DOD Business Systems Modernization: Progress in Establishing Corporate Management Controls Needs to Be Replicated Within Military Departments

Abstract

DOD continues to take steps to comply with legislative requirements and related guidance pertaining to its business systems modernization highrisk area. In particular, on March 14, 2008, DOD released a new version of its BEA and issued its annual report to congressional defense committees describing steps taken and planned relative to the act's requirements, among other things. The steps address several of the missing elements that we previously identified relative to the legislative provisions and related best practices concerning the BEA, enterprise transition plan, and investment management, and continue to address the act s requirements relative to business system budgetary disclosure and certification and approval of systems costing in excess of $1 million. However, additional steps are needed to fully comply with the act and relevant guidance: The latest version of the BEA resolves several of the architecture gaps associated with the prior version, such as adding business rules and data attributes. However, like the previous version, its focus is largely on DODwide corporate policies, capabilities, rules, and standards. While these are essential to meeting the act s requirements, this version has yet to be augmented by the DOD component organizations subsidiary architectures that also are essential to meeting the act s requirements and the department s goal of having a federated family of architectures. DOD has taken some steps toward extending its architecture through its recently updated federation strategy, however the military departments architecture programs remain immature, particularly those of the Army and the Navy. To address these challenges, we have existing recommendations that DOD has agreed to implement. Once these challenges are addressed, the federated BEA should provide a more sufficient frame of reference to optimally guide and constrain DOD-wide system investments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA481276

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  • Anhe Le
  • Elena Epps
  • Freda Paintsil
  • Michael Holland
  • Neelaxi Lakhmani
  • Randolph C. Hite
  • Rebecca Lapaze
  • Tonia Johnson

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