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The Software Engineering Center’s Financial Disclosure Management (FDM) System was recently recognized with two awards at the 18^th National Government Ethics Conference.  The conference, hosted by the US Office of Government Ethics, was held September 13-15 in Orlando, FL. 

The FDM was first awarded with Best Financial Disclosure E-Filing Solution, beating out seven other financial disclosure e-filing systems, including one developed by the US Department of Commerce.  The second award received was for Overall Program Excellence and Innovation, the conference’s highest honor.  Winners were selected through voting by the conference attendees from various Executive Branch agencies.  Conference attendees were given the opportunity to look through about 40 exhibits of Agency ethics programs in various categories, such as e-filing, training aids, and ethics training programs and vote for the program of their choice.

Developed and maintained by the CECOM SEC, the Financial Disclosure Management (FDM) is a web-based system that automates the financial disclosure reporting and reviewing processes.  Each year, over 100,000 OGE 450 and OGE 278 filers use the FDM system to file their financial disclosure reports.  FDM is used across the DoD by agencies such as the Army, Navy, Air Force, DCMA, DeCA, DISA, DSS, DTRA, DCAA, OSD, DLA, and others.  FDM is also used by various non-DoD Executive Branch agencies including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Office of Government Ethics. 

The system has been in operation since 2004 and is the largest and most robust electronic financial disclosure reporting system available to the Federal Government.  In the three-year period from 2008 to 2010, it is estimated that the FDM system has saved the Army over $9.2 million.  FDM is projected to save over $21.8 million DoD-wide over the next three years when compared to the paper-based financial disclosure reporting process. 

- Ray Henley, FDM Project Lead