OPM's Reorg Includes Room for IT

The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday announced a complete restructuring of its organizational chart. The restructuring outline includes a few plans for information technology, including elevating the role chief information officer at the agency.

OPM Director John Berry wrote a memo in September that outlined his plans to give the OPM CIO greater visibility and authority within the agency. The new reorganization lays out the CIO's role, noting that he or she will develop the information resource management plan and define the information technology vision and strategy to include IT policy and security. The CIO also will manage implementation reviews of major IT programs and projects, provide oversight of major IT acquisitions, work with other agencies on governmentwide projects such as e-government and develop long-range planning for IT human resource strategies, OPM said. The agency's acting CIO is Matthew Perry.

The reorganization also includes other IT initiatives, including overseeing the management of IT infrastructure and e-government contracts and examining new HR solutions to enhance agencies' ability to attract talent.

Overall, the reorganization creates five divisions at OPM: employee services, retirement and benefits, merit system audit and compliance, federal investigative services and human resources solutions. The reorganization process, which began in April, became effective Tuesday with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between agency and union officials.

For more information on OPM's reorganization, check out Alyssa Rosenberg's article at Government Executive.