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The army has disabled its business management office from April 1 after 15 years to try to modernize commercial systems and promote integration.
After almost 15 years, the army has closed the office which had been in charge of improving its commercial systems and achieving the objectives of the director of the department of the service.
The Federal News Network learned that the Army closed the Business Management Office (OEM) on April 1. The service has transferred most of the OEM functions to the Director of Service Information.
The army got up the OEM In September 2023 to replace the Office of Business Transformation (OBT). THE Established service OBT In 2010, when he also appointed Joseph Westphal as the first army management director (CMO), as required by the National Defense Autorization Act (NDAA) for the 2008 financial year.
At the same time, Tom Sasala, deputy director of the Office of Enterprise Management Since January 2023is the new executive director of the Army Company Cloud Management Agency (ECMA). He replaces Paul Puckett, the last civil senior executive to occupy the post, which left at the end of 2022. Colonel Leslie Gorman directed ECMA for 10 months until August 2023, when she became director of capacity for electronic war. Colonel Heath Giesecke has led the effort since then.
Other military services and the office of the Secretary of Defense have not realized their similar offices. The Air Force, for example, always has an administration and management office to help its under-secretary in management functions. The navy also has an assistant subsectary for management which plays a similar role.
About 30 people transferred
The army has decided to close the Business Management Office as part of its plan to realign the required functions under a general order Posted on January 20. This note called for the army to disavowed the OEM and the Office of World Policy and Affairs.
Lieutenant-General Laura Potter, director of the military chief of staff, published a follow-up note calling for an implementation plan to close the OEM no later than February 28. Army management accepted the plan in February and began to move offices and people. The army’s initial objective was to close the OEM by September 30, but the leaders accelerated the calendar to do so mainly by April 1.
About 30 OEM people were reassigned, mainly at the IOC office. This includes the head of business architecture of companies, the head of performance and analysis, and the data manager in the commercial mission field.
Other officials, including the director of commercial operations and planning and the head of the performance evaluation, have been reassigned to the assistant under-security of the army or to the deputy secretary of the army.
Since 2010, the army has relied on the OBT – then OEM – to try to modernize and improve the performance of its commercial systems.
The initial OBT mission was to execute the head of the statutory management of the functions of the Congress gave the army’s subsecretary. The under-secretary used the organization to help adjust a large transformation program, promote business transformation initiatives and supervise the management of trade operations of the army.
In 2023, the army went to OEM with a renewed emphasis on business management initiatives to include planning, execution and evaluation of the CMO management agenda, the development and implementation of an army business management plan and the main army management reform initiatives.
OEM has also been responsible for improving army performance (PIO), responsible for assessing army’s business processes through priority commercial measures from the CMO.
OEM played a key role in the management of defense trade systems, supporting the CIO with annual certifications and the integration of architecture in the IT company.
One of OEM’s main priorities was to help build the 2030 army that includes initiatives around Integrated performance improvementdigital literacy and Company performance and efficiency.
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