Defense Business Systems Acquisition Executive (DBSAE) Portfolio
Business Enterprise Information Services (BEIS)
The Business Enterprise Information Services (BEIS) provides an overarching solution to link existing disparate programs to establish an enhanced and enterprise-driven financial management capability. By leveraging the DoD’s current investment in information technology, BEIS eliminates redundancy and facilitates reduction of solution costs for financial management operations. BEIS, as a suite of services, supports enterprise financial visibility goals.
BEIS Overview
Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI)
The Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI) represents the DoD’seffort to modernize the Defense agencies’ financial management processes by streamlining financial management capabilities, eliminating material weaknesses, and achieving financial statement auditability for the agencies and field activities across the Department. The DAI implementation approach is to deploy a standardized system solution that effectively addresses the requirements depicted in the Federal Financial Management Improvement Act and the BEA, while leveraging the out-of-the-box capabilities of the selected COTS financial system.
DAI Overview
Defense Information System for Security (DISS)
The Defense Information System for Security (DISS) is tasked with consolidating the DoD’s security mission into an enterprise system to automate implementation and improve national investigative and adjudicative standards to eliminate costly and inefficient work processes, and increase information collaboration across the community. DISS will improve information sharing capabilities, accelerate clearance-processing timelines, reduce security vulnerabilities and increase the DoD’s security mission capability. DISS is currently under development and will replace the legacy Joint Personnel Adjudicative System.
DISS Overview
Defense Travel System (DTS)
The Defense Travel System is a fully integrated, electronic, end-to-end travel management system specifically tailored to meet the unique mission of the DoD. It satisfies the security and financial system requirements for temporary duty travel while remaining within the guidelines of federal and DoD travel policies and regulations.
DTS Overview
Electronic Document Access (EDA)
The Electronic Document Access (EDA) program is a sourcing environment program providing secure online storage and retrieval capabilities of procurement information and documents across the DoD. EDA simplifies and standardizes methods used by the DoD to interact with commercial and government suppliers in the acquisition of catalog stock, as well as made-to-order and engineer-to-order goods and services initiatives to increase the application of Electronic Business/Electronic Commerce across the DoD.
EDA Overview
Enterprise Funds Distribution (EFD)
Enterprise Funds Distribution was established as a key initiative to provide improved visibility of funds distributed throughout the DoD and to streamline and modernize the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) funds distribution process. Funds distribution, by its nature, is a key enabler of financial visibility within DoD-enterprise systems.
EFD Overview
Global Exchange (GEX)
The Global Exchange Service (GEX) provides data transformation, communication protocol adaptation and message brokering between multiple DoD and federal government agencies as well as commercial industry. Formerly known as the Defense Business Exchange, GEX has been under continuous development since 1996 to serve as the enterprise service bus for business system integration across DoD and the federal community.
GEX Overview
Item Unique Identification (IUID)
The Item Unique Identification (IUID) initiative is the strategic imperative for uniquely identifying tangible personal property items and enables accurate and timely valuation and tracking of DoD equipment, materiel and supplies through their life cycle. Accessible IUID information is used to ensure the acquisition, repair and deployment of items in an efficient and effective manner. IUID is one of the cornerstones of the DoD business transformation process.
IUID Overview
Intragovernmental Value Added Network (IVAN)
The Intragovernmental Value Added Network (IVAN) addresses the long-standing material weakness associated with Intra-Governmental Transactions (IGT) identified by the Government Accountability Office, the DoD Inspector General and the Office of Management and Budget. These weaknesses highlight the need to standardize proper IGT processes across the DoD . IGTs are a critical barrier to the Department’s ability to obtain a clean audit opinion.
IVAN Overview
Joint Contingency Contracting System (JCCS)
The Joint Contingency Contracting System (JCCS) provides procurement professionals a source of data entry for contracting and financial data to support mission spend analysis, strategic sourcing and staffing requirements. JCCS output produces contract and financial reports to support the warfighter’s overall acquisition forecasting.
JCCS Overview
Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT)
The Synchronized Pre-deployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) is the congressionally mandated, contractor management system of record that relates contracts with contractor employee information, providing by-name accountability for contractors authorized to accompany the U.S. Armed Forces. SPOT’s mission is to enhance the combatant commander’s awareness of the nature, extent, capabilities and risks associated with contracted support and to facilitate the registering, processing, monitoring and oversight of contractor personnel in contingency, peacekeeping and humanitarian operations.
SPOT Overview
Standard Procurement System (SPS)
The Standard Procurement System (SPS) is a major acquisition program, which develops tests and deploys a suite of software products designed to automate and standardize the procurement process throughout the DoD. SPS’s mission is to deliver world class support to all contracting professionals who use the Procurement Desktop Defense product suite to acquire supplies and services at over 750 sites around the world. The SPS program is dedicated to improving support to the warfighter by bringing greater efficiency and accountability to the DoD procurement process through the use of a standard automated business system.
SPS Overview
Virtual Interactive Processing System (VIPS)
The Virtual Interactive Processing System (VIPS) will enhance the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command capability for processing and enlisting a continuous supply of qualified recruits who are mentally, morally and medically qualified to serve in the Armed Forces. VIPS is being developed incrementally.
VIPS Overview
Wide Area Workflow (WAWF)
Traditionally, the DoD acquisition process has been paper-based, labor intensive, and heavily dependent upon manual and repetitive data inputs from multiple functional communities. Wide Area Workflow is a DoD enterprise, web-based system that allows secure electronic submission, acceptance and procession of invoices and receiving reports in a real-time, paperless environment, resulting in complete transaction visibility, fewer interest penalties and reduced processing time.
WAWF Overview