Army s entire serviced workforce now receives regionalized civilian personnel services, with the sole exception of our employees stationed in Saudi Arabia, who are scheduled to come under regionalization early in the next fiscal year. The ten regional centers we established, three of which are outside the continental United States, are all fully operational. Implementation of regionalization has been challenging. We have aggressively addressed the needs of our customers and will continue to do so, and we are seeing indications of improvement. In October 1999, Army s Pacific Region became the first DoD site to deploy the Modern Defense Civilian Personnel Data System.
Operational testing is now under way there.
The modern system is designed to enhance the capabilities of civilian personnel service providers and our customers themselves. Army-wide deployment of the modern system is planned to begin in late March 2000 and to be completed by December 2000. This concludes my remarks. Thank you again for this opportunity to present the Army s views on matters pertaining to the management of our civilian workforce. I will be pleased to answer any questions you may have.