News and Events
BTA wins AKO/DKO top honors
Business Transformation Agency’s (BTA’s) Enterprise Planning & Investment (EP&I) Directorate won three out of five Army Knowledge On-Line (AKO)/Defense Knowledge On-Line (DKO) first-place awards Aug. 4 at the 2010 LandWarNet Conference in Tampa, Fla. .....Full Article
BEA 7.0 Available in ACART: Making BEA Compliance Easier
The Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) 7.0 is now available in Architecture Compliance and Requirements Traceability (ACART) .....Full Article
BTA Delivers DoD's Annual Report to Congress Highlighting Business Improvements
The March Congressional Report on Defense Business Operations updates Congress on progress made through the implementation of the Department's Enteprise Transition Plan ....Full Article
BTA Sponsors Leadership and Innovation Seminar
Senior leaders were fully engaged in business system management at BTA's second "Leadership & Innovation: Operators Driving Solutions" program ...... Full Article
BEA 7.0 Compliance Guidance Released, Enables More Efficient Usage of the BEA
BTA releases BEA 7.0 Compliance Guidance to provide direction on how to assess and document DBS compliance to the BEA across the DoD Enterprise .....Full Article
BEA 7.0 Improves Architecture Business Processes, Presentation and Navigation
BTA launches BEA 7.0 to assert compliance by the Defense Business Systems across the DoD Enterprise ....Full Article
Diving into Defense Business Systems Acquisition
BTA and the Naval Postgraduate School Dive into Defense Business Systems Acquisition.... Full Article
BTA Gets Ombudsman
Director Fisher appoints Will Stormer as BTA’s Ombudsman for Procurement Integrity.... Full Article
Recent Updates
BTA Director Fisher Writes Federal Times Op-Ed
David Fisher wrote a thought-provoking op-ed in the July 11 issue of Federal Times suggesting that a team bonus system be tied with GS to spur performance. Read the Article
VIPS Increment 1.0 RFP Available on FedBizOpps
BTA has released the final RFP for the system development of the Virtual Interactive Processing System (VIPS) Increment 1.0 on 20th April 2010. To access the RFP, please follow this link.
New focus on business operations across DoD
BTA Director David Fisher puts into context the roles of the CMO and DCMO and reviews six guiding principles to enable success in business transformation across DoD in a FederalTimes.com commentary.
David Fisher Interviewed on Federal News Radio
BTA Director David Fisher was the guest on "Fed Talk" on Federal News Radio Friday, December 19. Fisher spoke about the challenges, opportunities and guiding principles for Business Transformation at DoD.
Full Interview. (mp3 file is courtesy of Federal News Radio)
Agency seeks to streamline Defense business systems
"Hundreds of legacy business systems will be retired over the next few years, if one small Defense Department agency gets its way." - Gregg Carlstrom, FederalTimes.com
Defense lays groundwork for new management chief
While it will be up to President-elect Barack Obama to fill a congressionally mandated deputy chief management officer position at the Defense Department, the Pentagon already is making preparations for the new official's arrival.
Boosting Performance in Public-Sector IT: An Interview with BTA Director David Fisher
In a July 2008 article, published by The McKinsey Quarterly, the Department of Defense Business Transformation Agency Director David Fisher brings insight from his experience working in Silicon Valley to drive change in DoD’s business processes and information systems. Fisher provides an overview of DoD’s goals for transformation, reviews challenges in deploying technology and managing large-scale projects in support of transformation efforts, keeping people motivated, setting performance measures and lessons learned.
Strategic Management Plan Released
The U.S. Department of Defense, in response to Section 904 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, has released a Strategic Management Plan and Section 904 Implementation Plan.
Final Section 904 Implementation Plan
FY08 Strategic Management Plan
Training
The BTA training initiative serves to advance understanding of BTA’s programs through one-stop access to high quality e-learning products, tools, and resources.
BTA’s e-learning initiative currently offers the ACART v4.0 e-learning and tutorials on Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS) and the Enterprise Transition Plan (ETP).
For more information, click here.
BTA Director's Video - Advancing Defense Business Transformation
BTA's Guiding
Principles.
The Six S's of Success
Final Report on Defense Business Operations to the Congressional Defense Committees
BEA 7.0 Official Release, Published March 2010
Business Capability Lifecycle (BCL)
Open Government at the Department of Defense
The Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive
Connecting DoD’s Business Mission to the Warfighter
