25th Anniversary for the Personnel Service Center
25 Years of People Serving Customers
25 Years of Answering the Question: What's the Coast Guard Doing in Kansas?!
PSC recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The event was held in conjunction with the 2007 PSC Customer Advisory Council Meeting (21-23 August 2007). An informal ceremony was held in the Frank Carlson Federal Building Atrium followed by a BBQ lunch. Our guest speaker was VADM Papp, Coast Guard Chief of Staff. Also in attendance were Congresswoman Nancy Boyda (Kan-D), Kansas Lt. Governor Mark Parkinson, and Topeka Mayor Bill Bunten. Pictures and video from the event are now available. The Topeka Capital-Journal has a story about the anniversary celebration. Read it at http://www.cjonline.com/stories/082307/loc_193787113.shtml.
Pictures.
Video of 25th Anniversary Ceremony. (38 Min. File size approx. 117MB)
History Slide Show. (File size approx. 27MB)
A Brief History of PSC
Many names. One Goal - Customers First!
In 1979, the Coast Guard established a Military Pay center in Riverdale, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C., by moving the JUMPS (Joint Uniform Military Pay System) conversion team and other pay-related functions out of CG Headquarters in Washington. This was a temporary move until a more geographically centralized location could be found.
In 1977 a newly erected Federal Building known as the Frank Carlson Federal Building (named after the late Kansas Senator) was opened in Topeka, Kansas. Five years later in 1982 this became the Center's new permanent location.
As pay automation streamlined, many additional personnel processing functions became the Center's responsibility resulting in a change of name to PPC (Pay and Personnel Center) in mid-1983.
Over the next 14 years many more duties were added to the PPC's list of responsibilities driving yet another change of name to reflect the services provided.
In March of 1997, the PPC became known as HRSIC (Human Resources Service & Information Center). In 2003 the name was changed to Personnel Service Center, PSC. With a host of responsibilities PSC continues to strive for and deliver excellence in service to its more than 90,000 worldwide customers.