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's objectives will become more complicated and detailed allowing senior leaders to make decisions with supporting rationale for the taxpayer. Incorporating information technology towards 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, Programming, 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. NGRMS is critical in formulating the DoD Budget and thereby providing the necessary fund requests to defend the homeland, deter strategic attacks against the United States, our Allies and partners. By formulating and presenting the DoD budget, NGRMS, through our Services, is helping to deter aggression, yet ensuring that we are prepared to prevail in conflicts with a prioritization to the PRC challenge in the Indo-Pacific and the Russian challenge in Europe. Through a strong DoD Budget, NGRMS is a major factor in building a resilient Joint Force and Defense ecosystem. 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 provide executives the information needed to make timely key financial decisions. The OUSD(C) and CAPE require a more efficient and 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 to 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 out puts of multiple efforts at various levels of maturity for organizational responsiveness and alternative resource allocation for innovation adoption As of the 3rd Quarter FY 2022, NGRMS has been developed and has deployed Initial Operational Capability (IOC) to all Department of Defense Services and agencies. The system has been designed as a single system with a unified data source for OUSD(C) and CAPE, which supports the reforming and modernizing of the PPBE process. It provides 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 compliments the continuous and ongoing studies and changes to the PPBE and appropriation processes to prevent stagnant complexities. It also provides twenty-first century information technology that allows 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.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 0605027D8Z_5_0400_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: +$7.564 million is required to support Next Generation Resource Management Systems (NGRMS) of which +$1,911 million increase is to support the PPBE Reform efforts.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

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• Office of the Secretary of Defense

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• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• Strategic Security Studies
• Systems Analysis and Design