Advanced Military Pay System Concepts. Evaluation of Opportunities through Information Technology.
Abstract
This research deals with the Navy system for managing pay and allowances for both active and retired Navy personnel. Its focus has been to understand the current system and its limitations, as well as to forecast technologically feasible alternative methods by which this pay system could be significantly improved and upgraded in the early 1990s, with primary emphasis on shipboard pay procedures. Conclusions include: (1) Continued use of the U.S. Postal Service gives rise to intolerable delays and the resultant errors in pay records leading to gross inefficiencies in shipboard pay administrative resource use; (2) Electronic transmission of field transactions and LES data will solve most shipboard pay problems and will permit exception reporting from the field; (3) Several valid and manageable advanced system concepts have been identified. Each offers members better service, significant reductions in shipboard pay administration and a viable wartime pay methodology; (4) The requirement for allotment payment check distribution makes full decentralized shipboard-level payroll computation (exclusively) impractical; and (5) A high degree of centralization of Naval military pay records and computational support can and should continue to exist, since the proposed use of commercial satellite channels for data transmission has a usage-related cost insensitive to distance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA108675