Archive | August, 2011

“What’s New” is What’s New on the SDDC Website

Late last week, the What’s New section on the new SDDC Personal Property website suddenly became populated with new links. Unlike the previous version of the website, where the “What’s New” section had its own separate web page, on the new website it is a section on the Personal Property home page. Since the new website was launched a couple of months ago, the What’s New section has been completely empty until last week.
Confusingly, it appears that the What’s

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JPMO-HHGs Report Introduces New DPS Program Director

The July Monthly Activity Report… from JPMO-HHGs begins with an introduction by Col. Mark Hiryak, the new Program Director for the DPS project. Col. Miller retired prior to peak season, and there had been a temporary PMO in place until recently, when Col. Hiryak took over.
According to the report, system availabilty for DPS in July was 94.5%, which is well below their stated goal of 98%. However, it appears that most of the downtime was due to a problem

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Daycos August 2011 Newsletter

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

  • Why is it so Hard to Build DPS?
  • Daycos Family Picnic 2011
  • Daycos Post-Audit Service an Easy Choice
  • JUST4JO Gets an Early Start for 2012

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.

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“Hotwash” Currently Reviewing Peak Season

Today is second day of the Peak Season “Hotwash”, a meeting between various stakeholders to review the past peak season and suggest changes for the 2012 peak season. A similar meeting was held last year after the challenging 2010 peak season, and apparently proved useful enough to be held again this year. (Although they did change the name of the meeting, since the “After Action Review” they used last year apparently didn’t have enough pizzazz.) Service representatives, PPSOs, Industry Association

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Electronic Billing Implementation for NTS Delayed

Phase I of the new NTS Electronic invoicing process  was scheduled to begin on August 15th. However, we have been advised by US Bank that the new launch date has now been delayed until October 5, 2011. This date will include all NTS providers in Phase I, which includes those who service JPPSO-COS, as well as any Coast Guard locations.
Along with the implementation date being delayed, NTS providers have also been given another opportunity to increase their rates prior…

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Fuel Surcharge for Period 8/15/11 to 9/14/11

The price of fuel was $3.94 per gallon as reported on Monday, August 1, 2011 making the upcoming FSC rates for the period 8/15/11 through 9/14/11 as follows:
GBL Domestic HHG / International HHG & UB – 15%
GSA Domestic HHG – $1.43
GSA International HHG and BAG – $1.43

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