For US Navy N94, the $34B strategic naval enterprise optimization agenda for US Naval RDT&E, CORAS replaced a manual, spreadsheet-driven POM adds/offsets process with a single digital environment that centralizes all POM data, automates tradeoff balancing, and captures decision history—accelerating budget builds while improving transparency and alignment to warfighter priorities.
OPNAV N94 needed a better way to execute its annual POM“adds/offsets” process for warfighter funding requirements. Budget work washighly manual and spreadsheet-driven, with data spread across multiple systemsand files, making it hard to assess and prioritize requirements, balanceaccounts at Portfolio and Branch levels, and see the full picture in one place.
They also lacked an easy way to compare current-yeartradeoff decisions against prior years, capture why decisions were made, andpreserve that knowledge as personnel rotated—forcing new staff to relearn and rebuildthe process each cycle.
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CORAS configured its enterprise decision management platformto digitize N94’s adds/offsets process and create a single data repositoryfor all POM data—past and present. Instead of many spreadsheets in manylocations, users now have one environment for “one-stop shopping” on unfundedrequirements and line-item reductions, with comprehensive decision history.
The platform delivers automated trade/option balancingat Portfolio, Branch, and Directorate levels, along with dynamic “what-if”analysis and snapshot capabilities so users can model different add/offsetpackages, capture milestone selections, and report on why choices were made.
CORAS also integrates data from existing Navy systems andprogram repositories into standardized views (via NODES-style program briefs),giving leadership a real-time, mission-aligned view of programs and costs“through one pane of glass.”
CORAS deliveredcomprehensive budgeting decision intelligence for N94’s $34B navalenterprise, transforming their budgeting process from alabor-intensive, fragmented spreadsheet exercise into a repeatable digitalplanning tool that standardizes the POM adds/offsets process year overyear. Creating a single integratedenvironment fordaily operations and budget decisions, analysts spend less timereconciling files and more time evaluating options, while leadership sees theimpact of tradeoffs across portfolios and years in a single, trusted view.
CORAS’ centralizedrepository and automated analysis promote consistent templates, fasteronboarding for new staff, and better institutional memory of prior decisions.Another benefit of the CORAS tool facilitated enterprise-wide, multi-decadefleet planning enabled by CORAS visualizations, mapping capabilities acrossthe entire Department of the Navy with a broad time horizon over the course ofthe next couple of decades.
An operational + budget digital planning tool to track workflow and assesstradeoffs was created during the budget build; optimizing budget and managing workflows,ensuring data is available, accessible, and trusted in one place. Combined withreal-time, integrated program views, CORAS gives N94 the decision intelligenceneeded to align budgets with warfighter priorities, defend every tradeoff, andcomplete POM builds more efficiently and effectively.
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