Military Update: DIMHRS program dumped as ‘a disaster’.
Let me try and brief on this since most (read: all) of you probably have no idea WTF the DIMHRS (read as "Dime-ers"), or Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System, is all about...or aboot.
In a nutshell, it's the Duke Nukem Forever equivlent in the military: held up on a fucking pedestal and with nothing in terms of real material to show.
Each military branch uses it's own goddamn HR and Payroll system (with a total of 90 individual subsystems according to the article). On top of that, each branch's goddamn active duty, reserves and national guards are treated differently in said systems which caused huge headaches for non-active service members who were activated when Bush went 'shock-n-awe' all up on that Iraqi ass. Bam. Said the 1st Lady.
Well, flash back to 12 years and 1$ Billions (raw value, never mind the actual resource value wasted in man hours and such) ago when a system was thought up to address these fucking horrible issues.
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I've been hearing about DIMHRS since I enlisted; way back in Dec 05. Hell, the Army was suppose to start using it in April 06. It would have pretty much rendered the majority of the Finance Branch of the Army useless after a few years. I continued to hear about it when I go to my first unit (a finance unit) in 2007. Pretty much every 6 months there would be some kind of "COMING SOON!" update on DIMHRS. It wasn't until last spring (2009) that they finally said "DIMHRS release date delayed Indef.!". Now this past week they finally grow some fucking balls and stop wasting American fucking tax payer's money in one of the largest gaggle-fucks I've ever seen.
Let me try to break down how much this $1 Billion REALLY cost the American people:
At its "peak" the system had 600 military, civilians and private contractors working on it. I know for a fact that contracts don't get paid out in cheap when it comes to the gov't. Just research military contracts (not just on merchs) being paid out in our current warzones. 600 military and DOD civilians removed from other workforces. Potentially some of them needed to be relocated to where ever the DIMHRS development HQ was stationed at (the military pays for your moves).
Since relocation funds and the like would come out of a specific accounting pool, those payouts wouldn't be totalled in the above bullshit estimate. The same applies to the actual paychecks those 600 military and civilians would have been recieving. Can't say the same for the private contractors as their contract payments should have actually came out of the DIMHRS alloted pay pool. Keywords: should have.
That 600 number also is explicitly said "at its [DIMHRS] peek". Meaning that number doesn't reflect every single person whom was ever on these wise cracking team to develop this now non-existant system. It could easily be double that (1200 people) over the course of these past 12 years.
They also sent high ranking officiers (with "assistants") out around the world to visit military community's HR and finance teams and explain how this system would be replacing the old HR and Payroll systems (I had to sit in on this crap due to my unit being finance support). Whenever the military forces you to temp. leave your normal duty station they pay you something called TDY. I've banked in over 4,000$ from this kind of pay alone (never mind my base pay and entitlements) in one instance (would have been doubled that but I was sent back half way thru the mission I was supporting). I can only imagine how much total this would have came out to be for all these people they sent out to "brief" the dozens of military communities around the fucking world.
Anyway, that's my rant on this billion+ $$$ wasted from yours and my tax money. Hopefully some of you that cared where your money goes got something informing out of this. If you have any questions or need something cleared up, post away.
I enjoyed the last part of the article:
Burris had pressed Mullen to explain why the Office of Personnel Management can operate one pay and personnel system for all federal civilians yet DOD can’t do that for its military population.
Originally Posted by Ganon
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