Defense Enterprise Acntng and Mgt Sys (DEAMS)

Abstract

The Defense Enterprise and Accounting System (DEAMS) program element develops required capability and functionality to existing financial management systems in order to comply with audit and transparency requirements in addition to other upgrades that provide efficiencies in processing financial transactions. This program element also supports studies and analysis to improve future program planning and execution. DEAMS is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) program based on Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS), a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solution, that provides an auditable, modern accounting and finance management capability. It is the Department of the Air Force's (DAF) core accounting and financial management solution and is a key component of the DAF's long-term business process improvements needed to sustain auditability and correct financial system weaknesses. DEAMS replaces numerous inefficient and/or obsolete legacy accounting and finance systems and provides core funds execution management functions consistent with financial management laws, regulations and policy, general ledger, funds management, payments, receivables, cost and revenues, and fiduciary reporting under mission description and budget item justification. DEAMS supports 17,000 users at 170 installations world-wide supporting all Air Force Major Commands, the U.S. Space Force, and Unified Commands where the DAF is the executive agent. The DAF is preparing to transition DEAMS to the fifth and final phase of the Business Capability Acquisition Cycle (BCAC) process known as Capability Support. System requirements are managed through the program backlog by the Program Management Office (PMO) and Functional Management Office (FMO) and released on a regular cadence as usable capability via Agile methodology. The PMO construct, along with the application of Agile principles, allows the program to properly plan system requirements, deliver capability to the end users early and often, achieve early return on investment of taxpayer dollars, mitigate risk, reduce waste, effectively respond to change, and continuously improve processes. The DAF will deploy DEAMS to the acquisition community to include acquisition program executive offices, laboratories, test centers, and air logistics complexes. These deployments will add an additional 4,500 users for a total of 21,500 users. DEAMS is compliant with the Clinger-Cohen Act and the DoD's Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA). DEAMS is key to DAF compliance with the Financial Improvement and Audit Readiness (FIAR) requirement. This requirement supports performance of a full financial audit as required by title 10 U.S.C. Chapter 9A, Sec 240-D. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program's funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY23, $0.755M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY24, $1.241M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 0901554F_7_3600_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: No significant change to FY25 funding request.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Fields of Study

• Business

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Space