OUSD(C) IT Development Initiative

Abstract

As the Department of Defense strategic, operational, and tactical plans and objectives transform the war fighter with new capabilities and doctrine, the budgeting and accountability of funds used to pursue the Department objectives will become more complicated and detailed for senior leaders to make decisions with supporting rationale for the taxpayer. Incorporating information technology toward current and emerging business processes manifesting into a state-of-the art system of systems will result in increasing efficiencies, timely diagnostics, and reducing lifecycle costs to maintain, sustain and repair. This initiative exploits emerging technology, processes, trends, capabilities, and techniques to incorporate state-of-the-art information technology enabling the ability, agility, and level of fidelity to collect, process, administrate and report resource management data and to automate business processes within a more robust analytical environment within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) OUSD(C). NEXT GENERATION RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (OUSD(C)) is responsible for advising the Secretary of Defense on all Defense budgetary and fiscal matters, for Defense budget development and execution, and for overseeing financial management across the Department. The OUSD(C) has a broad set of responsibilities in supporting the Planning, Programing, Budget and Execution (PPBE) process. The Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE), provides independent analytic advice to the Secretary of Defense on all aspects of the Defense program, including alternative weapon systems and force structures, the development and evaluation of program and defense program alternatives, and the cost-effectiveness of defense systems. There is a critical need for the development of a state-of-the-art information technology system to modernize and replace multiple, antiquated legacy systems and processes used to formulate, justify, present and defend the entire Department of Defense Budget in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller (OUSD(C)) to meet Title 10 and Title 31 mission and reporting requirements. The Comptroller’s plan for mitigating the deficiencies and capability gaps associated with current systems is development of the Next Generation Resource Management System. OUSD(C) and CAPE use multiple systems to formulate, justify, distribute, and execute DoD budgets. The information managed by the budget formulation and programming systems is redundant, and reconciliation of information is difficult and inefficient. These systems require extensive manpower investments to give executives the information they need to make key financial decisions in a timely manner. The OUSD(C) and CAPE require a more efficient, effective Defense budget environment that optimizes the budget cycle to ensure users are processing and reporting efficiently and DoD Senior Leadership has the information to make informed, critical decisions. The OUSD(C) requires capabilities that shall provide for the effective formulation, and justification of the Defense budget. The requirement is for: • Automated exchange and reconciliation of budget data • Improved efficiency through the utilization of a unified budgetary model • Instantaneous ability to generate data for management reviews and decisions • Capability to accommodate emerging business practices Moving forward, the new “to be” system shall be designed as a single system with a unified data source for OUSD(C) and CAPE. The new system shall provide a single, integrated system that employs the latest technologies to fulfill the Department’s financial management responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner. The new system shall provide twenty-first century information technology that shall allow users to view information from multiple fully integrated modules simultaneously, e.g., current year budget submission, decision documents from previous years, and budget execution information. DEFENSE REPOSITORY FOR COMMON ENTERPRISE DATA: Defense Repository for Common Enterprise data (Advana) support financial audit, cost management, performance management, and readiness. The DoD Advana requires: • All supporting Department data that rolls up to the DoD financial statement (detailed accounting data reconciled to the financial statement) • Proof of the completeness of all transactional data reported within the UoT (detailed accounting data reconciled to business events) • Ability to extract subset populations • Ability to secure and protect the data within the UoT The failure to meet these requirements will result in the Department unable to successfully conduct and pass an audit. To achieve these requirements, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) is creating a tool called the Defense Repository for Common Enterprise Data (Advana). This tool has the potential to significantly improve DoD’s capability and capacity to handle large volumes of standard and non-standard business and readiness data. Both an application and analytical platform, the Advana leverages an open-source software framework for storing data and running applications to deliver a complete Advana. The first phase of Advana implementation is a proof of concept with the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) systems to develop a baseline application and configuration. When the first phase has been successfully completed, the second phase will integrate into the full solution any remaining accounting and business feeder systems that execute TI-97 funds and be the solution for DATA Act. The proof of concept was successful and the program moved to an operations phase in FY18. DRCED is a joint effort between Office of the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (ODCFO), Office of the Chief Management Officer (ODCMO), Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), USSOCOM, and the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2021
Source ID
0605027D8Z_5_0400_PB_2021
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2021 BUDGET REQUEST JUSTIFICATION: +$4.221 million is required to support Next Generation Resource Management System (NGRMS).and $6.038 million is required to support Defense Repository for Common Enterprise Data. The FY2021 funding request was reduced by $2.400 million during the Defense Wide Review to account for implementing efficiencies in the acquisition strategy for NGRMS.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accounting
  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Contracts
  • Cost Effectiveness
  • Data Analysis
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Financial Management
  • Force Structure
  • Information Systems
  • Integrated Systems
  • Military Budgets
  • Resource Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Special Operations Command

Readers

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

Technology Areas

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

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