25th Anniversary for the Pay & Personnel Center
25 Years of People Serving Customers
25 Years of Answering the Question: What's the Coast Guard Doing in Kansas?!
PPC recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. The event was held in conjunction with the 2007 PPC 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 PPC
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 & 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.
On February 13, 2009, the Personnel Service Center was renamed the Coast Guard Pay & Personnel Center. This name change preceded the March 16, 2009 stand up of the mission support organization's Personnel Service Center (PSC) in Arlington, Virginia. The new PSC unified, within one service center, all Coast Guard personnel and human resource support previously provided by the Personnel Command, the Pay & Personnel Center, the Recruiting Command, as well as some functions carried out by Headquarters, the MLCs, and ISCs, including services such as housing, MWR, CGES, educational services, health and safety, and work-life.
With a host of responsibilities PPC continues to strive for and deliver excellence in service to its more than 90,000 worldwide customers.