What is the oss?

America's entry into the war in December 1941 provoked new thinking about the place and role of COI. Donovan and his new office—with its $10 million budget, 600 staffers, and its charismatic director—had provoked hostility from the FBI, the G-2, and various war agencies. read more

BSS and OSS have their own data and service responsibilities. The two systems together are often abbreviated OSS/BSS, BSS/OSS or simply B/OSS. The abbreviation OSS is also used in a singular form to refer to all the Operations Support Systems viewed as a whole system. read more

In the past, OSS/BSS had a clearer separation. A common job like capturing a customer order and provisioning it required a simple BSS-to-OSS interface. “Deliver product X to customer Y”. read more

The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). read more