Service Day - Defense Wide.Mr. Steve Bonta, Director, Sustaining Forces, Defense Finance and Accounting Service The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), an agency of the United States Department of Defense, provides finance and accounting services for the military and other members of defense. In FY 2004, DFAS:
Ms. Elaine Kingston, Special Operations Command A subordinate unified or other joint command established by a joint force commander to plan, coordinate, conduct, and support joint special operations within the joint force commander's assigned operational area. Also called SOC. See also special operations. Comptroller In her inspirational PDI PDI Protein Disulfide Isomerase PDI Personal Docente e Investigador (Spanish: Personal Educational and Investigating) PDI Pre Delivery Inspection PDI Professional Development Institute keynote speech keynote speech n. See keynote address. Noun 1. keynote speech - a speech setting forth the keynote keynote address keynote - the principal theme in a speech or literary work , Stanford-educated astrophysicist Sally Ride Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26 1951) is an American former astronaut who in 1983 became the first American woman to reach outer space.[1][2] She was preceded by two Soviet women, Valentina Tereshkova (1963) and Svetlana Savitskaya (1982). , our first woman in space, related her father's happiness when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), civilian agency of the U.S. federal government with the mission of conducting research and developing operational programs in the areas of space exploration, artificial satellites (see satellite, artificial), (NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. ) selected her for Apollo space shuttle program training. It was because he could then explain to people what it was that his daughter did. He did not understand astrophysics astrophysics, application of the theories and methods of physics to the study of stellar structure, stellar evolution, the origin of the solar system, and related problems of cosmology. at all, but he could easily describe the work of an astronaut. Similarly, by hosting its third Service Day, the Defense-wide (DW) community took another step forward in describing its important role in the Department of Defense (DoD) mission. The Service Day agenda began with an overview of DW fiscal year 2001 funding levels and appropriations vis-a-vis the Military Departments and the Coast Guard. This perspective revealed that the 27 DW organizations have double the number of appropriations of each of the Services and ten times the funding of the Transportation Department budget for the Coast Guard. When adjusted for military pay, DW appropriations are larger than the Army and two-thirds the size of the Navy and the Air Force. This is no surprise since DW provides highly specialized combat support to all the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps warfighting forces. A special project for direct budget execution reporting with potentially fir-reaching benefits for all DoD Components was described by Ms. Elaine Kingston, Special Operations Command Comptroller, and Mr. Steve Bonta, Director, Sustaining Forces, at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS DFAS Defense Finance & Accounting Service (US DoD) DFAS Decorative and Fine Arts Society (The Hague, Holland) DFAS Dark Field Alignment System DFAS Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences )-Indianapolis. This project holds great promise as the fruition of the concept of a closed, automated system for release of funds and direct reporting of budget execution accounting activity. Members of the professional staff of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Program and Financial Control Directorate were also featured speakers. Ms. Gwen Brown discussed the requirements for the thrice-annual review of program execution in great detail. Mr. Gerald Parker clarified the accounting and budgeting connection for cross-referencing official reports. Ms. Gloria Head described the quantum leap forward for maintaining and using the Comptroller Information System. And finally, Mr. Clarence Hoop explained the importance of and systems safeguards for information security. The DW participants then joined forces with the DFAS Service Day attendees for special business line briefings by DFAS center directors. Ms. JoAnn Boutelle (Commercial Pay, Columbus) outlined her organization, goals, initiatives, and anticipated benefits. Mr. Lee Krushinski (Accounting, Cleveland) described his executive role, priorities, initiatives, and future plans. Mr. Steve Turner (Payroll Services, Denver) provided an in-depth glimpse of his operations and future plans. Ms. Kathy Noe concluded by giving an overall DFAS systems integration update. |
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