Army System Tracking 2,100 Deployed Civilians
More than 2,100 civilians are now deployed in support of contingency operations around the world, and the Army’s new automated civilian tracking system, CIVTRACKS, is keeping track of their location.
CIVTRACKS maintains data on employees such as their deployed location, the operations being supported, dates of deployment and redeployment, and information on who is entering the data.
The deployed civilians being tracked by the system include nearly 900 Army employees and more than 1,200 non-Army employees, such as contractors, Red Cross employees and AAFES workers, Feagins said.
The Army implemented CIVTRACKS May 31, 2002, to overcome a need that was identified after Desert Storm, Feagins said.
CIVTRACKS was designed primarily to capture data on deployed Army Appropriated Fund and Non-appropriated Fund employees and Red Cross employees, Feagins said. He said the system now also is being used to track deployed contractors and deployed employees from other Department of Defense agencies.
If some health hazard is determined to be associated with a specific deployment, Feagins said the tracking system helps the Army know who was in the area at the time in question.
The program is Web-based, and allows input of the tracking data from any location where there is Internet access. Employees must log onto a Web site and input data each time they change duty location during the deployment. This requirement includes the initial move from the employee’s home station.
Officials at the employee’s home station, the Continental United States Replacement Center and the deployed location are required to ensure the input of data into CIVTRACKS, Feagins said.
The employee’s home station is required to give the employee a logon userID and password for the system. Deploying personnel may receive a wallet-size deployment card with their CIVTRACKS userID, password and related instructions.
Deployment cards should also be available at the CRC and in theaters of operations for employees already deployed. An alternate source for the same information printed on the cards is the Army Knowledge On-line Web site. The information is posted in the AKO Collaboration Center, under the “Civilian Personnel” Community.
CIVTRACKS generates a number of standard reports based on the inputted data. The reports allow officials at the major commands and higher to see the data sorted by country, operation or MACOM.
