E-Government Procurement: Standard Transactions and Interoperability David Temoshok Director, Federal Identity Management GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy

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E-Government ProcurementStandard Transactions
and Interoperability David Temoshok
Director, Federal Identity Management GSA
Office of Governmentwide Policy
OASIS E-Gov Workshop April 17, 2009
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U.S. Federal E-Gov Initiatives - Background

• In July 2001, the US Government began efforts to
  make better use of IT investments in order to
• reduce federal spending,
• lessen government paperwork for itself, citizens,
  and businesses, and
• improve government response time
• In November 2001, 24 projects were defined as a
  starting point that would lay the foundation for
  a citizen-centric government
• Integrated Acquisition Environment is one of
  these and has been developed as a shared services
  environment that promotes competition,
  transparency and efficiency in the federal
  acquisition life cycle
• Redundant systems have been shut down, paper
  forms have been eliminated and procurement
  systems are sharing data
• leveraging IT investments across agencies and
  sharing resources

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U.S. Federal E-Gov Initiatives
Federal e-Gov strategy is build on common
business processes and shared infrastructure.
Government to Business
Government to Citizen
Lead GSA EPA Treasury HHS SBA DOC
Lead GSA Treasury ED DOI Labor

• 1. Federal Asset Sales
• 2. Online Rulemaking
• Management
• 3. Simplified and Unified
• Tax and Wage Reporting
• 4. Consolidated Health
• Informatics
• Business Gateway
• Intl Trade Process Streamlining

1. USA Service 2. EZ Tax Filing
3. Online Access for Loans 4.
Recreation One Stop 5. Eligibility Assistance
Online
Cross-cutting Infrastructure Federal Identity
and Access Management GSA
Government to Govt.
Internal Effectiveness and Efficiency Lead
Lead SSA HHS FEMA DOI FEMA
OPM OPM OPM GSA OPM OPM GSA NARA
1. e-Training 2.
Recruitment One Stop 3. Enterprise HR
Integration 4. e-Travel 5. e-Clearance 6.
e-Payroll 7. Integrated Acquisition
Environment 8. e-Records Management
1. e-Vital (business case) 2. Grants.gov 3.
Disaster Assistance and Crisis Response 4.
Geospatial Information One Stop 5.
Wireless Networks
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U.S. Government Four Authentication Assurance
Levels M-04-04
Multi-Factor Token
Increased Cost
PKI/ Digital Signature
Cryptographic functions
Biometrics
Level 4 VERY HIGH Confidence
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Knowledge
Based
Strong Password
Level 3 HIGH Confidence
PIN/User ID
Level 2 SOME Confidence
1 LITTLE/NO Confidence
Employee
Applying
Obtaining
Access to
Screening
Govt.
for a Loan
Protected
for a High
Benefits
Online
Website
Risk Job
Increased Need for Identity Assurance

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The Quest for Interoperability
Interoperability can be defined as the ability of

• Diverse systems and organizations to work
  together (inter-operate). Wikipedia
• Two or more systems or components to exchange
  information and to use the information that has
  been exchanged. IEEE
• Two or more devices, components, or systems to
  exchange information in accordance with
  defined interface specifications and to use the
  information that has been exchanged in a
  meaningful way. GSA

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The Starting Gate for Cross-Domain
Interoperability

• Standard data model
• Common protocols and data exchange standards
• Standard data interface specifications to
  implement protocols
• Standard Testing Programs for interface
  specifications - Products
• Reference Implementations - data interface
  specifications
• Standard Testing Program for cross-domain data
  interface specifications

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Integrated Acquisition Environment Key Goals

• Create a simpler, common, integrated business
  process for buyers and sellers that promotes
  competition, transparency of process, and
  integrity.
• Increase data sharing to enable better business
  decisions in procurement, logistics, payment and
  performance assessment.
• Take a unified approach to obtaining modern tools
  to leverage investment costs for business related
  processes.

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IAE Business Areas

• 1. Business Partner Network
• Deploy a single point of registration and
  validation of supplier data accessed by all
  agencies.
• 2. Acquisition Information Reporting
• Implement a central point for consolidated
  collection and access of statistical and
  management information related to Government
  acquisitions.
• 3. eMarketplace
• The centralized and integrated group of market
  research and acquisition tools that facilitates
  buying activities across the federal government.
  These tools provide access to interagency
  contracts, Federal and open market eCatalogs,
  solicitations/responses, and small business
  opportunities.Includes FedBizOpps, FedTeDS,
  WDOL.gov

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IAE Business Areas

• 4. Intra-governmental Transactions
• Transform intra-governmental ordering and
  billing, reduce payment and collection problems,
  and enable swift and accurate revenue and expense
  elimination processes for preparing consolidated
  financial statements.
• 5. Standard Transactions
• Develop a standard glossary and vocabulary to
  facilitate exchange of data between and within
  agencies.

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IAE Standard Transactions

• Define the common language used to support
• interoperability among
• IAE shared systems
• IAE shared systems and agency back office
• financial, acquisition, program applications
• IAE shared systems and vendor systems

The 2 major components
Information Exchanges define WHAT information
needs to be passed, WHERE it needs to go
(to/from which systems), and WHEN it needs to go
(in response to what business event or schedule)

Standardized Vocabulary defines the MEANING
(semantics) and FORM (syntax) of the information
used in the Information Exchanges both
required if systems are to understand each other
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Lessons Learned

• Establish federal governance framework based on
  key cross-agency components
• Executive commitment and alignment
• Collaborative System Steward management
• Collaborative commercial software provider
  management
• Engage stakeholders- Its still the people!
• Across agencies and levels
• Throughout the life cycle
• Communicate widely, deeply, often
• Emphasize the benefits for every type stakeholder
• Inform and persuade decision makers and influence
  leaders
• Solicit feedback regularly
• Dont underestimate the challenge of
  implementation
• Agency business process owners role
• Implementation maps and scorecards
• Migration and alignment has individual challenges
  in each Department

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For More Information

• Visit our Websites
• http//www.idmanagement.gov
• http//www.acquisition.gov
• Or contact
• David Temoshok
• Director, Federal Identity Management
• GSA Office of Governmentwide Policy
• 202-208-7655
• david.temoshok_at_gsa.gov