CBM Definitions
Name Description
FM The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) (OUSD(C)) plays a pivotal role in guarding and guiding the proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars in support of the DoD mission and is a key participant in overall Defense business process management. The Comptroller has three primary goals:
1) Acquire the resources necessary to meet national defense objectives; 2) Ensure the legal, effective, and efficient use of DoD resources; 3)Champion a strong and capable FM workforce
HRM HRM encompasses all functional processes required to acquire, train, manage, pay and provide benefits to the military and civilian personnel in the DoD (throughout their careers and beyond), as well as support family members, veterans, retirees, volunteers and contractors. A primary objective of the HRM CBM portfolio is to provide accurate human resources information to decision makers such as numbers, competencies (occupations, skills, education and training), reception accounting, individual readiness, patient accountability and status reporting, individuals' unit and location, and assigned duty within organizations. This mission includes ensuring that Combatant Commanders have access to timely and accurate data on personnel that includes their skill sets and competencies.
LOGISTICS Logistics encompasses all activities required to perform Plan, Source, Make (Includes Maintenance), Deliver, Return Capabilities. This requires the ability to supply materiel and logistics services to DoD units throughout the world. The DoD Components maintain a supply chain consisting of weapon system support contractors, retail supply activities, distribution depots, transportation networks including contracted carriers, Military Service and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) integrated material managers, weapon system program offices, commercial distributors and suppliers including manufacturers, commercial and organic maintenance facilities, and other logistics activities (e.g. engineering support activities (ESAs), testing facilities, cataloging services, reutilization and marketing offices), maximizing customer service or warfighter support.
MSSM The Materiel Supply and Service Management Core Business Mission covers DoD's supply chain, responsible for ensuring enterprise business capabilities to maintain readiness for the warfighter and sustain the force at a level of performance that meets or exceeds Combatant Commander's requirements. The key elements of MSSM include the planning, sourcing, procurement, contract management and oversight, operational contract support (OCS), making and manufacturing, maintenance and repairing, performing logistics and field services, sustainment operations, delivery of property and forces, retail sales, and the return or retrograde of all classes of supply (materiel), and forces (deployments).
RPILM The Real Property and Installations Lifecycle Management provides the warfighter and Core Business Missions (CBM) access to near-real time secure, accurate and reliable information on real property assets and environment, safety and occupational health sustainability.
WSLM The Weapon System Lifecycle Management (WSLM) Core Business Mission is responsible for the full lifecycle management - "cradle-to-grave" - of Defense acquisition of weapon systems and automated information systems to include requirements, technology, development, production, sustainment, and disposal. The Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) (USD (AT&L)) is responsible for the WSLM business area and is the Certification Authority, pursuant to Title 10 U.S. Code §2222, for all Defense business systems within this functional area.