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	Director, Operational Test & Evaluation
	FY98 Annual Report

SYSTEM DESCRIPTION & CONTRIBUTION TO JOINT VISION 2010

The Defense Procurement Payment System (DPPS) will become the standard DoD procurement payment system used to calculate contract and vendor payments, grants, and other agreement entitlements. It will also be the standard system for generating information used by accounting, disbursing, procurement, and other systems. Numerous DoD contract and vendor payment legacy systems will be consolidated into DPPS.

DPPS supports DoD contract and vendor payment functions through commercially derived applications software designed to operate in an open systems environment. The DPPS infrastructure consists of several components including processing platforms, associated communications, workstations, and operating systems. The multiple configuration architecture includes Defense Finance and Accounting Service MegaCenter processing, minicomputers at the intermediate level, and local area network based workstations at the user level.

DPPS employs a client-server architecture with associated data bases. DPPS will be hosted upon Defense Information Systems Agency and DFAS Enterprise Local Area Networks. End-user hardware must be compliant with DFAS standards, which are consistent with the DISA provided common operating environment.

DPPS supports Joint Vision 2010 by providing effective coordination and consolidation of the DoD contract and vendor payment systems, increasing the effectiveness of DoD financial and accounting management activities. Further, DPPS supports information superiority by increasing access to information.

The current contract and vendor payment environment is comprised of many systems that were not designed to share data or manage information from a DoD corporate perspective. Inefficiencies inherent in the operation of many semi-independent efforts have increased costs, caused major resource issues, unmatched disbursements, and focused attention on erroneous contract payments. The DPPS program was chartered to correct these and other shortcomings in procurement payment systems in 1995, and the Mission Needs Statement was approved in that same year. The Mission Needs Statement was reaffirmed by the DoD Comptroller in February 1997. The Operational Requirements Document was approved by DFAS in December 1997.

The DPPS program awarded the development contract on June 22,1998. As a result, no testing has been conducted, and the earliest DT is not expected before 2QFY99. The IOT&E for the first increment is scheduled for 4QFY99. Assuming Increment 1 is successful, the following operational test for Increment 2 is scheduled for 2QFY00. IOC is expected in November 1999.

Operational testing of DPPS will be conducted by the Joint Interoperability Test Command. The test will focus on data accuracy, interoperability, system performance, and usability.