• SMAS Team Delivers Major System Enhancements

    The Standard Material Accounting System (SMAS) tracks and reports expenditures, enabling efficient purchasing and issuing of supplies and equipment.The SMAS team successfully delivered a significant upgrade, streamlining financial management processes for users across the Air Force, Air National

  • Minimizing Disruption, Maximizing Performance: BAT Updates

    The Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Atlassian Toolset (BAT) successfully deployed a maintenance patch and an emergency patch on Jan. 23 and Jan. 24, 2025.Maintenance Patch: Originally scheduled for deployment on Dec. 5, 2024, but postponed to resolve Jira installation and plug-in compatibility

  • DAF Propels DoD Cloud Modernization

    The Department of the Air Force (DAF) took a leading role in expanding secure cloud options for the entire Department of Defense (DoD) by spearheading the authorization of Oracle Fusion Software as a Service (SaaS) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Gen 2 at Impact Level 4 (IL4).This significant

  • BES Small Business Office Hosts Annual Vendor Exchange Forum

    On Jan. 14, 2025, the Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Small Business Office (SBO) held its annual Vendor Exchange Forum (VEF) in a hybrid format at Maxwell AFB-Gunter Annex in Montgomery, Ala.Led by Director of Small Business Programs, Yolanda McCain, VEF provides an opportunity for industry

  • State of BES Luncheon

    On Jan. 15, 2025, the Business and Enterprise Systems Program Executive Officer, Alvin Burse provided an update on the BES Directorate during the annual State of BES Luncheon hosted by the Montgomery Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Chapter at the Wynlakes Golf and Country

  • ILS-S Onboards to the new ICAM Solution

    The Integrated Logistics Systems Supply (ILS- S) Program Management Office (PMO) reached a significant milestone on Dec. 10, 2024, by successfully onboarding to the new enterprise Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) tool called SailPoint. The new tool uses AI and machine learning to

  • BES Directorate host’s KDSS User Summit

    The Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate’s Keystone Decision Support System (KDSS) is a financial data warehouse, decision support, and budgeting tool that is used by the U.S. Armed Forces, to include the Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) and Air Force Sustainment Center to help manage the

  • REMIS Achieves Breakthrough with Agile Software Development

    The Reliability and Maintainability Information System (REMIS) team has successfully transitioned to Agile software development within the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Directorate.This strategic shift has resulted in more than doubling the number of