Special Victim Accountability and Investigation

Mission — Studies in Sexual Assault Prevention source

This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY2024 0 was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY2025 0 is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. Funds moved from PE 808737F to this PE (808736F) beginning in FY25. This is not a new start. Following completion of a Presidentially-directed Independent Review Committee (IRC) on Sexual Assaults for the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) directed the implementation of multiple IRC recommendations. The Integrated Prevention PE contains two programs in support of those recommendations: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Records, Investigations and Operations Network (ORION) program and the Interpersonal Self-Directed Violence (ISDV) Prevention program. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI), Records, Investigations and Operations Network (ORION): The Department of the Air Force (DAF) Office of Special Investigations (OSI) is DAF's sole felony-level criminal investigative agency mandated to investigate criminal offenses, to include sexual offenses and interpersonal violence. IRC recommendations C2, C3, C4, 1.8, 2.6a, 3.1, and 3.3a, directed the DAF to increase its ability to collect, analyze, and integrate data related to sexual offenses and interpersonal violence to inform and guide prevention and response. The DAF will develop and deploy the OSI Investigations, Operations, and Records Network (ORION) information system as to satisfy SECDEF requirements. In tandem with the context above, another key driver for development of ORION is the DAF's requirement to identify a central case management system solution to allow for more effective oversight of and more efficient execution of the DAF's criminal indexing process. ORION will be a cloud-based, next-generation case management system used to document, manage, store, and report criminal investigative and counterintelligence information involving violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the United States Code. ORION will serve as OSI's central mission application capable of ensuring sexual assaults, intimate partner violence, violent extremism, service-member deaths, and dozens of other crimes are properly investigated and recorded. ORION will be used by over 3,000 OSI personnel including nearly 2,000 federally-credentialed Special Agents at OSI's 300+ global operating locations. ORION will enable the DAF to modernize criminal indexing processes both operationally and technologically. Operationally, ORION will reduce redundancy, streamline processes, encourage standardization, and decrease administrative burden. The DAF is exploring options to use ORION to replace other systems and enable data transfer to other stakeholders with the goal to increase integration and productivity and avoid duplicative data entry. ORION could also be leveraged to be placed on one or more Special Access Programs (SAP) networks to become a system of record for OSI investigative and security support to DAF SAP programs. Technologically, ORION leverages the affordability, scalability, security, and services provided by cloud computing. Additionally, ORION will be mobile-ready, enabling agents to securely access and document investigative data from mobile devices whenever and wherever needed, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing delays. Lastly, ORION will be built on a low-code/no-code enterprise platform which enables the rapid development, deployment, and sustainment of capability. The DAF is considering options to leverage ORION and its enterprise low-code/no-code platform for other DAF case management and/or business process management requirements. Such a platform, operated and sustained at the enterprise level, has potential to yield cost savings, operational enhancements, and technical efficiencies as well as reduce DAF overheard. With ORION serving as the initial application, the case management platform could promote the expedited development, deployment, and sustainment of future case management systems at economies of scale. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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