Global Force Management - Data Initiative

The Global Force Management Data Initiative (GFM DI) aims to standardize force structure data across the Department of Defense (DoD) to make it visible, accessible, and understandable. This initiative, led by the Joint Staff and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), involves the Air Force Organizational Server (AFOS) consuming data from various Air Force Authoritative Data Sources (ADSs), validating it, formatting it in a consistent force structure data standard, and publishing it for consumption by programs of record that use force structure data. The GFM-DI AFOS integrates force management processes and ensures the availability of data to meet the needs of all Air Force, Joint, and DoD planners, warfighters, decision-makers, senior leaders, and associated systems and functions. The program utilizes funding for studies and innovative integration efforts for common technology capabilities such as cloud migration, technology development, and mobile application.

The specific objectives of Program PE 0303142F include achieving a standardized representation of the organization's hierarchy in all other programs of record that use force structure data. Additionally, the program aims to integrate force management processes such as Assignment, Manpower & Personnel, Readiness, and Allocation while ensuring that the data is available to meet the needs of all Air Force, Joint, and DoD planners, warfighters, decision-makers, senior leaders, and associated systems and functions. The program also focuses on utilizing funding for studies and innovative integration efforts for common technology capabilities such as cloud migration, technology development, and mobile application. These efforts are part of an evolutionary acquisition strategy aimed at migrating to a Joint Information Environment (JIE)-compliant platform and replacing system Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) components with newer, more capable elements.