Global Theater Security Cooperation Management information Systems (G-TSCMIS)

Abstract

In February 2019, the Deputy Secretary of Defense designated the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) as lead for the Global-Theater Security Cooperation Management Information System (G-TSCMIS) program. At that time, the G-TSCMIS program consisted of the G-TSCMIS application, which was responsible for creating, managing, and assessing DoD Security Cooperation (SC) activities. In consultation with the SC enterprise community, DSCA determined that the G-TSCMIS application was no longer able to fulfil its mission and could not meet the needs of the SC enterprise community. In FY 2020, DSCA, in consultation with the Defense Innovation Board, utilized a new, innovative acquisition strategy to develop two prototypes for the successor application. The strategy gathered industry driven solutions that increased competition, maximized savings, and leveraged flexible development approaches that developed an application with a modernized, versatile platform. In coordination with the SC enterprise, DSCA selected one prototype as the replacement to the G-TSCMIS application. DSCA deployed the prototype as the Socium application, the fifth release of the G-TSCMIS program, in September 2020 and met the aggressive timeline required by the community. Socium is the DoD enterprise-wide technology to facilitate and integrate planning, budgeting, collaboration, design, management, assessment, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting in support of all U.S. security cooperation activities. In FY 2021, DSCA will continue to add new capabilities and functional enhancements to Socium that includes new SC programs and processes, an expanded data model, refined AM&E capabilities, and two-way interfacing with other Authoritative Data Sources (ADSs). Some examples of new capabilities and enhancements for Socium in FY 2021 include deploying a SIPR Socium application and cross domain solution; building tailored workflows for all remaining permanent Title 10 security cooperation authorities; interfacing with the Overseas Humanitarian Assistance Shared Information System (OHASIS), Enterprise Freight Tracking System (EFTS), Security Cooperation Management Suite (SCMS), Command and Control Information Exchange (C2IE), Advance Analytics (ADVANA), and Reachback Engineer Data Integration (REDi); and improving the assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) capabilities. Finally, the legacy G-TSCMIS application will be retired no later than the end of the first quarter of FY 2021. The G-TSCMIS application retirement plan includes transfer and integrating historical data into Socium. The new capabilities and functional enhancements are critical to saving countless man hours for thousands of users (strategic, operational, and tactical) across the entire SC enterprise (Services, COCOMs, and Defense Agencies) by reducing data entry in disparate systems/applications, automating paper-based business processes, and reporting requirement burdens. Furthermore, they continue to enhance Socium’s capability to maintain comprehensive, accessible information that enhances oversight and data-driven decision-making capability for strategic users and to allow leaders to align SC resources to the National Defense Strategy, Theater Campaign Plans, and Integrated Country Strategies.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 000205_0607327T_7_0400_PB_2022

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Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control