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Fact Sheet: Facts & Figures
DID YOU KNOW …
The Department’s FY05 total operating budget of $430 billion
is larger than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of countries such
as Switzerland, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Argentina, Israel, and Egypt.
The Department has over
5.2 million inventory items. By comparison, Wal-Mart has approximately
11,000 inventory items and Home Depot has around 50,000. These
companies have one system for tracking inventory, while the DoD
has 60 systems reporting inventory.
DID YOU KNOW …
DoD contracts issued between
October 1, 2004 and
April 30, 2005:
- $29 million for food preparation and serving equipment
- $48 million for hand tools
- $138 million for office
equipment
- $344 million for firefighting,
rescue, safety, and
environmental protection
equipment
- $889 million for weapon systems fire control
equipment
- $1.8 billion for electrical
and electronic equipment
components
- $2.3 billion for motor vehicles
- $4.9 billion for fuels, lubricants, oils, and waxes
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The
Department of Defense (DoD) is perhaps the largest and most complex
organization in the world. DoD manages more than twice the dollar
volume of the world’s largest corporation, employs more people
than the population of some countries, provides medical care for
as many patients as the largest health management organization,
and carries five hundred times the number of inventory items as
the world’s largest commercial retail operation.
The sheer size of the Department is a direct result of the magnitude
of its mission and the broad responsibilities it has for maintaining
national, and ultimately, global security. This mission demands that
the Department be as nimble, adaptive, and flexible as any organization
in the world—while analyzing and complying with 145,00 financial
compliance requirements from federal legislation, regulation, and
policy. Reconciling the apparent contradiction between size and flexibility—between
complexity and adaptability—is the challenge of defense business
transformation.
The facts and figures below highlight the magnitude of transformation
within the Department’s Core Business Missions (CBMs).
Human Resources Management (HRM)
- 5.5 million personnel
- 1.4 million active duty military
- 800,000 civilian employees
- 1.2 million Guard and Reserve
- 2 million retirees and families receiving benefits
Weapon System Lifecycle Management (WSLM)
- 1,312 major weapon systems, managing 4.6 million parts and supplies
Materiel Supply and Service Management (MSSM)
- 5.2 million items that support individuals and the Services’ weapons
platforms
- Receives more than 54,000 requisitions, processes nearly 8,200 contracts,
and conducts business with nearly 24,000 different suppliers each
day
Real Property and Installations Lifecycle Management (RPILM)
- Over $700 billion in real property assets
- 545,000 facilities at 5,500 locations in 40 countries
- 29 million acres of installations, assets, and resources
worldwide
- 2.2 billion square feet of buildings
Financial Management (FM)
- $700 billion in assets
- 282 active appropriations
- 124 million accounting transactions
- 140 million pay transactions to 5.5 million personnel
- 9.3 million contracts annually
- 12.6 million commercial invoices
- 6.9 million travel payments
- Average of $455 billion in disbursements
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