PowerPoint Presentation Welcome

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Vicki Novak
Tom Luedtke
Gwen Brown
Pat Dunnington
Steve Isakowitz
OMB Status 4/11//03
OMB Progress 4/11/03
Steps to Green
Steps to Yellow
Steps to Yellow
Steps to Yellow
Steps to Green

• Assess and report on success and future actions
  that will be taken as a result of the
  implementation of the strategic human capital
  plan.
• Provide information as to how NASA makes
  meaningful performance distinctions in its
  2-level performance system.
• Primary Challenge
• OPM and OMB evaluation of
• two actions are subjective there
• are no clear,established
• success guidelines.
• Last week
• 1. Developed initial list of HC successes and
  future actions to be incorporated into the SHC
  Implementation Plan, Rev.2.
• This week
• 1. Request feedback from small senior
  management group on activities recommended for
  2004 SHCIP.

• Improve the manner in which Agency makes
  performance distinctions among non-SES employees.
• Demonstrate marginal cost of achieving
  performance goals.
• Primary Challenge
• No clear criteria for successfully
• demonstrating that marginal cost
• of changing performance goals
• can be estimated.
• Last week
• Continued coordination of PAR with Enterprises
• This week
• 1. Distribute final review copy of PAR.
• 2. Finalize examples of marginal cost trades
  performed for OMB.

• Bring business cases for major systems to an
  acceptable level.
• Cost/schedule/performance overruns/shortfalls on
  projects cannot exceed 30.
• Primary Challenge
• Meeting IT security challenges
• given implementation of new NIST
• standards.
• Last week
• Working with Enterprise CIOs to facilitate
  delivery to OMB (by 11/3) of revised business
  cases for eleven mission-specific investments.
• This week
• OMB concurred on Agency action plan to meet 11/03
  due date, and 11/10 extension, for revised
  mission business cases.
• 2. EOSDIS, and NCCS submitted on 11/03, as
  requested by OMB. 9 due on 11/10 10 due on
  12/01.

• Publicly announce a standard A-76 competition.
• Primary Challenge
• Finalizing the site selection to
• prevent schedule impact to the
• NSSC competition.
• Last week
• The ACST and the ATO met with potential
  consultants to assist the ATO in developing the
  NSSCs MEO.
• LaRC submitted nominations for Center competition
  source selection officials to the Agency
  Competitive Sourcing Official. A telecon was
  held with the LaRC contracting officer and deputy
  procurement officer to discuss the nominees, as
  well as the status of the LaRC public/private
  competition.
• This week
• The ACST is continuing the development of the
  Agency plan for getting to green. We plan to
  discuss it with OMB soon.

• Resolve remaining material weaknesses, and bring
  systems into compliance with FFMIA.
• Issue unqualified assurance statement under
  FFMIA.
• Primary Challenge
• Given that PWC cannot meet any accelerated
  dated for the FY 2003 audit opinion/PAR, primary
  issue is to maintain unqualified audit opinion
  during transition to new accounting system.
• Last week
• PWC IT audit has identified one reportable
  condition on overall security and organizational
  structure of IFMP. NASA Management will have
  opportunity to discuss draft finding with PWC.
• PwC has yet to finalized process for the May to
  September population issue. PWC not yet clear on
  required selection criteria, NASA management
  continues to work with PWC.
• This week
• May-Sep sample analysis
• Finalize DCAA reports on property issues
• Work w/PWC on Draft F/S

Monday, November 10, 2003