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e) ACTION: Mark Minch will verify and document the current DAASC process with 

regard to NOAs and the replies (how the communications work) for Germany and 

any other countries that may be receiving automate NOAs and providing automated 

replies by December 12, 2008. Question was asked by Rick as to how do we verify 

that the automated reply came from the authorized source. The ability to confirm 

the authorized source of the reply will be part of Mark’s research effort. 

f) ACTION: ILCOs need to verify the need and desire for automated NOAs and the 

responses to them. Suspense date will be communicated to the ILCOs after the 

DAASC research is completed. 

2) Special Instructions: 

a) The ILCOs have indicated strongly that they want a freight forwarder to be fully cleared 

with no restrictions before the freight forwarder is entered into the MAPAD for 

handling classified shipments. We have recently become aware of two restrictions, 

which have intermittently been indicated on facility clearance letters from Defense 

Security Service (DSS), as follows: "An INTERIM SECRET facility clearance is not 

valid for access to Restricted Data, NATO, COMSEC or Sensitive Compartmented 

Information” and "HARDWARE ONLY RESTRICTION. This freight forwarder is 

restricted to hardware only and has no capacity to store classified documents or media.” 

ACTION: Bob Hammond will follow-up with DSCA (Todd Hughes) by on whether it 

can be required for a facility to be fully cleared with no restrictions before it is entered 

into the MAPAD for handling classified shipments (follow-up email sent, awaiting 

reply). 

b) Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) application for bill payment gets a feed from MAPAD 

and has had problems in the past processing MAPACs with special instructions. 

ACTION: Bob Hammond will follow-up with WAWF by 26 November 2008 to see if 

this is still a problem and if DLMSO can provide assistance (0n 20 November 2008 the 

WAWF PMO responded that he is checking to see if this is still a problem). 

3) Reengineered MAPAD application demonstration and training: DAASC spent several 

hours demonstrating the usage and capabilities of the new Web MAPAD update 

application. The demonstration and training were followed by a couple of additional hours 

where the ILCOs had the opportunity actually use the application. The ILCOs were very 

pleased with the ease of use and capabilities provided by the application. The ILCOs 

concluded that the application fully met the requirements that were previously documented 

and agreed to by the MAPAD PRC. The consensus was that DAASC make the application 

ready for submission to the DLA Internet Council and take the necessary steps to move it 

into the production environment after approval by the Internet Council. 

a) During the demonstration the TAC sequence number assignment process was discussed. 

The new application assigns the TAC sequence number in a standardize way. All future 

TAC sequence numbers will be assigned consistently. The issue of cleaning up legacy 

data TAC sequence numbers was discussed. It was determined that the risks out weigh 

the benefits, since changes made to the MAPAD where delete actions are involved can 

cause logistics systems to cancel outstanding requisitions supporting that MAPAC. 
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b) The ILCOs asked about the ability to make comparisons of MAPAD addresses. It was 

demonstrated that the “Copy” feature allows comparisons to be made without going to 

DAASINQ. 

c) ACTION: The ILCOs will make sure they have DAASC System Access Requests 

(SARs) in place so they can continue familiarizing themselves with the new application 

in the DAASC test environment. 

d) ACTION: DAASC will make the application ready to go to the DLA Internet Council 

for review and approval; the submission date was estimated to be January 2009. 

e) ACTION: DAASC will develop a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) similar to that 

developed for the DODAAD as an aid for the application usage prior to application 

fielding. 

4) Future Enhancements: It was agreed that the application as demonstrated met the original 

requirements and that additional capabilities would be considered for a software release at 

least nine months after the initial application moves into a production environment. A 

couple of possible enhancements that were captured for consideration and future discussion 

are below: 

a) Add a drop down and new data element to identify the county to whom the FMS case 

belongs, which could be different from the ship to location and the Country/Activity 

code in the 2nd & 3rd position of the MAPAC. 

b) Capability to tie special instructions to a specific MAPAC TAC. 

5) Meeting Conclusion: The meeting ended with Bob Hammond expressing his appreciation 

for the excellent product that DAASC developed and demonstrated and for the entire PRC’s 

support during the reengineering effort.