Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI)

Abstract

The mission of the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) program is to modernize the participating Defense Agencies’ financial management processes by streamlining financial management capabilities, eliminating material weaknesses, and achieving financial statement auditability for the Agencies and field activities across the DoD. DAI will transform the budget, finance, and accounting operations of the participating Defense Agencies to achieve accurate and reliable financial information for financial accountability and efficient decision making. The DAI implementation approach is to deploy a standardized system solution that effectively addresses the requirements depicted in such tools as the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA) and the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), while leveraging the out-of-the-box capabilities of the selected commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) product. The DAI business solution, once implemented, will provide a near real-time, web-based system from a .mil environment of integrated business processes that will enable in excess of 100,000 Defense Agency financial managers, program managers, auditors, and Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) representatives to make sound financial business decisions to support the warfighter. DAI will implement a compliant COTS business solution with common business processes and data standards for the following business functions within budget execution requirements: procure to pay; order to cash; acquire to retire; budget to report; cost accounting; grants accounting; budget formulation; time and attendance; and re-sales accounting. The Defense Agencies are committed to leveraging their resources and talents to build an integrated system that supports standardized processes and proves that the DoD is capable of using a single architecture and foundation to support multiple, diverse components. The benefits of DAI are: - Common business processes and data standards; - Access to real-time financial data transactions; - Significantly reduced data reconciliation requirements; - Enhanced analysis and decision support capabilities; - Standardized line of accounting with the use of Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS); and - Use of USSGL Chart of Accounts to resolve DoD material weaknesses and deficiencies. The system integration services for the DAI will include the following: Project management; Blueprinting; Design, Build, and Unit Test; Reports, Interfaces, Conversion, Extensions (RICE); Testing (integration, functional, performance, conversion, security, user acceptance, operational); End-User Training/Change Management; System Deployment; Conversion; Information Assurance; Sustainment; Data Service; Help Desk Support; Studies and Analysis Support; and Site Surveys.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 3_0605070S_5_0400_PB_2012

Tags

Fields of Study

• Business

Readers

• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• Software Engineering.