Information Technology Development
Abstract
DCMA is positioned as a unique, independent enterprise that provides DoD with capabilities not found in the Component Services, or anywhere else within Government. In accordance with the President’s Management Agenda (PMA), DoD’s Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) “Six Areas of Focus”, and the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), DCMA is seeking to adapt, reshape and rebalance to prepare for the strategic challenges and opportunities we face in the years ahead. As the independent eyes and ears of the DoD, national and international partners, DCMA is continually delivering actionable acquisition insight. Adherence to Better Buying Power (BBP) 2.0 initiatives, such as controlling costs throughout the product lifecycle, incentivizing productivity, and improving tradecraft in acquisition of services, are ensuring affordability and increasing productivity. Application of improved supply chain management directives and superior price-costing strategies will eliminate requirements imposed on industry where costs outweigh benefits. The intent is to work with industry to collect data that will enable the Department to identify requirements that can be reduced or eliminated to reduce cost without adversely affecting performance. Better understanding of the commercial sector will allow the Agency to properly exploit its benefits while protecting government interests. Furthermore, we are invigorating our efforts to adjust to the changing environment through achieving and sustaining audit readiness, creating an agile and flexible learning organization/culture to support future customer programs, initiating and strengthening acquisition processes and optimizing mission execution to support the acquisition enterprise through agile business practices. DCMA’s mission is to provide Contract Administration Services (CAS) to the Department of Defense (DoD) Acquisition Enterprise and its partners to ensure delivery of quality products and services to the warfighter; on time and on cost. DCMA has two primary objectives, 1) providing CAS to the military services and other authorized customers worldwide and 2) providing contingency contract support in theater. The Agency has worldwide acquisition impact through three Field Directorates (Operations, International, and Special Programs). The Agency's Field Directorates are regionally based. The Agency's civilian and military personnel manages over 20,063 contractors and approximately 348,000 active contracts. DCMA is executing a strategy to modernize and consolidate all web-based applications in concert with a new Enterprise Architecture framework that adheres strictly to the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA). Investing in newer modern technologies that utilize business process driven frameworks will greatly improve not only the quality of the DCMA contract information but allow DCMA to realize internal process efficiencies. The web-based capabilities support DCMA's unique mission and provide cross functional capabilities that support the full range of acquisition and contract management. These capabilities help DCMA acquisition workforce access real time data; thus, enabling them to make sound contract management and business decisions. The objective behind web-based capabilities is to provide mission-effective and efficient solutions to unique sets of problems that slow down or hinder performance based contract management for DCMA and other DoD support components. FY 2014 Actual: In FY 2014 ($13.812) DCMA reengineered some of DCMA’s Contract Administration and Line of Service business processes and the toolsets that provide these capabilities. We streamlinedd business processes and consolidated toolsets that enable those capabilities to reduce operations and sustainment costs for the Department and where applicable for DCMA. FY 2015-2016 Plan: In FY 2015 ($12.530) and FY 2016 ($12.542) DCMA is planning to capitalize on Information Technology (IT) investment innovations that leverage technology to achieve an agile enterprise architecture that equips the Agency with enhanced IT solutions for mission support operations and gives Agency decision-makers better data to compare options, provide ready analytic solutions, allocate resources, and improve processes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 0605013BL_5_0400_PB_2016
- Change Summary Explanation
- Service Agency Name
- Defense Contract Management Agency
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Contract Management Agency
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