Marine Corps IT

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Manpower Operations Systems (MOS) is a portfolio of enterprise IT systems and modules that support manpower business operations for the Total Force (active and reserve). The investment in the portfolio improves dataflow and increases reliability, functionality, and accuracy of data while reducing the manpower required to operate and maintain these systems/operations. Development is partially driven by regulatory and policy changes mandated by Congress, DOD, Department of the Navy (DON), and United States Marine Corps (USMC). These systems support all five tiers of Manpower: 1) Individual Marine, 2) Small Unit Leader, 3) Unit, 4) Installation Personnel Administration Center (IPAC)/Disbursing Echelon, and 5) Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC) Manpower and Reserve Affairs (M&RA)/Defense Finance and Accounting Service. The MOS portfolio provides support in functional areas such as permanent change of station assignments, retention, mobilization, manpower planning, line of duty determination, personnel accountability, individual augmentation, personnel records management and maintenance, management of case incidents, civilian professional development planning, pay entitlement determinations, promotion and performance evaluations and self-service/visibility of personnel data. MOS programs interface with other systems to provide manpower data and web services functionality for pay and personnel transactions between systems. Systems in the portfolio include the Web-enabled Manpower Assignment Support System (WebMASS), Automated Performance Evaluation System (APES), Total Force Retention System (TFRS), Optical Digital Imaging - Records Management System (ODI-RMS), Marine Corps Force Augmentation System (MCFAPS), Secure Personnel Accountability (SPA) and the Requirements, Transition and Manpower Management System (RTAMMS). The current systems have become obsolete and are unable to maintain an acceptable Cyber Security posture. Modernization efforts will involve business process and application reengineering, with a focus on redefining the Human Resource Development Process (HRDP) to deliver a portfolio of streamlined capabilities on a modern and secure platform. Marine Corps Recruiting Information Support System (MCRISS) is an enterprise level system to automate administrative procedures for the recruiting station operations. This customized automated System, centered on procedures in the Guidebook for Recruiters, Volume I, dramatically improves efficiency and effectiveness in Marine Corps recruiting. Furthermore, Military Entrance Processing Command requires Marine Corps recruiting to provide information in electronic format only. MCRISS is the Marine Corps Recruiting Command's program to manage applicant processing from commitment to accession/commission into the Marine Corps and Marine Corps Reserve. This enterprise approach allows for efficient sharing of information about potential recruits and recruiter screening efforts, yielding a more cost effective process. The current system requires modernization of the systematic recruiting components to provide efficiency for the Recruiting force from the Headquarters element down to the Recruiter, and requires numerous updates in order to become fully compliant with Cyber Security and Center for Naval Analysis (CNA) policies and mandates to protect PII/PHI data captured and stored in the system. The Modernization effort will involve a competitive evaluation of several prototype systems, leading to a selection of a viable platform and the complete replacement of the current MCRISS system with modern and secure technology. Paperless Office/Acquisition (PA) funding supports development and enhancement of Purchase Request (PR) Builder, which is the Marine Corps enterprise solution for the electronic generation of purchase requests, funding documents, miscellaneous payments, and serves as the front-end system for feeding the DOD enterprise contracting writing system Standard Procurement System (SPS). PR Builder is a fully web-based, Mission Assurance Category (MAC) III sensitive business system that provides the Marine Corps with a net-centric capability to electronically create, route for approval, and apply funding to Purchase Requests (PRs), Funding Documents, and Miscellaneous Payments. PR Builder is the authoritative procurement generation system within the Marine Corps electronic Paperless Acquisition (PA) Systems Business Enterprise that provides system-to-system interaction with the Marine Corps' Standard Procurement System (SPS)/Procurement Desktop Defense (PD2, Department of Defense (DoD) Standard Accounting, Budgeting, and Reporting System (SABRS), Electronic Document Access (EDA). These systems are critical to Marine Corps purchasing, contracting and procurement tracking control. Technology Services Organization (TSO): This Technical refresh/upgrade of Standard Accounting Budgeting Reporting System (SABRS) database technology from ADABAS to a newer database architecture provides a modern and well-supported database technology that ultimately enables the normalization of Marine Corps financial data in a true relational database. The newer database architecture will provide a modern data platform to support transactional operations within the DON General Fund accounting systems to optimize performance, readily scale, and reliably support data structure, quality, and availability for subsequent analysis to drive decision making. Successful implementation will be transparent to the SABRS user community while minimizing the potential for unanticipated system degradation/outages and secure the system's operational longevity. This Multi-phased project (over 4 years), system supports 5k+ direct users, impacts entire DON General Funds accounting. Out year costs will be assumed into planned sustainment of SABRS. The current configuration is antiquated with diminishing industry support. There is a limited pool of applicants available to work on ADABAS. Sustainment is cost prohibitive and the technology stack limits flexibility to fully support 21st century data/system requirements. TSO will be unable to mitigate identified technical and support risk associated with current technology which could result in systems degradation and/or outage. This further leaves TSO unable to improve data integrity and audit compliance in SABRS by employing a more modern database. The impact on the operational capability is the risk to DON accounting and Financial Management operations increases daily for major system degradation or outage in both likelihood of occurrence and extent of the negative impact of such an occurrence. This will result in the system becoming less and less viable to the point where it will no longer support Marine Corps operations. Strategic Management Decision Support (SMDS): This is required to meet Marine Corps capability needs for high quality data and effective assessment of capability needs and risks to force, mission, and institution. The SMDS program will establish a set of materiel and non-materiel solutions to facilitate data-driven and analytically sound decision support for Marine Corps strategic-level business processes, in order to optimize force development outcomes and improve institutional readiness. Supported business processes include global force management, readiness assessment, wargaming, planning, programming, budgeting, and capability solution development. The program includes developing an integrated enterprise decision support solution with materiel and non-materiel components, and development and sustainment of related operational and developmental projects that support design and provide interim solutions. Program components include data quality improvement and business process reengineering; data integration and data management services to aggregate enterprise data and make it available/usable for decision support; procurement of hardware, software, and services, to include analytic and visualization applications; and development of inference and decision models to facilitate analysis and decision support specific to each business process. Command Individual Risk and Resiliency Assessment System (CIRRAS), operationally deployed in September 2020, enables the United States Marine Corps (USMC) commanding officers and senior enlisted advisors to make more informed and timely decisions on Force Preservation (FP) risk assessments, based on identifying and tracking individual Service Member (SM) behaviors associated with increased risk or resiliency as defined by the Marine Corps "Six Fs" (Fidelity, Fighter, Fitness, Family, Finances, and Future). CIRRAS is the Marine Corps Force Preservation Council (FPC) enterprise-wide system to manage individual SM FP risk by providing a consistent approach and a standardized methodology to support protective factors and mitigate adverse outcomes. Current efforts are to deploy additional FP functionality to increase the ability to perform, inform, and record behavioral Service Member risk assessment within the Marine Corps with the development of Version 1.1. The enhanced CIRRAS Version 1.1 capabilities being developed will automate resiliency scores, send automated alerts to leadership of "at risk" personnel, and implement additional system interfaces that will provide further key FP indicator data to assist in prevention of SM suicide. The Total Force Structure Management System (TFSMS) supports combat development activities associated with Expeditionary Force Development System (EFDS) and underpins the Total Force Structure process. TFSMS integrates manning, equipping, organizing and training lifecycle processes and delivers authoritative Marine Corps force structure data to comply with Global Force Management (GFM) Data Strategy. It enables collaborative decision making through its ability to model force structure changes in response to strategic planning needs and the delivery of approved force structure data changes through net centric-compliant web services. TFSMS delivers force structure data to over thirty Marine Corps and Joint data systems to support capabilities such as workforce management (e.g., manpower modeling, recruiting, training), principal end item requirements (e.g., procurement authorizations, transportation planning), installation planning (e.g., test range planning) and unit readiness reporting. Modernization of TFSMS is required to develop and institute modern data sharing standards, increase computing performance, and improve the modeling capability with machine learning.

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Document Type: Project
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
Source ID: 2906_0605013M_5_1319_PB_2023

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