General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS)

Abstract

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 subsumed the capabilities of, in full or in part, financial systems operating in excess of 40 years including the Standard Finance System 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 administer 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 information. 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 required to maintain the system and meet SAP standards. Additionally, GFEBS continues to make changes as requested by the user community through the Process Owners Group, an SES and General Officers level board that prioritizes user needs. Some of these changes require developmental funding. GFEBS-Sensitive Activities (SA): GFEBS-Sensitive Activities (SA): GFEBS-SA leverages the GFEBS base system, and 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: GFEBS Increment II delivers new capabilities implemented in the GFEBS baseline. GFEBS Increment II will provide an extensive risk reduction per wave as required throughout the increment. Each wave will increase operational capabilities to enhance financial management, further audit readiness, allow integrated manning and budgeting, enable standardize labor tracking, allow end-to-end integration, enable legacy system retirement (~ 19+), and improve business analytics. The new Increment II requirements have been categorized by the functional community as Integrated Resource Management (IRM), Standard Labor Time Tracking (SLTT), and Expanded Financial Integration (EFI).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0604822A_5_2040_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
FY18 funds realigned to GFEBS-SA (DV6) project in alignment with Army priorities. The GFEBS SA program was revamped and on a steady stream for contract execution.
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Finance
  • Financial Management
  • General Officers
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Product Development
  • Resource Management
  • Standards
  • 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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