ACTION OFFICERS COURSE HEADQUARTERS, UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

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DMCS Admin Overview Admin Office for the
Director, Marine Corps Staff Pentagon Room
5A132 697-1043/1049/1668
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DISCUSSION TOPICS

• DMCS ADMIN
• TRENDS
• MARINE CORPS ACTION TRACKING SYSTEM (MCATS)

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DMCS ADMIN

• Directors Office Location Pentagon 4C645
• Admin Office Location Pentagon 5A132
• Responsibilities
• - Task all actions received from
• White House CMC
• OSD ACMC
• SecNav JCS
• HQMC Agencies
• - Route/track documents to ACMC or higher
• - Track All Overdue Tasks
• - Maintain schedule for CMC Pentagon Conference
  Room
• - Miscellaneous (Marine Mail, Eagle Scout letters)

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TIMELINE EXTENSIONGUIDELINES

• REQUIREMENT TIMELINE EXTENSIONS
• SECDEF/SECNAV AS DIRECTED
  COORDINATE W/AGENCY ACTION OFFICER
• CMC/ACMC/DMCS GENERATED 10 WORK DAYS
  ADMINO/CHIEF 5 WORK DAYS
• LTRS FOR CMC SIGNATURE 10 WORK DAYS
  SGS/MILSEC AS DETERMINED
• URGENT 2 WORK DAYS SGS/MILSEC AS DETERMINED
• STAFF REPLIES 10 WORK DAYS ADMINO/CHIEF 5 WORK
  DAYS
• OTHER TASKERS NOT TASKED BY DMCS
• Congressional Inquiries OLA
• Joint Staff PPO (JACO)
• IRS PR

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Action Package Trends

• OVER 6O OF PACKAGES RECEIVED REQUIRE CORRECTION
• EXAMPLES OF DISCREPANCIES
• Not signed-off by Dept HQ, EA minimum
• Not completely staffed
• Lack supporting documentation
• Electrons not provided
• Wrong format

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Marine Corps Action Tracking System

• Official USMC Action Tracking System
• Cross-Departmental Coordination. Originating
  Dept AO send package in MCATS to Dept EA/Rep for
  movement to another Dept via MCATS.
• Route Sheets still required.
• Hard copy not required unless more than 40 pages.
• Ensure the title of response is the same as the
  task.
• Responses to tasks/document routes sent to DMCS
  will be in MCATS.
• Sensitive Material. When preparing the Task/Doc
  Route mark the Private block. Only those
  personnel involved in the route can view even
  when archived.
• Point of Contact and Training. Follow-on brief.