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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

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

This morning, SDDC sent out a notice to TSPs… concerning some DPS rating issues. It specifically addressed known rating problems with LHS, 105J (400NG – Storage Inspection Fee), 105A (400NG – Full Pack/Unpack), and 513A (IT – Fuel Surcharge).
We have been working with SDDC and JPMO-HHGS on rating problems with all of these items, many of which are caused by DPS pulling 2010 rates, instead of 2011 rates. However, they didn’t give any details about the problems they were

In wrapping up our recent series on DPS System Problems (see full list of articles here), we mentioned that DPS performance had been improving. The May DP3/DPS Monthly Activity Report…, recently released by JPMO-HHGS, details some of the efforts that were made during the previous month to improve the DPS system performance.
The report notes the problems with the system during the month of May. DPS  up-time was 95% for the month, below their stated goal of 98%.  

Note: This is the last in a series of posts looking at the concern over the DPS system performance during peak season.…
Over the past couple of weeks, we have looked at various aspects of the DPS computer system, and the concerns over its performance and stability. Ironically, as the series was published, it seems that the reliability of DPS has improved, most likely due to some of the short-term solutions that have been implemented to get through the peak

Note: This is the sixth in a series of posts looking at the concern over the DPS system performance during peak season.…
Recently we posted about the newly imposed click count limitations in relation to their effect on web bots. However, it is important to remember that these click count limitations do not only apply to web bots, they are on all user accounts. That means the limit of 200 clicks per hour per user also applies to human users.

Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts looking at the concern over the DPS system performance during peak season.…
As the DPS system has struggled to stay online, there have probably been a lot of efforts behind the scenes to diagnose the source of the problems. While there are undoubtedly many reasons a computer system has technical issues, it appears that some on the government side have pointed a finger of blame at web bots, which automate

Late last Friday, SDDC issued the below message, that in their words was intended to clarify what they now consider a shipment refusal and what is considered a turnback. In their intent to clarify the difference between a refusal and a turnback, they have changed policy that was tweaked last month… to allow a limited number of shipment refusals or turnbacks by a TSP per GBLOC for the time period of May 15 – July 31.
Based on this message,

Note: This is the fourth in a series of posts looking at the concern over the DPS system performance during peak season.…
Nearly five years ago, I had my first opportunity to see a demonstration of the new DPS computer system. About 15 industry representatives gathered at SRA’s headquarters in Northern Virginia and got our first glimpse of the system that would become the focal point of this industry. At the conclusion of the demonstration, the attendees were given the