3Ltrs
The Customer Relations Portfolio
What is HIC?
Lead by Ms. Tonya Lankheit, Deputy Mr. Tom Young
PMO
What is Program Management Office?
Although to enact agile an associated FMO is highly desired; or an IPO which is FMO/PMO combined
In Billions, the approximate amount of money BES manages annually
What is ONE BILLION DOLLARS
Preferably said while holding your pinky to your lip
System/app migration to "here" typically results in reduced costs of operations, increased IT staff productivity, significant reductions in downtime, improved security and better opportunity/options for scalability.
What is the Cloud?
Primary commercial options for BES systems in PEO C3I&N's CloudONE are Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft's Azure...other options like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) could be available soon.
The General Officer Equivalent for a DoD Civilian.
What is an Senior Executive Service (SES)?
Mr. Aldridge (in addition to being a retired O-6 reservist) is a 2-star equiv SES.
The Logistics Enterprise Portfolio
What is HI4?
Consists of HIS and HIM and led by Col Summer Clovis.
BESPIN
What is Business and Enterprise Systems Product Innovation (Node)?
NOT, a reference to some gas planet in a Star Wars movie (in case any Disney lawyers ask)
BES executes more of this "color" of money than all others combined
What is O&M (or 3400)?
Almost $600M last year (although only 38% of which "managed" by BES)
"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools"...this is the first of 12 value outlined in this Manifesto.
What is Agile?
Published in 2001 after 17 s/w developers met to discuss "lightweight" dev methods (vs waterfall)
General term for enlisted airmen (sergeants) in the AF ranks E-5 thru E-9, generally referred to as "the backbone" of the armed services.
What are Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs)?
AF E-7 thru E-9 are Senior NCOs (SNCOs) btw.
The PEO Executive Group (PEG) is also known by this 3Ltr.
What is HIX?
Lead by Mr. Stephen Davis, Deputy Ms. Annette Doiron
AFIPPS
What is Air Force Integrated Pay and Personnel System?
Led by Mr. Russ Love and Ms. Deb Jellison in HIH; one of BES's two BCAT I programs
New s/w programs need to use this appropriation for initial software license buys
What is Procurement (or 3080)?
After initial procurement, follow on licenses should be budgeted and bought with O&M (3400)
This "pipeline" automates s/w delivery processes.
What is Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)?
The pipeline builds code, runs tests (CI), and safely deploys a new version of the application (CD). The more BES systems employ, the faster they can deploy with better quality
Category of AF Officers from Major (O-4) to Colonel O-6).
What are Field Grade Officers (FGOs)?
Lieutenants and Captains are Company Grade Officers (CGOs) btw.
BES's only ACAT I Program resides in this Portfolio
What is HIB?
DCAPES, led by ML LtCol Matt Veale.
ERP
What is Enterprise Resource Planning?
Process/tech (e.g. Oracle) used by orgs to manage and integrate important parts of their businesses (e.g. Finance, HR, Mx/supply-chain)
DoD 7000.14-R's more common title.
What is the Financial Management Regulation (FMR)?
7K pages, ~350 chapters, sorted by subject matter into 20 volumes...PMs should know it while FMers "live it"
This s/w language designed in 1959 for business use, still exists on many mainframe computers today...including several BES systems.
What is Common Business Oriented Language or COBOL?
Civilian acquisition workforce human resource management system with professions organized into four broadband salary groups whose "contributions" are reviewed annually in paypools.
What is AcqDemo?
All LCMC AcqDemo Civs are "NHs" (Business and Tech Mgmt Professionals), typically supervisory NH-03s (GS12-13 equiv) or NH-04 (GS14-GS15 equiv). DPMAP, btw, is HR system/process for all General Service (GS) civ employees.
This 3ltr is "technically" where all PMs reside under LCMC's functional alignment construct.
What is HIP?
Where the Organizational Senior Functional (OSF) lead is Col Kyle Reybitz
BCAC
What is the Business Capability Acquisition Cycle?
Defined in DoDI 5000.75, it's the acq process/guide that all BES's DBS programs follow
The amount of RDT&E that a program can "Max In" in a given FY (via PE) IAW a Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR) action
What is $10M?
If that's not enough, then an ATR is your next option; but needs Congressional approval
The missing term in Doctrine, Organization, Training,_______, Leadership, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPF).
What is Materiel?
A JCIDS process that should look at entire solution space, it frequently results in a desired "materiel" solution...BES PfMs and PTLs should work w/func'l counterparts to re-examine non-materiel possibilities that could reduce costs and improve product/capes.
BES is also organizationally known as AFLCMC/HI; the "H" is historic reference to....
What is Hanscom (AFB)?
Until 2012, PEO BES was under the AF's "Electronic System Center" along with 5 other Directorates and HQ'd by a 3-star GO at Hanscom AFB, MA. PEOs C3I&N (HN) and Digital (HB) still exist from that former construct.