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 DEFENSE ENTERPRISE DATA STANDARDS OFFICE (DEDSO)

FACT SHEET

SUBJECT: Background on the Defense Enterprise Data Standards Office (DEDSO) (J6DS)

MISSION: DEDSO develops, publishes, and maintains interoperable data standards for logistics 

business systems to facilitate auditability and support the reform initiatives of the DoD and other 

Trading Partners.

DEFINITION: Defense Logistics Management Standards (DLMS) are a broad base of business 

rules, to include uniform policies, procedures, time standards, transaction sets, forms, and data 

management. DLMS are the standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) among the 

automated business systems of the DoD supply chain management system. 

FUNCTIONS:

• Responsible for executing DLA’s mission as the DoD Executive Agent for the DLMS as 

chartered in DoD Directive 8190.01E.

• Serves as the central change management intake for the translation of new or updated 

functional logistics business requirements of the Office of Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition & Sustainment), Office of Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), and other 

trading partners (e.g., General Services Agency, Federal Aviation Administration, contract 

entities, and foreign military sales) into DLMS.

• DEDSO uses a process review committee (PRC) format to validate and track a proposed 

DLMS change (PDC) through to an approved DLMS change (ADC). PRCs are composed of 

O-5/O-6/GS-14/15 (or equivalent level) representatives from the DoD Components and 

participating trading partners (as needed). The established PRCs are:

-- Supply (requisitioning/issue processes, inventory, disposition services, etc.)

-- SDR - Supply Discrepancy Reporting

-- PQDR - Product Quality Deficiency Reporting

-- DoDAAD - DoD Activity Address Directory

-- MAPAD - Military Assistance Program Address Directory 

-- Finance

-- Pipeline Measurement (as required, but generally managed via Supply PRC)

• Develops and maintains implementation conventions (ICs) and extensible markup 

language (XML) schemas based on American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Accredited 

Standards Committee (ASC) X12 transaction sets.

• DoD DLMS Data Manager for data element curation to include a data dictionary.

• Supports DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) end-to-end process automation.

• Administers and updates the Defense Logistics Manual (DLM) library. DLM 4000.25

prescribes DoD logistics management responsibilities, procedures, rules, and data exchange

standards to conduct logistics operations. The DLM carries the same weight as a DoDM.
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• Member of USTRANSCOM Defense Transportation Electronic Business Committee 

(DTEB) to maintain interoperability between logistics and transportation domains.

• Designs technical solutions to prevent, mitigate, or remediate Notices of Findings and 

Recommendations (NFR) in support of Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation (FIAR).

• Provides DoD standard procedures and EDI conventions/schema for the interchange of 

post-award contract data as required by Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 53.105 and the 

Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS).

• Develops and maintains interfund financial data and processing transactions required by 

the DoD Financial Management Regulations (FMR) to meet Standard Financial Information 

Structure (SFIS) standards.

• Facilitates governance for the following authoritative DoD master data repositories

and/or systems to support foundational supply chain business processes:

-- DoDAAD (DoD customer master)

-- MAPAD (authorized foreign military customer master)

-- Logistics Data Resources Management System (logistics metadata repository)

-- WebSDR (automates the Standard Form 364 for SDR transaction exchange)

-- Fund Code Management System (identifies bill-to chargeable appropriations) 

-- Project Code Management System (identifies special operations, exercises, etc.) 

-- Logistics Metrics Analysis Reporting System (DoD pipeline measurement tool)

• Develops transactions and data elements for the Federal Logistics Information System 

(FLIS) DoD item master authoritative data repository. Manages chapters 8-13 of the FLIS 

technical manuals.

• Directly oversees the DoD SDR and PQDR Programs for the DoD. Serves as the DoD 

Physical Inventory Control Program (PICP) Administrator.

• Caretaker of legacy Military Standard Billing System (MILSBILLS), Military Standard 

Transaction Reporting and Accounting Procedures (MILSTRAP), and Military Standard 

Requisitioning and Issue Procedures (MILSTRIP) associated data and transaction standards.

GOVERNANCE:

• DoDD 8190.01E, Defense Logistics Management Standards, Jan 9, 2015, as amended.

• DoDI 4140.01, DoD Supply Chain Materiel Management Policy, Mar 6, 2019.

• DoDM 4140.01-V8, Materiel Data Management & Exchange, Feb 10, 2014, as amended.

• DLM 4000.25, Defense Logistics Management Standards, May 19, 2014, as amended.

WEBSITE: https://www.dla.mil/Defense-Data-Standards/