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A little over three years ago the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) launched the Department of Defense's (DOD) newly reengineered household goods moving program — the Defense Personal Property Program, or DP3. It's the latest iteration that began in 1995 to make the DOD relocation process more efficient. SDDC is the executive agent [...]

Local Personal Property Processing Offices will continueSCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – Department of Defense officials and the U.S. Transportation Command are leading a change in how household goods move for military personnel and civilian employees supporting the military. The change consolidates 151 Personal Property Shipping Offices into 11 regional Joint PPSOs. Local Personal Property [...]

According to a new article published by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) is streamlining domestic and international military personal property transfers during the moving industry's 2011 busy season. The article, Command Streamlines Moves During Busy Season, which was posted on July 26th by the American Forces Press [...]

  Move.Mil http://www.move.mil/, the official Defense Personal Property System (DPS) portal has been updated with the latest monthly metrics for transportation service providers. This new format allows a month-to-month comparison with the old Transportation Operational Personal Property Standard System (TOPS) contract results. DPS Current Status (as of 30 Sep 10) DPS Raw Numbers Program to [...]

  In Psych 101, students learn that people tend to retain the most complete knowledge about the most recent events. It's called the recency effect. It's one of the natural tendencies that Hermann Ebbinghaus postulated in 1885 when he published Über das Gedächtnis (“On Memory” ) about the serial position effect on the human experience [...]

SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – According to Army Maj. James F. Lowe of the USTRANSCOM public affairs office, officials at the U.S. Transportation Command launched an improved website this week to assist both the military services and transportation service providers (TSPs) in using the Defense Personal Property System, or DPS. DPS is a new [...]

For the last several years, the military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) has restricted the access of new participants in the Department of Defense (DoD) personal property procurement program known as DP3. Recently the re-engineered system for arranging permanent change of station (PCS) moves for military service members and their families was rolled out [...]

Anyone else remember the 1974 movie Houston, We've Got a Problem!? It was a fictional drama about the third U.S. space flight intended to land on the Moon in April, 1970. A mid-mission incident occurred on board Apollo 13 when a rupture in an oxygen tank severely damaged the spacecraft and forced the lunar landing [...]

  April 22, 2010  SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. – After extensive testing and evaluation, the military has launched an improved system to better compensate service members who personally move their household goods on military orders. All services began using the new system April 15. Moves initiated prior to that date will continue to process [...]

  Daycos, the third-party billing company that offers a wide variety of invoicing and billing services to over 600 domestic and international moving industry customers primarily involved with handling military and government relocations, has decided to hold their second webinar in 2010. Their first web conference, conducted in March, was an overwhelming success that drew [...]