EMS to replace BOMRS

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  • By 1st Lt Irene P. Overholts
  • 2nd Force Support Squadron
BARKSDALE AIR FORCE BASE, La. --  The Evaluation Management System will soon be in use at Barksdale and will revolutionize how performance reports and decorations are coordinated.

EMS is an Air Force-wide initiative providing management visibility in the routing of Officer Performance Reports, Enlisted Performance Reports and decorations on a consolidated SharePoint workflow site. The objective of EMS is to reduce administrative burden and increase transparency in the process while also improving timeliness to meet Air Force standards. Barksdale is scheduled to implement EMS June 1 and cease using Barksdale organizational management routing system or BOMRS Aug. 31.

Unit Program Coordinators, or their equivalent, will build individual Web sites on EMS for everyone in the unit that has an upcoming report due. New to EMS, automatic e-mails will be sent to each individual in the member's chain of command when the report is ready for revision in EMS. Members, raters, additional raters and the unit commander will then be able to access EMS and provide corrections and comments on the member's report.

"The tracking system in EMS will ensure a report is accounted for at all times with suspenses for each member in the report's chain of command," said Capt. Claudia Frost, 2nd Force Support Squadron Manpower and Personnel Flight commander. "This will help improve timeliness, since it will be harder for reports to slip through the cracks."

Furthermore, there is a special enhancement tool for commanders and their delegates. On their EMS home page, they can view all current and overdue reports in their unit. Each report will be color-coded: green to signify current report, yellow to signify incomplete reports nearing their close-out date and red to signify overdue reports.

Currently, the 2 FSS, 2nd Communications Squadron, 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and 2nd Operational Support Squadron are the wing's test units for EMS, and the feedback is positive, Captain Frost said.

In general, raters find EMS more user-friendly than BOMRS, according to the captain. All other unit UPCs will receive training in April to ensure they are ready to implement EMS in their organizations by June 1.

For more information, call 1st Lt. Irene Overholts at 456-2085 or Staff Sgt. Krystal Cook at 456-4258.