Transition Planning

Key Milestone Summary

This section responds to the Title 10, U.S. Code, section 2222, requirement to report specific milestones and actual performance against specified performance measures and any revision of milestones and performance measures. During FY08, the Department met 182 of 299 scheduled milestones. Additionally, the Department met 57% of its FY08 retirement targets, retiring 12 of the 21 legacy systems. Table 6-2 displays milestone performance for FY08 and includes a specific explanation for each unmet milestone. The status column in Table 6-2 indicates whether each unmet milestone was slipped, deleted or corrected for administrative reasons.

Only 16% (49/299) of the Department’s milestones were not accomplished within their scheduled timeframe. These milestones are labeled “slipped” in the status column of Table 6-2. A single slipped milestone can create a domino effect of milestone slippages within a program. These program intra-dependencies account for 20 of the 49 total slipped milestones, as shown in Table 6-1. For example, the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System (DIMHRS) did not meet its System Acceptance Testing milestone, which cascaded into six other slipped milestones within the DIMHRS program.

Table 6-1: Accounting for Slipped Milestones

Programs	Slipped Milestones
Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System	7
USAF Personnel Service Delivery	7
Navy Enterprise Resource Planning	2
Navy Total Force Structure Management System	2
Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System-Air Force	2
Total	20

Additionally, 68 milestones were “deleted.” Continually honing the alignment of program direction to the Enterprise’s or Component’s priorities accounted for 44 of the 68 deleted milestones. For instance, as the Components implemented RPIR, it became clear that separate milestones for different data element groupings within RPIR were not required. This change resulted in the deletion of ten milestones. A wide variety of unique reasons account for the remaining 24 deleted milestones.

Milestones corrected for administrative reasons, such as duplicate or mislabeled milestones, were not included in the overall total number of 299 milestones.

Table 6-2 displays the milestones scheduled for completion during FY08, as provided by the September 2007 ETP and the March 2008 Congressional Report.

Table 6-2: FY08 Key Milestone Summary

Task Name	Revised Finish	FY08 Baseline Finish Date	Status	Explanation
Personnel Visibility
DCPDS Defense Civilian Personnel Data System
Define high level technical and functional requirements for HR/Payroll and conduct Preliminary Requirements Review		2/2008	Deleted	No FY08 project funding has been provided for the HR/Payroll
Develop Preliminary Design for the HR/Payroll initiative and conduct preliminary Design Review		4/2008	Deleted	No FY08 project funding has been provided for the HR/Payroll
Final Requirements Review		5/2008	Deleted	No FY08 project funding has been provided for the HR/Payroll
Complete the translation of HR/Payroll into a detailed design and conduct Critical Design Review		6/2008	Deleted	No FY08 project funding has been provided for the HR/Payroll
DIMHRS Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System
Increment: Army
System Integration Test	8/2008	2/2008	Met
System Acceptance Test	TBD	3/2008	Slipped	Critical Change Report submitted Jan 31, 2009
Operational Test and Evaluation	TBD	8/2008	Slipped	Critical Change Report submitted Jan 31, 2009
IOC	TBD	9/2008	Slipped	Critical Change Report submitted Jan 31, 2009
Increment: Air Force
Interface Requirements (Legacy) Complete	TBD	3/2008	Slipped	Critical Change Report submitted Jan 31, 2009
System Integration Test	TBD	6/2008	Slipped	Critical Change Report submitted Jan 31, 2009
System Acceptance Test	TBD	7/2008	Slipped	Critical Change Report submitted Jan 31, 2009