Daycos News

Daycos will be closed on Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day. We will resume our normal business hours on Tuesday, May 27th.

The Daycos family would like to extend a big congratulations to Tami and Jesse Pick as they announce the arrival of their daughter, Madison Jo Pick into this world. Madison was born on Wednesday, May 21st here in Norfolk. She was a healthy 9 lbs, 2 oz. and was 22 inches long.
Tami is the Director of Human Resources here at the office. She and her husband Jesse eagerly welcome Madison into their home.
Congratulations!

The price of fuel was $4.149 per gallon as reported on Monday, May 5, 2008 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 5/15/08 thru 6/14/08 as follows:

GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 17%
GSA Domestic HHG – $2.20
GSA International HHG and BAG – $2.20…

Earlier this week we received notice that the DD Forms 619 and 619-1 have been revised with the following changes as indicated in the notice:

new form expiration date (May 31, 2011),
added privacy act information,
and previous editions may be used.
Please note that the OMB approval number and expiration date are displayed in the upper right corner of the form as required by Public Law 104-13, Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, and 5 CFR 1320, Controlling Paperwork Burdens …

Update: Here is a link to the front page of the Norfolk Daily News highlighting Sue’s victory. The continuation of the front page article can be viewed here.
Update 2: As promised, here are some photos from the victory party.
Sue gives her victory speech.
Supporters gather at Sue’s victory/birthday party
Sue speaks with supporters.
Sue celebrates with friends and family.…
Yesterday, Sue Fuchtman won an impressive victory in the primary election for Mayor of Norfolk. In the nonpartisan

The HHGFAA announced that the GAO protest of Families First Phase II has been settled. In return for withdrawing the protest, they received the opportunity for TSPs to adjust their rates prior to the full implementation of Phase II of DPS.
See text below for the full announcement by HHGFAA:

HHGFAA Families First GAO Protest Compromise Reached
Attached (see link below) is a copy of the “negotiated settlement” which details the terms under which Alan Wohlstetter, representing a number of …

Our billing program and AccuBill have recently been updated with the DS08 changes found in the D-14 Solicitation that went into effect for Domestic shipments with pickup dates of 05/01/08 and after.
The changes are as follows:

DOMESTIC – New Tariff Updates (D14)
All LHS Percentages are entered into Accubill for Domestic for effective date of 05-01-2008.
Other tariff updates include:
A. Incorporated the following Air Force Regionalization consolidations:

1. North Carolina – Transferred responsibility of BMFL to AGFM(JPPSO NE –

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During the SDDC Symposium last week in Orlando, Lt. Col. Carberry gave some updated information concerning the implementation schedule for DPS. They are continuing with the phased in module-by-module approach, but the delay for the recent GAO ruling has pushed their timeline back a little bit. Here are the relevant dates Lt. Col. Carberry briefed during his DPS update:

• June 9th-13th: All modules available for the Services to perform end to end testing.
• July 7th: JPMO-HHGS will hold a DPS

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When logging into CWA today, we received notice of the following scheduled downtime:

ATTENTION CWA Users:
CWA will be unavailable on Saturday, 3 May 2008 from 6:00AM EST until 11:00AM EST, due to scheduled system maintenance.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. …