Sec. 912. Transparency of defense management data
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Section 2222(e) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: The defense business enterprise shall include enterprise data that may be automatically extracted from the relevant systems to facilitate Department of Defense-wide analysis and management of its business operations. The Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense shall have primary decision-making authority with respect to the development of common enterprise data.
In consultation with the Defense Business Council, the Chief Management Officer shall— develop an associated data governance process; and oversee the preparation, extraction, and provision of data across the defense business enterprise. The Chief Management Officer and the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) shall— in consultation with the Defense Business Council, document and maintain any common enterprise data for their respective areas of authority; participate in any related data governance process; extract data from defense business systems as needed to support priority activities and analyses; when appropriate, ensure the source data is the same as that used to produce the financial statements subject to annual audit; in consultation with the Defense Business Council, provide access, except as otherwise provided by law or regulation, to such data to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the military departments, the combatant commands, the Defense Agencies, the Department of Defense Field Activities, and all other offices, agencies, activities, and commands of the Department of Defense; and ensure consistency of the common enterprise data maintained by their respective organizations.
The Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation shall have access to data for the purpose of executing missions as designated by the Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretaries of the military departments, commanders of combatant commands, the heads of the Defense Agencies, the heads of the Department of Defense Field Activities, and the heads of all other offices, agencies, activities, and commands of the Department of Defense shall provide access to the relevant system of such department, combatant command, Defense Agency, Defense Field Activity, or office, agency, activity, and command organization, as applicable, and data extracted from such system, for purposes of automatically populating data sets coded with common enterprise data. .
Section 2222(i) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: The term common enterprise data means business operations or management-related data, generally from defense business systems, in a usable format that is automatically accessible by authorized personnel and organizations. The term data governance process means a system to manage the timely Department of Defense-wide sharing of data described under subsection (a)(6)(A). .
Section 135(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended in the second sentence by inserting after shall perform the following: the duties assigned to the Under Secretary in section 2222 of this title and . Section 139a(d) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: Performing the duties assigned to the Director in section 2222 of this title. . Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, acting through the Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense, shall develop a plan to implement the amendments made by subsection (a).
At a minimum, the implementation plan required by paragraph
(1)shall include the following elements: The major tasks required to implement the requirements imposed by the amendments made by subsection
(a)and the recommended time frames for each task. The estimated resources required to complete each major task identified pursuant to subparagraph (A). Any challenges associated with each major task identified pursuant to subparagraph
(A)and related steps to mitigate such challenge. A description of how data security issues will be appropriately addressed in the implementation of such requirements. A review of the curriculum taught at the National Defense University, the Defense Acquisition University, professional military educational institutions, and appropriate private sector academic institutions to determine the extent to which the curricula include appropriate courses on data management, data analytics and other evaluation-related methods. The Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) shall ensure that the implementation plan required by paragraph
(1)does not conflict with the financial statement audit priorities and timeline of the Department of Defense. Upon completion of the implementation plan required by paragraph (1), the Chief Management Officer shall submit the plan to the congressional defense committees. Not later than September 30, 2020, the Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense shall establish and maintain within the Department of Defense a data analytics capability for purposes of supporting enhanced oversight and management of the Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities. The data analytics capability shall permit the following: The maintenance on a continuing basis of an accurate tabulation of the amounts expended by the Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities on Government and contractor personnel. The maintenance on a continuing basis of an accurate number of the personnel currently supporting the Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities, including the following: Members of the regular components of the Armed Forces. Members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces. Civilian employees of the Department of Defense. Detailees, whether from another organization or element of the Department or from another department or agency of the Federal Government. The tracking of costs for employing contract personnel, including federally funded research and development centers. The maintenance on a continuing basis of the following: An identification of the functions being performed by each Defense Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity. An accurate tabulation of the amounts being expended by each Defense Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity on its functions. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on progress in establishing the data analytics capability. The report shall include the following: A description and assessment of the efforts of the Chief Management Officer through the date of the report to establish the data analytics capability. A description of current gaps in the data required to establish the data analytics capability, and a description of the efforts to be undertaken to eliminate such gaps. Not later than December 31, 2020, the Chief Management Officer shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the data analytics capability as established pursuant to this section. The Secretary of Defense shall carry out pilot programs to develop data integration strategies for the Department of Defense to address high-priority management challenges of the Department. The pilot programs carried out under the authority of this subsection shall involve data integration strategies to address challenges of the Department with respect to the following: The budget of the Department. Logistics. Personnel security and insider threats. At least two other high-priority challenges of the Department identified by the Secretary for purposes of this subsection. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report describing the pilot programs to be carried out under this section, including the challenge of the Department to be addressed by the pilot program and the manner in which the data integration strategy under the pilot program will address the challenge. If any proposed pilot program requires legislative action for the waiver or modification of a statutory requirement that otherwise prevents or impedes the implementation of the pilot program, the Secretary shall include in the report a recommendation for legislative action to waive or modify the statutory requirement.