Core Business Missions

To support a DoD-wide process of identifying joint needs, analyzing capability gaps, and implementing improvements, the Business Mission Area (BMA) is conceptually aligned to focus on supporting the warfighting mission. This construct enables a capabilities-based approach to enterprise business planning, resourcing, and execution.

The BMA encompasses five Core Business Missions (CBMs).

• Human Resources Management
• Weapon System Lifecycle Management
• Materiel Supply & Service Management
• Real Property & Installations Lifecycle Management
• Financial Management

The five CBMs integrate horizontally across all business functions (e.g., planning, budgeting, IT, procurement, maintenance) to provide end-to-end support. The Department’s business transformation effort integrates these five CBMs to ensure that their processes, systems, and operations work in coordination with one another.

Each CBM is led by the appropriate Principal Staff Assistant (PSA). As CBM "owners" within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the PSAs ensure the alignment of transformation investments to end-to-end operational support improvements. They also serve as the approval authority responsible for certifying business system modernization investments, as required by the 2005 NDAA, officially known as 10 U.S.C. 2222, as amended by section 332 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-375).