The National Business Center continues to be a main contributor in the expansion of e-government solutions. A major focus of the NBC, since the fiscal year 1999 Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA), has been to improve mission performance, reducing duplication, ensuring information security, and cooperating across traditional agency silos. NBC has simplified and unified business processes in moving to electronic media by providing optional electronic reporting, record-keeping, and electronic information processing that decreases the public’s paperwork burden and increases the practical utility of the information provided.
The NBC proves its commitment to streamlining government operations by joining OMB in a pilot implementation of the new e-government initiative, Intra Government Transaction Exchange (IGTE); the NBC participated in the development of the federal IGTE system requirements and design, and also developed internal interfaces from its financial system to the federal IGTE Portal.
Specifically, the NBC has simplified delivery of services from government to citizens by developing and enhancing web sites such as: the “Take Pride in America” Web site that informs and inspires American citizens to volunteer to improve our parks, refuges, recreation areas, and cultural and historical sites; the “Lewis and Clark” Web site that provides information about various Lewis and Clark historical places, allowing American citizens opportunity to recognize, and appreciate the significance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition; and the “Yourland” Web site that provides information about environmental conditions, land use, land management, recreational and commercial activities on federal land.
The NBC has simplified delivery of services from government to businesses by developing and enhancing web sites such as: the “Electronic Invoicing” Web site that allows business vendors to send their invoices to federal agencies electronically, reducing phone calls to agency, accounts receivable costs, postage costs and lost invoices while promoting faster payments; the “Business Opportunities” Web site that allows business vendors to view government business opportunities online and respond by submitting quotes online.
The NBC has simplified delivery of services from government to government by developing and enhancing web sites and interfaces such as: the “IGTE Portal Interface” that electronically transmits interagency obligations and bills to the federal IGTE Portal; and the “Online Credit Card Payment” Web site that allows government employees to pay for government products and services via credit card while recording and preserving all the transaction data for review and reporting.
The NBC has simplified delivery of services to produce internal efficiency and effectiveness, utilizing modern technology to reduce costs and improve quality of federal government agency administration, by developing systems such as: the “Appraisal Tracking System” that provides a common submission process for appraisal requests and approval; the “Datacall Tracking System” that consolidates and streamlines the datacall process, providing a consolidated central repository for datacall information, reducing the cycle time from datacall request to datacall delivery while providing common processes and best practices for tracking and controlling datacall requests, reviews and approvals; and the “Online Quality of Work/Life Survey” that gathers employee views on workplace and life topics to ensure that the Interior’s offerings continue to align with the needs of its employees – the survey application includes the ability to add and update online survey responses, survey publishing capability and online reporting.
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