Navy Tests Waters on Home-Based Work

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Navy Tests Waters on Home-Based Work
December 31, 2008
Navy News

MILLINGTON, Tenn. - The Navy announced the Virtual Command Pilot Program, allowing a select group of officers to work from home, even if their new assignment would normally require a permanent change of station.

"This program will allow officers to fill career-enhancing billets without necessarily having to transfer to do so," said Capt. James Oakes, in the office of the chief of naval personnel (CNP) where the jobs will be located. "The pilot offers the opportunity to reduce permanent change-of-station costs for the Navy while providing stability for Navy families. It's a win, win."

The test program will initially be open to eight officer billets. The officers selected for these billets should be self-starters, capable of working independently and maintaining open lines of communication with their supervisors via phone and e-mail. They must be able to travel periodically to their parent commands.

The parent command furnishes the Navy Marine Corps Intranet seat to include: laptop, docking station, monitor, keyboard and mouse and government cell phone for the officer's daily work. The command closest to where the officer is geographically assigned will assist with administrative requirements like fitness reports, physical readiness tests and physical health assessments.

"My geographic command is Navy Recruiting District (NRD) Pittsburgh. That is what my BAH is based on, but my duty station is Washington D.C.-based. It saves the Navy a lot of money, and I'm not a geographic bachelor," said Oakes, "If you call my Washington D.C. office number, it rings on my government cell phone here in Pittsburgh."


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