Overview[]
The Department of Defense's Defense Business Systems Management Committee (DBSMC):
- Provide strategic direction and plans for the business mission area in coordination with the warfighting and enterprise information environment mission areas.
- Recommend policies and procedures required to integrate DoD business transformation and attain cross-department, end-to-end interoperability of business systems and processes.
- Serve as approving authority for business system modernizations greater than $1 million.
- Establish policies and approve the business mission area strategic plan, the enterprise transition plan for implementation of business systems modernization, and the business enterprise architecture (BEA).
The Committee is chaired by the Deputy Secretary of Defense/Chief Management Officer; the Vice Chair is the DCMO. Includes senior leadership in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, such as the DOD CIO. Also includes the military department Chief Management Officers, the heads of select defense agencies, and other senior participation by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the U.S. Transportation Command.