3: E-Government
Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of DOI business processes. Other Information:
Interior’s serves as the Managing Partner for two of OMB’s original PMA E-Government Initiatives:Geospatial One-Stop: Provides
government agencies with a single access point to map-related data and promotes coordination of geospatial data collection
and maintenance among all levels of government.Recreation One-Stop: Provides citizens a user-friendly single access point
to information about recreational opportunities at thousands of federal, state, and local parks, museums, and historical landmarks
nationwide.Those accomplishments are just a prologue; however, for the Department’s plans for the years ahead. Interior will
leverage the success of Geospatial One-Stop through a Geospatial Line of Business, which address the various methods to provide
mapping services and data across all levels of government. Interior’s leadership will serve the Nation’s interests, and meet
the core missions of Federal agencies and their state and local partners, through the effective and efficient application
of geospatial data and services. Interior will continue to streamline internal processes by using technology to improve our
human resources management and financial services, and extend these improvements to other agencies through the Human Resources
and the Financial Management Lines of Business.The goal of E-Government is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of
DOI business processes. E-Government technology will enable us to do our jobs better. We have mapped Departmental mission
needs as detailed in this Strategic Plan, and continue to look for opportunities for E-Government investment. Building on
constituent input, we prioritize those opportunities based on Department-wide portfolio analysis. We will promote E-Government
and OMB Lines of Business (LoB) projects in EA, Information Systems Security (DHS), Budget Formulation and Execution (TBD),
and IT infrastructure (GSA); redirect projects already underway to more effectively support mission accomplishment; and identify
existing systems that should be re-tooled to support E-Government.This goal is directly supported by several of the other
goals, such as EA, IT Security and Enterprise Operations. The Department of Interior E-Government Strategic Plan (FY 2004
- FY 2008) provides a comprehensive description of the high-level vision, mission and guiding principles for E-Government
at Interior, as previously illustrated. E-Government initiatives cut across multiple Federal agencies and address opportunities
to provide services in the areas of Government to Citizen, Government to Business, Government to Government and Internal Effectiveness.
Current initiatives in each of these areas are summarized in the diagram above. This document is primarily focused on the
component of the IT Strategic Plan related to OCIO program areas and supports Departmental IT Program compliance with IEA
Strategy and Interior’s Enterprise Transition Plan for integrating business needs and IT. Released by the OMB in August 2001,
the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) identified five mutually reinforcing initiatives, each addressing a key element in
management performance with a significant opportunity for improvement: Strategic Management of Human Capital; Competitive
Sourcing; Improved Financial Performance; Expanded Electronic Government, and Budget and Performance Integration. Expanded
Electronic Government: This PMA initiative launched to make better use of Federal Government information technology (IT) investments,
improve the accessibility of information and services, and reduce response time to citizens. The vision for e-Government involves
citizens and businesses easily obtaining services and interacting with the Federal Government while improving overall efficiency
and effectiveness. Interior’s IT Strategic goals are aligned with PMA E-Government performance measures. This aggressive strategy
focuses on managing areas of weakness across the government, and making improvements where the most progress can be achieved.
Each Federal agency’s PMA performance is scored quarterly by OMB with its Stoplight Scoring System. The PMA Scorecard employs
a simple grading system common today in well-run businesses: Green for success, Yellow for mixed results, and Red for unsatisfactory.
One of the factors included in the scorecard is the Enterprise Architecture maturity score discussed in Focus Area 1.
Objective(s):
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