One of Ten: GCSS-Army Wins 2015 Government Computer News Award

Global Combat Support System-Army (GCSS-Army), the Army’s largest, most ambitious Enterprise Resource Planning solution, was recently named one of the 10 GCN IT Excellence Award winners. The 28th annual award ceremony was held October 14, 2015, at the Ritz Carlton, Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. Product Manager LTC Christopher Romero accepted the award.

The Department of Defense (DOD) organization was selected from hundreds of public sector nominees. GCSS-Army was nominated by Program Executive Officer Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Mr. Douglas Wiltsie. GCSS-Army is part of the Project Manager Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program (AESIP) portfolio, which reports to the Army PEO EIS.

GCSS-Army and the other nominees support GCN’s mission to aid public sector Information Technology managers. GCN provides research, opinions and product information to solve public sector IT challenges.

At the ceremony, the GCN committee presented the ten awards and five honorable mentions. Represented were federal, state and local government agencies from all parts of the United States. In addition to receiving awards, the winning programs were profiled in the October edition of GCN.

GCSS-Army was praised during the ceremony remarks for leading “the largest Enterprise Resource Planning deployment in the U.S. Army history,” with 154,000 users in all Army components world-wide.

Said GCN, GCSS-Army is “the Army’s most significant transformation effort in history for a logistics information system,” designed to merge the work of 40,000 databases which perform tactical supply, property accountability, maintenance and the associated financial functions.

For the first time in the Army’s history, GCSS-Army is tying tactical logistics and the associated financial transactions into a single database. The end goal is “to have a unified view; one version of the truth in near real-time that is available anytime, anywhere,” said LTC Romero.

With cost and logistics information in near real-time, commanders can enhance their readiness and manage budgets effectively. The program is already beginning to pay for itself by avoiding costs associated with maintaining legacy systems. For Soldiers and sustainment managers to fully benefit from the program, said Romero, “It’s critical they get informed about the program early, take the web-based training and provide stakeholders [with] feedback.”

GCSS-Army’s stakeholders include the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology (ASA(ALT)); Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptrollers (ASA(FM&C)); Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS); Project Manager Army Enterprise Systems Integration Program (PM AESIP); Department of the Army Assistant Chief of Staff G-4; US Army Combined Arms Support Command (USA CASCOM); and US Army Logistics Support Agency (LOGSA).

For more information, please visit: www.gcss.army.mil.