 All Hands Update recently spoke with the Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Admiral Scott Van Buskirk, to discuss topics of concern to the fleet. One of the topics was a plan for improvements to the Individual Personnel Tempo Program or I-Tempo. Each unit, with the amount of people in each unit, there's a fair amount of travel between each of the individuals and keeping track of that is a challenging task but one that can be done and we need to help with the people who manage it by giving them again some of the information technology improvements to help them do that and that's what we're doing right now. Admiral Van Buskirk also mentioned the success of I-Tempo is directly impacted by the timeliness and accuracy of the I-Tempo representatives and commanding officers in the fleet. You're going to see that and I've seen that the vectors in the right direction and how we're conducting I-Tempo. Also our reporting requirements, reporting is actually significantly improved over here for the last couple of months because we've put the appropriate emphasis in that because it's very important that we do collect I-Tempo. As you mentioned, from the individual perspective, how is each individual operational tempo, how is that being managed and what are our people doing? It gives us a good gauge on our entire workforce and how they're engaged and how we need to manage them, how we need to compensate them for how they're operating. I-Tempo is designed to track and report deployment days for individuals who are away from their home port or assigned unit. For more information and a complete list of I-Tempo points of contact, read NAV ADMIN 335-12. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Brandy Wills.