Fact Sheet: Components Overview
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The transformation efforts of the six most significant business operations
of the Department of Defense (DoD) are highlighted below. These organizations
are the Army, Navy, Air Force, U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM),
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), and the Defense Finance and Accounting
Service (DFAS). These six Components have created and are maintaining
transition plans that identify their transformation visions and goals.
U.S. Army
The Army is transforming from a force designed for contingency operations
in the post-Cold War era to a force designed for continuous operations
in a new era that presents traditional, asymmetric, and potentially
catastrophic risks to the nation. The Army’s business capabilities,
enablers, and processes are being transformed to achieve the following
goals:
- Manning, readiness, and well-being of the force
- Improve business practices and processes: Paying the force and achieving
financial accountability
- Processes to equip the force
- Sustaining the force: Enhanced joint logistics/focused logistics
- Improved capability for stability operations
U.S. Navy
The Navy’s business transformation vision will significantly
increase the readiness, effectiveness, and availability of warfighting
forces by employing business process change to create more effective
operations at reduced costs. The Navy has the following transformation
goals:
- Develop and maintain a secure, seamless, and interoperable information
management/information technology (IM/IT) infrastructure
Create optimized processes and integrated systems
- Optimize investments for mission accomplishments
- Transform applications and data into web-based capabilities to improve
effectiveness and gain efficiencies
- Align Business Mission Area governance to produce a single, integrated
enterprise
U.S. Air Force
The Air Force (AF) Operational Support transformation vision is the
creation of capabilities that provide rapid and predictive Operational
Support and response through situationally aware Commanders. The
Air Force Operational Support enterprise transformation goals include
improving warfighter effectiveness and achieving increased efficiencies
by executing strategies to:
- Focus Operational Support on improving joint warfighter effectiveness
and integrate high-value operational threads across domains and across
combat and non-combat functions
- Set common goals and priorities across the Operational Support AF
enterprise
- Reengineer critical processes, identify and prioritize processes
for improvement, and redesign processes when necessary to achieve
immediate or long-term expectations
- Move systems into a modern information framework. Leverage existing
initiatives of the AF and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)
and synchronize and accelerate them to achieve transformation
- Harvest resources to complete Operational Support transformation
and support modernization of Air Force and joint capabilities
Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)
The Defense Logistics Agency’s (DLA) vision for the future
is to dramatically improve warfighter support at a reduced cost through
business process reengineering, workforce development, technology
transformation, and organizational change. The agency’s transformation
goals are to become:
- A robust customer-focused agency with world-class military service
and warfighter partnering capabilities
- A manager and integrator of the supply chains essential to military
readiness with world-class commercial supplier partnering capabilities
- A single, fully integrated enterprise
U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM)
The United States Transportation Command’s (USTRANSCOM) vision
is to change its orientation from providing strategic transportation
to developing and employing end-to-end (E2E) global transportation
of forces and materiel distribution solutions to improve joint distribution
capabilities for regional Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and functional
Component warfighters. USTRANSCOM seeks to:
- Support the operational effectiveness of COCOMs by deploying command
and control capability for unified theater deployment and distribution
and by providing E2E Total Asset Visibility (TAV) and In-Transit
Visibility (ITV)
- Improve decision cycle time by providing IT support that turns real-time
data into actionable information
- Across DoD, promote financial management processes and solutions
that are Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Act compliant and improve
financial management visibility
- Provide operational flexibility in E2E intermodal distribution through
improved and standardized resources, processes, and systems
Department of Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS)
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) vision is to enable
the warfighter through excellence in its finance and accounting operations—where
excellence is achieved by pledging dependable, accurate and reliable
services at the lowest cost. The DFAS business transformation goals
are to:
- Improve financial management
Streamline business processes through standardized operations
- Deliver accurate and timely military pay services
- Provide business intelligence that supports better operational resource
allocation and decision making
- Deliver error-free pay services on time
- Establish and maintain a partnership with customers to anticipate
needs and deploy integrated solutions that enhance financial management
capabilities acoss the DoD Enterprise
- Attract, develop, and retain a first-rate work foce with the skills,
agility and motivation necessary to achieve the DFAS mission
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