Implementing the

President’s Management Agenda for E-Government

E-Government Strategy

Simplified Delivery of Services to Citizens

February 27, 2002

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EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503

February 27, 2002

TO: Mitchell E. Daniels

Director, Office and Management and Budget

In your July 18, 2001 Memo (OMB Memorandum M-01-28), you established an E-Government
Task Force to identify priority actions that achieve strategic improvements in government and
set in motion a transformation of government around citizen needs.

We launched that Task Force on August 9, 2001, and by mid-September it had completed its
work and recommendations. At the October 3, 2001 meeting of the President's Management
Council, the recommendations were considered and approved. Subsequently, multi-agency
project teams and OMB staff have developed the implementation roadmap.

Attached is the federal government’s E-Government Strategy, including a implementation

roadmap that implements the Task Force’s findings. It represents the work of the 81 Task
Force members from 46 agencies and bureaus, as well as subsequent decisions made in
preparing the FY 2003 Budget. The initiatives are targeted at improving the quality of services
to citizens, businesses, governments and government employees, as well as the effectiveness
and efficiency of the federal government. Managing partner agencies are currently leading
efforts to implement each initiative in a phased approach that builds on the re-launch of the
FirstGov portal.

I look forward to your continuing support as we continue the development and implementation
of these E-government initiatives. I would also like to thank all who participated for their
contribution.

Mark Forman
Associate Director for Information Technology and E-Government
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Table of Contents

Page

1. Executive Summary 1

2. Strategic Vision 3

3. The Strategy 3

4. The Problem 5

5. Approaches and Findings 6

6. Recommendations and Overview of the High Pay-off Initiatives 10

7. Barriers and Mitigation Strategies 11

8. Implementation 12

9. Governance and Management of Change 18

10. Initiative Relationship to the President’s Management Agenda 20

Appendices:

A. Memo From Mitchell E. Daniels, Director, Office of

Management and Budget 22

B. E-Government Task Force Members 24

C. Task Force Process 25

D. Initiative Summaries 26
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1. Executive Summary

We live in an increasingly interconnected society, where the Internet has spawned tremendous
improvements in efficiency and customer service. People use the telephone and the Internet to
get service 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

More than 60 percent of all Internet users interact with government websites. E-Government
will save taxpayers a significant amount of money, while adding value to citizens’ experience
with government and better serving their needs. Consequently, the President has made
“Expanding E-Government” integral to a five-part Management Agenda for making
government more focused on citizens and results.

Federal information technology (IT) spending in the United States will exceed $48 billion in
2002 and $52 billion in 2003. That level of IT spending provides enormous opportunities for
making the transformation government into a citizen-centered E-Government. Indeed, a good
portion of current federal IT spending is devoted to Internet initiatives, yielding over 35
million web pages online at over 22,000 web sites. But past agency-centered IT approaches
have limited the government’s productivity gains and ability to serve citizens. As highlighted
in this report, the federal government is poised to transform the way it does business with
citizens federal government check budget through the use of E-Government.

This report presents the federal government’s action plan for E-Government. The primary
goals for the President’s “Expanding E-Government” initiative are to:

• Make it easy for citizens to obtain service and interact with the federal government;
• Improve government efficiency and effectiveness; and
• Improve government’s responsiveness to citizens.

OMB Director Mitchell E. Daniels initiated an interagency E-Government Task Force (see
Appendix A) to identify the action plan for implementing the President’s E-Government
initiative. Under the leadership of Mark Forman, Associate Director of Information
Technology and E-Government, about 80 federal employees from across the federal
government made up the Task Force (see Appendix B).

The E-Government Task Force found that the federal government could significantly improve
customer service over the next 18 to 24 months by focusing on 23 high-payoff, government-
wide initiatives that integrate agency operations and IT investments (subsequently, payroll
processing was added as the 24th E-Government initiative). These initiatives could generate
several billion dollars in savings by reducing operating inefficiencies, redundant spending and
excessive paperwork. The initiatives will provide service to citizens in minutes or hours,
compared to today’s standard of days or weeks. Moreover, by leveraging IT spending across
federal agencies, the initiatives will make available over $1 billion in savings from aligning
redundant investments.

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The E-Government Task Force identified significant federal performance problems that could
be addressed by E-Government and E-Business concepts. The Task Force’s analysis found
that redundant and overlapping agency activities have been major impediments to creating a
citizen-centered electronic government. Of 28 lines of business found in the federal
government, the assessment revealed that, on average, 19 Executive Departments and agencies
are performing each line of business (see Figure 5.1). Each agency typically has invested in
both online and traditional approaches, regardless of other departments’ redundant efforts.
That translates into many duplicative reporting requirements, while requiring citizens to wade
through thousands of Web sites and dozens of call centers to find and obtain service. For
example, a community attempting to obtain economic development grants could file over
1,000 forms at more than 250 federal bureaus, each form containing much similar data. The
Task Force found that this “business architecture” problem creates underlying redundant
activities and processes, resulting in unnecessary burdens and costs on citizens, state and local
governments, businesses and federal employees.

Indeed, the Task Force found a number of unofficial groupings of federal employees who meet
frequently to figure out ways to work together across traditional agency boundaries and better
serve citizens. Through e-mails and interviews, the Task Force found that many government
employees want to use E-Government tools that enable teamwork in their daily work.

The Task Force also identified key barriers that must be mitigated for success in federal E-
Government efforts. The barriers identified concerned culture, architecture, trust, resources
and stakeholder resistance. Several recommendations for leadership actions were made to
overcome these barriers. In addition, two efforts—the e-Authentication initiative and the
Enterprise E-Government Architecture Project—were added to address key barriers.

The e-Authentication initiative will build and enable mutual trust to support wide
spread use of electronic interactions between the public and government and across
government by providing common solutions to establish ‘identity’. These solutions
will address authentication security, privacy, and electronic signature needs of the E-
Government initiatives.

The E-Government Architecture project will carry out two major concurrent activities.
One of the activities will be the development of a architecture, toward the development
of a Federal Enterprise Architecture, for each of the current E-Government initiatives,
as well as a core set of standardized technology models to facilitate technology
solutions. The second activity will be the collection and analysis of business and data
architecture information across the federal government to identify new opportunities for
E-Government initiatives and elimination of redundancy. Initially this effort will focus
on four key areas including Homeland Security, economic stimulus, social services, and
back office operations.

The President's Management Council approved the E-government initiatives and the action
plan in their October 3, 2001, meeting. Through December 2001, agencies developed detailed
business cases and formed partnerships for investment and implementation of the initiatives.

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The results of the business cases were incorporated into the Fiscal Year 2003 budget, and
agencies are currently integrating planned FY 2002 efforts into the 24 E-Government
initiatives.

Information on this E-government effort may be found on the Internet at,

http://www.firstgov.gov, http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB, or http://www.cio.gov, including
an electronic copy of this report.

2. STRATEGIC VISION

The President's vision for reforming government emphasizes that "government needs to reform
its operations—how it goes about its business and how it treats the people it serves.” The
vision is guided by three principles:

• Citizen-centered, not bureaucracy-centered;

• Results-oriented; and
• Market-based, actively promoting innovation.

Electronic government is one of the five key elements in the President's Management Agenda
and Performance Plan (August 2001) for achieving the vision. E-Government is critical to
meeting today’s citizen and business expectations for interaction with government. It will
enable agencies to align efforts as needed to significantly improve service and reduce operating
costs. When E-Government initiatives deploy effectively, conducting business with the
government is easier, privacy is protected and security provided. Citizens and businesses can
visit one point-of-service online or by telephone that reflects the “United States Government.”

Our vision combines successful online operating practices with the federal government’s
human capital and physical assets to build a "click and mortar" enterprise. In this vision,
organizations serve citizens, businesses, other government and federal employees. Our goal is
that services and information will rarely be more than three clicks away when using the
Internet. Achieving this vision requires that agencies integrate and simplify their operations.

3. THE STRATEGY

The Administration is committed to advancing the E-Government strategy by supporting

multi-agency projects that improve citizen services and yield performance gains. With that
objective, the Task Force developed a roadmap for the implementation of E-Government.
OMB Director Mitchell E. Daniels initiated an interagency E-Government Task Force (see
Appendix A) to identify the action plan for implementing the President’s E-Government
initiative. The Task Force's objectives were to:

• Recommend highest payoff cross-agency initiatives that can be rapidly developed;

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• Identify key barriers to the federal government becoming a citizen-centered E-Government,

and implement actions needed to overcome these barriers; and
• Develop a technology framework that provides for the integration of government services
and information.

What is the value of E-Government?

E-Government provides many opportunities to improve the quality service to the citizen.
Citizens should be able to get service or information in minutes or hours, versus today’s
standard of days or weeks. Citizens, businesses and state and local governments should be
able to file required reports without having to hire accountants and lawyers. Government
employees should be able to do their work as easily, efficiently and effectively as their
counterparts in the commercial world.

An effective strategy will result in significant improvements in the federal government,

including:

• Simplifying delivery of services to citizens;

• Eliminating layers of government management;
• Making it possible for citizens, businesses, other levels of government and federal
employees to easily find information and get service from the federal government;
• Simplifying agencies' business processes and reducing costs through integrating and
eliminating redundant systems;
• Enabling achievement of the other elements of the President’s Management Agenda; and
• Streamlining government operations to guarantee rapid response to citizen needs.

This focuses on four citizen-centered groups, each providing opportunities to transform

delivery of services.

• Individuals/Citizens: Government-to-Citizens (G2C); Build easy to find, easy to use, one-

stop points-of-service that make it easy for citizens to access high-quality government
services.
• Businesses: Government-to-Business (G2B); Reduce government’s burden on businesses
by eliminating redundant collection of data and better leveraging E-business technologies
for communication.
• Intergovernmental: Government-to-Government (G2G); Make it easier for states and
localities to meet reporting requirements and participate as full partners with the federal
government in citizen services, while enabling better performance measurement, especially
for grants. Other levels of government will see significant administrative savings and will
be able to improve program delivery because more accurate data is available in a timely
fashion.
• Intra-governmental: Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness (IEE); Make better use of
modern technology to reduce costs and improve quality of federal government agency
administration, by using industry best practices in areas such as supply-chain management,
financial management and knowledge management. Agencies will be able to improve

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effectiveness and efficiency, eliminating delays in processing and improving employee

satisfaction and retention.

4. THE PROBLEM

While the federal government is the world's biggest spender on information technology, it has
not experienced commensurate improvements in productivity, quality and customer service. In
many companies, major gains have come from leveraging the technology to transform old
business practices. There are at least four major reasons that the federal government has been
unable to increase productivity:

• Program Performance Value: Agencies typically evaluate their IT systems according to

how well they serve the agency's processes and needs—not how well they respond to
citizens' needs. Systems are often evaluated by the percentage of time they are working,
rather than the internal and external performance benefit they deliver to the programs they
support.
• Technology Leverage: In the 1990s, government agencies used IT to automate existing
processes, rather than to create more efficient and effective solutions that are now possible
because of commercial E-business lessons learned.
• Islands of Automation: Agencies generally buy systems that address internal needs, and
rarely are the systems able to inter-operate or communicate with those in other agencies.
Consequently, citizens have to search across multiple agencies to get service, businesses
have to file the same information multiple times, and agencies cannot easily share
information.
• Resistance to Change: Budget processes and agency cultures perpetuate obsolete
bureaucratic divisions. Budgeting processes have not provided a mechanism for investing
in cross-agency IT. Moreover, agency cultures and fear of reorganization create resistance
to integrating work and sharing use of systems across several agencies.

Better leveraging technology investments will require that government managers look beyond
the current ways of doing work. Today’s IT solutions incorporate more productive ways of
doing work, either through eliminating paperwork or integrating activities across longstanding
organizational silos. Consequently, affected program officials need to be involved in strategic
IT investment decisions. These investments need to be based on valid business cases that
clearly articulate the value to both the citizen and the government, and provide for privacy and
security that is critical to successful e-government.

A fundamental barrier to getting productivity from federal government IT is government’s

inherent resistance to change. E-Government uses IT to improve federal productivity by
enabling better interactions and coordination. But each opportunity requires substantial
changes in current bureaucratic procedures. Success will depend on breaking down the
resistance to such change. A holistic approach is needed, and each E-Government initiative

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must include results oriented performance measures, policy alignment, training,

communications, and organizational change milestones.

5. APPROACH AND FINDINGS

Overview
The E-Government Task Force conducted 71 interviews with more than 150 senior
government officials during the process to gather and identify strategic E-Government
opportunities (See Appendix C). In addition, nearly 200 projects were identified from e-mails
sent primarily by federal employees. The overall findings were that agency executives and line
professionals want the government to:

• Use the Web to provide services such as benefits, recreational opportunities, and
educational materials;
• Share information and integrate federal, state and local data where appropriate and
possible;
• Reduce burden on businesses by adopting streamlined processes that promote and enable
consolidation in data collection;
• Adopt commercial best practices to reduce operating costs and make it simpler for
government employees to perform their jobs, especially in the areas of finance, human
resources and procurement; and
• Define measures of success and regularly monitor and measure performance.

Reducing Overlap and Redundancy to Make It Easier for Citizens to Get Service and to
Reduce Costs

One of the most significant findings of the Task Force came from a review of the federal
government’s enterprise architecture. An enterprise architecture describes how an
organization performs its work using people, business processes, data, and technology. Since
E-Government opportunities affect how agencies do their work and employ technology, it was
necessary to evaluate the projects identified against the current enterprise architecture. The
assessment applied the approach of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council, using the
enterprise architecture to establish a “roadmap to achieve an agency’s mission through optimal
performance of its core business processes within an efficient IT environment.” The Task
Force began the assessment by creating a clear framework of the federal government’s
business architecture, detailing how the federal government interfaces with citizens, what
functions and lines of business the government performs and the key business processes used.

The Task Force’s major finding was that there was significant overlap and redundancy, with
multiple agencies performing each of 30 major functions and business lines in the Executive
Branch of government. The review clearly identified the current federal enterprise architecture
as “the architecture that isn’t”. The final analysis indicated that each line of business is being
performed by 19 agencies (average) and that each agency is involved in 17 business lines

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(average) (See figure 5.1). The Task Force found that this “business architecture” redundancy
creates excessive duplicative spending on staff, IT and administration. Moreover, the Task
Force assessment determined that the redundancy makes it hard to get service, while
generating duplicative reporting and paperwork burdens. Consequently, the Task Force
focused on E-Government initiatives that provide significant opportunities to transform the
way the government interacts with its citizens, through the elimination of redundancy and
creating simpler ways for citizens to get service.

As the Task Force evaluated potential projects relative to the business architecture, the
assessment focused on the opportunities to integrate operations and simplify processes within a
line of business across agencies and around citizen needs. Activities of the federal government
can be viewed in four primary functions: policymaking, program administration, compliance,
and enforcement and internal operations and infrastructure. Policy making activities generally
determine programs and compliance efforts. Internal operations are administrative functions,
such as financial management, that support day-to-day activities needed to carry out policy
making, program administration and compliance activities. E-Government offers the
opportunity to streamline activities, improving productivity by enabling agencies to focus on
their core competencies and mission requirements. E-Government initiatives eliminate
unnecessary redundancy, while improving service quality by simplifying processes and
unifying agency islands of automation.

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Figure 5.1: Agency Activity on Lines of Business Across Government

D a ta co m p i le d fo r A g e n c y 's B u d g e t Ex h ib its a n d A g e n cy W e b site s (th i s is n o t in te n d e d a s a fu ll a cco u n tin g )

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Asset Mgt.

Econ. Dev.
Diplomacy

Public Safety
Procurement

R&D Science
Tax Collection

Transportation
Social Services
Rec & Natl Res

Natl Sec, Def. &

and Receivable
Import / Exports

Grants & Loans

Disaster Prep. &

Response Mgmt
Environm'tl Mgmt

Accounts Payable

Energy Production
Regulation Compl

Consum-er Protect

Regulation Creation
Permits & Licensing
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An Integrated Government-wide Business Architecture

Access Channels
Web Telephone E-system to Private/Public Face to
- Voice Fax Kiosks Mail
Services - Interactive
System Partnerships Face

Lines of Business
Policy Making Program Admin Compliance
Asset Mgmt
Disaster Preparedness Defense & Nat’l Security Ops Consumer Safety
Economic Development Diplomacy Environment Mgmt
National Security, Foreign Disaster Response Management Labor
Relations & Defense Energy Production Law Enforcement
Public Safety Grants/Loans Other Regulatory
Regulatory – Creation Insurance Compliance (e.g.,
Permits/Licensing Communications)
Social Services:
- Monetary Tax Collection
Benefits, In-kind (Health, Trade (Import/Export)
Nutrition, & Housing), Transportation
Education
Recreation & Natural Resources
R&D & Science

Internal Operations / Infrastructure

HR – Finance (GL/AP/AR) –– Travel – Supply Chain Mgmt (Procurement/Inventory Cntl/Logistics) – Admin

Underlying Processes / Value Chains

Information Value Chain:
Capture Store Query Distribute Analyze Act Learn
Supply Chain Mgt: Order Capture Fulfill
Command and Control: evolving

Figure: 5.2: The Business Architecture

Prioritizing Initiatives
The 24 E-Government initiatives were selected using two rounds of prioritization. Overlaying
the 350 plus projects that the taskforce gathered from the interviews and e-mails against the
architecture assessment yielded 30 potential E-Government initiatives. The most promising
initiatives were selected on the basis of value to citizens, potential improvement in agency
efficiency and likelihood of deploying within 18 to 24 months.

Initial business cases were developed for each of the 30 initiatives, yielding estimates of
benefits, costs and risks. Twenty-four of the 30 would derive significant benefits from
simplifying the underlying processes, and 17 of the 30 would derive significant benefits from
unifying infrastructure and operations across agency silos. Overall, the 30 initiatives provide an
opportunity to improve response to citizens by an order of magnitude (e.g. days instead of

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weeks). They provide the opportunity to better use billions of dollars in redundant IT investment
and operating costs. They could reduce government’s burden on citizens, businesses and state
and local governments by well over a billion dollars. Using this data from the business cases,
the 20 most promising initiatives were recommended for deployment, with initiatives addressing
each citizen-centered group (citizens, businesses, state and local governments and internal
efficiency and effectiveness). In addition, two initiatives were selected for further business case
development: healthcare informatics and e-Vital. Finally, e-Authentication was selected to
address the authentication security needs that cut across federal E-Government initiatives.

The selections were made by a steering group comprised of the members of the President’s
Management Council under the leadership of the OMB Director. The full President’s
Management Council approved 23 initiatives at the October 3, 2001 meeting. Subsequently,
payroll processing was added as the 24th initiative.

Figure 5.3 Summary of E-Government Portfolios

G2C G2B
• Use the web for accessing services such as • Reduce burden on businesses by adopting
benefits, loans, recreational sites & processes that enable collecting data once for
educational material multiple uses & streamlining redundant data
• Key lines of business: social services, • Key lines of business: regulation, economic
recreation & natural resources, grants/loans, development, trade, permits/licenses,
taxes grants/loans, asset management

G2G IEE
• Share & integrate federal, state & local data • Adopt commercial best practices in
• Key lines of business: economic government operation (supply chain
development, recreation & natural resources, management, HR document workflow)
public safety, law enforcement, disaster • Key lines of business: supply chain
response management, grants/loans management, HR, finance

6. RECOMMENDATIONS AND OVERVIEW OF THE HIGH PAY-OFF

INITIATIVES

The President’s Management Council selected the E-Government initiatives on the

basis of potential value identified in the initial business cases. The initiatives selected
provide the most value to citizens, while generating cost savings or improving
effectiveness of government. The 24 projects achieve these results by simplifying and
unifying agency work processes and information flows, providing one-stop services to
citizens and enabling information to be collected online once and reused, versus re-
collected many times.

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Managing partners were selected along with other agency partners to lead the new
efforts. Subsequent work by the managing partners and their agency partners has
yielded more detailed business cases, generally building on current related initiatives
(e.g., the International Trade Process Streamlining initiative led by the Commerce
Department). With the goal of realizing the business case for each initiative within 24
months, the managing partners will oversee deployment of modules for each initiative
in six-month increments as modules become operational.

Additional information about the projects is available in Appendix D, Initiative

Summaries.

7. BARRIERS AND MITIGATION STRATEGIES

The Task Force identified key barriers that may prevent the successful implementation
of each initiative. Recurring barriers included agency culture, lack of federal
architecture, trust, resources, and stakeholder resistance. The Task Force then worked
with the Steering Group to define actions for overcoming the barriers. Table 7-1 lists
the actions endorsed by the President’s Management Council for overcoming each
chronic barrier.

One barrier frequently cited is the need to ensure adequate security and privacy. A
successful E-Government strategy must deploy effective security controls into
government processes and systems. E-Government must also ensure privacy for
personal information that is shared with the Federal Government. The e-
Authentication project will enable mutual trust to support widespread use of electronic
interactions between the public and government and across government by providing
common solutions to establish ‘identity’. It will provide a secure, easy to use and
consistent method of proving identity to the federal government that is an appropriate
match to the level of risk and business needs of each initiative. In addition, project
teams will address privacy concerns regarding the sharing of personal information. E-
government depends on confidence by citizens that the government is handling their
personal information with care. Agencies are working on building strong privacy
protections into the E-Government initiatives and OMB is focusing on government
wide privacy protections by all agencies.

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Table 7-1 Actions for Overcoming Barriers to E-Government

Barrier Mitigation
Agency • Sustain high level leadership and commitment
Culture • Establish interagency governance structure
• Give priority to cross-agency work
• Engage interagency user/stakeholder groups, including
communities of practice
Lack of • OMB leads government-wide business and data architecture
Federal rationalization
Architecture • OMB sponsors architecture development for cross-agency projects
• FirstGov.gov will be the primary online delivery portal for G2C
and G2B interactions
Trust • Through e-Authentication E-Government initiative, establish
secure transactions and identity authentication that will be used by
all E-Government initiatives
• Incorporate security and privacy protections into each business
plan
• Provide public training and promotion

Resources • Move resources to programs with greatest return and citizen impact
• Set measures up-front and use to monitor implementation
• Provide online training to create new expertise among
employees/contractors

Stakeholder • Create comprehensive strategy for engaging Congressional

Resistance committees
• Have multiple PMC members argue collectively for initiatives
• Tie performance evaluations to cross-agency success
• Communicate strategy to stakeholders

8. IMPLEMENTATON

The E-Government Management Action Plan

Today, the federal government has only scratched the surface of the E-Government potential.
Most current efforts merely move decades old agency practices onto the Internet. Consequently,
there are more than 35 million federal Web pages available at over 22,000 federal Web sites.
While agencies have spent two years considering how to move 6,600 types of paper-based
transactions online (representing millions of individual transactions per year), only hundreds are
online today. Given the redundant and outdated activities inherent in the 6,600 transactions, the
Task Force identified that successful E-Government implementation would have to significantly
streamline interactions. The Task Force identified several hundred opportunities each requiring
significant change from traditional bureaucratic approaches.

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The Task Force determined that successful implementation will be difficult without prioritizing
opportunities and engaging federal leaders to focus resources on initiatives that give the greatest
results. Consequently, the 24 initiatives chosen represent a balance of initiatives and resources
across the four key citizen groups (individuals, businesses, intergovernmental and internal). The
initiatives will integrate dozens of overlapping agency E-Government projects that would have
made worse the confusing array of federal Web sites. Additionally, the 24 initiatives represent
the priorities of the members of the President’s Management Council, who can provide the key
leadership support needed to overcome resistance to change.

The 24 initiatives will be managed using a portfolio management process, which manages risk
within the range of initiatives for improving service to a given citizen-centered grouping. The
four portfolios and their strategic foci are:

• The Government to Citizen (G2C) initiatives will fulfill the vision of one-stop, online access
to benefits, and services (such as “Recreation.gov”). They will also bring modern
relationship management tools to improve the quality and efficiency of service delivery.
• The Government to Business (G2B) initiatives will reduce burden on businesses by adopting
processes that dramatically reduce redundant data collection, provide one-stop streamlined
support for businesses, and enable digital communication with businesses using the language
of E-business (XML).
• The Government to Government (G2G) initiatives will enable sharing and integration of
federal, state and local data to facilitate better leverage of investments in IT systems (e.g.
geographical information) and to provide better integration of key government operations,
such as disaster response. The G2G initiatives also improve grant management capabilities,
as required by the Federal Financial Assistance Improvement Act (P.L 106-107). These
initiatives will also support “vertical” (i.e., intergovernmental) integration requirements for
Homeland Security.
• The Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness (IEE) initiatives bring commercial best practices to
key government operations, particularly supply chain management, human capital
management, financial management and document workflow.

Overall, the initiatives represent an opportunity to more effectively use billions of dollars of
federal funds, while accelerating government response times from weeks down to minutes. In
addition, the initiatives provide an opportunity to save billions of dollars currently spent by
citizens, businesses and state and local governments to comply with paperwork-intensive
government processes.

However, the pay-off will not result from automating current processes, but rather through the
transformation of how the government interacts with its citizens and customers. Only through
changing how we do business internally—that is, streamlining work processes to take advantage
of modern IT systems—will citizens experience the transformation envisioned. OMB will
work closely with the lead and partner agencies to establish appropriate and equitable
implementation and resource plans for these initiatives.

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Figure 8-1 Timeline for Deployment

This is non-exhaustive list that will grow or be modified as the initiatives evolve.

Project Milestone Date

Government to Citizen
Recreation One Stop Revised Recreation.gov deployed Completed
First version of Volunteer.gov online 4/31/02
RFPs or agreements with private sector reached on implementation of new recreation online TBD
projects
Additional recreation projects (reservations, searchable maps, more recreation information, etc.) TBD
available online
Eligibility Assistance Online Initial release of online screening tool for 20 benefit programs 4/31/02
Online screening tool for 100 benefit programs 9/30/02
Targeted consolidation of online benefit application and customer relationship management TBD
Online Access for Loans Deploy “seek and find” methodology to make it easier for the public to find loan information TBD
USA Services Enable citizens to personalize the combination of services they obtain across multiple programs TBD
Enable a case to be created and acted upon by multiple agencies TBD
Implement a multi-channel contact center to facilitate easy access to information and service TBD
EZ Tax Filing Internet fact of filing and refund 4/31/02
Initial deployment of industry partnership free e-filing solution for 2003 season 12/31/02
Government to Business
Online Rulemaking Management Develop capability assessment of “top ten” rulemaking agencies’ docket systems – who has the best 3/30/02
existing solution
Create a page, through FIRSTGOV, that links to all agency’s docket sites 4/15/02
Complete study of requirements for moving rulemaking agencies to an integrated online rulemaking 8/30/02
system
Deploy unified cross-agency public comment site TBD
Deploy a single on-line rulemaking dockets application to include integration with the RISC/OIRA TBD
Consolidated Information System (ROCIS)
Expanding Electronic Tax Products for Begin deployment of filing of W2s on the internet 2/01/02
Businesses
Complete XML or non EDI formats (schemas) for electronic filing of 94x 8/31/02
Begin deployment of the interim solution for online EIN by November 2002 (IRS) 11/31/02
By January 2004 target initial implementation of 1120 efile for business to facilitate end to end tax 1/15/04
administration

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Federal Asset Sales Re-host Federal Sales 3/31/02
Develop pilot business integration 9/30/02
Pilot transaction platform 3/31/03
International Trade Process Complete EX-IM Working Capital Automation Project and Integrate into Export.gov 4/15/02
Streamlining
Deploy on-line collaborative workspace that consolidates all of the information gathering by trade 8/15/02
specialists and disseminates it through export.gov to SMEs.
Simplify EX-IM Insurance filing processes and products and integrate them into Export.gov 1/15/03
Pilot/test prototype content management tool for Businesslaw.gov. Conduct full inventory/registry of 8/1/02
One-Stop Business Compliance regulatory agency’s “plain language” compliance assistance tools
Information
Prototype seamless intergovernmental licensing and permitting tool to include Internet EIN 11/30/02
Complete 30 expert tools (from multiple agencies to include OSHA, EPA, IRS, INS, DOT, DOE) 5/1/03
designed to help businesses to comply with relevant regulations in the environment, health and
safety, employment, and taxes.
Government to Government
Geospatial Information One-Stop Complete draft standards for critical spatial data themes (framework data) 9/30/02
Identify Federal inventories of framework data 9/30/02
Deploy first iteration of the Geospatial One-Stop TBD
e-Grants Finalize the E-Grants business case in support of partner requirements and other participant input 4/15/02
Evaluate the use or expansion of interagency and agency specific capabilities for discretionary grant 6/1/02
programs
Pilot a simple, unified way to find federal grant opportunities via the Web 7/1/02
Define application data standards 10/1/02
Deploy simple, unified grant application mechanism 10/1/03
Disaster Assistance and Crisis Finalize the business case in support of partner requirements and other participant input 05/15/02
Response
Deploy a single portal for citizens, public and private institutions that provides access to information TBD
and services relating to Disaster and Crisis Management

Wireless Public Safety Interoperable Define the communications concept of operations for interaction that 05/31/2002
Communications – Project SAFECOM identifies the communications requirements to address the two highest probable threat scenarios:
Bio terrorism and natural disasters.
Develop an integrated public safety response solution that addresses the top two threat scenarios by 09/30/02
using existing infrastructure augmented by available commercial capability.
Complete a gap analysis of existing inventories of public safety wireless communications at federal, 12/31/02
state, and local level.
Implement Priority Wireless Access. TBD

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e-Vital Finalize the business case in support of partner requirements and other participant input, and submit 05/15/02
to the PMC
Deploy electronic process for Federal and State agencies to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate TBD
Electronic Verification of Vital Events (EVVE) records.
Deploy an electronic process for Federal and State agencies to collect, process, analyze, and TBD
disseminate Electronic Death Registration (EDR) records
Internal Efficiency & Effectiveness
E-Training Initial e-Training system operational with mandatory Government courses (module 1) - 10/15/02
Expanded e-Training system with fee-for-service courses (Module 2) 4/30/03
Enhanced e-Training system contains user and managerial tools (such as virtual classrooms and 11/01/03
evaluation tools (Modules 2 and 3)
Recruitment One-Stop Implement simple front-end – Improved appearance and usability that mirrors popular private sector 6/30/02
internet recruiting sites
Applicant status applicant database mining, intake of paper resumes/applications, and capability to link 1/31/03
to Federal agency’s assessment tools.
Integration with agency assessment tools. 6/30/03
Integrated Human Resources HR Logical Data Model including metadata, extended markup language (XML) tags, including proposal 9/30/02
for standard Federal HR data
Prototype Analytical Tools Enabling Integrated Resource Management, Workforce Planning, and 12/31/02
Policy Analysis
Design notional architecture for HR initiatives integration to include financial management 11/30/02
E-Clearance Clearance Verification System which creates a common, source of investigative info to support 12/31/02
employee assignment
Implement e-QIP to reduce error rejection rate, eliminate manual data transfers 6/30/03
Connect OPM & DoD security clearance indexes 12/31/02
e- Payroll/HR (Payroll Processing Complete and submit business case to the PMC 3/31/02
Consolidation)
Integrated Enterprise Architecture TBD
Strengthening Payroll Service Delivery TBD
e-Travel Government wide web-based end to end solutions initial capabilities assessment (ICA) 10/01/02
E-Travel Customer Care Implemented 12/01/02
Web Travel Authorization and Voucher System (TAVS) 6/30/03
Integrated Solution 12/30/03
Integrated Acquisition Environment Integrated Vendor Profile Network – IVPN Single point of vendor registration, initial capability 6/30/02
Consolidated eCatalog –Implement a directory of GWAC and MAC contracts to simplify selection 9/30/02
and facilitate leverage of Government buying, initial capability
Federal Acquisition Management Information System – FAMIS Implement a new web-based Federal 9/30/03
Management Information System that is integrated with legacy systems and provides useful real-time
data, initial capability

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Electronic Records Management With partners, finalize ERM initiative work plan and types of ERM guidance and tools to be developed 5/31/02
in initiative
Issue first ERM guidance product (subsequent products to be identified with their timelines under the 9/30/02
first milestone)
Issue first lessons learned/best practices model 9/30/02
Complete RM and archival XML schema 2/28/03
Develop ERM requirements that agencies can incorporate in their system designs 04/30/03
Issue final guidance products and tools 9/30/03
Cross Cutting Initiatives
E-Authentication Define operational concept including critical success factors and requirements for 12 of the projects. 7/1/02
Initial authentication gateway prototype 9/30/02
Full deployment 9/30/03
Government-wide authentication guidance TBD
Federal Enterprise Architecture Produce a set of generally accepted, component-based technology models to guide the target and 3/15/02
transition architectures of the currently approved E-government initiatives
Identify opportunities, based upon agreed criteria measuring impact and value to the citizen, for 4/30/02
additional e-Government initiatives (Budget Year 2003/2004)
Deliver a Federal EA repository with high level business and data architecture in 4 focus areas: 4/30/02
Homeland Security, Social Services, Economic Stimulus, and Back Office Operations

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9. GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE

In implementing the Action Plan, the daily management and leadership will be
provided by:
• Senior agency officials who comprise the President’s Management Council;
• The Office of the Associate Director of OMB for IT and E-Government and other
OMB staff;
• Members of the CIO, CFO, and Procurement Executive and Human Resources
Councils.

One of the most significant barriers to successful implementation of E-government is

the resistance of organizations to change. In her recent book, Evolve, Rosabeth Moss
Kanter, noted author on the successful transformation of organizations, characterized
failed, halfhearted attempts at E-business as like "putting lipstick on a bulldog". She
goes on to say, "Success requires systemic change, a shift in the organizational way of
life." E-Government, like E-business, is about fundamental change in the way
organizations and processes work to take advantage of opportunities the technology
offers.

To succeed will require an effective governance structure to overcome the barriers and
implement the changes necessary. This includes substantial, long-term commitment by
senior management. The Administration is using the President's Management Council
(PMC) to ensure this management commitment.

PMC members volunteered to be “managing partners” for each of the initiatives. Other
members volunteered to participate in those efforts as partners. The managing partners
are establishing program offices to ensure that the initiatives are implemented, and the
partners will cooperate in the planning and implementation of the initiative. OMB is
overseeing this process and working with the agencies on adequate funding for the
initiatives. Consequently, OMB has hired four Portfolio Managers, reporting to the
Associate Director for IT and E-Government, who are responsible for overseeing
progress in the E-Government initiatives.

The PMC will also focus on organizational and process changes across government
agencies to facilitate citizen-centered transformation. As such, the Council will be a
key component of governance for the transformation of the federal government to E-
Government. To help this transformation, the CIO Council, with participation from the
other federal management councils, will form portfolio steering groups to focus on E-
Government in each of the four citizen segments: G2C, G2B, G2G, and Internal
Efficiency and Effectiveness. Portfolio Steering Group members will be from
agencies that make up the project teams for each of the initiatives. In addition, the
G2G Steering Committee will include representation from official state and local
government organizations. The steering committees will advise agency program

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managers concerning their initiatives and help remove barriers to the implementation
of the initiatives. The Committees will also support their corresponding portfolio
manager, an OMB employee who is responsible for making government more citizen-
centered through daily interaction with the managing partners who they oversee.

Metrics will be used to track progress both for the agency and the cross-agency E-
Government. The President's Management Council will be closely involved and track
E-Government progress at its regular meetings. OMB will be working with
Department and agency E-Government leaders, as well as their CIOs, to ensure
success. Progress will be tracked for each E-Government initiative, and agency
success and cooperation will be documented in the President’s Management Agenda
Scorecard.

E-GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE
PRESIDENT'S BUDGET
FINAL FUNDING APPROVAL -- OMB DIRECTOR

OMB Associate Director For

Information Technology and E-Government

PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT OFFICE

MANAGEMENT OF TRANSFORMATION

CIO STEERING STEERING STEERING STEERING

COUNCIL COMMITTEE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE COMMITTEE

OIRA GOVERNMENT INTERNAL

GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT
IPT TO CITIZEN EFFECTIVENESS &
TO BUSINESS TO GOVERNMENT
LEADERS PORTFOLIO PORTFOLIO MANAGER PORTFOLIO MANAGER EFFICIENCY
MANAGER PORTFOLIO MANAGER

IPTs FOR:
IPTs FOR: IPTs FOR: • FEDERAL ASSETS SALES
IPTs FOR: IPTs FOR:
• E-AUTHENTICATION • USA SERVICE • GEOSPATIAL • RECRUITMENT ONE-STOP
• ONLINE RULEMAKING
• ENTERPRISE • EZ TAX FILING INFORMATION ONE- • ENTERPRISE HR
MANAGEMENT
ARCHITECTURE • ONLINE ACCESS FOR STOP INTEGRATION
• EXPANDING TAX
LOANS • DISASTER ASSISTANCE • INTEGRATED ACQUISITION
PRODUCTS FOR
• RECREATION ONE- • E-GRANT SYSTEM ENVIRONMENT
BUSINESSES
STOP • WIRELESS • E-RECORDS MANAGEMENT
• ONE STOP BUSINESS
• ELIBIBILITY • E-VITAL • E-TRAINING
COMPLIANCE
ASSISTANCE ONLINE • E-PAYROLL/ HR
• INTERNATIONAL TRADE
• E-TRAVEL
PROCESS
STREAMLINING
• (CONSOLIDATED
HEALTH INFORMATICS)

Figure 9.1 Governance Structure

Key to acronyms: CIO- Chief Information Officer, HR- Human Resources;
IPT Integrated Project Team

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10. INITIATIVE’S RELATIONSHIP TO PRESIDENT’S MANAGEMENT AGENDA

The E-Government Task Force initiatives described in this report not only address the “Expanding
E-Government” directions of the President’s Management Agenda, but also are key enablers for
the President’s other reform initiatives. The President’s Management Agenda (PMA) FY 2002
can be found at http://www.firstgov.gov, http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB or http://www.cio.gov.
Key elements of the initiatives that drive other parts of the Management Agenda are discussed
below.

Strategic Management of Human Capital

• Accelerate recruitment and hiring, as well as hiring college graduates in a manner
commensurate with their job search approach (Recruitment One-Stop)
• Reduce time to make better decisions (all initiatives, for example e-Training)
• Adopt IT systems to capture knowledge of retiring employees (e-Records)
• Make better use of e-Training to leverage scarce training funds and develop government-wide
competencies within job skill needs (e-Training)
• Integrate commercial best practices in Enterprise Resource Management (ERP) regarding
workforce (Enterprise HR Integration, Payroll Processing)
• Attract Internet savvy graduates from top schools and provide modern work environment with
HR systems that facilitate employees doing their work (all initiatives)

Competitive Sourcing
• Accomplish E-government through adoption of best commercial practices and systems/implicit
(all initiatives, for example Integrated Acquisition Systems/e-Contract Services)
• Use rule-based decision systems inherent in IT to facilitate outsourcing of commercial
activities currently performed in-house (Business Compliance One-Stop and Federal Asset Sales)

Improved Financial Performance

• Eliminate erroneous benefit and assistance payments (Online Eligibility Assistance, e-Vital,
Consolidated Health Informatics)
• Generate accurate, timely and integrated financial information (Enterprise HR Integration,
Payroll Processing, Integrated Acquisition Environment, e-Grants)
• Improve timelines: Re-engineer reporting process and expand uses of Web-based processes;
accelerate end of year reporting; measure systems compliance with agency’s ability to meet OMB
and Treasury requirements (Enterprise HR Integration, e-Grants, Expanding Electronic Tax
Products for Businesses)
• Enhance usefulness: Integrate financial and performance information (Enterprise HR
Integration)

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Budget and Performance Integration

• Standardize integrated budgeting performance and accounting information systems at
the program level to provide timely feedback for management and roll-up to government-
wide view and decisions (Enterprise HR Integration as a component)
• Improve productivity focus for E-Government initiatives with new initiatives being
identified in the federal architecture work

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Appendix A

EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503

M-01-28 July 18, 2001

MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

FROM: Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. /s/

SUBJECT: Citizen-Centered E-Government: Developing the Action Plan

Electronic government is one of the five key elements in the President's Management and
Performance Plan. The President's Budget outlined how we will focus our E-Government
initiatives on reforming the government so that it is citizen-centered. This memorandum
describes our plan to establish a Task Force to begin implementing the President's
initiative and asks for your assistance and support in these efforts.
Within our organizations, staff already know of many potential opportunities for using
information technologies to improve the service we provide to citizens. Our approach,
modeled on the best practices of the private sector, is to tap into that knowledge and use
it to identify applications of Internet technologies to reform the way our organizations do
business.
Because E-Government is at the core of the President's management agenda, I recently
created the position in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of Associate
Director for Information Technology and E-Government to lead the effort in achieving
the President's E-Government vision. I have asked Mark Forman, the new Associate
Director, to lead an interagency to define an action plan and road map. We ask your help
in establishing this Task Force of knowledgeable individuals to identify high payoff E-
Government opportunities and set in motion a transformation of government around
customer needs. The Task Force will identify priority actions to achieve strategic
improvements the following four areas of service:

• Service to individuals: deploy easy to find one-stop shops for citizens, including
single points of easy entry to access high quality government services;

• Service to businesses: reduce burden on businesses by using Internet protocols and

consolidating the myriad of redundant reporting requirements;

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• Intergovernmental affairs: make it easier for States to meet reporting requirements,

while enabling better performance measurement and results, especially for grants;
and

• Internal efficiency and effectiveness: improve the performance and reduce costs of
federal government administration by using e-business best practices in areas such as
supply chain management, financial management, and knowledge management.
The Task Force will operate as an interagency working group over a period of five to six
weeks, beginning later this month. I have asked Mark Forman to act as the project
executive for the Task Force and report progress to me and an executive steering
committee. The Task Force will be successful only if it comprises individuals
knowledgeable in their agency programs and experienced in government reform
initiatives.

To assist in this effort, I ask that you identify a senior E-Government leader who reports
directly to you, to work with Mark in establishing the Task Force. Specific time
commitments for individuals participating from your Department or agency will be
determined on the basis of a discussion between your E-Government leader and Mark.
Please have your Department or agency provide names and contact information for your
E-Government leader to Mr. Alex Wilson (wwilson@omb.eop.gov) at 202-395-3787. If
you would like more detailed information, Mark Forman can be reached
at 202-395-1148.

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Appendix B: Task Force Members

Agriculture: Diaz, Deborah Cudd, Karen
MacDonald, Robert Dorris, Martha
Niedermayer, Chris Freebairn, Tom Office of Management and Budget:
Gross, Tanya Basile, Julie
Central Intelligence Agency: Koses, Jeffrey Chenok, Daniel
Reid, Jim Mitchell, Mary Forman, Mark
Murphy, Roxie Frater, Anthony
Commerce: Petersen-Parker, Wanda McVay, William
Guarguilo, John Royal, Marion Seehra, Jasmeet
Hogan, Karen Sindelar, John Springer, Edward
Lyons, Kevin Taylor, Ron Swab, Sandy
Marshall, Jack Timchak, Steve White, Kamela
Mehlman, Bruce Temoshok, David Williams, Jerry
Quintero, Richard Thurston, Keith Womer, Jonathan
Sade, Mike
Health and Human Services: Small Business Administration:
Defense: Godesky, Doug Nillson, Ernst
Adolphi, Ronald Mahaney, Steve
Carey, Rob Markovitz, Paul Social Security Administration:
DePalma, Evelyn Reester, Heidi Trenkle, Tony
Groeber, Ginger Roach, Joseph
Rider, Melissa Williams, Maureen State:
Romney, Lisa Sheerin, Dan
Housing and Urban Development:
Education: Eden, Donna Transportation:
Burrow, Bill Mercier, Larry.
Cavataio, Tony Interior: Powers-King, M.
Luigart, Craig Brownell, Peter Preston, Phyllis
Zeiher, Jacqueline Haycock, Bob
Lesher, Sky Treasury:
Energy: Mahoney, John Arnold, Jo Lynn
Warnick, Walter Canales, Mayi
Justice: Fletcher, Jackie
Environmental Protection Agency: Evans, Karen Kotelnicki, Donna
Nelson, Kimberly Hutchinson, Selena Curry, Bernadette
Shaw, Denice McElhaney, Bill
US Agency for Internal
Federal Emergency Management Labor: Development:
Agency: Moritz, Russell Mazer, Bernie
Jones, Yolanda Tashjian, Steve
National Aeronautics Space
Federal Energy Regulatory Administration: Veteran’s Administration:
Commission: Holcombe, Lee Russell, Lois
Russo, Tom Stepka, Ken

Federal Reserve Bank: National Endowment for the

Madine, Charles Humanities:
Bobley, Brett
General Services Administration:
Barr, Marcerto Nuclear Regulatory Commission:
Boddie, Tisha Clayman, Lew

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Appendix C: Task Force Process

August 9
The Quicksilver Process
Gather & identify strategic
e-Gov opportunities

Aggregate opportunities into

citizen-centered initiatives

Steering
Group
Prioritization
August 22 Review 1

• Develop high-level business cases

• Define key barriers to implementation

Steering
Group
September 25th Prioritization
Review 2

Produce Action Plan Document

PMC Final
October 3rd Approval

Figure C-1: An Overview of the “Quicksilver Process” Used by the Task Force.

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Appendix D. Initiative Summaries

Government to Citizen

Recreation One-Stop
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: DOI
This initiative will build upon "Recreation.gov" and will provide a one-stop,
searchable database of recreation areas nationwide, featuring online mapping and
integrated transactions, including online campground reservations and the purchase of
recreational passes, maps and other products. The project will include links to
recreational opportunities provided by all levels of government.
Value to Citizen: A single source of information through a simpler and more user-
friendly site will reduce search time and provide better service to citizens. The value
of the service will increase through more detailed information and the ability to
conduct transactions online. Users will be able to find information and conduct
transactions at a single site, rather than searching through multiple agency Web sites.
Value to the Government: Through reduced duplication, increased sales and
employee timesavings, this project should save federal agencies approximately $5
million annually in avoided costs.

Eligibility Assistance Online

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: Labor
Through a common Internet portal, citizens (with a focus on high-need demographic
groups) will have an online tool for identifying government benefit programs from
which they may be eligible to receive assistance.
Value to Citizen: Each citizen attempting to determine benefits eligibility should save
approximately 50 minutes by using this service over current services. Citizens can
also learn about benefits they were eligible to receive but might not know about.
Value to the Government: Customer service calls will be reduced by approximately
750,000 a year, and the government will save approximately $4 million a year through
eliminating redundancy.

Online Access for Loans

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: Education
The Online Access for Loans initiative allows citizens and businesses to find the loan
programs that meet their needs.
Value to Citizen: Citizens will have faster, easier access to loan information and transactions.
Value to the Government: Employees will save time in managing the loan process.

USA Services
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: GSA
The USA Service initiative will use best practices in customer relationship
management to enable citizens to quickly obtain service online, while improving
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enable citizens to personalize the combination of services they obtain across multiple
programs and agencies in a privacy-protected environment.
Value to Citizen: More timely and helpful customer service and more consistent
customer service across lines of communication and government programs.
Value to the Government: Redundancy of operation will be eliminated across
agencies and employees will save time operating customer relationship management
tools.

EZ Tax Filing
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: Treasury/IRS
The initiative would make it easier for citizens to files taxes in a Web-enabled environment.
Value to Citizen: Citizens will no longer have to pay for basic, automated tax
preparation. Refund checks will be delivered sooner, online security will be increased
and customer service will be improved.
Value to the Government: More information is delivered electronically, reducing
data errors. A higher percentage of tax forms are filled out correctly, reducing
customer follow-up. Call center receives fewer calls, reducing staffing costs.

Government to Business

Online Rulemaking Management

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: DOT
This initiative would provide access to the rulemaking process for citizens anytime,
anywhere. An existing “e-Docket” system would be expanded and enhanced to serve
as a government-wide system for agency dockets. Other agency systems would use
the system by creating “storefronts” consistent with statutory requirements for each
agency under the Administrative Procedures Act. Comments would be organized
using knowledge management tools to improve the quality of rules.
Value to Citizen: A single portal for businesses and citizens to access the rulemaking
process, creating a more collaborative and transparent atmosphere in which to make
policy and public safety decisions. It will also improve the quality of policy decision-
making by increasing citizen and business participation in the rulemaking process.
Public participation is estimated to increase by 600 percent.
Value to the Government: Elimination of duplicative and redundant systems that
currently exist or are being developed. Estimated $9.75 million in savings from
consolidating space and FTE costs for 57 rulemaking agencies. Without a
government-wide e-Docket system, the federal government will expend nearly $1
billion in development and annual operational costs.

Expanding Electronic Tax Products for Businesses

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: Treasury /IRS
This initiative’s goals include decreasing the number of tax-related forms that an
employer must file, providing timely and accurate tax information to employers,

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increasing the availability of electronic tax filing and modeling simplified federal and
state tax employment laws.
Value to Citizen: Reduce the burden of compliance with tax laws for businesses.
Upon implementation, this initiative offers cost savings of up to $182 per year, per
small business. Aggregated, small businesses stand to save up to $6.4 billion over six
years. Benefits to large and mid-sized companies should be greater as they tend to
spend considerably more time and effort on tax preparation.
Value to the Government: Increases the accuracy and reliability of tax data, as well
as the costs associated with paper processing. IRS and SSA may save $16 million
annually in staff and printing/mailing costs. It also reduces the costs to states for
processing wage and tax data by 5.6 percent.

Federal Asset Sales

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: GSA
Prospective customers will be able to find assets that they are interested in, regardless
of the agency that holds those assets. Customers will be able to bid and/or make
purchases electronically for financial, real and disposable assets.
Value to Citizen: The creation of a single, easy-to-find point of access, rather than
150 disparate sites, will lower transaction costs and make it easier to do business with
the government.
Value to the Government: An estimated $15 million may be saved by consolidating
150 federal Web sites. Additional potential cost savings of approximately $750
million annually associated with the costs of excess building space could be achieved.

International Trade Process Streamlining

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: DOC
The initiative would create a single customer-focused site where new or existing
exporters could be assisted electronically through the entire export process. The 20
current Web sites would be organized and accessed through a single entry point.
Value to Citizen: The average export transaction by small to medium exporters
(SME) is $400,000. If 224,000 SMEs increase even by a small amount, exports might
increase by a billion dollars or more.
Value to the Government: Could streamline 19 agencies involved in trade
promotion.

One-Stop Business Compliance Information

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: SBA
This initiative would provide information on laws and regulations that can help users
understand compliance information. It would also offer wizards and tutorials to help
users determine if rules apply to them and how to proceed. To the maximum extent
possible, permits would be completed, submitted and approved online.
Value to Citizen: Currently, the regulatory burden on small business is $7,000 per
employee. The creation of a single, cross-agency, business compliance portal will
reduce the regulatory burden on the private sector.

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Value to the Government: Streamlined business processes and economies of scale

would reduce agency costs for achieving business compliance. Government-wide
savings of an estimated $10 to $20 million could be realized after full implementation.
Additional savings would be realized as a result of staff reductions from online
permitting.

Consolidated Health Informatics (business case)

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: HHS
The initiative would provide the basis for a simplified and unified system for sharing
and reusing medical record information among government agencies and their private
healthcare providers and insurers. It would enable a single mechanism for making
those records accessible.
Value to Citizen: Reduce private sector healthcare expenditures for administration
(accounts for $57 billion) and improve healthcare for one-half of the population of the
United States.
Value to the Government: Order of magnitude savings (from days to minutes) are
possible in the area of managing, transporting, copying and exchanging paper medical
records. Upon full implementation, this initiative could result in savings of up to $100
million.

Government to Government

Geospatial Information One-Stop

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: DOI
The Geospatial Information One-Stop will provide access to the federal government's
spatial data assets in a single location and help make state and local spatial data assets
more accessible. federal agencies will also make their planned and future spatial data
activities available to state and local governments to promote collaboration and reduce
duplicative efforts. Data standards developed through an intergovernmental process
will result in data that can be used multiple times for multiple purposes, saving
taxpayer money. It will also help empower the private sector by communicating the
characteristics of a desired standardized data product.
Value to Citizen: Standardized and reliable spatial data can help save hundreds of
millions of dollars annually through consolidation and coordination of spatial data
acquisition and maintenance. It will reduce search time for geospatial assets from
weeks to minutes. Lastly, it can help improve and expedite citizen service by making
data more readily available to agencies requiring that information to perform their
governmental functions.
Value to the Government: Full deployment will result in easier, more reliable
access to spatial data that should result in hundreds of millions of dollars saved
annually by eliminating redundant data collection and increasing opportunities for
cost-sharing partnerships. Consolidation and coordination of spatial data assets are
critical enablers for other E-Government initiatives, as well as for the Homeland
Security effort.

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e-Grants
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: HHS
This initiative will create an electronic grants portal for grant recipients and the grant-
making agencies that will streamline, simplify and provide an electronic option for
grants management across the government. This effort will include the work of the 26
federal grant-making agencies to implement P.L.106-107.
Value to Citizen: A single grant portal will simplify the application process and
increase awareness of grant opportunities resulting in a reduction of time spent
preparing and searching for grants.
Value to the Government: Save $1 billion in federal funds currently devoted to the
administration of grants. Consolidated Web site will save as much as $20 million in
postage costs.

Disaster Assistance and Crisis Response

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: FEMA
This initiative involves a public, one-stop portal containing information from
applicable public and private organizations involved in disaster preparedness,
response, recovery and mitigation. This portal will also serve as a single point of
application for all disaster assistance programs.
Value to Citizen: Accurate and timely data may result in saved lives and reduction in
property damage. Tens of millions of dollars will be saved in the reduction of
insurance costs and lawsuits. A single point of application for disaster assistance will
save time during the application and disbursement process.
Value to the Government: Elimination of redundant programs and administrative
costs in agencies that provide disaster assistance.

Wireless Public SAFEty Interoperable COMmunications/ Project SAFECOM

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: Treasury
For public safety officials to be effective in their daily responsibilities, as well as
before, during and after an emergency event, public safety agencies throughout all
levels of government, i.e. federal, state and local, must be able to communicate with
each other. This initiative would address the Nation’s critical shortcomings in efforts
by public safety agencies to achieve interoperability and eliminate redundant wireless
communications infrastructures. At the same time, it would assist state and local
interoperability and interoperability between federal public safety networks.
Value to Citizen: Coordinated public safety/law enforcement communication will
result in saved lives, as well as better-managed disaster response. Consolidated
networks will yield cost savings through reduction in communication devices,
management overhead of multiple networks, maintenance and training.
Value to the Government: Billions of dollars could be saved through a right-sized set
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resulting in a reduction in communications infrastructure, overhead, maintenance and

training.

e-Vital (business case)

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: SSA
This initiative would expand the existing vital records online data exchange efforts
between federal agencies and state governments.
Value to Citizen: Elimination of burden imposed on citizens to obtain and deliver
vital record information from local government to the federal government. Enables
more efficient and effective benefit qualification.
Value to the Government: Save millions of dollars annually through fraud detection
from computer matching programs as well as from reductions in erroneous payments.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness

e-Training
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: OPM
The vision is to provide a repository of government-owned courseware to be made
available to all governments (federal, state and local), to provide high interest and
government-required training to government employees at economies of scale pricing.
In addition, this would foster development of communities of practice. This initiative
supports achievement of the President’s Human Capital initiative.
Value to Citizen: Easy one-stop access to just-in-time training with more effective
development and retention of high-quality, diversified work force
Value to the Government: Low-cost delivery of effective training

Recruitment One-Stop
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: OPM
This initiative would improve the federal hiring process by improving the functionality
of the federal automated employment information system. It would provide job
seekers with streamlined resume submission, online feedback about their status in the
employment process and integration with automated assessment tools. The initiative
will provide federal employers with a searchable resume database.
Value to Citizen: This process will allow job seekers to enter their resume
information once to apply for multiple federal vacancies and to receive up-to-the-
minute information regarding the status of their application(s).
Value to the Government: This process will give agencies broader and faster access
to resumes and the automated tools needed to select candidates. It makes the
government a competitive player with the private sector in the recruitment market.

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Enterprise HR Integrations
Integrated Human Resources and e-Clearance
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: OPM
This initiative will eliminate the need for paper employee records, enable strategic
decisions regarding the use of human capital and financial resources to improve
agency performance and address emerging needs. It will also allow for the electronic
transfer of HR data throughout the federal sector, better protect the rights and benefits
of the federal workforce and streamline and improve government-wide reporting and
data analyses. It will reduce the time required to seek and access employee and
contractor security clearance information.
Value to Citizen: Improves services and protects the rights and benefits of the federal
workforce and provides faster security clearances.
Value to the Government: Streamlines reporting, reduces dependency on paper-
based processes, while improving HR capabilities and communications, all at a lower
cost.

e- Payroll/HR (Payroll Processing Consolidation)

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: OPM
The vision is to simplify and unify elements of the Payroll/HR process in order to
consolidate and integrate HR and payroll systems across government. This effort will
provide several hundred million dollars of savings to organizations and significantly
reduce future information technology (IT) investments and could foster direct
privatization. This initiative supports achievement of the five dimensions of the
President’s Management Agenda.
Value to Citizen: A government that works more efficiently is one that better serves
its citizens.
Value to the Government: Allows the federal government to consolidate payroll
operations to simplify and unify processes, thus saving dollars that would be spent on
multiple facilities, systems and management.

e-Travel
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: GSA
Agencies will use a common travel management system throughout the federal
government. Existing travel management resources will be consolidated and
processes will be simplified for cheaper, more efficient operation.
Value to Citizen: One-stop integrated travel services for all federal employees
Value to the Government: Reduced cycle time and improved travel and budget
information at a lower cost.

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Integrated Acquisition Environment

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: GSA
Agencies will begin sharing common data elements to enable other agencies to make
more informed procurement, logistical, payment and performance assessment
decisions. It will also allow agencies to make maximum use of E-market approaches.
Value to Citizen: Cost savings to the taxpayer based on a more effective process that
leverages scale with more supplier opportunities.
Value to the Government: Will make the purchase of goods and services faster and
less expensive, while providing more access to small business.

Electronic Records Management

Proposed Agency Managing Partner: NARA
This initiative will provide the tools that agencies will need to manage their records in
electronic form, addressing specific areas of electronic records management where
agencies are having major difficulties. This project will provide guidance on
electronic records management applicable government-wide and will provide tools for
agencies to transfer electronic records to NARA in a variety of data types and formats
so that they may be preserved in for future use by the government and citizens.
Value to Citizen: Easier process for creating information, with more reliable storage,
that is also in compliance with the Federal Records Act
Value to the Government: More efficient operations that meet the statutory
requirements of the Federal Records Act.

Initiatives That Address Barriers to E-Government Success

e-Authentication
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: GSA (Infrastructure)
e-Authentication will build and enable the mutual trust needed to support wide spread
use of electronic interactions between the public and government and across
governments. This will establish a method for satisfactorily establishing ‘identity,’
without which the promise of E-Government will never reach its full potential. The
project will establish common interoperable authentication solutions for all of the E-
Government initiatives.
Value to Citizen: Secure, consistent method of proving identity to the federal government.
Value to the Government: Eliminate redundancy in electronic signature technology and policy
operations, thereby reducing costs and employee time required.

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Federal Architecture
Proposed Agency Managing Partner: OMB
This activity, which supports all of the initiatives, will map government processes by
line of business. It will develop information, data and application interface standards
to eliminate redundancies and yield improved operating efficiency and effectiveness.
Value to Citizen: Citizens are best served by an efficient and effective government.
Value to the Government: A well architected federal information system will
provide a more efficient and effective government by eliminating redundancies.

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