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EFFICIENCIES The CECOM Software Engineering Center developed and maintains the Financial Disclosure Management, referred to as FDM, system, a web-based user friendly system automating financial disclosure reporting and reviewing. The system provides significant cost avoidance for the Department of Defense and other government executive branch agencies. In the three-year period from 2008 to 2010, FDM saved the Army an estimated $9.2 million over the paperbased financial disclosure reporting process and is projected to provide over $8.4 million in cost avoidance for DoD and non-DoD agencies this year. The Software Engineering Center’s Data Center Services team is supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense move of their public facing applications to DISA. The OSD Chief Information Officer requested SEC’s support for data center consolidation efforts in the Pentagon, based on SEC’s work supporting the Army Data Center Consolidation Plan. SEC’s Data Center Services team is developing the architecture to consolidate eight existing public facing applications; consolidating and eliminating redundant applications, streamlining, migrating and hosting the resulting four OSD public facing applications at DISA for Enterprise Information Technology Services Directorate; an office of the Washington Headquarters Services. By implementing best practices and reducing unnecessary applications, SEC is providing OSD with cost avoidance by consolidating the remaining applications and providing a smaller, streamlined server footprint. 36 THE LINK | SPRING 2013
Using SEC’s Acquisition Data Validation Tool, ADVT, the Army has completed Army Contracting Business Intelligence System fiscal year 2012 compliance certification as required by the DoD Data Improvement Plan. Developed in response to an Office of Federal Procurement Policy memorandum issued May 9, 2008, the DoD Data Improvement Plan requires additional steps to verify and validate the accuracy of data in the Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation. Army components use the ADVT, developed and maintained by SEC to facilitate this process. Through its use, the Army’s overall accuracy rate has improved from 89.73 percent in fiscal year 2008 to 96.34 percent in fiscal year 2012. ADVT is a key enabler for Army compliance certification, making the process easier for users while providing efficiency by improving overall reporting accuracy since its inception. Value CECOM SEC relocated the Joint Computer-Aided Acquisition and Logistic Support (JCALS) Army Regional Operations Center (AROC) coop site to the Robert A. Young Federal Building in St. Louis, MO, providing an estimated $1.16 million in cost avoidance over the next two years. The new JCALS location not only provides cost avoidance, but also significantly increased efficiency with near real time replication of critical backup data, reducing potential system outage times. Employees continue to incorporate Lean into work processes to continuously improve Tobyhanna Army Depot’s competitiveness and customer support, and lower costs. Small changes led to big improvements for Management Assistant Danielle Benson and her team. They were able to streamline the Security Division’s Contractor Background Check Process by removing unnecessary and redundant process steps, improving the request form and mistake-proofing methods, and implementing a consistent means of submission. The Another Lean Six Sigma process lead time (time it takes to complete one check) was reduced from 18 project has cut Tobyhanna’s mailing costs by $1 million minutes to five minutes and produced per year. Process Improvement a more user friendly process. Specialist Nancy Jinselli led a team that improved the process by which equipment is mailed via Federal Express (FedEx). The team’s efforts resulted in a 57 percent cost savings per shipment. Cost savings of $3,012,026 will be realized over a period of three years by identifying and eliminating invalid, unauthorized and incompletely documented FedEx shipments by implementing a revised Tobyhanna form. The form is aimed at reducing rework and mitigating the risks of fraud. SPRING 2013 | | THE LINK 37 37
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