What's new with e-Payroll? We are halfway into our migration calendar, and we are extremely busy. Our staff has shown great dedication and professionalism working with our new clients, identifying new requirements, making systems changes, ensuring the success of migrations, and reacting to new emerging issues every day. It has truly been a team effort requiring the most creative ideas from across the NBC organization - be it from our client conversion staff, to the systems staff, to datamart, to training, to operations, to the data center. All have "pitched in" and done whatever is necessary to get the job done. Literally, every day has presented new challenges which our people have consistently met.

Amid the frenetic activity of new client migrations, there are our everyday heroes who keep our payroll operations and our systems capable of serving our present customer base of 215,000 strong, day-in and day-out. They are the backbone of the organization, and they never lose sight of our reason for existing, taking care of our customers.

Good news! The newest client to come up on the Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS) is the National Science Foundation, who went "live" last month. The summer will bring two more customers into the FPPS family: the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, who is part of the Department of Transportation (DOT) in July, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in August. By the end of the summer, NBC will have assimilated five of its seven e-Payroll initiative clients. NBC and DOT have jointly requested a schedule adjustment extending the migration time frame for the two remaining e-Payroll migrations - DOT's Federal Aviation Administration and the remaining DOT Modes - due to the magnitude of systems changes necessary to accommodate these customers. At this time, we are awaiting a decision from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Needless to say, handling multiple concurrent migrations and making the necessary regulatory changes, while continuing to support our existing base have proven exciting and challenging.

What else is going on? OPM has approached NBC to host the e-OPF, their new e-Gov initiative to create an electronic repository for the federal employee's official personnel folder (OPF). We are working with our e-Payroll partner, the Department of Agriculture's National Finance Center, to create and submit a proposal due in late spring. Another initiative to which NBC has responded is the HR Line of Business Opportunity Development Initiative. This is the OMB's effort to establish common solution and target architecture approaches that identify systems, best practices, migration strategies and key interfaces to develop common business process and system solutions in each of three business areas: financial management, human resources and grants management. We will continue to be involved in helping establish the future direction for the Federal government in improving administrative systems and services, and will always strive to try to represent the best interests of our clients in this process.

For more information

Dennis Locke

Dennis_R_Locke@nbc.gov