Army planning to be first service to use integrated pay plan

[unhappycamper]

Army planning to be first service to use integrated pay plan
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Friday, December 14, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Army is planning to launch an online pay and personnel system in October that will bring all three components into a single database.

The Army Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System, or DIMHRS, represents the Army’s first efforts to pull the reserves and active Army under one pay system, the program’s director, Army Col. Patrick Devine, told Stripes on Tuesday.

The system, the result of a Defense Department mandate to streamline all the service’s record-keeping capabilities, is also the first time the Army has merged payroll and personnel data, Devine said.

Once DIMHRS (pronounced “dimers”) goes online Oct. 1, 2008, personnel actions will automatically trigger associated pay events, starting the cash flowing to the soldier’s paycheck without delay, Devine said.

For example, when a soldier is mobilized to deploy to a designated combat zone, DIMHRS will automatically update the payroll section of the soldier’s records, so he starts receiving entitlements such as Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=50957



uhc comment: I wonder how long it will take for the notice to be sent to the troops that "a hacker gained access to DIMHRS . . ."

[MADem]

1. Geez, let THEM be the first to work out the bugs in the system!!! NT

[BOSSHOG]

2. The Navy has been working on DIMERS

for almost ten years. The computer geeks have their secret laboratory hidden near Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans.

[postulater]

3. The military should pay troops equal to Blackwater salaries

Why discriminate just because one is employed by a profit making war profiteer? Pay them all the same.