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OPENING
REMARKS
Ms. Karen
Evans (DOE), Vice Chair opened the meeting at 2:10 p.m. with
the following announcements and comments:
- CIOC
member Ms. Deborah Stouffer (EPA) is leaving the Federal
service. Ms. Stouffer thanked the Council for the opportunities
afforded her.
- WTOP’s
“Ask The CIO” program will be starting up again.
Ms. Evans will be calling on CIOs to contribute.
Mr. Mark
Forman (OMB) CIOC Chairman commented on Ms. Stouffer’s
significant contributions to the Council. Mr. Forman thanked
the Council members for their partnership during Pass back.
PKI/E-AUTHENTICATION
UPDATE
Regarding
the E-authentication initiative, Dr. Gauss commented that
the discussion today centers on authentication rather than
authorization. With a standard, common trust policy for authentication,
authorization becomes an agency issue. Proliferation of trust
policies would add complexity and infrastructure. Policy is
the major concern and technology comes later. Industry would
prefer a common trust policy, too.
Mr. Norm
Lorentz (OMB) commented on the need for a consistent way to
establish identity for federal authorities separate from authorization.
He also noted that more variation in the types of authentication
and certificates would require greater variation in security.
Ms. Jeannette
Thornton (OMB) commented that after the standard trust policy
is implemented, NIST could develop the standards for the technology.
The new policy will be used to develop business cases for
FY2005. The Federal Bridge plays a role in this component.
The next steps are to send out a white paper in a few weeks
and to introduce the trust policy by early March 2003. Special
thanks were offered to Ed Roback, Bill Burr (NIST), Judy Spenser,
David Temoshok (GSA), Dr. John Gauss, and Frank Parry (VA).
In the
ensuing discussion, there was endorsement for standardization
of credentialing access to buildings. David Wennergren (Navy)
offered Department of the Navy assistance in setting up a
standard system.
AIC NEW LEADERSHIP
Mr. Norm
Lorentz (OMB) thanked departing Co-chair Deborah Stouffer
for her contributions.
Mr. John
Gilligan (USAF) presented a briefing on the AIC to the Council.
The AIC objectives include: integrate OMB and CIOC architecture
efforts, develop simpler and consistent taxonomy and terminology,
facilitate cross-agency efforts, and oversee operationalization
of architecture efforts. The committee will be broken out
into three subcommittees:
Governance- integrates CIOC and FEAPMO efforts to expand and
update FEA guidance and products;
Components- identifies and catalogs components for reuse by
the federal community; and Leveraging/Emerging Technology-
coordinates and guides technology tracking efforts of the
Federal government.
Ms. Karen
Evans (DOE) called on all agencies to participate in the AIC.
Ms. Stouffer (EPA) noted that Governance and Component subcommittees
would need volunteers first. Norm Lorentz will be acting as
Co-chair of the AIC with Mr. Gilligan until Ms. Stouffer’s
vacancy is filled.
OMB AND EGOV UPDATE
Mr. Mark
Forman (OMB) CIOC Chairman remarked that the budget will be
out the first week of February 2003. The total number in the
budget is going up in strategic areas such as Homeland Security,
the War on Terrorism, and modernization. Key issues of concern
include the inability to identify cost and schedule and performance
goals. $20 billion in IT projects are on the “high risk
list.” There are projects with severe cost and schedule
overruns. A major skills gap exists for Program Managers and
Solutions Architects. Consolidation is viewed as a part of
the solution, and may result in project cancellations. There
will be an aggressive effort identifying ways to fix problems
and more emphasis will be placed on leveraging the economies
of scale as with the DOD and GSA buying communities. Agencies
should identify the two to three initiatives they will use
to drive performance improvement.
The next
PMC meeting will address six case studies, e.g., human resources
and financial management systems; data and statistical information
systems; monetary benefits; public health information systems.
The PMC will work to identify what each agency is doing with
respect to these initiatives and how to leverage that across
the enterprise.
Mr. Forman
stated that letters to department Secretaries on the FY2002
security program would be sent with a copy to the President.
It will emphasize the desire to focus on securing legacy systems
before or as they modernize
E-gov
initiatives are in the budget. The migration strategy was
made public today for E- payroll. FreeFile provides on-line
filing at www.irs.gov. The E-rulemaking website www.regulation.gov
will be launched next week. Mr. Forman noted that this initiative
is the only one to focus on e-democracy and opens up the government
to the citizen.
Friday
kicks-off the “Small Business Paperwork Relief Act Task
Force”, to reduce the paperwork burden on the small
business community by leveraging electronic solutions.
Mr. Richard
Miller (Education) commented on Section 508. A survey is being
conducted by Department of Justice (DOJ) of DOD and the top
five IT spending agencies on how section 508 is being implemented.
There will be a Section 508 best practices session at the
2003 IPIC. On January 22, 2003 the semi-annual Section 508
Steering Committee will hold its semi-annual meeting.
E-GOVERNMENT ACT OF 2002 WORK PLAN
Mr. Dan
Chenok (OMB) recognized Brooke Dickson, the lead staffer behind
the new Act and the forthcoming policy, for her work. Mr.
Chenok noted that CIOs will be responsible for participating
in the CIOC; implementation of IT standards, including security,
within their agencies; and privacy impact assessment. CIOC
will be more involved in workforce planning activities. The
E-gov Act is being viewed as a performance improvement driver.
E-gov Act guidance will be out in the next few weeks for review.
Mr. Brett
Bobley (NEA) asked whether the CIO requirements of the E-gov
Act apply to the small agencies. Mr. Chenok replied that the
Act refers to CIOs of Executive agencies, the responsibilities
apply to all CIOs.
CLINGER
COHEN WORKFORCE ASSESSMENT
Dr. Laura Callahan (DOL) observed that the President’s
management Agenda focuses on human capital and that GAO added
Human Capital Management to the high-risk list. There are
significant skill gaps in solutions architects, project management,
and security. The focus of the assessment is on the workforce,
workloads, and skills issues. In the FY2004 Pass back guidance,
there was wording regarding an IT workforce assessment. The
question is how to leverage across agencies top create a framework
to meet the responsibilities set forth in the Clinger-Cohen
Act. The Workforce Committee will identify FAQs in order to
build a consistent approach and to understand what issues
face the government in Human Capital Management as it relates
to IT. Ms. Callahan called on the Council to help the Workforce
Committee understand what each agency’s expectations
and concerns are to better drive the assessment. The results
of the IT Workforce Assessment will be shared in the community
and provide a decision making tool for the enterprise.
IPIC 2003
Mr. Ira
Hobbs (USDA) provided an update on the upcoming 2003 IPIC
in Orlando, Florida. The next CIOC meeting will be at the
conference. Council members will be surveyed soon on expected
participation at the conference. The CIO of Disney Orlando
and the CIO responsible for the Disney Data Center in Orlando
will discuss the federated model for enterprise architecture.
The Deputy Director of Management and a Congressional panel
on E-government are highlights.
OPEN
DISCUSSION
Mr. Marty
Wagner (GSA) announced Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs)
for funding E-authentication are in agencies now. He also
mentioned that Mr. Steve Timchek (GSA) is in desperate need
for people to work on the E-authentication initiative.
Ms. Karen
Evans, Mr. Mark Forman, and Mr. Dan Chenok will begin planning
next week for the next off-site meeting in collaboration with
GSA.
Mr. Mark
Forman (OMB) announced that Mr. Mark Everson (OMB) is taking
over as Commissioner of the IRS. Clay Johnson will be assuming
Mr. Everson’s position at OMB.
Ms. Kim
Nelson (EPA) announced a vacancy for a GS-15 Geographic information
Officer.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting
was adjourned at 3:20 p.m.
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