Corporate Systems Initiatives:

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• Corporate Systems Initiatives
• E Government Smart Choices
• May 26, 2004
• Chris Niedermayer, Presenter

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What is eGovernment?

• The Vision an order of magnitude improvement in
  the federal governments value to the citizen
  with decisions in minutes or hours, not weeks or
  months.
• eGovernment Definition the use of digital
  technologies to transform government operations
  in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency,
  and service delivery.
• The Principles
• Citizen-Centered, Results-Oriented, Market-based
• Simplify and Unify

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What is eGovernment?

• The Vision an order of magnitude improvement in
  the federal governments value to the citizen
  with decisions in minutes or hours, not weeks or
  months.
• eGovernment Definition the use of digital
  technologies to transform government operations
  in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency,
  and service delivery.
• The Principles
• Citizen-Centered, Results-Oriented, Market-based
• Simplify and Unify

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What is eGovernment?

• The Vision an order of magnitude improvement in
  the federal governments value to the citizen
  with decisions in minutes or hours, not weeks or
  months.
• eGovernment Definition the use of digital
  technologies to transform government operations
  in order to improve effectiveness, efficiency,
  and service delivery.
• The Principles
• Citizen-Centered, Results-Oriented, Market-based
• Simplify and Unify

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Drivers

• President Bush Requested all Departments to
• Leverage Investments to Eliminate Redundancy
• Deliver Information and Services From the
  Customers Perspective, NOT how the Government is
  Organized
• Legislated Mandates
• Customer Demand Transformation of the
  Industries we Support and Regulate Citizen
  Expectations for Service Similar to State and
  Private Entities
• Internal Pressures Need to do More With Less
  New Focus on Results-oriented Solutions

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USDA Participates in 21 Presidential Initiatives
Transaction Integration Initiatives
Process Integration Initiatives

• Business Gateway
• eClearance
• eLoans
• eVital
• Expanding Electronics Products for Tax for
  Business
• International Trade Process Streamlining
• GovBenefits
• Grants.gov
• Recruitment One-Stop

• Disaster Management
• eRulemaking
• Federal Asset Sales
• Integrated Acquisition Environment
• Recreation One-Stop
• Grants LOB
• HR LOB
• Financial Management LOB
• Federal Health Architecture LOB

Standards Adoption Initiatives
Consolidation Initiatives

• eAuthentication
• ePayroll
• eTraining
• eTravel
• USA Services

• Consolidated Health Informatics
• Electronic HR Integration
• eRecords Management
• Geospatial One-Stop
• SAFECOM

USDA active participant in these initiatives.
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MigrationCharacteristics
Transaction Integration Initiatives
Process Integration Initiatives

• CHARACTERISTIC Provide a single point access to
  services and functionality
• BENEFIT Consolidation and integration of
  independent/redundant forms related solutions
• ACTION Identify investments related to
  initiative and work with program management to
  discussion participation

• CHARACTERISTIC Simplify and unify business
  processes spanning multiple agencies
• BENEFIT Enable agency resources to focus on
  performance of agency mission
• ACTION Consolidate and integrate agency-specific
  functionality to foster end-to-end business
  processes for cross agency solutions

Standards Adoption
Consolidation Initiatives

• CHARACTERISTIC Provide common solutions for
  government-wide operations and services
• BENEFIT Removes need for future investments in
  agency-specific solutions
• ACTION Consolidate and shutdown redundant
  agency-specific solutions and utilize shared
  solutions

• CHARACTERISTIC Creation of government wide
  standards and guidance
• BENEFIT Replaces agency-specific initiatives
  with standards and processes to realize economies
  of scale, reduce cycle time and obtain
  government-wide consistency
• ACTION Adopt and utilize standards and guidance
  where applicable (e.g. procurement activities,
  systems integrations)

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USDA Enterprise Architecture December 5,
2003
Customers
Employees
Partners
Citizens
Federal Partners
AGENCY
COMMON ENTERPRISE-WIDE
EXTERNAL
Business Layer
Grants
Loans
Homeland Security
Wildland Fire Mgmt
Program Evaluation (Budg/Perf Integration)
Global Trade
Health
Grants
Loans
Health
Loans
Disaster Mgmt
Recreation Resource Mgmt
Asset Sales
Homeland Sec
Disaster Recovery and Business Resumption
HR Mgmt
Financial Mgmt
Asset Sales
Global Trade
HR Mgmt
Training
Financial Mgmt
Civil Rights
Training
Recreation Resource Mgmt
Civil Rights
Supply Chain Mgmt (Acq)
Supply Chain Mgmt
eAuthentication
Application Layer
eAuthentication
Config Mgmt
e-Grants
Enterprise Loan Sys
Benefits
Common Customer Stmt
On-line Rulemaking
Fire Geospatial Reporting
Enterprise HR App
Agency Org Portals
Computer Emergency Notification System (CENS)
e-Records
DisasterHlp
e-Learning
e-Training
Living Disaster Recovery Planning System (LDRPS)
Business Gateway
Geospatial One-Stop
Travel
e-Travel
FirstGovPortal
Agency Business Applications
Civil Rights
Financial (Corporate Financial Management System)
(CFMS)
Security
H R On-Line
Public Health Surveillance
Security
e-Grants
USA Services
Departmental Portal
Recreation 1-Stop
Recruit 1-Stop
Asset Mgmt
Data Layer
Asset Mgmt
Content Mgmt
Commodity Inventory
Intl Trade
e-Payroll
WorkFlow/Corresp Mgmt
Agency Web Content
Agency DBs
Commodity Information
IAE
Federal Rule DB
Procurement (IAS)
Collaboration
Loans
Agency Document Content
Government Wide Authentication Credentials
Agency Financial Data Marts
Shared Web Content
Loan DBs
Fire DBs
Training Content
Geospatial DB
Records
Grant DBs
Technology Layer
Financial D/W
HR DBs
Health DBs
Universal Telecommunications Network
Regional and Metropolitan LANs
Desktop Infrastructure
Agency Telecomm
Extranets
Secure Networks
Data Centers
Web Farms
Standards and Policies
Security
Version 1.05
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IT Investments Support EA to Cut Unnecessary
Duplication, Complexity, and Costs
From multiple agency-specific systems with
multiple points of access
To single, enterprise systems serving multiple
agency needs providing citizen-centered access

• Integrated
• Coordinated
• Standardized

• 29 Separate Front Ends
• 29 Separate Back End
• X29 Number of Systems

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Three KeyUSDA Initiatives

• Provide the building blocks for effectively and
  efficiently achieving eGovernment as defined by
  the President, OMB, and USDAs Strategy.
• eAuthentication common suite of electronic
  authentication services
• eDeployment common, enterprise-wide set of
  business processes and information technology
  tools
• eLearning greater access to training content,
  enterprise-wide learning management system for
  USDA-specific training content, and improved
  capability to manage costs and training received

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Three KeyUSDA Initiatives

• Together, these three initiatives will provide
• Coordinated, enterprise-wide systems that
  minimize or eliminate unnecessary duplication
• Capability for agencies to deliver information
  and services electronically at reduced cost and
• Simplified access and improved quality of
  information for USDAs customers.

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eAuthenticationService

• Provides a single sign-on service for customers
  and employees accessing web-based information and
  services
• Launched for USDA-wide use October 2003
• 750K logons into USDAs eAuthentication service
  in April
• Approximately 11,300 LRAs have been certified to
  perform identity proofing services
• 70 applications are currently integrated and 40
  applications in the queue to be integrated
• AgLearn and the USDA Portal and ECM applications
  are high priorities

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AgLearn

• Phase 1 of AgLearn went live March 23
• Supports 7,000 users across the following 12
  agencies
• 1. ARS 5. NASS 9. RD
• 2. APHIS 6. NRCS 10. FS
• 3. FNS 7. OCE 11. RMA 4. FSA 8. OCIO 12.
  FSIS

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AgLearn Features

• Search and access free GoLearn online courses
  (about 30)
• Search and access additional online courses
  (SkillSoft, NETg) that their agency purchases
  through GoLearn
• Search and access USDA online courses or
  reference material
• Civil Rights annual training
• Homeland Security ICS 100 and ICS 200
• Register and enroll in USDA classroom and online
  training
• View and run reports summarizing individual and
  organizational learning activities

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AgLearn Next Phases

• Integrate with USDAs eAuthentication Service
• Phase 2 rollout to approximately 50,000
  additional USDA employees July 2004
• Phase 3 rollout to the remaining 48,000 USDA
  employees September 2004
• Multi-level supervisor approval process for
  training requests (SF-182) FY 2005
• Incorporate Individual Development Plan function
  FY 2005
• Link with USDA Graduate School Catalog FY 2005

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eDeployment

• Release 1 of Subject Taxonomy November 2003
• Published new usda.gov January 2004
• Published USDA Web Style Guide February 2004
• New technical infrastructure to support shared
  services being installed March-June 2004
• 2nd release of usda.gov in portal June 2004
• Launch pilot of collaboration tools July 2004
• Agencies begin publishing web content using ECM
  July 2004
• Release myusda.gov August 2004

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Other Deployments

• Customer Statement March 2004
• New FSIS Web Site April 2004
• Correspondence Management System Pilot
  September 2004
• Civil Rights Tracking System October 2004