ARIMS
Abstract
ARIMS is the Army?s policy and enterprise system deployed to meet statutory (36 CFR) and regulatory (AR 25-1, AR 25-400-2) requirements to manage records that document the policies, decisions, and actions of the Army both as a military department and federal institution. ARIMS provides approximately 64,000 (FY18) users with tools and capabilities to collect and preserve Army records, serves as the records management component of Army Knowledge On-Line, and the Secretary of the Army has mandated its use to collect and preserve Army records. ARIMS is replicated on the SIPRNet with ARIMS-Classified (ARIMS-C) to provide similar capabilities for the collection and preservation of the Army?s classified records. ARIMS is an integrated system that supports the SecArmy objective to integrate management systems for the Army?s records management programs and business operations. This line item funds for system, network, and application management for the ARIMS and ARIMS-C infrastructure. Technology changes, integration, and systems migration require contractor support to ensure Army Electronic Archives continues to preserve essential electronic records. These activities support the ARIMS applications and comply with the SecArmy and senior Army leadership to integrate and standardize management systems for business operations. Failure to fund will result in the loss of expertise and in extensive down time in the event of any hardware or software failure in the ARIMS infrastructure. ARIMS downtime precludes the collection and preservation of the Army long-term important records (such as CONOPS records). As a web-based GOTS system, ARIMS is dependent on private industry expertise to conduct troubleshooting and correction of any application or operating system component that is the foundation of the ARIMS and ARIMS-C systems. These skill sets are not maintained by government staff and must, by DoD directive (C3I), be acquired from the private sector. This funds contractor man-years for technical and analytical expertise in the integration and validation of operational databases used to store and research combat records from combat operations in Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Panama, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Iraq, and other contingency operations. The effort supports over 30 distinct and unique operational databases that directly support research into Veteran claims for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Agent Orange, and other medical conditions developed by Soldiers during combat and non-combat operations. Supports the Army?s Data Center Consolidation by turning data base structure to be more efficient and reduce maintenance support costs. Increased Congressional inquiries and litigation have raised leadership awareness of the need to improve records management compliance Army-wide. SecArmy directed workgroup, led by the AASA, with participation by the CIO/G-6, NETCOM, OGC, and OCLL is to provide a comprehensive solution for the Army and integrate and standardize management systems for the Army?s business operations. Enhancing and modernizing of existing ARIMS functionality and capability to support the SecArmy initiative includes updating ARIMS to support current technology such as Microsoft SharePoint environment, expanding storage capability, including network storage , and commensurate expansion of backup, security and communications capabilities over CONUS and OCONUS networks. This effort supports the ADCCP program. This effort transitioned from 0605013A T05 in FY20 and is not a new start.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- bc917c7552076225df4bfe9acd8a0d55