General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS)

Abstract

The General Fund Business Enterprise System (GFEBS) is a Major Automated Information System (MAIS) program and completing the developmental phase. It will follow the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture which is aligned to the mandated Federal Enterprise Architecture. GFEBS was implemented to fulfill the needs and comply with the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA), The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, the Government Management Reform Act of 1994, and the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and to fulfill the stated mission of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASA(FM&C)). GFEBS will replace financial systems operating in excess of 30 years including the Standard Finance Systems (STANFINS) and other costly feeder systems which do not allow the Department of Defense (DoD) or the U.S. government to achieve an unqualified opinion on its financial statements. GFEBS will become the Department of the Army's new core financial management system for administering its General Fund. GFEBS was developed using a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that is certified by the Chief, Financial Officer Council (CFOC) and provides the six core financial functions. GFEBS will allow tactical commanders to make informed decisions on a virtually real time system. On 1 October 2008, GFEBS deployed to Wave 1 end users at Fort Jackson Garrison, Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS) Indianapolis, Indiana and several other organizations. On 1 April 2009, GFEBS deployed to Wave 2 users at Fort Benning, Fort Stewart, DFAS Rome and several other organizations. Wave 3 deployed in October FY10, Wave 4 in January of FY11, Wave 5 in April 2011 and Wave 6 in July 2011. GFEBS is currently fielded to approximately 38,000 trained end users and the last development software release, Release 1.4.4, was fielded to all users in December 2011. Each fielded release subsumes the previous release keeping all deployed sites executing under the same GFEBS release. The Full Deployment Decision was received by the Milestone Decision Authority on 24 June 2011. In FY12 GFEBS deployed the remaining waves, 7-8, which encompass the remainder of the Active Army, Army Reserves, Army National Guard and select defense agencies. Sensitive Activities provides a classified version of the GFEBS program. Sensitive Activities allows processing of data in a secure environment to protect and manage classified data without causing risk to our national security.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0604822A_5_2040_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Commerce
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Costs
  • Cross Domain
  • Demonstrations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Motivation
  • National Guard
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

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