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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/.
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