Problem: Personnel and Equipment safety is at risk with current process.  Multiple NMC conditions often exist simultaneously against a single asset.  By restricting the NMC to one Work Order at a time there remains potential for users to clear the original NMC condition and not notice another work order with an NMC condition but not designated as NMC.  They would report a false FMC, thus allowing an asset to be used while a potential safety condition still exists.
Additionally, NMC Work Orders must currently be completed (Closed) to resolve NMC status.  Only one sub work order may be driving the NMC status while other sub work orders, under the same work order, remain open.  When the Sub Work Order is complete and the NMC condition is corrected, the NMC flag needs to be removed from the main Work Order, while keeping the overall Work Order open.  AF policy requires validation by a certified supervisor that all NMC conditions have been resolved for a particular work order before the NMC status can be removed.  Currently we add a sub-work order to accommodate this. Adding this capability to the work order itself will save time and allow more efficient and trackable documentation of this validation.

 

NMC Changes

 

TO 00-20-1, Air Force Instruction 21-103, 21-101

 

This process improvement will vastly reduce the current safety issues associated with human error and incidental oversight. Also, the added ability to flag more than one Work Order at a time as NMC will give a true holistic view of the status of support equipment across the enterprise with the added bonus of anchoring metrics in real time facts.

Frequency: Daily

 

Description:

Under the Asset Transfer menu for Custodian number, which is example of the data field elements, that are not easily visible when viewing the data on scree from drop-down menu.  It is very difficult to search for the correct data on the drop-down field when conducting a search. Add Magnifying Glass feature would make it easier for the user to search  and select. the correct data from the drop-down. without increasing the screen magnification to 400%  to view data element from drop-down.

 

Recommended:

See attachment. Is it possible to Add Magnifying Glass in the box highlighted in red on the attachment for asset transfer or All drop-down menus?  This would make it easier for the user to search on drop-down data elements.

 

 

Mission Critical:

Improve system data viewing by user.

 

Benefits:

 

Frequency: Daily

 

Users:

1) Lack of a signature line for the "Issued By" individual on the DW Form 4U.

Add a signature line for the "Issued By' individual, similarly how it is provided on the DW Form 4US.

Mission Critical. This creates a possible accountability problem if the 'Issued By" user is not documented on the paperwork.

 

Improves Accountability

2. Immediately following section III, add "Section IV. Supervisory Review" section with 3 rows and 6 columns for users to write their Employee No./UserID and date.

2. The wrap text will allow larger font, making it easier to read in often less-than-optimal conditions.

DPAS has no automated mechanism to log executions of SQL scripts for release deployments and ad-hoc data changes.  This information could roughly be formulated afterwards, but it would be manual and can be error-prone.

 

Implement enhancements to the system and database deployment procedures that will automatically log release and ad-hoc data change SQL script executions in a new set of database tables.

 

Provides an improved audit trail via the automation and provides additional compliance checks for the SSAE 18.

 

This capability would be very beneficial to support SSAE audit requirements, as well as provide valuable debugging information to the Leidos team for issue analysis and troubleshooting.

 

Frequency: Daily

 

Problem: Customers do not have the capability use M&U maintenance processes unless and asset is in the PA catalog/property book.  However, we also document periodic inspections and maintenance on non-accountable (primarily ERRC XB/XF) assets, many of which are safety critical or require periodic inspections to monitor serviceability.  Lack of capability to use M&U for these assets is driving the use of multiple other systems across the AF, in some cases this is the only reason the other system is being sustained for use.  We have functional communities desiring to use DPAS M&U, but are resistant without the ability to enter non-accountable assets.

 

Create a separate stand-alone M&U Catalog for the non-accountable assets. Assets will be visible only to the Maintenance Activity that created the record and no linkage with any other catalog is desired.  All identifying information will be entered manually by the user inputting the asset.  Asset ID assignment must be unique, recommend Asset ID prefix of "MUCAT".  Customers will need the ability to add/delete assets without affecting the other catalog(s).  

 

Department of the Air Force Instruction 21-101, Maintenance Management

 

The ability to track maintenance on non-accountable assets being used for maintenance of weapons and weapon system will increase accuracy and contribute to elimination of multiple systems presently used for this purpose.  It will also help capture an accurate picture of what is being used or consumed in maintaining AvSE.

 

Frequency: Daily