by Debbie Gildea
Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs
4/2/2013 - JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- The Air Force has migrated Air Force employee electronic official personnel folders to the Office of Personnel Management eOPF version, Air Force Personnel Center officials said today.
The eOPF is a secure, digitized version of a hardcopy personnel folder that contains official human resource records for each federal employee. The system enhances portability of civilian HR records and increases employee awareness and accountability through email notifications of personnel actions, said Sal Lara, the AFPC Civilian Future Operations Branch personnel systems project officer.
The eOPF system was developed to provide electronic official personnel files for all federal agencies and to simplify how employees access their own official personnel folders. It includes human resources records and documents related to federal civilian employees.
For Air Force civilian employees, AFPC will continue to manage personnel information, but the eOPF database will be controlled by OPM.
"There are significant financial savings and other efficiencies inherent in the change," Lara said.
Migration to the OPM eOPF allows information to be transferred electronically between agencies and will provide employees with continuous electronic access to their records. It will also accelerate access to the OPF for new employees, and all employees will get email notifications when documents are added to the folders. Major command staff will be able to view OPFs across all the bases within their command, and finally the OPM eOPF reduces the need to physically store, print and mail OPFs between agencies resulting in significant savings.
The migration will affect more than 153,000 civilian employees, and about 14 million documents.
"Although all civilians are affected, impact will be minimal," Lara said. "The only difference between accessing an OPF then and now will be that OPM is hosting the OPF. To ensure all employees can easily access their file, we've sent an email to all civilian personnel with the website link and instructions on how to create their user account."
For more information about the eOPF migration, go to myPers at https://mypers.af.mil and enter eOPF in the search window.
Comments
4/5/2013 5:53:06 PM ET Logged into eOPF Tuesday. Received eOPF ID then requested my password and it said I would receive within 60 minutes. It's Friday I'm still waiting. I now have requested another password and see a notice that says if you dont receive your password to e-mail the help desk. So guess there is a known problem As usual fielding wo proper testing OR no budget for testing which has become the norm let the customer do it for you. Guess I'll add the ID and password once received to my growing list tucked away in a secret place which were not supposed to have. One step forward two steps back.
CML, EAFB
4/5/2013 1:44:17 PM ET I'm in the FAA and it was a step backwards when I left the AF. The OPF system doesn't use CAC access in the FAA anywhere but HQ.
Rob, FL
4/4/2013 4:45:19 PM ET Have to agree with RC. This new system seems a step backwards. Once again it seem the AF has failed in deploying a computer system
MLH, OK
4/4/2013 7:27:28 AM ET Mr. Lara is quoted in the article stating that there is no difference in access to the eOPF just that it is now hosted by OPM. However the previous eOPF allowed CAC access and authentication and so far this system does not That is a big difference to me as it requires me to rememner yet another login id and password. Hopefully that is a temporary situation that is not mentioned in this article.
