Speaker 1: VIPS stands for "Virtual Interactive Processing System." And this is a move by the Military Entrance Processing Command to take the MEPS process and move it into the future. We will be moving to a virtually interactive process, whereby one visit to the MEPS equals one session.
Roughly 700,000 applicants came to the MEPS, but over 1.1 million visits were required in order for them to result in an accession into the Military. The most challenging thing I find in my command of the MEPS is that it is a long day for the applicant, and by moving to the VIPS system, we hope to streamline that, save costs on sessions. Much of the work will be done online and dispersed.
We've already started down the road with VIPS with the biometric process, and you'll see during your visit here at the MEPS that the applicants are signing contracts and logging into various checkpoints throughout the MEPS with their fingerprints and with the facial identification with the cameras. That is the first step.
We'll also be going to your e-medical records, and so your medical records will be electronic and that will reduce paperwork. Applicants won't necessarily have to come to the MEPS in order to take the ASVAB. They can take it at remote locations closer to where they live or possibly on a secure online website. The hope is to have VIPS implemented across MEPCOM by 2014. All these things will help to accelerate the process and ensure the quality of the accessions into the Military.
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