1. April 22, 2008 USDA – Forest Service Acquisition Management Systems Virtual Incident Procurement System AQM Directors May 2008 AQM Directors May 2008

2. Page 2 April 22, 2008 Upcoming VIPR Activities that Impact AQM Staffs  Data Migration (June – Sept 2008)  From EaTIS  From EERA database On-going, preseason incident agreements  Training and Deployment (Dec 2008–Feb 2009)  “Soft Deployment” – Phase in Regions  Build confidence in system  Opportunity to accelerate or slow down

3. Page 3 April 22, 2008 AMJJASONDJFM 20092008 VIPR Dev Team Design/Development EaTIS Offline Migrated Data into VIPR Beta Testing EERA db Offline Final Integration Testing VIPR Schedule Migration Impacts Training

4. Page 4 April 22, 2008 VIPR Data Migration Team  Laurie Sonju – WO FESSAA, team lead  Dell McCann – R2, Field Rep  Terry Kiele – WO AQM, IT coordinator  Chuck Siefke – VIPR Programmer  Chris Grant – VIPR Programmer  Mike McNelly – EaTIS Programmer

5. Page 5 April 22, 2008 Dec 8Dec 15Dec 22Dec 29Jan 5Jan 12Jan 19Jan 26Feb 2Feb 9Feb 16 VIPR Training and Deployment by Region Usage Regions 8, 9 Region 1 Region 3 Region 5 Region 6 Region 2 Region 4 Vendors in regions with open solicitations 2008 Internal Training Regions 3, 8, 9 Regions 1, 5, 6 Buffer Week: Allow for delays, issues Holiday Break Regions 2, 4 2009 System Live Nationwide