Next Generation Resource Management System

Abstract

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (OUSD(C)) is responsible for advising the Secretary of Defense on all Defense budgetary and fiscal matters, for Defense budget development and execution, and for overseeing financial management across the Department. The OUSD(C) has a broad set of responsibilities in supporting the Planning, Programing, Budget and Execution (PPBE) process. The Office of the Director, Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE), provides independent analytic advice to the Secretary of Defense on all aspects of the Defense program, including alternative weapon systems and force structures, the development and evaluation of programs and defense program alternatives, and the cost-effectiveness of defense systems. OUSD(C) and CAPE use multiple systems to formulate, justify, distribute, and execute DoD budgets. The information managed by the budget formulation and programming systems is redundant, and reconciliation of information is difficult and inefficient. These systems require extensive manpower investments to give executives the information they need to make key financial decisions in a timely manner. The OUSD(C) and CAPE require a more efficient, effective Defense budget environment that optimizes the budget cycle to ensure users are processing and reporting efficiently and DoD Senior Leadership has the information to make informed, critical decisions. The OUSD(C) requires capabilities that shall provide for the effective formulation, and justification of the Defense budget to be adaptable and modern. This includes the following: • Automated exchange and reconciliation of budget data • Improved efficiency through the utilization of a unified budgetary model • Instantaneous ability to generate data for management reviews and decisions • Capability to accommodate emerging business practices • Agile methods to launch and terminate new development efforts more quickly • Seamlessly combine the outputs of multiple efforts at various levels of maturity for organizational responsiveness and alternative resource allocation for innovation adoption To date, a new system has been developed and deployed, and is continuously being tested by the Department of the Army, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and eight smaller defense-wide agencies, with submission parallels scheduled for the Department of the Navy and the Department of the Air Forces, as early as the end of the 2nd quarter of FY 2022. Moving forward, the new system shall be designed as a single system with a unified data source for OUSD(C) and CAPE, which will support the reforming and modernizing of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process. The new system shall provide a single, integrated system that employs the latest technologies to fulfill the Department’s financial management responsibilities in an effective, efficient, and adaptable manner. The new system’s agile development approach shall compliment the continuous and ongoing studies and changes to the PPBE and appropriation processes to prevent stagnant complexities. The new system shall provide twenty-first century information technology that shall allow users to view information from multiple fully integrated modules simultaneously, e.g., current year budget submission, decision documents from previous years, and budget execution information.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 927_0605027D8Z_5_0400_PB_2023

Tags

Readers

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