Assignments
Member's who have been placed on a permanent assignment must complete this before the assignment can be submitted for approval.
What is the Member's Elections Activity Guide?
Previously called a Leave or Pass, these process digitally in IPPS-A with approval and adjudication of the leave fully automated to send the appropriate FID or TIN to DFAS to decrement the leave balances.
What is an Absence Request?
Award recommenders use this IPPS-A tool to initiate military awards and decorations.
What is the Award Recommendation PAR?
Member's enter their Knowledge, Skills and Behaviors (KSBs) and are viewable in the TAM Soldier Workcenter here.
What is My Profile?
This is used to move a deceased Member's dependents and household goods.
What is a BlueBark assignment?
A period of time when a Member experiences exclusion from involuntary deployments (for example, Operation Enduring Freedom) until the exhaustion of their unused individual time.
What is Dwell?
This type of PAID request can include such types as Diving Duty, Chemical Munition, Demotion, Flight Deck, or Fly Crew, just to name a few.
What is Incentive Pay?
This IPPS-A tool is used to determine a Member's eligibility for the Army Good Conduct Medal, Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, or the Armed Forces Reserve Medal.
What is the Awards Eligibility Roster?
This is a summary of the Member's Person Profile and assignment information and is accessible from the TAM Soldier Workcenter.
What is the Solder Talent Profile (STP).
This is a list of users who may be tasked to work a step in the approval process.
What is a User-Defined List (UDL)?
This tool allows HR Professionals to view current assignments and assignments undergoing the creation and approval process.
What is the Assignment Dashboard?
Members or HR Professional on their behalf choose to OPT-IN or OPT-OUT of this benefit.
What is the MGIB Election?
Member's use this to view their awards orders.
What is the My Orders tile?
This page allows a Member to view Physical Exams, Deployment Readiness, Medical Boards, Wounded Information and Hospitalization.
What is Physical Profile?
For S1 Pools with these, an additional selection must be made to the appropriate one or Member.
What is an Upper Echelon Group?
HR Professionals can use this to divert Members from one approved position to another before they are departed from their current assignment.
What is the Unit Slotting Tool?
This is used to deduct the cost of meals for Member on separate rations in a field exercise.
What is a Field Duty Request?
This PAR is used to request a change in a Member's ASI/SQI/PDSI or MOS.
What is Qualifications and Skills PAR?
Member's use this to submit their buddies for awards in IPPS-A.
What is the My Buddy PAR?
This is a restriction placed on a Member's record using a PAR for such reasons as Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Commander's Investigation, Army Physical Fitness Test Failure, No Family Care Plan, etc.
What is a Suspension of Favorable Personnel Action (SFPA) Flag?
This configuration is known as the Flexible, Automated, Battle-Ready Five.
What is the FAB5?
Member's can use this to offset the cost of moving into a dwelling, reimburse rent related expenses (deposits, etc.) or costs related to ensuring the Member's dwelling is safe.
What is a Move-In Housing Allowance (MIHA) Request?
This type of PAR is non-transactional and has many uses, for example, for IST, Other, Sensitive Action, etc.
What is an Admin Records Corrections PAR?
IPPS-A provides the capability for Members to view and maintain this record of emergency data.
What is a DD Form 93?
Data captured in these serve the key function of matching people skills to the Army needs. IPPS-A grants the ability to view these created by external systems, as well as the ability to edit and add them.
What are contracts?