Global Theater Security Cooperation Management Information Systems (G-TSCMIS)

Abstract

The Global Theater Security Cooperation Management Information System (G-TSCMIS) Program was initially an Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) initiative to develop and deploy a common web-based, centrally hosted Management Information System (MIS) that will serve as the information focus point for the Nation’s Security Cooperation (SC) efforts by providing decision makers, SC planners and other users with the ability to view, manage, assess, and report SC activities and events. February 11, 2019, OSD assigned the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) as the lead for G-TSCMIS and any successor comprehensive security management information system. G-TSCMIS was adopted from a theater specific system, originally developed in 1999, and has been updated at least three times. Nevertheless, it still lacks basic functionality that the SC enterprise, consisting of Geographical Combatant Commands (GCCs), Military Departments, and Defense Agencies, have called for since 2010, including but not limited to SC activity life-cycle management, alignment of activities to strategic guidance, institutionalizing a common operational picture, adaptability and scalability to encompass all SC organizations, and interfacing with other SC-relevant authoritative data sources. Additionally, the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act enacted a number of reforms to the Department of Defense’s security cooperation (SC) enterprise, consolidating various security cooperation authorities under a single chapter in Title 10 to provide greater clarity to the scope of these programs and to improve management and oversight of these programs. Through these reforms the Department now manages more than 100,000 SC activities per year at a cost of more than $10 billion, consisting of 40 distinct programs and support to dozens of different organizations and relies on an antiquated system, the G-TSCMIS to manage them. To meet the FY2017 NDAA requirements, DSCA is developing a successor system to replace G-TSCMIS after migrating the data. DSCA requires an innovative prototype capable of meeting the needs of the SC enterprise and developing an enterprise-wide technology to facilitate and integrate planning, budgeting, collaboration, program design, assessment, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting in support of all U.S. security cooperation activities and. The successor system (Socium) prototype must perform each function in a manner that meets the mandate of the FY17 NDAA reforms including; Planning, Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AM&E) and Defense Institution Building. For this effort, DSCA developed a new, innovative acquisition strategy for the successor system in consultation with the Defense Innovation Board and other IT acquisition experts. The strategy will increase competition, maximizing savings, and leverage flexible development approaches. DSCA is utilizing a phased approach to develop the successor system. The first phase, which is scheduled to be completed by September 2019, will gather industry driven solutions to develop a system that provides a modernized, versatile platform. DSCA, through Washington Headquarter Services, will then issue a competitive prototyping award for the second phase and is tentatively planned for completion in January 2020. The final phase will issue a production release that deploys the new solution to the SC enterprise in FY 2021.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0607327T_7_0400_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2021 budget was abnormally low due to the unknown direction of the G-TSCMIS program at the time of the submission. The G-TSCMIS program was stabilized with the development of Socium. The FY 2022 request will be used incorporate initial feedback from users to add new capabilities and functional enhancements to Socium to improve user satisfaction. The new capabilities and functional enhancements are critical to saving countless man hours for thousands of users (strategic, operational, and tactical) across the entire SC enterprise (Services, COCOMs, and Defense Agencies) by reducing data entry in disparate systems/applications, automating paper-based business processes, and reporting requirement burdens. Furthermore, they continue to enhance Socium’s capability to maintain comprehensive, accessible information that enhances oversight and data-driven decision-making capability for strategic users and to allow leaders to align SC resources to the National Defense Strategy, Theater Campaign Plans, and Integrated Country Strategies. These funds will be used for continued engineering for defects, fixes, and evaluation.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Security Cooperation Agency

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• Defense Security Cooperation Agency

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• Acquisition
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• Cross Domain
• Data Integration
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Governments
• Information Systems
• Life Cycle Management
• Life Cycles
• Management Information Systems
• National Security
• Product Prototyping
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands

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