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MICT revamps 446th Airlift Wing's compliance checklist process

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  • By Staff Sgt. Nicole Celestine
  • 446th Airlift Wing Public Affairs
JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. --  As the 446th Airlift Wing moves forward from the Staff Assistance Visit (SAV) here April 20-23, units can breathe a little easier due to a new toolkit that will help them complete compliance checklists more efficiently and stay that much ahead of the game before the next Air Force Reserve Command Unit Compliance Inspection or UCI, scheduled for August 2011.

The Management Internal Controls Toolkit or MICT is an interactive application that helps Air Force organizations manage their various inspections. The tool also gives Reservists, at all levels, direct involvement and ownership of their squadron's compliance checklists and programs.

According to Lt. Col. Pat Kearney, 446th AW inspection program manager, the toolkit is not just an inspection checklist or an application to track open deficiencies, but a means to help self-inspection monitors/process managers control their entire program. The wing's self-inspection advocate to units and staff agencies said the tool is available to all levels of leadership, to manage and track programs and discrepancies. He added that each level of authority is assigned specific roles, responsibilities, and visibility into the unit's MICT program, as the information flows up the inspection chain.

Colonel Kearney, an air reserve technician who has been the wing's inspection program manager for nine years, said the MICT allows Air Force Reserve Command headquarters to view units' level of compliance electronically. The colonel said inspectors will quickly see whether a unit has a satisfactory compliance program, what their needs are for further improvements, and whether they need to visit the base and complete an inspection in person.

While the colonel admits the MICT is still new, and only a few squadrons within the 446th AW are using it, he said he has no doubt inspection teams will be checking to see whether units are using it. He said by using MICT, the wing will better maintain its high standard of compliance checklist programs year-round, and not only when an inspection is on the horizon.