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Civilian and military personnel from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. conducted counterterrorism drills as part of Eagle Resolve 2017 near Kuwait International Airport, March 28, 2017. Urban warfare specialist More

Civilian and military personnel from Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. conducted counterterrorism drills as part of Eagle Resolve 2017 near Kuwait International Airport, March 28, 2017. Urban warfare spe More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Lindsey Gulliver (left), a broadcast journalist journeyman with the 99th Air Base Wing Public Affairs out of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, gets up close with the action and her vid More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Courtesy photo of the Carlson Federal Building in Topeka, Kan.

Tech Sgt. Kevin Vaughn, 169th Communications Flight, South Carolina Air National Guard, and Staff Sgt. Jose Sanchez, 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, synchronize communications systems whil More

Red Cross volunteers are supporting Air and Army National guard troops and civilians as part of #VigilantGuardSC March 4-12, 2015, in Georgetown, S.C. Vigilant Guard is a series of federally funded disaster-res More

Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, commanding general of the Virginia National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division and exercise director of Saber Strike 16, meets with Ambassador James D. Melville Jr., U.S. Ambassador to E More

Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, commanding general of the Virginia National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division, and Saber Strike exercise director, congratulates German soldiers after a successful demonstration of comb More

Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, 29th Infantry Division commanding general and exercise director, meets Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds Bergmanis, Brig. Gen. John D. Slocum, commander, 127th Wing, Michigan Air Nat More

Soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division conducted a 12-mile ruck march to qualify for Air Assault School at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait on February 11, 2017. Chief Warrant Officer 2 Felton Screen hands a card to his gr More

An explosive ordnance disposal specialist with the Kuwait Ministry of the Interior demonstrates a remote controlled robotic device for handling suspicious devices to soldiers from Saudi Arabia and Qatar as part More

Explosive ordnance disposal specialists, civilians and military engineers from the U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council nations train on explosive ordnance disposal as part of a joint interoperability exercise for More

Pfc. Dalton Moore, an M1 armor crewman with 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, currently deployed to Kuwait in support of exercise Eagle Resolve 2017, is training alongside GCC nation soldie More

Ministry of Interior officer Raed Abdullah Al Saleem (second from right) instructs three U.S. Soldiers, 1st Lt. Matt Stone (left), Staff Sgt. Melanie French (right) and Sgt. Janelle Hernandez (center), all with More

U.S. Air Force officer 2nd Lt. Kaitlyn Toner (left), a public affairs officer with 23rd Wing Public Affairs out of Moody Air Force Base and U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class David Giorda, mass communications sp More

29 ID Soldiers trained with DroneDefender, a point-and-shoot, electromagnetic, rifle-shaped weapon that disrupts communications between a remote-controlled drone and its operator. While the U.S. military works More

U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council forces conduct the culminating field-training event of exercise Eagle Resolve 2017, April 6, in Kuwait’s Shuwaikh Port. Eagle Resolve is the premier multi-national exercise in More

Sgt. Nathaniel Gillens, an Information Technology Specialist with the 390th Signal Battalion, 160th Signal Brigade, shows off a $100 bill as an example of one the financial benefits of deployed life such as the More

Brig. Gen. John M. Epperly, 29th Infantry Division Deputy Commander, visited with Operation Spartan Shield troopers of 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Apr. 17. More

U.S. Soldiers competed to earn the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge in a series of timed events at Camp Arifjan and Camp Buehring, Kuwait, April 28-30, 2017. Events included: swimming in uniform, treading More

Task Force Spartan Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John M. Epperly of the 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, visited U.S. Army Soldiers at Al Asad Airbase near Ramadi, Iraq, May 01, 2017 More

Task Force Spartan Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John M. Epperly of the 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, visited U.S. Army Soldiers at Al Asad Airbase near Ramadi, Iraq, May 01, 2017 More

Soldiers won silver and bronze medals in the men’s lightweight bodybuilding division, and gold and silver in the middle/heavyweight division. (Courtesy Photo - 29th Infantry Division/Released)

LTG Timothy Kadavy, Director, Army National Guard, is briefed by COL Darby McNulty, IPPS-A Project Manager, and COL Gregory Johnson, IPPS-A Function¬al Management Division Chief, at the National Guard Bureau on More

SCARNG SGM Karen Boatright, 263rd Army Air Missile Defense Command (left) and U.S. Army LTC Richard Strong, Soldier Support Institute (right) participate in the user jury functions test.

CW3 James Ford, Kentucky Army National Guard, Joint Force Headquarters, met with Soldiers of the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A) National Guard Liaison Team in Arlington, Va., the week of Ap More

CW2 Sara Smith, Systems Integration Branch (SIB) Chief with the Mississippi Army National Guard Joint Force Headquarters, discusses the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army’s (IPPS-A) Customer Relationshi More

Pictured: Soldiers of the Army National Guard IPPS-A liaison team with program manager, Col. James (Darby) McNulty, IPPS-A Project Manager (right), Col. Gregory S. Johnson, IPPS-A Functional Management Division More

IPPS-A Release 2 Training products will be available in July for preview and preparation for NET. NET Pre-requisite Training (DL) Access in IPPS-A will roll-out to Release 2 Fielding Groups starting in August.

Warrant Officer 1 Brian Sexton (center) Georgia Army National Guard systems integration branch (SIB) chief recently assisted the GAARNG to complete the migration from the Standard Installation and Division Pers More

Warrant Officer Kristine Wills, Arizona National Guard watches as Master Sgt. Kevin Marquis, Minnesota National Guard, evaluates answers in the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A) customer relat More

CW5 Jay Vincent, Senior Personnel Advisor, Massachusetts Army National Guard, and member of the Multi-Systems Transformation Advisory Group, compiled workflow notes from the National Guard Bureau P3 Cell at the More

IPPS-A is currently on course to be deployed throughout the Army National Guard. In January 2019, the Army fielded IPPS-A to the Pennsylvania National Guard and tested the system in a Limited User Test (LUT). P More

Col. Darby McNulty addresses DCARNG members at the D120 Deployment Readiness Coordination Event on Feb. 5 and 6. (U.S. Army photo by Rickey Butler, IPPS-A Training and Deployment Lead)

The U.S. Army G1, Lt. Gen. Thomas Seamands, previews the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A) app while visiting Pa. Army National Guard Soldiers at Ft. Indiantown Gap, Pa. on Feb. 7th, 2019.

On 19 Feb 19, Mr. Russell Broom, Vice President of Development for Oracle, visited IPPS-A testing at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA. Mr. Broom previously worked extensively with the Human Capital Management (HCM) Peop More

The Human Resources Authorization Report (HRAR), accessible from the Human Resources Professional Homepage within IPPS-A’s iHUB interface, provides visibility on all Soldiers within a unit by showing authorized More

ARNG Soldiers from New Jersey, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut attended a D-270 fielding group workshop for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A), Thursday, March 21, 2019 at th More

CW2 Lionel Blair, Systems Information Branch Chief for the VAARNG and SFC Cliff Klaye, Senior Financial Manager discuss the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army during a senior leader engagement at Fort Pic More

Sgt. Shanna Holland, Human Resources Noncommissioned Officer, VAARNG practices with the Integrated Personnel and Pay System -- Army during a senior leader engagement at Fort Pickett, Virginia, April 8-12. Holla More

Members of the IPPS-A audit team meet with members of KPMG on April 23, 2019 to discuss the upcoming audit with the Pennsylvania Army National. The audit took place from May 14-16 and assessed pay impacting bus More

Master Sgt. Dimas Fonseca Headquarters Department of the Army G1, Team IPPS-A, was awarded the Maj. Gen. Nathan Towson Regimental Medallion on May 3 due to his contributions to the U.S. Army Finance Corp. Fonse More

The Pennsylvania Army National Guard hosted the first of a series of State-to-State trainings at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA., 7-9 May, 2019. The training event prepared state representatives for the deployment of More

Capt. Olumide Akanni, Talent Management and Strength Management Support Officer for the Functional Management Division at Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army (IPPS-A) speaks during a stakeholder review hos More

The ARNG deployment readiness scorecard is an important part of the IPPS-A migration process. If states do not submit their .dmp file on-time, their scorecard will not be updated which can negatively impact the More

A MilPay Fundamentals course was taught September 23-26, 2019 at the headquarters of U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C. Seventeen military and civilian personnel from the 82nd Airborne Division were t More

U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Miguel Diaz, Data and Systems NCO for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A) provides functional and technical expertise on USAR business processes and systems to c More

Sgt. 1st Class Jose Ortiz, Jr., of the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A) U.S. Army Reserve Liaison Team, is a Design and Development Non-Commissioned Officer helping to shape IPPS-A Release 3 More

IPPS-A Senior Enlisted Advisor, Sgt. Maj. Stephanie Owens, visited DFAS October 29, 2019. Owens learned of the DFAS training program, which began in August. Twelve teams made up of one DFAS 42A HR Specialist an More

“We’re talking about the largest change in the personnel world in 20-plus years in the Guard,” said Connelly. “SIDPERS is what Soldiers know and what they’ve been comfortable with. It’s understandable they woul More

Chief Warrant Officer 3 Sara Smith, Mississippi Army National Guard Systems Integration Branch (SIB) Chief and her team worked diligently during the MSARNGs migration from the Standard Installation and Division More

Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael Looper is the South Carolina Army National Guard Human Resources Systems Chief. He led a team of six Soldiers and one Army civilian over the last nine months, helping South Carol More

Five members of the United States Army’s 3rd Infantry Division participated in training for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System- Army (IPPS-A) with the Ga. Army National Guard, Nov. 4-5, 2019. Sgt. 1st Clas More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. conducted counterterrorism drills as part of Eagle Resolve 2017 near Kuwait International Airport, March 28, 2017. Urban warfare spe More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. conducted counterterrorism drills as part of Eagle Resolve 2017 near Kuwait International Airport, March 28, 2017. Urban warfare specialist More

Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner (second from right), commanding general of the Virginia National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division and exercise director of Saber Strike 16, poses with Ambassador Nancy Bikoff Pettit, U. More

Multinational troops watch as a U.S. B-52 flies over Rukla, Lithuania as part of a demonstration of joint interoperability among allied nations during Iron Wolf - a combined arms live-fire exercise June 14, 201 More

Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, 29th Infantry Division commanding general and exercise director, meets Latvian Defense Minister Raimonds Bergmanis, Brig. Gen. John D. Slocum, commander, 127th Wing, Michigan Air Nat More

Soldiers of the 29th Infantry Division conducted a 12-mile ruck march to qualify for Air Assault School at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait on February 11, 2017. Pvt. 1st Class Stanford Horbacz dropped her ruck and rested More

An explosive ordnance disposal specialist with the Kuwait Ministry of the Interior demonstrates a remote controlled robotic device for handling suspicious devices to soldiers from Saudi Arabia and Qatar as part More

Explosive ordnance disposal specialists, civilians and military engineers from the U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council nations train on explosive ordnance disposal as part of a joint interoperability exercise for More

U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council forces regain control of Kuwait’s Shuwaikh Port in the final event of exercise Eagle Resolve, April 6. Eagle Resolve is the premier multinational exercise in the Gulf region.

Brig. Gen. John M. Epperly, 29th Infantry Division Deputy Commander, visited with Operation Spartan Shield troopers of 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Apr. 17. More

U.S. Soldiers competed to earn the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge in a series of timed events at Camp Arifjan and Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, April 28-30, 2017. Events included: swimming in uniform, treading More

Task Force Spartan Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John M. Epperly of the 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, visited U.S. Army Soldiers at Al Asad Airbase near Ramadi, Iraq, May 01, 2017 More

PAARNG CPT Michael Janze, 213th Regional Support Group and NDARNG SSG Lisa Reeff, N.D. Joint Force Headquarters, collaboratively test the HR system functionality of the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Arm More

CW2 Sean Pinsonneault, N.H. Army National Guard, Force Integration Readiness Officer, met with Soldiers of the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A) National Guard Liaison Team in Arlington, Va., More

Members of the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A) team (pictured) will be at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. through Sept. 28 for the System Acceptance Test (SAT). The SAT – running at eight statewide More

DCARNG members participated in D120 Deployment Readiness Coordination Event on Feb. 5 and 6. (U.S. Army photo by, Rosie Stahl, IPPS-A Strategic Communication).

ARNG Soldiers from New Jersey, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut attended a D-270 fielding group workshop for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A), Thursday, March 21, 2019 at th More

Sgt. Sean Henderson, Joint Force Headquarters, State Enlisted Actions Noncommissioned Officer completes a transfer of a Soldier from the Virginia Army National Guard using the Integrated Personnel and Pay Syste More

CW2 Lionel Blair, Systems Information Branch Chief for the VAARNG smiles during a senior leader engagement at Fort Pickett, Virginia at the progress he and the Virginia Army National Guard are making with the I More

The Pennsylvania Army National Guard hosted the first of a series of State-to-State trainings at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA., 7-9 May, 2019. The training event prepared state representatives for the deployment of More

Civilian and military personnel from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. conducted counterterrorism drills as part of Eagle Resolve 2017 near Kuwait International Airport, March 28, 2017. Urban warfare specialist More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Civilian and military personnel from Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. conducted counterterrorism drills as part of Eagle Resolve 2017 near Kuwait International Airport, March 28, 2017. Urban warfare spe More

Civilian and military personnel from Gulf Cooperation Council nations and the U.S. conduct chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response training as part of exercise Eagle Resolve 17, April 02, 2017, More

Brig. Gen. Blake C. Ortner, commanding general of the Virginia National Guard’s 29th Infantry Division and exercise director of #Saberstrike 16, speaks with Lt. Gen. Raimonds Graube, the Latvian Chief of Defenc More

Danish soldiers watch a demonstration of combined air and land power as part of a live-fire exercise in Rukla, Lithuania involving six countries on June 14, 2016. The exercise – including French, German, Americ More

(Left to Right) Brig. Gen. John D. Slocum, commander, 127th Wing, Michigan Air National Guard; Lt. Gen. Raimonds Graube, Latvian Chief of Defense; Ambassador Nancy Bikoff Pettit, U.S. Ambassador to Latvia; and More

Explosive ordnance disposal specialists, civilians and military engineers from the U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council nations train on explosive ordnance disposal as part of a joint interoperability exercise for More

U.S. and Gulf Cooperation Council forces seize a boat taken by terrorists during the culminating training event of exercise Eagle Resolve, April 6, at Kuwait’s Shuwaikh Port. Eagle Resolve is the premier multin More

Brig. Gen. John M. Epperly, 29th Infantry Division Deputy Commander, visited with Operation Spartan Shield troopers of 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Apr. 17. More

U.S. Soldiers competed to earn the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge in a series of timed events at Camp Arifjan and Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, April 28-30, 2017. Events included: swimming in uniform, treading More

Task Force Spartan Deputy Commander, Brigadier General John M. Epperly of the 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, visited U.S. Army Soldiers at Al Asad Airbase near Ramadi, Iraq, May 01, 2017 More

A Soldier from IPPS-A conducts a software test and focus group, called a user jury, with Soldiers from across the Army at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., Sept. 26-28, 2017. The user juries consisted of task-based usa More

Pennsylvania Army National Guard leaders at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa. are leading the way when it comes to fielding and testing the Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A). Eight statewide test sites More

IPPS-A is currently on course to be deployed throughout the Army National Guard. In January 2019, the Army fielded IPPS-A to the Pennsylvania National Guard and tested the system in a Limited User Test (LUT). P More

ARNG Soldiers from New Jersey, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut attended a D-270 fielding group workshop for the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A), Thursday, March 21, 2019 at th More

Soldiers with the Virginia Army National Guard gathered with senior leaders with the Integrated Personnel and Pay System -- Army Apr. 8-12, 2019 at Fort Pickett, Va. The purpose of the meeting is to work with V More