CURRENT OPERATING STATUS 

CLOSED

DCMA will communicate instructions and updates to employees through the ALERT! Notification System.

While furloughed, employees are permitted to use government equipment, including computers, phones, email addresses, etc., for a limited number of reasons. This includes checking the status of the furlough and shutdown, and accessing resources on the Total Force DOD365-J site. Furloughed employees cannot perform any functional work or other prohibited activities.  

There are two types of furloughs: 

An administrative furlough is a planned event by an agency which is designed to absorb reductions necessitated by downsizing, reduced funding, lack of work, or any budget situation other than a lapse in appropriations. Furloughs that would potentially result from sequestration would generally be considered administrative furloughs. 

A shutdown furlough (also called an emergency furlough) occurs when there is a lapse in appropriations, and can occur at the beginning of a fiscal year, if no funds have been appropriated for that year, or upon expiration of a continuing resolution, if a new continuing resolution or appropriations law is not passed. In a shutdown furlough, an affected agency would have to shut down any activities funded by annual appropriations that are not excepted by law. Typically, an agency will have very little to no lead time to plan and implement a shutdown furlough.

DCMA recognizes employees in two categories with one exception:

• Furloughed (not Excepted or Exempted) – Employees placed on temporary, unpaid leave due to a lapse in appropriations.

• Excepted (not Furloughed) – Employees who continue working during a shutdown because their duties are essential to protecting life and property or ensuring the continued operation of critical government functions.