If you live in the South, Sweatember is leading into Hotober… the temperature doesn’t shift as much as it should, but the leaves get prettier! Changes for the FSO are better this month! DCSA, the agency formerly known as DSS, has launched all their new products for the Federal Rule, the new Self-Inspection, the new […]
It Must Be September! When we first got into helping FSOs man- age their day-to-day FSO tasks, administration, and goals, I used to worry and say “If the government ever de-regulates this industry, I guess we will have to go into a different business. “ Ah…that was cute. I think we can all agree at […]
It is time to start using DISS more & FSO PRO is here to help! Maybe you don’t attend as many Continuous Monitoring meetings as we do (do I whine about that too much?), but DCSA is still making it pretty clear they want FSOs to start learning the requirements of the new Federal Rule […]
True story: Once, we were contacted by our DCSA Representative out of the blue. She sent us an email on Wednesday wanting a “quick, 20 -minute ‘Advise & Assist’ call this Thursday”. She offered no list of information to review, just made it sound like a nice “howya-doing, friend?” chat was going to happen. Don’t […]
One of my earliest memories as an FSO was JUST completing my FSO Training. (This was back when it was in a binder with modules and the quizzes were done with a pen- cil. I’m old. Shut up.) My boss brought me the NISPOM, which was a 4-inch thick book back then and said, “Okay, […]
Learning to use DISS has been interesting—in that pull your hair out, shake your fist to the sky kind of way! By now, you have all (hopefully) completed your NISS PSI Survey and started using DISS. You, like us, have probably found that there is a lot of clean up to do. If that is […]
“You may have to delete your back-up user and re-add them all over again.” This was an actual help desk recommendation for DISS, recently. We are in for some good times ahead. Unless you turned off all email correspondence, you are aware of the fact that we are (finally) migrating to DISS all during this […]
Remember how DSS (yes, I am using that name on purpose) changed everything in the past several months? They changed: Their name (I am used to saying DCSA now – just in time to get used to writing 2021 on my checks!) The Director They took away eFCL (still hurts) and replaced it with NISS […]
Last year was WEIRD for FSOs… I have been an FSO for over 15 years and the “world of COVID” brought on changes that I had never seen before! They included the following: No On-site Inspections: After March 2020, DCSA halted on-site meetings (indefinitely) and replaced their on-site inspections with Continuous Monitor- ing or Meaningful […]
FSO PRO is here to help! The difference between an FSO who gets Superior ratings and the one who gets less is not as big as you may think! Success is the cumulative result of consistent actions and habits. During the first few moments of the Continuous Monitoring phone call with your DCSA Rep, he […]
