Army Business System Modernization Initiatives

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The Army Contract Writing System (ACWS) is the Army's strategy for a single enterprise-wide contract writing and management solution that will meet the Army current critical functional contract writing requirements and expand to meet future functional needs. The Army's goal is to streamline Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L) end-to-end business processes; reduce operating, maintenance and support costs; minimize the number interfaces; support financial auditability; and promote and improve efficiencies when integrating with existing Enterprise Resource Planning (ERPs) solutions. This is consistent with Undersecretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Memorandum; Department of Defense (DoD) Functional Contract Writing and Administration, dated 21 October 2011, which set goals that no new contracts should be entered in the DoD legacy Standard Procurement System (SPS) after 30 September 2015 and that all use of SPS would cease on 30 September 2017. Funds are to perform all requisite activities to concurrently develop pre-Milestone A documentation and perform pre-solicitation/source selection activities expected of an ACAT III program in order to comply with the USD AT&L direction. Adapt/improve/install/field government off the shelf (GOTS), commercial off the shelf (COTS), and new software to perform various tasks in a networked environment such as data warehousing, force management, personnel, installation and environmental databases and applications to support Business System Transformation and Installation Management, to include Commander's Risk Reduction Dashboard. The Army Human Resources Command (HRC) has two efforts for which RDT&E will be applied. One is to prepare those systems for subsumption into the Integrated Personnel and Pay System(IPPS-A). The other is to disconnect and upgrade those systems not being subsumed by IPPS-A. Many systems have delayed upgrade do to the planned release of DIMHRS. Systems that will be targeted by HRC to prepare for IPPS-A subsumption or upgrade are the Automated Orders and resources System (AORS), Army Selection Board System (ASBS), Data Base Administration Suite of System (DBA), Enlisted Distribution and Assignment system (EDAS), Enlisted Promotion Model (EPM), Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Human Resource Command Identity Management System (HIMS), Integrated Total Army Personnel Database (ITAPDB), Officer Selection Support System (OSSS), Reserve Statistics Accounting System/Reserve Component Common Personnel Data System (RSAS/RCCPDS), Senior Enlisted Promotions Model (SEPM), Single Evaluation Processing System (SEPS), Soldier Management System Webified Suite of System (SMSWEB), Total Army Personnel Data Base - Active Enlisted (TAPDB-AE), Total Army Personnel Data Base - Active Officer (TAPDB-AO), Total Army Personnel Data Base - Active Reserve (TAPDB-AR), Total Officer Personnel Management Information System (TOPMIS), Total Officer Personnel Management Information System II (TOPMIS II), Keystone Request/Retain System, and the Interactive Personnel Electronic Records Management System (iPERMS). The Program Planning Budget (PPB)- Business Operating System (BOS) will standardize and better integrate the transactional automated information systems used in the HQDA level programming and budgeting processes. These systems are core to the PPBE business processes of the HQ for gathering programmatic requirements, balancing resources and delivering the Army's program budget to OSD. This project is streamlining programming and budgeting processes and significantly improving strategic analysis capabilities. The project is architecting, reengineering, streamlining and consolidating HQDA systems, feeder data base systems, and streamlining the associated processes. These improvements will improve capability, eliminate redundancies and reduce overall cost of operations. The PPB BOS project is complementary to the Army's General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) program. It includes a new effort in FY14, the Army Contract Writing System, a replacement for the DoD Standard Procurement System (SPS). Will field the full operating capability of the Army Mapper system, which is the Army Geospatial data base of record and the HQDA repository for all Installation & Environment related geo-spatial data systems. The Law Enforcement Advisory Program (LEAP), formerly known as the Criminal Information Management System (CIMS), is a collection of mission essential information technology (IT) systems within the Criminal Investigation Command (CIDC) and the Office of the Provost Marshal General (OPMG). USACIDC and OPMG has been tasked by the Army Health Promotion/Risk Reduction (HP/RR)task force to develop and integrate a unified, comprehensive enterprise program / system that shall house Classified and Unclassified - Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES) data which shall leverage existing and future Army LE enterprise information technology (IT) assets and other external data sources providing a full range of law enforcement functions to support business objectives and mission. This new comprehensive enterprise system will be known as the Army Law Enforcement Reporting and Tracking System (ALERTS) and shall provide US Army LE stakeholders the enhanced capability to rapidly and efficiently manage a variety of LE and criminal intelligence (CrimIntel) functions; as well as a broader range of senior executive reporting requirements. The Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a web-based software system used at the Defense Forensics Science Center (DFSC), formerly known as the United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory (USACIL) at Fort Gillem, GA for the management of casework and tracking of all evidence received and processed. The DFSC requires RDT&E funding to complete the configuration, installation and validation of additional LIMS modules in support of forensics (to include the Materials Management,Equipment Management, Proficiency Testing, Training and Crime Scene support); and, to support the development, configuration and implementation of an Expeditionary Forensics Laboratory Information Management System (eLIMS) in theater. The eLIMS is the conduit between the deployed labs and the laboratory located at Ft. Gillem. The eLIMS would provide the forensic analysts with the ability to collect, track, store and analyze evidence collected from battlefield crime scenes at required competency levels of testing and calibration. It will allow the results to be electronically maintained and transmitted to the permanent physical lab at Ft. Gillem, Ga. In addition, the system would afford the analysts electronic access to shared case management and evidence databases at the LAB from their deployed positions. At the current configuration of LIMS from CONUS locations, transmission of case related information can be processed in real time; however, transmission of case related information in theater takes approximately 1-2 hours. If requirements are not funded, the DFSC will not be able to complete and implement the additional forensic modules for the core LIMS or develop and implement the eLIMS for the deployable labs. The stated objective will be delayed, resulting in a less than efficient process for handling of cases in theater and an inability to meet acceptable levels of turnaround time for casework.

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Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
Source ID: T05_0605013A_5_2040_PB_2015

Army Business System Modernization Initiatives

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