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Hello DCMA . I'm Karen Schulteis , the

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executive director for Information

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Technology and DCMA's chief information

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officer . I also serve as the

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organizational infrastructure

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capability board manager , and I'm

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excited to announce the board's June

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2025 release of our latest workplace

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improvement initiative , the onboarding

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process application . Onboarding is a

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new employee's first impression of the

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agency , and we want to make it great

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for everyone . Think back to when you

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onboarded to DCMA . Was it smooth ? Was

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it fast ? Did you get everything you

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needed when you needed it ? I'm sure

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some of you are saying , yes , it was

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great , while others are rolling your

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eyes and thinking , nope , that was not

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my experience . Our goal is to have all

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future employees who on board to DCMA

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say it was a great experience and DCMA

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is an amazing place to work . The old

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manual checklist process often

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presented a resource burden on team

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members and supervisors that required

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frequent follow-ups and delayed

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completion . The new onboarding process

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drives completion of mandatory tasks

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through automated reminders , saving

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time and resources and ensures

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efficient execution . The app

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establishes consistency in the

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onboarding process for all agency

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civilian , military , and contracted

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personnel , facilitates communication

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between new employees , the on boarder ,

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and stakeholders by providing a shared

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view of task status and progress , and

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it streamlines processes such as

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equipment issuance , systems access ,

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and local office space assignments .

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Thank you to all who helped bring this

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vision to reality , including our

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boarding modernization initiative team ,

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information technology developers and

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total force subject matter experts . We

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use their feedback throughout the

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development process and worked with

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subject matter experts from across the

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agency's global network of

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professionals to streamline the effort

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and deliver an efficient and effective

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application . We also relied on

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capstone participants from the agency's

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emerging leadership development program

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to strengthen the development and

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deployment of the new automation tool .

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These aspiring leaders provided

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validation of resource materials ,

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contributed valuable frontline

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perspectives , ensuring the tool meets

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the needs of the workforce . You can

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find out more about the new onboarding

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process application on the agency's

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website in a new article highlighting

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the initiative . Within the article ,

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you'll find greater application details ,

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links to resource pages , logistics

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information , and application user

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guide , process and application

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training videos , recorded discussion ,

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feedback options , and more . Remember

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this initial rollout is just phase one .

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We'll continue to add functionality and

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make improvements through upgrades .

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There's more work to be done . So we

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plan to combine the onboarding and

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offboarding applications and even add

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more automation to further streamline

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the boarding processes . Our continued

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goal is to work hard to develop tools

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that improve your workplace experience ,

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so we can all focus on our ultimate

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goal , delivering superior warfighter

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support and excellent taxpayer value .

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Thank you for your time today . Have a

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great rest of your day .