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Recently, a colleague sent me a link to an article titled US Army spent $2.7 billion on a battlefield computer that doesn’t work…, with a note that said “it’s not just DPS, and at least we are in good company.” The article detailed the struggles of a battlefield Army intelligence system, and contained the comment that “military spending nearly always turns into case of throwing good money after bad.”
Of course compared to multi-billion dollar battlefield computer system that

In addition to the DPS computer system, the Federal IT Dashboard contains spending information on many government computer systems. One that is well know in this industry is the TOPS computer system. TOPS is of course the legacy system that is currently being replaced by the DPS system.
The first time… we looked at the Federal IT Dashboard infomation back in 2009, TOPS was scheduled to be shut down by now. At that time, the budgeted amount for TOPS in

The Daycos July Monthly Newsletter has been sent out, and can be viewed here.  A few of the topics in this month’s newsletter include:

• DOD Continues to Increase Investment in DPS
• Daycos Offers Image Billing
• Registrations Made ‘Easy’
• Tailgate Party!

If you did not receive an email with this month’s newsletter, but would like to receive it directly each month, please feel free to subscribe here: Daycos Newsletter….

TSPs recently received notification that as commercial users within ETA (Electronic Transportation Acquistion), they must validate all ETA login ID’s associated with their SCAC annually, in order for those logins to remain active. The notification was sent via email to the CEO or Trusted Agent (TA) for each TSP.
Attached to the notification was a letter that provided a list of ETA login ID’s (including the users name, email, organization, and user role) that the TSP is responsible for validating.…

For the past two years, we have tracked the amount of money the Department of Defense is spending on the Defense Personal Property System (DPS). After some delay due to the budget impasse in Congress, the new budget numbers for DPS have been released on the Federal IT Dashboard…. It shows that the DOD is continuing to increase its annual investment in the DPS computer system.
The budgeted amount for DPS spending in FY 2012 is listed as

In the most recent News “U” Can Use… newsletter, SDDC gave further guidance about the click count limitation on the short fuse page. The article clarified the 50 hits per TSP per hour limitation by defining what constitutes a “hit” on the short fuse page.
According to the newsletter, a short fuse hit consists only of going to the short fuse front page. Any other clicks on that page, for example to accept a short fuse shipment, will not count

We received notification from US Bank this morning that the software fix for the audit exception problem… was successfully installed last night. It appears to have rectified the problem of invoices being held in audit exception status when DPS rated the invoices higher than the TSP invoice amount. This morning, we are seeing the number of invoices in audit exception rapidly decline.
This was welcome news, since we had reached over one million dollars of invoices affected by this problem.

Last week, we noted the update that SDDC had published…, covering a few different problems in DPS invoicing. The problem that caused the most concern was an Audit Exception error in the US Bank Payment system. Unfortunately, that problem has still not been repaired, and the number of invoices affected is starting to climb.
A change occurred in early June to the way the US Bank system handles the situation when a TSP invoices less than the amount that

The price of fuel was $3.85 per gallon as reported on Monday, July 4, 2011 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 7/15/11 through 8/14/11 as follows:
GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 14%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.35
GSA International HHG and BAG – $1.35…

If you are returning from a long holiday weekend, and fire up your browser to head to to the SDDC Biz website, you will be greeted with the a message announcing that SDDC has again moved their personal property website. As they announced earlier in June, the sddcbiz.sddc.army.mil website has been relocated back to the regular sddc.army.mil site.
In March, SDDC redesigned their home page…. It was during that time that all of the Personal Property information moved to