General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS)

Abstract

Mission Description and Budget Item Justification: The General Fund Business Enterprise System (GFEBS) is a Major Automated Information System program and is currently in the sustainment phase. It followed 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, 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. GFEBS replaced, in full or in part, financial systems operating in excess of 40 years including the Standard Finance Systems and other costly feeder systems which do not allow the Department of Defense or the U.S. government to achieve an unqualified audit opinion on its financial statements. GFEBS is used to administering the Army's General Fund. GFEBS was developed using a commercial off-the-shelf Enterprise Resource Planning system that is certified by the Chief, Financial Officer Council and provides six core financial functions. GFEBS allows 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. The Full Deployment Decision was received by the Milestone Decision Authority on 24 June 2011 and Full Deployment was Full Deployment was achieved on 1 July 2012. Today, GFEBS continues in sustainment. Efforts include sustaining the system and infrastructure, making modifications needed for audit readiness, compliancy, and upgrades requirement to maintain the system to meet SAP standards. Additionally, GFEBS continues to make changes as requested by the user community through the Functional Governance Board, a board that prioritizes user needs, and to update the infrastructure as required to meet SAP requirements and best practices. Some of these changes require developmental funding. GFEBS-Sensitive Activities (SA): GFEBS is a commercial off-the-shelf Enterprise Resource Planning System certified by the Chief Financial Officers Council. Army still has classified and sensitive financial activity remaining in legacy systems that cannot be processed in our new, fully-fielded GFEBS. To protect sensitive information and enable auditability, Army needs a separate instance of GFEBS operated on a secure network for processing sensitive and classified financial transactions. GFEBS-SA will be implemented to 3,000 users across 100 locations worldwide. GFEBS-SA will integrate seamlessly with GFEBS to provide secure, web-based financial execution and reporting capabilities to the Army's classified and sensitive activities. SA is envisioned as a fully functional GFEBS application operated on a secure network leveraging off of the sustained system design. GFEBS Increment II: Provides development, integration, and sustainment of incremental enhancements with the delivery of two major builds. Each build will deliver increased capabilities that will displace an additional 20+ legacy systems. The new Increment II requirements have been categorized by the functional community as Integrated Resource Management (IRM) and Army Standard Labor Time Tracking (ASLTT). Pending maturity of requirements development, Supplier Self-Services (SUS) and Environmental Management (EM) are additional capabilities that may be included in INC II.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
0604822A_5_2040_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Contracts
  • Cost Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Environmental Management
  • Finance
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Resource Management
  • System Software
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

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

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