General Fund Enterprise Business System

Abstract

General Fund Enterprise Business System-Sensitive Activities (GFEBS-SA): GFEBS-SA is a designated National Security System (NSS) leveraging the GFEBS base system as the Army's core financial management system certified by the Chief Financial Officers Council. The GFEBS base system has reached Full Deployment and is currently in sustainment; however, the Army still has classified and sensitive financial activity remaining in legacy systems that cannot be processed in the fully-fielded GFEBS system without compromising classified information or missions, or endangering soldiers." . Therefore, GFEBS-SA is an essential financial program designed to enable the auditability that is needed to comply with the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act, the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act (FFMIA), and prevent compromise of data that could cause grave harm to U.S. forces. To protect sensitive information and enable clean auditability, the Army requires a separate instance of GFEBS operated on a secure network for processing sensitive and classified financial transactions. GFEBS-SA will integrate with GFEBS to provide secure, web-based financial execution and reporting capabilities for the Army's classified and sensitive activities. GFEBS-SA is envisioned as a fully functional GFEBS application operated on a secure network (SIPR), leveraging off of the sustained system design while providing additional implementation that includes additional performance requirements designed to protect sensitive intelligence operations and special operations missions. It will process Secret Collateral and below information while providing GFEBS capabilities such as distribution and execution of appropriated funds, cost management, financial reporting, and asset management. GFEBS-SA will be implemented and deployed to 3,000 users across 100 locations worldwide. GFEBS-SA will support information exchanges with organizations that support the Army's sensitive activities mission, including cross-security domain integration between SIPR and NIPR with GFEBS and other system partners. Services will be capable of being upgraded throughout the life of the program in order to incorporate advances in best business practices and technology. The funding requested in FY 2020 supports continued system development in order to allow communication to other systems supporting the auditability of classified financial data, system hosting in the Cloud environment, testing, and pre-deployment activities. Overall, the RDT&E funding in FY 2020 supports the transition from development to deployment of the GFEBS-SA effort. Additionally, funds support efforts to integrate sensitive activity capability across the Enterprise. Background: Initial implementation of the GFEBS-SA project did not require development funds beyond FY 2016; however, based on a detailed analysis of the original System Integrator, an Army determination was made that they could not deliver a solution to meet the GFEBS-SA requirement. The program was restructured with an Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) on 9 September 2016 in alignment with an Army-validated Operational Needs Statement. A new System Integrator contract began work on 1 May 2017 with a schedule that supports the Army's timeline; minimizing operational risks to the Army's sensitive activity commands.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
• Source ID: DV6_0604822A_5_2040_PB_2020

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Readers

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