NOAA is collaborating with DOC to implement an E-Government initiative that provides easier and faster access to your Official Personnel Folder (OPF). Developed for all federal agencies by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the new system is called Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF).

The eOPF allows employees to access their individual file through a secure Internet connection. To help ensure optimal protection of your eOPF data, as of Fall 2007, users must access the system with a PC that has a registered DOC IP address or via a registered DOC Virtual Private Network tunnel (VPN).

NOAA is working toward converting each employee's OPF from a paper file to an electronic file or electronic OPF (eOPF) in two stages:

• The first stage began in January 2006 when our payroll service provider, the National Finance Center (NFC), began sending SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, transactions to the eOPF system for all NOAA employees. For serviced customers other than NOAA, the NFC data feeds began in December 2006.
  
  
• The second stage is the scanning into eOPF of all the documents in your paper OPF. This stage began in December 2007 for all NOAA- serviced organizations except NWS, NOS and NESDIS which will be scanned in a future phase. When scanning is complete, employees will be able to see their entire eOPF online.

Some of the benefits of e-OPF include:

• You can monitor your own records for accuracy;
  
  
• You can print documents that you need;
  
  
• Access to your eOPF is limited to authorized personnel, i.e. you and HR, resulting in continued security and protection of your privacy. There is no change in policy regarding who has authority to access your OPF;
  
  
• Your eOPF is more secure than a paper file.

Page last edited: April 18, 2008