Business Transformation Agency
| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | October 7, 2005 |
| Dissolved | September 2011 |
| Superseding agency |
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| Jurisdiction | United States Department of Defense |
| Headquarters | The Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia, U.S. |
| Agency executive |
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| Parent agency | Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense |
| Footnotes | |
| Established by directive issued by Gordon R. England, Deputy Secretary of Defense, on 7 Oct 2005. Disestablishment announced 9 Aug 2010; completed by September 2011. | |
The Business Transformation Agency (BTA) was an organization of the United States Department of Defense responsible for guiding the department's business operations modernization. The BTA was active from 2005 until its closure in 2011.
The agency aimed to foster business operations support for the American warfighter and sought to provide accountability to the American taxpayer by systematically improving DoD's business processes, ERP systems and investment governance. Aiming to provide consistency, consolidation and coordination across the Department of Defense, the BTA produced the Enterprise Transition Plan (ETP)—an integrated and executable roadmap that observed the standards laid out in the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA). The ETP and the BEA aimed to transform DoD business operations to achieve improved warfighter support while enabling financial accountability across the Department of Defense.
The Business Transformation Agency was established by Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon R. England on October 7, 2005. The founding executives of the BTA were Co-directors Thomas Modly, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Financial Management, and Paul Brinkley, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation; Director of Transformation Planning and Performance, David Fisher; Director of Transformation Priorities and Requirements, Radha Sekar; Director of Investment Management, Paul Ketrick; Director of Warfighter Support, Bob Love; Director of Information and Federation Management, David Scantling; and Director of Agency Operations, Navy Captain Michael Murphy.
In August 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced that the BTA would be disbanded as part of a broader initiative to cut costs and streamline the Department of Defense. Gates explained that the agency’s functions would be absorbed by other parts of the department and that the BTA, along with other offices, would be closed. This decision was part of a campaign to reduce service support contractors and eliminate redundancy across the defense enterprise.
The formal disestablishment of the Business Transformation Agency was completed by September 2011.
| Tenure | Leader | Role/Notes |
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| Oct 2005 – Nov 2006 | Paul A. Brinkley; Thomas Modly | Founding co-directors |
| Nov 2006 – Feb 2007 | David M. Fisher | Acting Director |
| Feb 2007 – 2010 | David M. Fisher | Director (first official) |
| Jan 2011 – Sep 2011 | David M. Wennergren | Director (final; oversaw closure) |