Information Technology Development

Information Technology Development (PE 0605013A) funds Army research, development, test, and evaluation under Appropriation 2040, Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration. Its 11 projects encompass more than 21 information-technology programs serving personnel, training, operational medicine, installations, investigations, safety, and enterprise business functions. The FY 2027 request primarily supports continued software development and integration rather than purchases of end-user equipment. The apparent increase from the previous budget presentation reflects that the FY 2026 President's Budget did not include out-year funding.

Army Human Resource System funds ArmyIgnitED enhancements during continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Managed by the Capability Program Executive Enterprise Software and Services, this education and financial-management portal lets Soldiers request tuition and credentialing assistance, cadets request scholarship payments, and Army civilians and apprentices request professional-development funds. Adapted from the Air Force's Government Off-the-Shelf Automated Education Management System and hosted in Cloud One, it supports eligibility checks, enrollment, payments, and progress reporting for an approximately 1.4-million-person user community. FY 2027 work includes Army Vantage-directed interfaces, Civilian Training Opportunity capability, and Institutional Delivered Credential tracking. The project also contains the Army Reserve's Regional Level Application Software, which supports decentralized pay, orders, personnel actions, and training schedules, but has no FY 2027 RDT&E request.

Installation Support Modules previously supported the Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation research network, which tested mission-data exchange among the Army and coalition partners. Its FY 2026 work included operational mission-thread analysis and testing with 22 nations connected to the network. The project receives no FY 2027 funding because its mission is sunsetting.

Information Systems for Installations develops the Virtual Toolbox for Installation Mission Effectiveness (VTIME), a hybrid-cloud planning and visualization platform intended to combine installation data into a near-real-time common operating picture. The Engineer Research and Development Center and Capability Program Executive Enterprise Software and Services perform work on data integration and decision support for facilities, land, and garrison operations, including under contested-network conditions. In FY 2027, the Army plans to extend VTIME Integrated Installation Planning to additional Active Army installations and enhance its master-planning tools. It will also advance the Fort Benning Smart Installation Virtual Operations Center toward authorization to operate, support at least ten management use cases, and plan Army-wide deployment.

Operational Medicine Information System supports Operational Medicine Information Systems Army (OMIS-A), which delivers operational health IT to deployed medical personnel. Its applications document care from point of injury onward and support patient movement, medical logistics, and medical command-and-control and situational awareness. FY 2027 development will adapt Joint Operational Medicine Information Systems products for Army infrastructure, modernize Army-specific applications, build interfaces, and maintain cybersecurity authorizations across networks including the Integrated Tactical Network. A separate testing effort covers tactical performance, exercises and Soldier touchpoints, interoperability, and adversarial cyber assessments; training work updates digital instruction and the cloud environments used to distribute software and training across security domains. OMIS-A uses the Software Acquisition Pathway and an agile release structure.

Army Accessioning IT Development funds Army suicide-prevention research performed by the Directorate for Prevention, Resilience, and Readiness. Despite the project's name, its FY 2027 work focuses on assessing individual and organizational risk and protective factors, including those distinctive to high-risk combat formations. Researchers will examine relationships among harmful behaviors and develop and validate assessments, leader training, interventions, and organizational approaches across the Soldier lifecycle. The objective is to help leaders create protective environments, improve access to services, and evaluate whether prevention practices reduce harmful outcomes.

Human Resources Information Technology contains four distinct FY 2027 efforts. Human Resource Command Core IT will finish selected Army Selection Board System Phase III/ASBS 2.0 development, incorporating legacy functions for board preparation, analysis, special boards, and exemplary-performance processing while meeting Army Common Operating Environment standards. The Army Records Information Management System effort will automate recordkeeping, expand secure and scalable access, and sustain the preservation of important Army records, including classified records and material used for veterans' claims research. The Family Advocacy System of Records will continue translating legacy code into a new database and developing incident-management, intake, victim-advocacy, and reporting modules needed for statutory and regulatory compliance. Army SHARP Data Management will integrate and analyze data on harmful behaviors to track prevention outcomes and inform senior-leader decisions.

Information Technology for Training Systems chiefly funds the Army Training Information System (ATIS), which aims to replace 20 disconnected legacy systems with one portal for training development, management, enterprise scheduling, learning content, and resource management. Following planned FY 2026 retirement or migration of major training systems, FY 2027 agile releases target SRP GIS TK, SRPP, TSIMS, and Institutional Training capabilities. Development combines commercial software, prototypes, automated testing, and end-user feedback so commanders can rely on more consistent training and readiness data. A separate effort at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center develops Defense Language Proficiency Test 5 content-analysis, categorization, and modeling tools, including AI-assisted item development, item-bank health analysis, response simulation, and linguistic analysis to support test validity and reduce reliance on outside expertise.

Information Technology for Criminal Investigations develops the Criminal Investigative Management System for the Department of the Army Criminal Investigation Division and other Army law-enforcement users. Its existing Army Law Enforcement Reporting and Tracking System handles sensitive investigative information; the planned cloud-hosted Case Management System is intended to replace it. FY 2027 work continues the new system's development, mandatory information-sharing initiatives, interagency data feeds, and machine-learning features intended to reduce labor-intensive user actions. Agile releases allow stakeholders to test and accept functionality as DACID modernizes investigative practices.

USMEPCOM Transformation IT Modernization concerns the Integrated Resource System used to test, medically examine, process, enlist, and ship applicants through military entrance processing stations. Following deployment of a cloud-based minimum viable product in FY 2021, modernization has targeted faster, more dependable processing and improved data sharing. Planned FY 2027 enhancements include application speed and scalability, business intelligence, recruiter status updates, and artificial intelligence to shorten the time from initial contact to enlistment contract. This Army project has no FY 2027 request because funding was realigned to the Defense Human Resources Activity as USMEPCOM's new executive agent.

Army Business System Modernization Initiatives is the program element's largest project. Its Enterprise Business Systems Convergence (EBS-C) effort responds in part to the impending end of maintenance for SAP Enterprise Central Component and seeks to integrate Army financial and logistics processes now spread across GFEBS, LMP, GCSS Army, AESIP Hub, and other systems. Building on a FY 2025 minimum viable release, FY 2027 funding supports program management, multi-vendor software development, a cloud-based CI/CD pipeline, and integrated operational, cybersecurity, and audit testing. Planned deliveries include wider Ammunition Warehouse Management fielding to retire the Standard Army Ammunition System, low-bandwidth handheld scanners, and initial development of foundational finance, G-Invoicing, and national-level ammunition capabilities.

Global Force Information Management, another initiative in that project, will replace manual and aging tools with authoritative force-structure, deployment, redeployment, retrograde, and readiness data. After a planned FY 2026 prototype and minimum viable capability release, FY 2027 follow-on development will build its transactional environment, move reporting into Army Vantage, and subsume functions of the Force Management System, FMS Web, and Structure and Manpower Allocation System. Army Vantage separately funds migration-risk reduction, a universal adapter for legacy data, application-programming-interface pilots, and technologies supporting the Army's enterprise data mesh. These efforts serve different purposes: GFIM creates and manages force data, while Vantage integrates and analyzes data across Army domains.

Enterprise Sustainment Management System development under the same project integrates BUILDER and PAVER facility-assessment capabilities and interfaces with EBS-C for construction and real-property information. FY 2027 work continues optimizing condition assessments for pavement, utilities, rails, and other facilities so managers can compare maintenance needs and investment choices. Army Energy and Water Reporting System modernization separately updates the Army's official energy and water database, including its incorporated solid-waste reporting module. Its FY 2027 software work addresses risk management and reporting changes required by revised federal and Department of War policies.

ASMIS-R (REPORTIT), renamed Army Safety Management Information System (ASMIS) 2.0, is the Army's system of record for safety and occupational-health data, analysis, and reporting. It is intended to replace 11 legacy systems and help commanders identify hazards and use leading indicators to prevent mishaps. After FY 2026 work on training, analytics, AI integration, and explosives safety, FY 2027 development will add functionality for the Army Safety and Occupational Health Program's 14 functional areas. The work addresses identified gaps in hazard identification, mitigation, and measurement across installation, operational, and wartime settings.