DISA’s eBusiness Applications Division supports Electronic Commerce/ Electronic Data Interchange (EC/EDI) by building and maintaining an infrastructure for electronic data interchange and by developing applications to support paperless contracting. The Department of Defense eBusiness Exchange (DEBX) is the hub of the EC/EDI infrastructure. It uses commercial EDI standards to provide translation and transport of data across the network. It processes about 30 million transactions per month.

There are several capabilities supporting EC/EDI and the DoD paperless contracting initiative:

• Electronic Document Access (EDA) is an on-line file cabinet for the storage and retrieval of millions of contractual documents, vouchers, government bills of lading, and related documents. EDA provides significant benefits to DoD include reducing the volume of unmatched disbursements, rapid availability of documents and increased efficiency, and reduction in storage and handling of paper.
  
  
• The Central Contractor Registration (CCR) is a web-based system that is the primary repository for vendor data that is required for vendors to conduct business with the DoD (over 200,000 vendors registered).
  
  
• Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) Receipts and Acceptance is a virtual folder and associated workflow that enables the vendor, the receiver, and the bill payer to work together to ensure prompt payment based on electronically generated documents, substantially improving timeliness of payments and reducing interest penalties.
  
  
• The Federal Technical Data Solution (FedTeDS) allows authorized users to access sensitive procurement information such as technical data packages. Since its successful implementation within DoD, TeDS has become part of the Federal eGov Integrated Acquisition Environment initiative for deployment across the Federal Government, and is now known as FedTeDS.
  
  
• Past Performance Information Retrieval System (PPIRS) serves as the common repository for data on contractor past performance from across the Department of Defense (DoD) and other government agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Institute of Health (NIH). It replaces Past Performances Automated Information System (PPAIS), which was limited to information on DoD contractors only.
  
  
• The EB/EC program has significantly expanded the processing of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) information between government and vendor users through its Defense Electronic Business Exchange (DEBX) infrastructure. The DEBX provides translation and transportation of transaction sets among legacy and new systems that need to interface with each other, enabling interoperability among these systems. It combines gateway and network entry point functions into a single environment, and provides an enhanced audit trail of transactions to ensure end-to-end reliability and audit ability. As of December 2002, DEBX was processing over 3 million transactions per week and is the single Trading Partner Hub between DoD, US Bank, Citibank, thousands of vendors, and over 75 commercial shipping companies such as FEDEX, UPS, Roadway, etc.

Some of these applications were originally developed at the Joint Electronic Commerce Program Office (JECPO). As a result of MID905 JECPO has been disbanded and DISA has become the Executive Agent for the entire portfolio of EB/EC applications and is responsible for their continued sustainment.

For additional information on eBusiness, go to http://www.defenselink.mil/acq/ebusiness/.