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Online extra | Financial management ahead of the pack
The Office of Management and Budget hopes the Financial Management Line of Business initiative will improve the cost, quality and performance of agencies’ financial systems.<@SM>
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Online extra | Federal Health Architecture gets Version 1.0 ready for release
The Federal Health Architecture, established in June 2003 as a Line of Business, aims to align federal health IT investments with the president’s health IT plan.<@SM>
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Online extra | Justice to make Case Management more inclusive
While the Justice Department was bogged down in awarding a $305 million contract for its do-over case management system called Sentinel, the Line of Business Consolidation initiative for a similar effort was treading water.<@SM>
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The dervish is in the details
Despite funding cuts, Susan Smoter updated the irs.gov site and recently earned a five-point increase in customer satisfaction on the American Customer Satisfaction Index.<@SM>
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Online extra | Security initiative looking for direction
The Office of Management and Budget plans to focus on training and Federal Information Security Management Act reporting over the next eight months under the Security Line of Business Consolidation initiative.<@SM><@SM>
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XRBL holds future promise for A-123 internal controls
Federal financial and IT executives risk falling behind their commercial-sector counterparts by being slow to develop the use of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XRBL) in their financial-reporting systems.
People
The grants whisperer
At a conference a few years ago, Rebecca Spitzgo was milling about at the de rigueur social hour. It was her first day as program manager for Grants.gov, the e-government initiative that lets organizations apply online for more than $400 billion in federal grants.<@SM>
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Online extra | Moving to a COE easier through change management
Part of Treasury’s overall plan to migrate to HR Connect was a two-pronged change management plan.<@SM>
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The key word for successful cross-agency projects: governance
Tim Young, the associate administrator for IT and e-government for the Office of Management and Budget, wants agencies to put him out of a job.
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Straight shooter
An engineer at Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support realized that he could write an open-source encryptographic module that secures data. Debra Bonner, director of operations for DMLSS, was the catalyst for moving the program forward.
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Online extra | Florida case offers lessons-learned for outsourcing
While Florida’s contract with Convergys Corp. of Cincinnati to consolidate and process human resource services for 32 state agencies has produced substantial benefits, it also serves as a stark example of what can go wrong when a government agency outsources certain functions to the private sector.
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Recasting the privacy officer
Privacy officers can shed the naysayer stereotype by helping IT officials build privacy controls earlier in the systems development life cycle.<@SM>
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USDA takes aim at infrastructure consolidation
Agriculture Department CIO David Combs’ plan is to take the complex issues, worry and costs out of the hands of the department’s agencies and offices, and let them concentrate on their mission priorities.
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Q&A: NSF looks to the FastLane for Grants
When the Office of Management and Budget named three consortia to lead the Grants Line of Business initiative, it marked a clear direction for the program. Agencies will have to use one of three shared-services providers for grants management systems or justify to OMB their rationale for building their own systems. GCN asked program managers from the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation to describe their focus and how they are different from each other.<@SM>
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Congress eyes tax software pricing
As the number of individuals and businesses filing their taxes electronically continues to grow, an IRS official said Congress is paying close attention to how tax software developers price their products.
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Air Force IT modernization ahead of schedule
The Air Force’s IT modernization effort is moving forward rapidly, and the service should reach its targets for 2012 ahead of schedule, according to the Air Force CIO.
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Q&A: Administration for Children and Families ready to serve
When the Office of Management and Budget named three consortia to lead the Grants Line of Business initiative, it marked a clear direction for the program. Agencies will have to use one of three shared-services providers for grants management systems or justify to OMB their rationale for building their own systems. GCN asked program managers from the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation to describe their focus and how they are different from each other.<@SM>
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Q&A: Education working from the ground up
When the Office of Management and Budget named three consortia to lead the Grants Line of Business initiative, it marked a clear direction for the program. Agencies will have to use one of three shared-services providers for grants management systems or justify to OMB their rationale for building their own systems. GCN asked program managers from the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation to describe their focus and how they are different from each other.<@SM>
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Private sector gets into the game
As more and more agencies consider the move to centers of excellence under the Office of Management and Budget’s Lines of Business initiatives for human resources and financial management, some are finding the private sector a viable alternative.<@SM>
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Step-by-step migration
With the Office of Management and Budget expecting more agencies to migrate over the next few years to shared-services providers—otherwise known as centers of excellence—for human resources and financial management, the Housing and Urban Development Department's successful migration to the Treasury Department’s HR Connect presents a valuable case study.<@SM>
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