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This activity is associated with authorizing and documenting all types of official travel (e.g., initial hire/first duty station travel, Temporary Duty [TDY] travel, and Permanent Change of Station [PCS] travel). This activity also includes verifying a travel authorization, validating required documentation and traveler's eligibility and credentials (e.g., security clearance, passport, visa, foreign area clearance), initiating and finalizing travel requests and authorizations, gathering information necessary to create a travel authorization for individual or group travel, verifying fund availability, arranging travel accommodations (e.g., airlines, rental car, lodging), estimating travel costs, and completing and issuing travel authorizations to travelers requesting activity, as well as to accounting in order to obligate funds. |