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Assignments
See detailing windows, eligible jobs, preferences, and orders-related actions in one experience.
Innovate. Integrate. Dominate.
Join The Vanguard
Help shape the next generation of Navy HR tools before they reach the Fleet.
The Digital Strike Group is building Sailor-developed, Sailor-owned software designed around how Sailors actually live, work, transfer, advance, and serve. The Vanguard is the community that gets early access, tests new ideas, identifies friction, and helps determine what ships next.
The Problem
Navy HR software was not built around the Sailor experience.
Sailors still move through disconnected systems, manual routing, repeated data entry, desktop-only workflows, and PDF-based processes to manage major career events. The result is lost time, unclear status, duplicated effort, and avoidable friction.
Systems Friction
Too many disconnected systems for one unified career journey.
Manual Delay
Too many slow manual routing steps between request and final resolution.
Redundant Inputs
Too much repetitive data entry across multiple legacy platforms.
Zero Visibility
Too little clear visibility into process status and what action happens next.
What We're Building
One app for the Sailor experience.
One app. Four lived experiences. A fifth on the way.
MyCompass is a mobile-first interface designed to bring major Navy HR actions into one Sailor-centered experience. Instead of forcing Sailors to hunt across disconnected systems, MyCompass is being built to surface what matters, when it matters, based on where the Sailor is in their career journey.
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PCS
Move from checkout to check-in with a clear timeline and fewer disconnected steps.
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Admin
Manage recurring actions like leave, reenlistment, and evaluations through a single workflow.
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Record
View key service information, assignments, qualifications, and family data in one place.
What Is The Vanguard?
The Vanguard is the Fleet voice inside the build.
The Vanguard is a community of Sailors, leaders, and Navy HR professionals who help the Digital Strike Group test features, identify workflow friction, and improve products before they scale across the Fleet.
This is not a survey list. It is an active feedback channel between the Fleet and the Sailors building the software.
- ✓ Test early features before wider release.
- ✓ Identify what works, what breaks, and what is missing.
- ✓ Help shape product priorities.
- ✓ Surface command-level and deckplate-level friction.
- ✓ Connect high-performing digital talent with the DSG ecosystem.
Why Join?
Get early access. Give direct feedback. Shape what the Fleet receives.
Take Command of Your Admin
- Help fix the workflows that waste your time.
- Test tools before they reach the Fleet.
- Tell the build team what is missing.
- Help make Navy HR work better for the next Sailor.
Empower Your Unit
- Give your command a voice before release.
- Identify Sailors with digital talent and product instincts.
- Surface real workflow friction from your unit.
- Help ensure tools scale to operational reality.
Validate the System
- Bring process expertise into product design.
- Help reduce avoidable admin burden.
- Validate workflows before they become enterprise releases.
- Improve the connection between policy, process, and user experience.
How It Works
Simple entry. Real feedback. Better software.
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Join
Submit your basic information and tell us how you want to participate.
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Engage
You may be invited to provide feedback, test workflows, review prototypes, or join focused product sessions.
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Shape
Your input helps the DSG prioritize fixes, improve design, and prepare tools for broader release.
Innovate.
Integrate.
Dominate.
Built by Sailors. For Sailors.
The Digital Strike Group builds from inside the Fleet.
DSG combines active-duty Sailors, product leads, designers, engineers, and Navy HR domain experts. The team builds with direct feedback from real Sailor sessions, not assumptions about how the Fleet works.
- Active-duty Sailors in the build process.
- Navy HR domain experts embedded in product design.
- Mobile-first development.
- Feedback-driven release cycle.
- Focused on reducing admin burden, not just digitizing old processes.
Help build what the Fleet will use next.
The Vanguard gives Sailors and commands a direct role in shaping MyCompass and future DSG products. Join now and help build Navy HR tools that work the way Sailors actually work.
Questions? Contact operational support at: DSG@flankspeed.navy.mil