Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) - Financial System
Abstract
In FY 2023, the DAI PMO accomplished: • Deployed in 29 organizations at over 4,500 locations worldwide, including 121K personnel and over 90K active users. • Obtained seven consecutive Unmodified Opinions for the FY 2023 DAI Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 18 Audit from auditors Ernst and Young at the FY23 DLA SSAE-18 Exit Conference (best outcome). • Deployed Release 5 to over 75K legacy users on 22 October. • Deployed full financial capability to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) and the Naval Special Warfare Command (NSW) on 25 October. • Developed necessary work instructions and training materials. • Supported the DoD RMF process to support actions included in the Authorizing Official’s (AO) required Plan of Actions and Milestones including an independent FISCAM Test of Design/Test of Effectiveness to result in an AO decision to award an Authority to Operate. Authority to Operate (ATO) awarded on 2 February. • Continued maturity the GRC capabilities by expanding Enterprise controls: Configuration, Access, Prevention & Transactions supporting audit findings, recommendations & CAPs. • Maintained technical operations including application of DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides, hardware & software currency for servers operating systems, middleware & applications including patches; overseeing internal processes within the Data Center enclaves; & the daily operation of several interfaces with external systems leveraging DLA Defense Automated Addressing System (DAAS), as well as established Federal Enterprise system web services. • Obtained an interim Interoperability Certification for Release 5.0. • Conducted regular adversarial assessments, Risk Management Framework (RMF) continuous monitoring including code scans, and a Cooperative Vulnerability and Penetration Assessment. • Transitioned to the Cloud Hosting: On 9 Dec 2021 the DAI Functional Sponsor, OUSD(C) signed a decision memo directing the migration of DAI hosting from DISA Data Centers to a commercial cloud hosting solution by October 2023. This migration is expected to increase scalability of DAI for future customer expansion and improve system performance. Conducted an application assessment to prepare for cloud migration in October 2024. • The DAI PMO partnered with the Office of Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD), Comptroller’s Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Team, and DAI user organizations to develop automations for many routine financial management entries - reducing clicks and process deviations among users. These automations have increased data quality and decreased process errors, thereby increasing DAI's auditability, reducing the number of Help Desk tickets received, and freeing DAI PMO sustainment resources to work on higher-value tasks. During FY23 the DAI RPA team developed and deployed eighteen (18) attended and unattended automation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 355d767acff027dde6e1db85c956cbf2