Army Business Transformation - Next Steps

As a follow-on to the Army Science Board 2005 Summer Study on Best Practices, the Army Science Board was tasked to identify areas where alternative approaches and application of transforming practices and policy could benefit the Army in the areas of 1 Human Resources Management 2 Weapon Systems, Real Property and Installation Lifecycle Management 3 Material Supply and Service Management and 4 Financial Management. Study activities were divided into 4 subpanels on these enumerated areas of interest. With respect to these areas, the Board was instructed to Focus on Army processes where alternative approaches can be applied within a 2 year period Examine leverageable changes in other ServiceJoint processes Designatedevelop metrics to gauge performance and, Recommend organizational changes, Return on Investment ROl of resource savings, implementation costs plus internal and external regulatorystatutory considerations. Major recommendations include 1 Establish a Human Capital Development Command 2 Develop an enterprise-wide decision support system 3 Consolidate and lean BRAC-identified organizations prior to moving 4 Establish a team of subject matter experts to develop a Time Defined Acquisition process for the Army 5 Establish financial management policy, data structures and analytic capabilities to leverage the General Fund Enterprise Business System GFEBS for support of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System PPBES, Enterprise-wide analysis and decision support tools and 6 Improve the supply chain by a Implementing Purchasing and Supply Chain Management and major component Performance Based Logistics PBL, b Establishing a policy to obtain Pre-war Obligation Authority including surge provisions in supply contracts and resource war reserve and c Implementing a shared services contract process for goods and services to provide price advantages for local ordering.