E-business works hand in hand with the Components and the Business Transformation Agency (BTA) to ensure functional process, policy, and data
requirements are incorporated in DoD-wide procurement-related business initiatives and systems (such as Wide Area Workflow). In addition,
E-business represents the Department's requirements with the federal Integrated Acquisition Environment (IAE) portfolio of programs (including CCR and FPDS).

Purchase Cards are government charge cards that enable the Department of Defense to streamline its business processes and thereby free up resources for critical national security needs.

Item Unique Identification, IUID, is an international standards based approach adopted by DoD that makes the acquisition, repair, and deployment
of items faster and more efficient. This is achieved by: (1) Marking qualifying items with a machine-readable data matrix mark that contains a
permanent, gobally unique and unambiguous identifier called a Unique Item Identifier (UII), and (2) Capturing specific life cycle item data for the
UII in a centralized registry. The result is easier access to authoritative information about UII marked items throughout their life in the DoD
inventory and Government Furnished Property in the hands of contractors. The UII can then be leveraged as a common data key across functionally
disparate data systems. Because the mark is machine-readable, human error in data entry is eliminated, significantly improving the accuracy of
inventory and acquisition records.