Army Business System Modernization Initiatives

Abstract

Army Business System Modernization Initiatives include: 1. Enterprise Business Systems-Convergence (EBS-C): SAP announced that the current application, Enterprise Central Component (ECC), would not be maintained after 2027 and customers will be required to upgrade to their new version SAP S/4 HANA. In response to this notification, the Army conducted studies in 2019/2020 by the Business Enterprise IT Leaders Group chaired by the Office of Business Transformation. Based on the results of these studies and direction from the Under Secretary of the Army, EBS-C is executing a strategic approach to modernize the Army business system landscape; align modern combat and combat support system capabilities with existing modernization efforts to enable Army force dominance during multi-domain large-scale combat operations in contested logistics environments; and improve overall Army financial operations resulting in improved financial management and successful audit outcomes. The Army is working EBS-C requirements to improve process agility and cross process integration; provide consistent user experiences with an intuitive user interface; and improve data integrity and security. At the enterprise level, EBS-C seeks to integrate financial and logistics processes and create opportunities to decrease overall Defense Business Systems (DBS) redundancies and duplications existing in the Army portfolio. In order to achieve the EBS-C mission, the RDT&E in FY 2024 will set the conditions for the innovation required to implement a de-customized Enterprise Resource Program (ERP) solution integrated with an agility layer providing an intuitive user interface with minimal customization reducing long term maintenance costs. The in-scope DBS for this effort includes General Funds Enterprise Business Systems (GFEBS) and GFEBS-Sensitive Activities (SA), Logistics Management Program (LMP), Global Combat Support System (GCSS)-Army, Army Enterprise System Integration Program (AESIP) Hub, and numerous non-ERP systems performing needed logistics and financial functions. FY 2025 Base dollars in the amount of $58.239 million will enable the development of the EBS-C solution and the establishment of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. The development will leverage the prototypes developed in FY 2024 as part of the risk reduction activities to lay the foundation for the deployable EBS-C solution in FedRAMP compliant government provided cloud environments utilizing proven agile methodology. 2. Global Force Information Management (GFIM) is an automated, integrated, and interoperable digital environment that enables the Army's Deploy to Redeploy/Retrograde (D2RR) end-to-end business processes in support of Dynamic Force Employment (DFE). The GFIM system will provide the core Global Force Management-Data Initiative (GFM-DI) compliant data necessary for ERP systems, Business Mission Area (BMA) systems, and Warfighting Mission Area (WMA) systems to execute business processes efficiently and effectively in support of Army warfighting operations and Title 10 responsibilities. Today, over 85% of these core Army Business Processes are accomplished manually or with tools that are end-of-life, do not meet current Cybersecurity/Technology requirements, and are hosted on disparate technology platforms that are unable to be integrated. GFIM will provide an integrated planning, programming, and production capability to dynamically develop, design, and document an Army at rest and an Army in motion. GFIM will evolve both long-term and immediate bridging solutions that integrate and automate Army operational business processes. The GFIM components will provide the Army with a functional and integrated transactional platform that creates and develops the requisite force structure, deployment, redeployment, retrograde, and readiness data needed to man, equip, train, ready, and resource the force and feed the Army's ERPs and Non-ERPs in support of multi-domain operations. The result will be an interoperable, collaborative environment to enable the seamless creation and exchange of authoritative data across the operational community of practice to provide rapid, accurate, and auditable outcomes that will support risk-informed senior leader decisions. FY 2025 Base dollars in the amount of $12.024 million will be used to continue development of the GFIM Objective Environment (OE) to provide an automated global force management solution for the Army's Deploy to Redeploy and Retrograde (D2RR) business process. Activities include development and initial deployment of the Provide the Current Force (PCF) capability as well as further enhancements to the Develop the Future Force (DFF) Minimum Viable Capability Release (MVCR) that is projected to deploy at the end of FY 2024. These capabilities will deliver an enterprise solution that will more efficiently and effectively align and prepare forces and infrastructure, conduct mobilization, deployment, and employment activities, as well as re-deployment and demobilization activities. The program is utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development methodology enabling incremental release of capability to the user community. 3. Installations, Energy, and the Environment (IEE) EBS BUILDER and PAVER DoD requires a standardized, auditable, process for facility condition assessments and the calculation of deferred maintenance. The DoD uses the Sustainment Management System (SMS) to conduct real property condition assessments, identify work requirements, and report on real property asset conditions. SMS provides a consistent baseline for condition assessment of all assets across DoD. This effort develops interfaces with EBS-C within the Army's Enterprise Business System Multi-Functional Capabilities Team (EBS-MFCT) for IEE domain related to construction and real property. This effort develops and integrates modules for buildings (BUILDER) and pavement (PAVER) to modernize and consolidate these modules so that installations can manage all assets in a single enterprise system called Enterprise SMS (ESMS). The Enterprise Sustainment Management System (ESMS) Web Application is a cloud-based solution, bringing all real property infrastructure domains under the umbrella of a single SMS application. Performing long-range work requirements projections across all SMS domains allows for a comprehensive analysis of various courses of action and the related effects and tradeoffs of each decision. In addition to the incorporation of all SMS domains in a single application. The ESMS application provides increased control of user permission definition, teaming, and how permissions me applied; updated business intelligence reporting capabilities; and improved user experience, leveraging state of the art web development techniques for more efficient use from beginning to end. ESMS helps all real property asset management stakeholders - from civil engineers, technicians and managers to headquarters - decide when, where and how to best maintain existing infrastructure. Because assets are so vast and diverse, a "knowledge-based" philosophy drives the SMS process. FY 2025 Base dollars in the amount of $3.285 million will continue development of ESMS to optimize assessments for Pavement, Utilities, Rails, and other facility types. 4. The Army Vantage Program is a data integration and visualization platform that enables the Army to "see itself" by providing Senior Leaders, Soldiers, Staff, and analytic communities with a common, integrated data platform to visualize and analyze the current and predicted future state(s) of the Army. It spans all data domains, powers a set of configurable views, and provides tools for making data-driven decisions at every level of the Army. Vantage has configured 14 Lines of Effort (LOEs) - investments in new use cases, workflows, or capabilities. LOEs focus on platform configuration, data integration, and user engagement for select critical workflows. The features and advantages of the platform allow the Army to (1) see itself clearly through its data, (2) meet its strategic modernization objectives, and (3) rapidly realize ROI. FY 2025 Base dollars in the amount of $3.006 million will continue effort(s) with ADVANA to mitigate risk with enterprise data platform migration, pilot an open architecture universal data connection adapter to broker data with legacy systems, and further support the Army CIOs Application Programming Interface (API) layer enabling the enterprise data mesh construct. 5. Army Energy and Water Reporting System (AEWRS) is used to collect rollups of energy/water usage and program management at Army installations. AEWRS is the Army's official database of record for all energy and water usage data, and energy program management information. It provides the basis for documenting Army progress in meeting statutory and mandated performance metrics. Data is passed other systems and to DOD to be joined by similar energy and water data from the other services. AEWRS incorporated as a module the Solid Waste Annual Reporting for the Web (SWARWeb) which is the Army's official database of record for solid waste management and recycling data at the Installation, Subordinate Command, Major Command, Region and Army levels. Data is collected for disposal sites, disposal and recycling transactions, recycling revenues and recycling program management. Solid waste data collected throughout the fiscal year is submitted to higher command levels to fulfill reporting requirements and to track compliance with DoD waste reduction/recycling goals. FY 2025 Base dollars in the amount of $0.952 million will continue to modernize application software for the AEWRS from earlier software to improve its risk management posture, as well as providing additional mandated reporting capabilities required by revised statutes and federal/DoD policies. 6. The Enterprise Exceptional Family Member Program (E-EFMP) System streamlines enrollment, provides transparency, and synchronizes assignment coordination and Family support access, as the official EFMP system of record. E-EFMP supports Active Duty, Guard, and Reserve Soldiers. E-EFMP supports integration of data for the Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG), Medical Command (MEDCOM), Human Resource Command (HRC), Installation Management Command (IMCOM), and connects to Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) and Integrated Personnel and Pay System - Army (IPPS-A). This subline has no funding after FY 2024. 7. The Enterprise Architecture Business Systems Consolidation effort provides direct execution support for the following Major Objectives of ACP - Army Campaign Plan Strategy Map. The objective is a reduced number of systems and reduced IT costs. In support of Army Resource Cloud/cPROBE, onboarded partners to consolidate hosting, enterprise licenses, Risk Management Framework and reduce overall Information Technology costs. This subline has no funding after FY 2023.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: T05_0605013A_5_2040_PB_2025

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