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In December, the Air Force Personnel Center will execute a long-overdue and much-needed upgrade to the Military Personnel Data System. The upgrade will take approximately 23 days (probably our worst case scenario presently) during which time MilPDS will not be available. AFPC has a team of A1 and FM experts developing contingency plans to minimize impact on promotions, PCS, pay, etc., and develop work-arounds for critical transactions that must take place.
The Military Personnel Flight will be hosting informational seminars at the Hercules Theater on the following dates:
2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 17 and 19
9 to 11 a.m. Oct. 25
8 to 10 a.m. Oct. 30.
There will also be a finance expert on hand to answer pay questions as well.
While there are many personnel actions, not all will be affected. For the purposes of this shutdown, they can roughly be broken up in the following ways:
1. Self Initiated Actions — as summarized in the chart below, affected individuals need to take these actions by the suspense dates listed. Re-enlisting during December is covered here as well. MPF has been working with those folks who need to establish their extension/re-enlistment during December.
2. MPF/AFPC Actions
» PCS Orders — these will not be cut during this time period. Therefore, we have doubled our efforts in the MPF to get ahead of the December DEROSs. A critical piece of this is that Airmen are turning in their documents on time. Short notice assignments (like humanitarians or Exceptional Family Member Programs) that come up in late November or December will not be able to move in December until MilPDS is back online.
» Retirement/Separations — if a member wants to apply for retirement or separation during the month of December, they won’t be able to. Dec. 1 retirement dates and separations will be unaffected since they will have orders before December. Those wanting a Jan. 1 retirement/separation should
have orders from AFPC well before December as well.
» Promotions/Demotions — for E2-E4/O2-O3 promotions in December and dates of rank will not update until after Dec. 23, so back pay will be retroactive as applicable. NCOs and officers (major and up) promoting on Dec. 1 will be taken care of by AFPC in November and pay will be unaffected. Demotion actions in December will have money withdrawn from pay checks retroactively to the date of the demotion in December.
» Gains/Accessions — anyone arriving Dec. 1 to 23 will still attend the RIP line as scheduled, however getting them to file will not be possible until after Dec. 23. Per comptroller squadron, travel vouchers will be unaffected.
3. Unaffected Processes include:
» Leave transactions (except any corresponding duty status updates will not be made in MilPDS)
» Evaluation and decorations (except RIPS/DECOR-6s ordered at the end of November through Dec. 23 will not be processed)
» ID cards will be unaffected. However, dependent changes (marriage, divorce, birth, death) in MilPDS will not be visible until after the system comes back online.
» Promotion boards during that time are unaffected, but it is absolutely critical that all evals and decs closing out and that can still meet the cutoff date for an individual’s board be signed and on record in November.
All personnel data within the military Human Resources system will be static from the day prior to the update until completion. AFPC will provide periodic updates as we complete the dress rehearsal and testing process and prepare to execute the upgrade.
If you have any questions about retention, promotion, separations, PCS or other personnel related issues, call Maj. Adam Avnet or Senior Master Sgt. Petra Sheppard at 480-5746 for assistance.
(Courtesy of the 786th Force Support Squadron)
