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The OCS Connect Vision...
To increase operational efficiency and
better serve MMS stakeholders-employees, citizens, industry, and other
government agencies-through customized, secure electronic information
exchange.
What is OCS Connect?
The OCS Connect project is a phased,
multi-year, electronic government (e-Government) transformation of
MMS’s Offshore Minerals Management (OMM) Program. The blueprint for
the OCS Connect project was developed in response to the increasing
complexity of oil and gas operations, greater workloads,
and the
need for more sophisticated technical
analyses and secure data exchange.
Industry and public priorities were
critical drivers for OMM’s e-Government initiative. So, to meet future
mission requirements, encourage participation in the domestic Outer
Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas programs, and to unitekey
stakeholders, OMM embarked upon a concerted effort to reform and
streamline its business
operations, and the project was
appropriately named, OCS Connect.
OMM began planning the OCS Connect project
in early 2001, completing an
e-Government Transformation Foundational |
New OCS Connect System Release:
Public Connect Goes Live!
Public Connect is the first
interactive, on-line system released as part of the OCS Connect
project. Public Connect gives citizens the ability to electronically
submit their comments on Offshore Minerals Management (OMM)
regulatory and planning information that is open for comment in the
Federal Register.
For more information on
this new release, visit the
MMS Newsroom.
Interested parties may
submit comments on-line.
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Study, Business Case, and Implementation Plan in 2002. During this
planning stage, OMM identified business processes to be re-engineered, as well as the conditions
and considerations supporting the transformation, and documented a baseline
of its current internal and external business environment and areas for
improvement. From this baseline, OMM began development of an appropriate
Enterprise Architecture consisting of improved business processes that
incorporate advances in information technology and industry “best
practices.” When the project is complete, OMM will be equipped with the
processes, tools, and technologies needed to better perform its work, and,
therefore, better serve its customers. |
The e-Government transformation will provide OMM, its
customers, and stakeholders with secure electronic data exchange
capabilities, improved operating efficiency, and the increased agility and
flexibility to adjust to and meet future business conditions and demands.
When complete, government agencies, industry, and citizens will benefit from
expanded access, faster processing, and greater accuracy of the information
required for decision-making, and OMM will realize additional operational
benefits by developing secure electronic data exchange capabilities.
The magnitude of the OCS Connect effort warranted the
establishment of a Project Management Office (PMO) to drive the project and
oversee its success. The PMO is located at OMM headquarters in Herndon,
Virginia, as well as in New Orleans, Louisiana, near the Gulf of Mexico
Region (GOMR) Office.
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08/31/2004,
07:56:24 AM
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