GENERAL FUND ENTERPRISE BUSINESS SYSTEM SENSITIVE

Abstract

The General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) is a Major Automated Information System (MAIS)(ACAT-1AM) project that replaces 30+-year-old financial systems including the Standard Finance Systems (STANFINS), Standard Operations and Maintenance, Army R&D System (SOMARDS), and Database Commitment Accounting System (DbCAS/WebCas. GFEBS will become the Dept of the Army's new core financial and asset management system for administering its general fund, improving performance, standardizing processes and ensuring future needs are met. GFEBS is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System certified by the Chief Financial Officers Council (CFOC).GFEBS will train and support nearly 54,000 users at over 200 installations worldwide and is the Army's solution to the current capability gap in accounting and financial management. This new capability will provide improved functionality in general fund core financial functions including: general ledger management; financial reporting; real property, plant, and equipment accountability; reimbursables, revenue, and accounts receivable; cost management; funds control and budgetary accounting; accounts payable; and audit trails and system controls and meets legislative mandates to develop an auditable financial system. Presently, none of these functional areas are adequately addressed with existing processes and capabilities. The primary objectives for the GFEBS financial management system are to improve performance, standardize business processes, ensure capability exists to meet future needs, and provide Army's decision makers with relevant, reliable, and timely information. On 1 October 2008, GFEBS deployed to Wave 1 end users at Fort Jackson Garrison, Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS) Indianapolis, Indiana and several other organizations. On 1 April 2009, GFEBS deployed to Wave 2 users at Fort Benning, Fort Stewart, DFAS Rome and several other organizations. Wave 3 deployed in October FY10, Wave 4 in January of FY11, Wave 5 in April 2011 and Wave 6 in July 2011. GFEBS is currently fielded to approximately 38,000 trained end users and the last development software release, Release 1.4.4, was fielded to all users in December 2011. Each fielded release subsumes the previous release keeping all deployed sites executing under the same GFEBS release. The Full Deployment Decision was received by the Milestone Decision Authority on 24 June 2011. In FY12 GFEBS is scheduled to deploy the remaining waves, 7-8, which encompass the remainder of the Active Army, Army Reserves, Army National Guard and select defense agencies. Funds are for the Sensitive Activities (SA) increment of the GFEBS program developed to process data in a secure environment to protect and manage classified data. Without the SA increment, GFEBS will be unable to achieve an unliquidated audit opinion and, as all other activities of the Army convert to GFEBS, the SA activities will be exposed unless they, too, convert to GFEBS functionality. Funds are required to execute the System Integrator contract to develop and test the SA solution.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2013
• Source ID: DV6_0604822A_5_2040_PB_2013

Tags

Readers

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