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At the risk of declaring success too soon, it appears that the DPS release  installed over the weekend caused very few technical problems, and certainly none of the major issues that were feared…. Despite the size of the update to DPS version 1.4.07, and the number of changes and fixes contained in the release, there have been no significant issues with system stability or availability, or with functionality not working as designed. The entire JPMO-HHGs team deserves congratulations and

JPMO-HHGS has just posted version 25 of the DPS Smart Book on their Move.mil website. (You can download the pdf by clicking here…). The main change to this Smart Book is the comprehensive review of changes contained in DPS version 1.4.07, which is scheduled to be released into DPS production tomorrow.
In addition to listing all of the contained changes and fixes, the Smart Book also includes extensive screen shots of the changes, allowing TSPs to preview what the

…During early summer, when DPS was struggling to stay online, the decision was made to “lock-down” the DPS system for the rest of the summer peak season. This meant that the only changes, or updates to the DPS system would be to fix critical errors. All improvements, new features, and non-critical fixes were put on hold until peak season ended.
The system lock-down certainly helped with the stability of DPS, but we have reached the end of peak season, and

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

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

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

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 first in a series of posts looking at the concern over the DPS system performance during peak season.…
One week into this years peak season, there are still a lot of reasons for all participants in the DP3 program to be nervous about this summer. However, it seems like there is one overriding issues that is most concerning to industry and government, and that is the reliability and stability of the DPS computer system.
This is