• BESPIN’s Design Studio Hosts Intensive Design Workshop

    Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation (BESPIN) is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its first Design Sprint!During the week of July 5, 2024, designers from various software factories across the Department of Defense (DoD) convened in downtown Montgomery, Ala., to

  • ILS-S Delivers Monumental Release

    The Integrated Logistics System – Supply (ILS- S) Program Management Office reached a significant milestone on July 16, 2024, by deploying the 50th release into its Cloud-based Production environment since migrating to the Cloud in 2020.The releases included 2,235 technical, functional, security,

  • IAPS and DFAS Teams Unite for Impressive Collaboration

    The Integrated Accounts Payable System (IAPS) is a Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS)-Columbus-owned Vendor Pay entitlement system that computes and creates vouchers for payment.Operational since 1972, IAPS processes payments for both commercial services and materiel and supply accounts

  • FES-IMS Releases Foam Tracking Capability

    Air Force firefighters can breathe a little easier after receiving a critical capability and upgrades to the field.In June 2024, the Fire and Emergency Services - Information Management System (FES-IMS) released a Firefighting Foam tracking capability to the field.With this upgrade, if an Air Force

  • Agile Coaches Align Three Projects Under Single SCRUM Framework

    The Agile Coaching Service provided by the Agile Services Office within the Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Services Division is actively coaching the Cargo Personnel Movement System (CPMS) Product Line to align its three projects into a focused, single outlook, Scrum framework.The Cargo

  • DEAMS Holds Annual In-Person Agile Planning Ceremony

    The Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System (DEAMS) program held its annual in-person Planning Interval (PI) planning event from June 12-13, 2024, at the David H. Ponitz Convention Center on the campus of Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio.Nearly 170 participants traveled from

  • BES Atlassian Toolset Enhances Capabilities

    In April 2024, the Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Atlassian Toolset (BAT), upgraded its metrics and monitoring capability by incorporating a front-end service called ELK Stack, also referred to as Elasticsearch, or Kibana.ELK Stack provides the BAT with the ability to aggregate logs from all

  • Advancing Excellence: IMDS-MSM's Angular Upgrade Journey

    Even under ideal circumstances, the technical challenges a program encounters are not for the faint of heart.In December 2022, the Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate’s Maintenance Scheduling Module (MSM) team successfully completed a forced migration from the sunsetting Capabilities

  • Facilities Equipment and Maintenance (FEM) User Conference

    On June 4-6, 2024, in Montgomery, Ala. the Facilities, Equipment, and Maintenance (FEM) Capabilities Delivery Team (CDT), led by FEM Capability Delivery Manager, 1st Lt. DeAndre Thrailkill, hosted over 50 users at the Annual FEM User Conference.End users from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Hill