Army Environmental Reporting improves readiness by helping provide and ensure continued access to quality training lands and facilities with minimal restrictions on operations. A reporting system is needed that provides an Army-wide solution for accurate, reliable, and timely environmental information. The software must comply with environmental liability reporting requirements, monitoring and reporting on the performance of the Army Environmental Program (AEP), and conducting program analysis to optimize environmental cleanup and environmental quality activities.

In 2015 the Army began the transition to the Headquarters Army Environmental System, known as HQAES. In January of 2024 HQAES was replaced with Web Compliance Assessment and Sustainment System-Enterprise (WEBCASS-E). WEBCASS-E, a commercial off-the-shelf system used by the Army for over 20 years, will serve as the Army’s enterprise system of record for environmental data. 

WEBCASS-E incorporates an enhanced, intuitive user interface hosted in a cloud environment, will improve data management efforts and lead to better data integrity and more robust reporting.  The portal includes modules for Cleanup Restoration and Liabilities, Natural Resources Revenue Tracking, Environmental Document Repository, Environmental Quality Universal Information Portal, Hazardous Material Inventory and Disposal, Integrated Pesticide Management, Regulatory Enforcement Action Compliance Tracking, Evaluation and Assessment of Regulatory and Legislative Impacts, Environmental Source to Track, Analyze and Review Requirements, and an Analytics module for self-service and enterprise business intelligence. It provides the capability to create and view rich, interactive data visualizations from data within the WEBCASS-E modules to share important business insights. It bridges the gap between the data and decisions to drive success. Data can be accessed across dashboards and reports, shared, and exported to other formats such as Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF.

The Army transitioned its data from HQ AES into WEBCASS after transitioning from the legacy systems Army Environmental Database (AEDB), Environmental Restoration Information System (ERIS), Reimbursable Program Tracking System (RPTS), Environmental Performance Assessment System (EPAS) and the Repository of Environmental Documents (READ).

The WEBCASS-Enterprise system  provides centralized management of the reporting process which allows the Army to:

- Comply with environmental liabilities recognition, validation and reporting requirements

- Meet DoD information technology certification standards

- Conduct program analysis and evaluation for optimizing programming, planning and budgeting

- Prevent time-consuming verification and costly re-work of data entered in multiple systems

- Eliminate redundant/obsolete data collection and meet new data requirements

- Monitor program performance to meet Army Environmental Program priorities

- Use information to prepare Defense Environmental Program Annual Report to Congress and semi-annual DoD Environmental Program Management Reviews

- Provide a tool so commands and installations can improve their program execution management

- Reduce data calls and improve delivery of information to meet customer needs
 

Governing documents/laws/regulations:

Army Regulation (AR) 200-1

DOD Manual 4715.20

32 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 651

Department of Defense (DOD) Instruction (DODI) 4715.08

DODI 4715.07

DEPARC

Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR)