Air Force personnel officials are encouraging Active Duty airmen who are eligible to re-enlist, extend their current enlistment, retire, or separate in March to complete these actions by Feb. 15 to avoid processing delays and military pay issues. That’s because the Air Force is upgrading and transferring MilPDS, the Military Personnel Data System, to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Defense Enterprise Computing Center in March. This upgrade is scheduled to take about 23 days to complete, during which time MilPDS will not be available to airmen, states a Jan. 15 Air Force Personnel Center release. “Airmen who accomplish their re-enlistment or enlistment extension by Feb. 15 should not experience interruptions in their pay because their servicing [military personnel sections] can process all appropriate transactions prior to the MilPDS upgrade,” said Michael McLaughlin, AFPC’s re-enlistments branch chief. (Randolph report by TSgt. Steve Grever) (See also Jan. 14 Randolph report by Grever.)
Members of the House Armed Services Committee say the AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile program has been set back three months due to the ongoing government shutdown. The comment is noteworthy because the JATM's status has been kept tightly under wraps.
