Standardize essential operational data, processes, and business rules in order to significantly improve the DoD's ability to process and share information throughout the enterprise
Simplify overly complex business rules that unnecessarily complicate operations, lead to expensive and risk-filled solutions, and inhibit breakthrough performance improvement
Stovepipe operations must be eliminated from solution design and deployment, so that the DoD's historically narrow-focused approach to business gives way to an approach that seeks to optimize end-to-end business processes
Streamline DoD's core end-to-end business processes to eliminate non-value added activities and achieve significant improvements in the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations
Systems and Services must be deployed in a timely and cost effective manner with a conscious focus on sound requirements management and comprehensive risk mitigation to achieve improved efficiency and effectiveness
Under Secretary of Defense (AT&L) Approves ECSS Acquisition Documentation Streamlining
The documentation streamlining approach tailors DoDI 5000.2, “Operation of the Defense Acquisition System,” which is used throughout the Department of Defense. Full Article
DBSAE Acting Director Keith Seaman Presents "The Way Ahead" at Air Force IT Day
With a theme, "IT…The Enabler for Mission Assurance," the conference covered a wide range of topics of interest to IT professionals. Full Article
BTA Exhibits at Lean Six Sigma for Defense Symposium
The Lean Six Sigma for Defense symposium focused on the bottom line to benefit the Department of Defense enterprise. Full Article
BTA and CTO Present at Defense Logistics 2008 Conference
Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Technical Officer and Chief Architect, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, addressed attendees at Defense Logistics 2008 on December 3. Full Article
BTA Helps II MEF Prepare to Pass the Baton to Iraqi Provincial Leaders
The Business Transformation Agency recently provided Marines of the Second Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) (II MEF) support to effectively "prepare for the handoff." Full Article
Economic and Stability Enablers in Iraq Advance Progress
The Business Transformation Agency (BTA) and the Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations in Iraq have been involved in many areas to help advance economic progress in Iraq, according to Army Col. Michael J. Meese, Ph.D. Full Article
BTA Enterprise Integration Director Prashant Gaur on Implementing Business and Financial Systems Across DoD
BTA's Enterprise Integration Director spoke at the Association of Government Accountants Annual Mid-Atlantic Professional Development Conference. Full Article
Dennis Wisnosky Delivers Keynote Address at Defense Manufacturing Conference
Dennis Wisnosky, Chief Technical Officer and Chief Architect, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, introduced the initiative referred to as Global Collaborative Manufacturing Architecture. Full Article
BTA Director Announces Agency Transition Enablers to Advance Defense Business Transformation
BTA Director David Fisher rolls out eight documents which outline BTA’s guiding principles to advance Defense business transformation. Full Article
Recent Updates
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.
2008 Enterprise Transition Plan
BEA 5.0 released March 2008 Business Enterprise Architecture
Business Capability Lifecycle (BCL)
