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RAFINO Report Message From The Honorary Concerning The Future of the F.C. Corps ! The Fourteenth Finance Board meets 13-15 May at the Finance
School and will focus on the future of the Finance Corps! The board will review the current status of the Corps, develop and
analyze options for the Corps' future, and decide on the best course of action.
This assessment is necessary because of today's environment of total force drawdowns, budget constraints,
the ongoing Service to the Soldier Study, and the Soldier Support Battalion (SSB) Test of changes in doctrine, force structure and
systems, centralization of accounting and disbursing functions to regional Finance Offices and DFAS, and merging pay and
personnel change data into the SIDPERS-#3 personnel system. Soldier Support Battalion Test at Ft. Bragg Update For clarification, this test is Phase 1 of the Service to the Soldier
Study approved by the CG, Forces Command. The study director is the CG, Soldier Support Institute (SSI).
Phase 1 would test BN headquarters Command and Control (Cē). Phase 2
would assess merging pay and personnel functions supported by the SIDPERS-3 computer system with PerPay additions, which
are not yet implemented. This assessment would use the Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) force development
process which is a disciplined method of developing and testing doctrine and force structure.
The 82d SSB test only validated Sē TOE additions for a Finance Operations Section, a Personnel
Operations Section and an S6--Communications Staff Section. On 1 Dec 97, the CG, SSI briefed findings to the General Officer
Steering Committee (GOSC) and recommended fielding the test SSB structure Army wide simultaneously with:
1) Proceeding with Phase 2 of the Service to the Soldier Study, and
2) Merging Finance Functional Area 44 with Comptroller Area 45.
No decision has been made yet pending time consuming resolution of many issues. |