DoD and the military services are getting rid of outdated personnel systems, business practices and personnel structures, but creating a new system will take time.
The jettisoned practices will make room for simple, accurate, accessible, timely and relevant Web-based systems for service members and their leaders. When the DoD fields the congressionally mandated Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System, or DIMHRS, sweeping changes will occur in the way personnel and pay are handled.
DoD is establishing one personnel and pay system for use by all the services. The project is a transformation effort; that is, one intended to provide the U.S. military with new defenses, new methods, new equipment and a different way of thinking.
As it stands today, the military…
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