the navy standard integrated personnel system is a web-enabled pay and personnel management information system. nsips provides field level standardized and integrated pay and personnel records management capability for over 300,000 navy active and reserve sailors and officers. this information system allows the navy to move towards a defense integrated managed human resources system. the united states navy is the only organization in the world that uses this information system. the navy’s personnel and administrative commands are the primary users of this information system. adminsitrative clerks know as yeomans use nsips to prepare military correspondence, update records, document administrative actions, research information for commanders and process court memorandums for non judicial punishment know as njp. the personnel clerks know as the personnel specialists use nsips on a daily basis for all personnel related actions to our sailors and officers. pay, allowances, career service information are the main areas that personnel specialists operate on in the navy standard integrated system. the pay and entitlements information section in nsips whereby all military pay and allowances data can be accessed for corrections and deductions by personnel clerks. there is a personnel information section whereby all military personnel data can be accessed for corrections and additional entries. there is a system report section. all reports in any area can be created and queried to be printed for supervisor review. the nsips system is used primarily at personnel support detachments which are shore duty based and it is also used on board all navy ships and squadrons with to submarines due to the network and security restrictions. nsips is a personnel specialist’s dream come true. it is a very fast system and produces results within 24 hrs, nsips is a very user friendly system, there is 24 hour technically support, and it is a web based 128 bit encrypted secure system. nsips has had a tremendous impact on the navy. this is a one stop shop type of information system that has been a tremendous benefit to our working environment and the quality of customer service we provide. the hardware that nsips requires are your basic pc, monitor, printers, scanners, and local and wide area network connections. the software portion is based on people soft hr system that was designed to create a system to securely access personnel data online via land, air and sea vessel. my suggested improvements to this system would be to allow access from home computers and personnel laptops. currently on department of defense computer systems have access to nsips. secondly, i would like to see some type of certification course for this system that gives you college credit. lastly, i would recommend a faster process for users to gain access to nsips. currently it takes 4-7 days for access to be granted sometimes longer. i think this is due to security clearances that are access on a different system. overall nsips is a great information system that the navy has integrated into its organization. this is what is needed in this term paper all the information can be found on the web. some good sites are: http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=13882 http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=26247 http://acquisition.navy.mil/rda/home/programs/information_communications/nsipshttp://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2009/02/mil-090206-nns04.htm You can also discribe the US Navy since it is the organization that uses NSIPS. The software and hardware components are basic windows PC, mouse, PC, monitor basic hardware systems.