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 … Read more
“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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
FSO PRO is here to help! JK… This is NOT the last of the DISS talk from FSO PRO. In fact, as of this week, the Visit Access Request function has moved from JPAS to DISS. I got a panicked text yesterday from a member of Executive Management who forgot to tell me they had … Read more
It is time to start using DISS and FSO PRO is here to help! You may be getting tired of hearing about DISS from us but trust us, this topic is not going away anytime soon. In fact, we attended a record number (for us) of Continuous Monitoring phone calls (the telecon version of a … Read more
The Bliss of DISS—Part 2! It is time to start using DISS, & FSO PRO is here to help! Maybe you don’t attend as many SVAs or Continuous Monitoring meetings as we do, but DCSA is still making it pretty clear, they want FSOs to start migrating to DISS more and more. They have already … Read more
This is not a drill folks! It’s time to get your DISS Account in high gear! Here at FSO PRO, we attend a lot of SVAs… even during a quarantine, that has not changed. While in-person SVAs are still on-hold indefinitely, the Continuous Monitoring teleconferences are popping up left and right! (Glad I watched that … Read more
Who would have thought that I would be watching a YouTube video about how to NOT look like a troll during Zoom Meetings? Not me, but here we are! (By the way, natural light is the way to go for streaming video meetings. Since my office has no windows – troll, it is!) The last … Read more