June 14, 2017 TO: ICASS Working Group Kim DeBlauw, Director, ICASS Service Center FROM: SUBJECT: June 2017 Report for IWG Director’s ISC Staffing Hare and Kevin Crews depart this month for their next assignments. We are grateful O’Donnell for their valuable contributions and look forward to working with them in their new roles at Embassy Mauritania and NEA-SCA/EX. The Policy Coordination and Training Team Leader and our Information Management Specialist positions remain vacant. The latter has presented some particular challenges for updating the ICASS Internet website. Please bear with us as we learn to manage this site. Outreach and Training Webinars and FSI Courses: The ICASS Service Center concluded its 4th year of the series of webinars for post ICASS Council and Budget Committee members in their use of the ICASS Meeting Planning Schedule. last set of sessions was specifically for Budget The Committee members as they prepared for their meeting to review and approve both Time Allocation and Workload Counts that will be used to create FY18 ICASS budgets. were There approximately 200 participants from 58 countries, including 9 of the 15 USG entities represented on the IEB. The ISC continued its series of quarterly of webinars for the entire “Executive Summary ICASS” included 60 representatives (HQ and 25 posts) from USDA/APHIS, USG. Participation USDA/FAS, USDA/ATO, HHS/CDC, DOJ/DEA, DOC/USPTO, USAID, State/ICASS, DoD, and this webinar, the featured USG customer agency was USDA/FAS Peace Corps. For (Foreign Agricultural Service (1235.0)) who shared with the participants the way FAS uses ICASS data to manage their resources in supporting their overseas programs. ISC is The looking for a customer agency to feature in the FY17 4th Quarter edition of this webinar which is scheduled for Wednesday, August 16th. The ISC also participated in courses at FSI for HROs, GSOs, and IMOs. We are happy to provide materials or help out in any way with ICASS training provided by agencies to their own personnel.
June 14, 2017 TO: ICASS Working Group FROM: Kim DeBlauw, Director, ICASS Service Center SUBJECT: June 2017 Director’s Report for IWG ISC Staffing Hare O’Donnell and Kevin Crews depart this month for their next assignments. We are grateful for their valuable contributions and look forward to working with them in their new roles at Embassy Mauritania and NEA-SCA/EX. The Policy Coordination and Training Team Leader and our Information Management Specialist positions remain vacant. The latter has presented some particular challenges for updating the ICASS Internet website. Please bear with us as we learn to manage this site. Outreach and Training Webinars and FSI Courses: The ICASS Service Center concluded its 4th year of the series of webinars for post ICASS Council and Budget Committee members in their use of the ICASS Meeting Planning Schedule. The last set of sessions was specifically for Budget Committee members as they prepared for their meeting to review and approve both Time Allocation and Workload Counts that will be used to create FY18 ICASS budgets. There were approximately 200 participants from 58 countries, including 9 of the 15 USG entities represented on the IEB. The ISC continued its series of quarterly “Executive Summary of ICASS” webinars for the entire USG. Participation included 60 representatives (HQ and 25 posts) from USDA/APHIS, USDA/FAS, USDA/ATO, HHS/CDC, DOJ/DEA, DOC/USPTO, USAID, State/ICASS, DoD, and Peace Corps. For this webinar, the featured USG customer agency was USDA/FAS (Foreign Agricultural Service (1235.0)) who shared with the participants the way FAS uses ICASS data to manage their resources in supporting their overseas programs. The ISC is looking for a customer agency to feature in the FY17 4th Quarter edition of this webinar which is scheduled for Wednesday, August 16th. The ISC also participated in courses at FSI for HROs, GSOs, and IMOs. We are happy to provide materials or help out in any way with ICASS training provided by agencies to their own personnel.