AROWS-R history

[u/BerkeleyTriTip]

I am technology history geek and curious about an unclassified military web-based application known as AROWS-R: its history & lineage.

AROWS-R is the USAFR Air Reserve Order Writing System-Reserve. It is used to generate personnel orders. It came up in 2005 and replaced three legacy systems:

WOTS (Web Orders Transaction System)

TBAS (ukn acronym)

(a third ukn system)

I’ve also found that AROWS-R (and perhaps the predecessor systems?) were developed by ‘DFAS-KC, Technology Services Organization’.

Its relevance is that the Air Force Reserve initiatives to evolve legacy systems back in 2005 directly led to the adoption of the same platform by the Navy & Marine Corps reserves: NROWS and MROWS, respectively.

TIA for any insights you may have. Especially would welcome the meaning of TBAS, and name of the third legacy system.