with the DPS system that will make it very difficult if the system is fielded in its current state. During the onsite portion of the testing, the question of whether DPS will still be launched in May was a very popular topic among the testers. Any conversation with two or more testers invariably led to this question. Everyone had an opinion, but unfortunately, opinions

The three week on-site portion of SAT testing for the DPS system concluded Friday. The final week of the onsite portion was a good news/bad news experience. The good news is that the system performance remained good for the entire week, with only a few brief exceptions. Also, the creation of the testing teams, consisting of PPSOs and TSPs allowed for a much more robust testing environment.
The bad news of the week was that once the system was able…

Listed in the “What’s New” section of SDDC’s website today was an abundance of information and guidance on ETA registeration for accessing DPS. The following excerpt was taken from one of the five posts on their website regarding this topic:

“All participants in Families First will need an Electronic Transportation Acquisition (ETA) login and password for DPS. In accordance with SDDCs current timeline, Early Operation Capability (EOC) participants should register in ETA as soon as possible after 29 January 2007. …

SDDC recently released Info-Gram # 11 to briefly outline how shipment planning, distribution, and management will be performed in Families First (FF) and how this affects Personal Property Shipping Offices (PPSO) and Transportation Service Providers (TSP).
The article highlights how the Defense Personal Property System (DPS) will distribute shipments and how the goal of DPS is to automate, streamline, and coordinate virtually every aspect of handling personal property shipments. To read the article in its entirety click here….

In the SDDC Info-Gram below, helpful steps are provided to get TSPs started on the implementation of DPS.

Special Info-Gram: Planning for Families First Phase II and the Defense Personal Property System (DPS) implementation for Transportation Service Providers
The purpose of this Info-Gram is to highlight some of the steps TSPs should take in preparation for the rollout of DPS. This Info-Gram is not all-inclusive of the requirements to qualify to participate in the program. More detailed requirements may be …

Earlier today we received an email from Larry Briggs of SDDC containing the following:

All,
This email is being sent to notify all users that the scheduled CWA maintenance for Wednesday January 24, 2007 from 1500 to 1700 Eastern has been postponed to a new date and time to be determined.
CWA PMO…

As your billing service our goal is to submit an invoice in your TSP name, with 100% accuracy allowing payment to be made to you timely. However, whether through human error at Daycos or setup of original GBL information done in error, not every invoice gets paid in 30 days. We would like to offer suggestions as to procedures for you to follow allowing resolution to those invoices past due.
Currently we are invoicing to several different financial branches for…

Earlier today we received an email from Larry Briggs of SDDC containing the following:

All,
This email is being sent to notify all users that on Wednesday January 24,
2007 from 1500 to 1700 CWA will be down for maintenance.
CWA PMO…

As we near the end of week 2 of Systems Acceptance Testing (SAT) for the DPS system, there is a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Thursday proved to be a very interesting day in the SAT process.
The morning started off poorly. The DPS system had been running extremely slowly during the entire testing process, but this morning it was the first time it went completely dead for an extended period of time. Apparently there was…

PowerTrack will be unavailable due to system maintenance from 8:00pm CT until 12:00am CT on Friday, January 19 (2:00am GMT until 6:00am GMT on Saturday, January 20).…