On April 1, 2009, the Army’s Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems provided the first of seven deployment “Waves" for the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) to over 1500 financial users throughout the continental United States.  GFEBS, the Army’s new web-enabled financial, asset and accounting management system will standardize, streamline and share critical data across the active Army, the Army National Guard and the Army Reserve.  Wave 1 includes users at:

• Ft Jackson, SC
• Ft Stewart, GA
• Ft Benning, GA
• Installation Management Command Headquarters (IMCOM HQ), Arlington, VA
• IMCOM Southeast Region (SE)
• Slices (or portions) of:

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  • US Army Training & Doctrine Command Headquarters (TRADOC HQ)
  • US Army Forces Command Headquarters (FORSCOM HQ)
  • Headquarters, Department of the Army (HQDA)
  • Defense Finance & Accounting Service (DFAS) - Indianapolis, IN
  • DFAS – Rome, NY

GFEBS will subsume over 80 legacy systems including the Standard Finance System (STANFINS), the most widely used standard accounting system for Army Installations, and the Standard Operation and Maintenance Army Research and Development System (SOMARDS). After deployment, GFEBS will be one of the world’s largest government Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.

Wave 1 uses the GFEBS Release 1.3 version which heavily leverages previously deployed financial management capabilities in Release 1.2, deployed in October 2008.  Release 1.3 provides enhancements to transaction processing, depreciation, real property, time tracking and payroll processing to the 40 existing interfaces and adds 10 new interfaces.  GFEBS brings the majority of Army financial management into a single system allowing the Army to fully assess performance and costs, empowering leaders at all levels to determine the true costs of operations and the costs that affect their budgets.

GFEBS benefits extend beyond the financial arena offering new and improved capabilities for Armywide interoperability while increasing quality and effectiveness, reducing cycle-time and variance to free human and financial resources for higher priorities.  Colonel  Simon L. Holzman, GFEBS Project Manager, stated, “GFEBS revolutionizes the Army’s financial framework providing a window for viewing and determining impacts of financial management decisions alongside budget structures…this is a significant.  The Army will have the ability to differentiate between immediate funding needs and application of budgets and financial strategies that target near- and long-term demands of Congress, the Army, and the Warfighters they serve.”