OUSD(C) IT Development Initiative

Abstract

As the Department of Defense's 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 Systems (NGRMS): The 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 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 the development of the NGRMS. The OUSD(C) and CAPE use multiple systems to formulate, justify, distribute, and execute the 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 to be adaptable and modern. 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 • Agile methods to launch and terminate new development efforts more quickly • Seamlessly combine the outputs of multiple efforts at various levels of maturity for organizational responsiveness and alternative resource allocation for innovation adoption To date, a new system has been developed and deployed, and is continuously being tested by the Department of the Army, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and eight smaller defense-wide agencies, with submission parallels scheduled for the Department of the Navy and the Department of the Air Forces, as early as the end of the 2nd quarter of FY 2022. Moving forward, the new system shall be designed as a single system with a unified data source for OUSD(C) and CAPE, which will support the reforming and modernizing of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process. 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, efficient, and adaptable manner. The new system’s agile development approach shall compliment the continuous and ongoing studies and changes to the PPBE and appropriation processes to prevent stagnant complexities. 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. Advanced Analytics (Advana): Advana is a technology platform that not only houses a collection of enterprise data, but expands the boundaries of a standard data warehouse by arming military and business decision-makers with decision support analytics, visualizations, and data tools. Advana has been designated the single enterprise authoritative data management and analytics platform for the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Principal Staff Assistants (PSAs), with inputs form all DoD Components. This positions Advana to enable the OUSD(C)’s “CFO of the Future” vision, the DoD Data Strategy, Creating Data Advantage memo (5 May 2021), and Memorandum on Accelerating data and Artificial Intelligence for the Warfighter (21 June 2021), all aimed at achieving the National Defense Strategy by advancing analytics throughout the DoD. Advana directly supports the DoD’s financial statement audit as the single repository for financial accounting data across the Department and serves numerous other analytical use cases aligned to the National Defense Strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Source ID
0605027D8Z_5_0400_PB_2023
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President's Budget request did not include out-year funding. Effective February 1, 2022 the Department of Defense established the position of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer and the Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (OCDAO), tasked with serving as the Department’s senior official, and a Principal Staff Assistant, responsible for strengthening and integrating data, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions. The realignment of $23.091 million within the Office of the Secretary of Defense resources in FY 2023 from OUSD (C) to CDAO supports the consolidation of the Department’s existing functional efforts in order to align manpower and funding under the OCDAO.
Service Agency Name
Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agile Software Development
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Climate Change
  • Cross Domain
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Management
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Financial Management
  • Information Systems
  • Military Education
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Resource Management
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy

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