While you're there, try to help the Army National Guard Incentive Management System, or GIMS, not have multi-year downtimes, while the corporate sector wrings t

While you're there, try to help the Army National Guard Incentive Management System, or GIMS, not have multi-year downtimes, while the corporate sector wrings their hands over minutes. It's funny, yet hurtful to read. They exist in different universes. > the system crashed in late 2018 and was inoperable for about 10 months; another 10-month outage occurred in 2021. While the system was down, bonuses had to be filed through a complicated manual process, creating a backlog that states are still trying to fix. (2023 story) [1] > Two adjutants general, top commanders in their respective states, described discovering their staff tracking enlistment bonuses on dry-erase boards or through email traffic and handwritten notes. [1] Sorry, your bonus is goin around on somebody's handwritten note somewhere. Also, see if you can maybe do something about that VA medical data system. Heard they still hate it last reference. [1] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/27/soldiers-unpaid-national-guard-hasnt-paid-out-thousands-of-enlistment-bonuses.html https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/10/27/soldiers-unpa...