Purpose: This regulation establishes policy, roles and responsibilities, and implements the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Information Technology (IT) Capital Planning and Investment Management (CPIM) process (see Appendix C) as prescribed by the Clinger Cohen Act of 1996 and Army Regulation 25-1, Army Knowledge Management and Information Technology Management. The IT CPIM is an integrated management process focused on achieving a desired business or mission outcome through the continuous review for the selection, management and evaluation of IT investments. The CPIM process uses the USACE’s Corps Enterprise Architecture (CeA) as the framework to validate and prioritize IT requirements (see USACE website. The CPIM process provides IT investment requirements as outputs that integrate and feed into the budget process as inputs to elicit funding decisions.
