For decades, the DoD has been challenged in modernizing its thousands of business systems. Since 1995, this effort has been designated as high risk. One key to effectively modernizing DoD¿s systems environment and satisfying relevant legislative requirements is ensuring that business system investments comply with an enterprisewide strategic blueprint, commonly called an enterprise architecture. For DoD¿s business systems modernization, it is developing and using a federated Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA), which is a coherent family of parent and subsidiary architectures. This report determines whether key Dept. of the Navy business systems modernization programs comply with DoD¿s federated BEA. Charts and tables.

The global threat landscape is constantly evolving and remaining competitive and modernizing our digital environment for great power competition is imperative for the Department of Defense. We must act now to secure our future.This Digital Modernization Strategy is the cornerstone for advancing our digital environment to afford the Joint Force a competitive advantage in the modern battlespace.Our approach is simple. We will increase technological capabilities across the Department and strengthen overall adoption of enterprise systems to expand the competitive space in the digital arena. We will achieve this through four strategic initiatives: innovation for advantage, optimization, resilient cybersecurity, and cultivation of talent.The Digital Modernization Strategy provides a roadmap to support implementation of the National Defense Strategy lines of effort through the lens of cloud, artificial intelligence, command, control and communications and cybersecurity.This approach will enable increased lethality for the Joint warfighter, empower new partnerships that will drive mission success, and implement new reforms enacted to improve capabilities across the information enterprise.The strategy also highlights two important elements that will create an enduring and outcome driven strategy. First, it articulates an enterprise view of the future where more common foundational technology is delivered across the DoD Components. Secondly, the strategy calls for a Management System that drives outcomes through a metric driven approach, tied to new DoD CIO authorities granted by Congress for both technology budgets and standards.As we modernize our digital environment across the Department, we must recognize now more than ever the importance of collaboration with our industry and academic partners. I expect the senior leaders of our Department, the Services, and the Joint Warfighting community to take the intent and guidance in this strategy and drive implementation to achieve results in support of our mission to Defend the Nation.

Since 1995, the Dept. of Defense's (DoD) multibillion dollar business systems modernization program has been designated as high risk, and it continues to do so today. To assist in addressing DoD's modernization challenges, the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2005 requires the DoD to, among other things, report specific information about business system investments, including: (1) milestones and actual performance against specified measures and any revisions; and (2) actions taken to certify that a modernization investment involving more than $1 million meets defined conditions before obligating funds. This report focused on the FY 2010 report's compliance with, these provisions of the act. Illus. This is a print-on-demand publication; it is not an original.