Presidents Information Technology Advisory Committee PITAC

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Presidents Information Technology Advisory
Committee (PITAC)

• Subcommittee on Transforming the Government
• Draft Findings and Recommendations
• Co-Chairs
• David Cooper
• Bo Ewald
• Members
• Vint Cerf
• Ken Kennedy
• Herb Schorr
• Les Vadasz

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Mission

• Use IT to transform government
• Improve public access to Federal information
  resources
• Simplify transactions within the government

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Finding 1

• There are major technological barriers that
  prevent all citizens from easy access to
  government information resources that are vital
  to their well being
• Information is often unavailable, inadequate,
  needlessly complicated and distributed across
  disparate agencies

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Finding 2

• IT can be used to increase organizational
  efficiency and effectiveness and save costs
• Government has been slower than industry to take
  advantage of IT
• Because of scale of Federal enterprise, lack of
  incentives, curtailment of capital investments,
  and conflicting and complex legal requirements
• PITAC has focused on public-to-government issues

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Finding 3

• The Federal CIO Council understands ITs utility
  for improving government services and processes,
  and its strategy establishes appropriate and
  ambitious goals however
• Budget processes discourage effective
  multi-agency coordination and execution
• Research efforts are required for many of them

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Recommendation 1

• Aggressively establish and coordinate IT research
  that addresses the Federal Governments most
  critical requirements for long term technology
  development
• Security and privacy
• Data integration
• Software development and quality
• Application of scalable information
  infrastructure (SII)
• Development and availability of high-end systems
• Socioeconomic implications of government use of IT

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Recommendation 2

• The Administration and Congress should visibly
  support and expand upon the Federal CIO Council
• The Administration should establish and empower a
  Federal Chief Information Officer
• Congress should provide this CIO funds for
  interagency projects

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Recommendation 3

• Establish pilot projects and Emerging Technology
  Centers (ETCs)
• Mix of near-, mid-, and long-term efforts
• Should increase the use and utility of IT in such
  Federal missions as
• Crisis management
• IT for IT training