# E-Government PMA eGov Initiatives

# As Of February 3, 2006

# ([**http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-presidential.html**](http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-presidential.html))

**[Government to Citizen]{.underline}**

> **Recreation One-Stop
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-1-2-oneStop.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: DOI** The Recreation One-Stop initiative
> will make it easier for citizens to plan a vacation (or a brief
> recreational break during a business trip), and make a reservation for
> a campsite, cabin, or tour at Federal recreation sites.
>
> Web Site: [www.recreation.gov](http://www.recreation.gov/)
>
> **GovBenefits.gov
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-1-1-govBenefits.html>
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: DOL** Provides a single point of access for
> citizens to locate and determine potential eligibility for government
> benefits and services. HHS is an active participant in this initiative
> and provides funds as required. In addition, HHS serves on the
> Governance and Change Control Boards. There are approximately 100 HHS
> programs identified in GovBenefits.gov,
>
> **HHS Co-Leads:** Deborah Burris and Linda Adams, OS
>
> Web Sites: [www.govbenefits.gov](http://www.govbenefits.gov/);
> [www.govloans.gov](http://www.govloans.gov/)
>
> **e-Loans
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-1-4-eloans.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: ED** Creates a single point of access for
> citizens to locate information on federal loan programs, and improves
> back-office loan functions.
>
> Web Site: [www.govloans.gov](http://www.govloans.gov/)
>
> **USA Services
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-1-5-usas.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: GSA** Develop and deploy government-wide
> citizen customer service using industry best practices that will
> provide citizens with timely, consistent responses about government
> information and services via e-mail, telephone, Internet, and
> publications. HHS has actively participated in this initiative and has
> recently identified to USA Services our interest in pursuing cost
> effective contract opportunities for Tier 1 customer response
> services.
>
> **HHS Co-Leads:** Deborah Burris and Linda Adams, OS
>
> Web Site: <http://www.usaservices.gov/>

**IRS Free File
(**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-1-3-IRS.html>**)**

> **Agency Managing Partner: Treasury/IRS** Creates a single point of
> access to free on-line preparation and electronic tax filing services
> provided by Industry Partners to reduce burden and costs to taxpayers.
>
> Web Site: <http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118986,00.html>

**[Government to Business]{.underline}**

> **e-Rulemaking
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-3-1-er.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: EPA** Allows citizens to easily access and
> participate in the rulemaking process. Improves the access to, and
> quality of, the rulemaking process for individuals, businesses, and
> other government entities while streamlining and increasing the
> efficiency of internal agency processes. HHS actions of Rule that are
> published in the Federal Register document are included in the
> e-Rulemaking Regulation.gov site. HHS participates actively in
> e-Rulemaking, provides funds as required, and serves on the Executive
> Committee.
>
> **HHS Co-Leads:** Rosie Whitcraft, FDA, and Michelle Shortt, CMS
>
> Web Site: [www.regulations.gov](http://www.regulations.gov/)
>
> **Expanding Electronic Tax Products for Businesses
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-3-2-eetpb.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: Treasury/IRS** Reduces the tax-reporting
> burden on businesses while improving the efficiency and effectiveness
> of government operations, provides timely and accurate tax information
> to businesses, increases the availability of electronic tax filing,
> and models simplified federal and state tax employment laws.
>
> **Federal Asset Sales
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-3-3-fas.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: GSA** Identify, recommend, and implement
> improvements for asset recovery and disposition, making it easier for
> agencies, businesses, and citizens to find and acquire/buy federal
> assets. HHS participates in this initiative in both the Personal and
> Real Property business areas.
>
> **HHS Co-Leads:** Steve Mahaney, OS (Personal Property) and
>
> Edward Campbell, OS (Real Property)

Web Site:
[www.firstgov.gov/shopping/shopping.shtml](http://www.firstgov.gov/shopping/shopping.shtml)

> **International Trade Process Streamlining
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-3-4-itps.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: DOC** Export.gov makes it easy for Small
> and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to obtain the information and documents
> needed to conduct business abroad.

Web Site: [www.export.gov](http://www.export.gov/)

> **Business Gateway
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-3-5-bg.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: SBA** The Business Gateway ("BG"),
> business.gov, will provide the Nation\'s businesses with a single,
> internet-based access point to government services and information to
> help businesses with their operations. HHS serves on the BG Advisory
> Council and Governance Board and contributes funds as required. To
> date there are 369 forms in the BG Federal Forms Catalog, with the
> expectation more forms will be added.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Jack Stoute, OS
>
> Web Site: [www.business.gov](http://www.business.gov/);
> [www.forms.gov](http://www.forms.gov/)

**[Government to Government]{.underline}**

> **Geospatial One-Stop
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-2-1-geo.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: DOI** Provides Federal and state agencies
> with single a point of access to map-related data enabling the sharing
> of existing data to maximize geospatial investments to leverage
> resources and reduce redundancies. HHS has provided the Federal
> Geospatial Data Clearinghouse with over 200 data resources (i.e., Web
> sites) that contain reports, tables, and/or graphs with geospatial
> information and we expect to add several hundred more this fiscal
> year. HHS provides funds to this initiative as required.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Robert Polson, OS
>
> Web Sites: [www.geo-one-stop.gov](http://www.geo-one-stop.gov/);
> [www.geodata.gov](http://www.geodata.gov/)
>
> **Grants.gov
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-2-5-grants.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: HHS** Creates a single portal for all
> Federal grant customers to find and apply for grants online. Since
> Grants.gov\'s inception, HHS has posted over 2,000 grants
> announcements and received 11,922 electronic applications for grants
> and anticipates. HHS contributes funds to this initiative and serves
> on the Grants.gov Executive Board, in addition to serving as the
> managing partner.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Rebecca Spitzo, OS
>
> Web Site: [www.grants.gov](http://www.grants.gov/)
>
> **Disaster Management (DM)
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-2-2-disaster.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: DHS** To help citizens and members of the
> emergency management community at the local, tribal, state, and
> Federal levels by improving public safety response through more
> effective and efficient interoperable data communications and to serve
> as a unified point of access to disaster preparedness, mitigation,
> response and recovery information. HHS participates in this initiative
> and has provided funds when required. The HHS Health Alert Network is
> interoperable with the DM Interoperablity Services backbone.
>
> **HHS Lead:** William Henriques, OS
>
> Web Site: [www.disasterhelp.gov](http://www.disasterhelp.gov/)
>
> **SAFECOM**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: DHS** SAFECOM functions as the key Federal
> coordinator for promoting and providing support to local, tribal,
> state, and Federal public safety agencies for the improvement of
> public safety response through more effective and efficient
> interoperable wireless communications. As a public safety
> practitioner-driven program, SAFECOM is working with existing Federal
> communications initiatives and key public safety stakeholders to
> improve processes for the cross-jurisdictional and cross-disciplinary
> coordination of existing systems and future networks. Through the
> development of the Public Safety Communications Statement of
> Requirements (SoR) and the Public Safety Architecture Framework
> (PSAF), SAFECOM is providing the public safety community and Federal
> agencies guidance on new technologies to achieve communications
> interoperability. HHS participates in this initiative and has provided
> funds when required.
>
> **HHS Lead:** William Henriques, OS
>
> Web Site: [www.safecomprogram.com](http://www.safecomprogram.com/)
>
> **e-Vital
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-2-4-evital.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: SSA** Promotes automating how deaths are
> registered with the states (Electronic Death Registration (EDR)). HHS
> participates in this initiative and has now assumed the lead
> responsibility for developing regulations to establish minimum
> standards for birth certifications, pursuant to the Intelligence
> Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Charles Rothwell, CDC

**[Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness]{.underline}**

> **e-Training
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-1-eTraining.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: OPM** The vision of this government-wide
> initiative is the creation of a premier e-Training environment that
> supports the development of the Federal workforce and advances the
> accomplishment of agency missions through simplified and one-stop
> access to e-Training products and services.  E-Training is working to
> enhance the ability of the Federal government to attract, retain,
> manage, and continuously educate the highly skilled professionals
> needed for a flexible and high-performing government workforce.  As a
> participant, HHS is migrating our HHS University learning management
> system to the initiative's GoLearn solution in accordance with
> schedule.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Kathleen James, OS
>
> Web Site: [www.GoLearn.gov](http://www.golearn.gov/)
>
> **Recruitment One-Stop
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-2-recruit.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: OPM** Recruitment One-Stop provides
> state-of-the-art online recruitment services to Federal job seekers
> that include online job posting, intuitive job searching, resume
> warehousing, online application submission, automated eligibility and
> status feedback, applicant data mining and integration with
> sophisticated automated assessment tools. HHS participates in this
> initiative; we are progressing toward transition and integration to
> post and receive information from USAJOBS.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Robert Chatfield (OS)
>
> Web Site: [www.usajobs.opm.gov](http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/)
>
> **Enterprise HR Integration
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-3-ehri.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: OPM** The Enhanced Human Resource
> Integration (EHRI) initiative is developing policies and tools to
> streamline and automate the electronic exchange of standardized HR
> data needed for creation of an official employee record across the
> Executive Branch.  The EHRI tool set and central data repository will
> provide comprehensive knowledge management workforce analysis,
> forecasting, and reporting across the Executive Branch for the
> strategic management of human capital. As an EHRI-participant, we have
> completed HHS-wide deployment of the electronic official personnel
> folder to OPM and continue to progress in providing training and
> payroll data to EHRI.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Carol Arbogast, OS
>
> **e-Clearance
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-4-eClear.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: OPM** The E-Clearance initiative
> streamlines and improves the quality of the current security clearance
> process through the deployment of automation and common systems and
> policies to manage the security clearance process. HHS is actively
> pursuing implementation of the e-QIP system to collect clearance data.
> HHS has been using e-QIP for new hires and continues to expand its use
> for re-investigations. More HHS components are starting to initiate
> scheduling of investigations via e-QIP and HHS anticipates all HHS to
> be operational this fiscal year.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Douglas Pruett, OS
>
> **e- Payroll
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-5-ePay.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: OPM** The E-Payroll Initiative will
> standardize and consolidate Government wide Federal civilian payroll
> services and processes by simplifying and standardizing HR/payroll
> policies and procedures and better integrating payroll, human
> resources, and finance functions. Prior to beginning the initiative,
> 26 federal agencies provided payroll services. Consolidation has been
> effected by the selection of four providers to furnish payroll
> services for the Executive branch. HHS successfully migrated to the
> DFAS payroll system under this initiative.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Carol Arbogast, OS
>
> **e-Travel
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-6-eTravel.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: GSA** The E-Travel Program provides a
> government-wide web-based service that applies world-class travel
> management practices to consolidate federal travel, minimize cost and
> produce superior customer satisfaction. The E-Travel Service will be
> commercially hosted to minimize technology costs to the government and
> guarantee refreshed functionality. From travel planning and
> authorization to reimbursement, end-to-end service will leverage
> administrative, financial and information technology best practices to
> realize significant cost savings and improved employee productivity.
> HHS contributes funds to support e-Travel. At the end of the first
> quarter, fiscal year 2006, HHS processed 10,500 vouchers, surpassing
> our target.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Ann-Marie Massenberg, OS
>
> **Integrated Acquisition Environment**
>
> **(**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-7-iae.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: GSA** The Integrated Acquisition
> Environment (IAE) initiative creates a secure business environment
> that facilitates and supports cost-effective acquisition of goods and
> services by federal agencies, while eliminating inefficiencies in the
> current acquisition environment. HHS provides funds as required to
> IAE. All Departmental contracting activities are required to
> participate in the Departmental Contracts Information System (DCIS),
> which represents the Department\'s implementation of the Federal
> Procurement Data System. DCIS links to the Central Contract
> Registration (CCR) system that contains the Data Universal Numbering
> System (DUNS); this number is a unique nine-character number used to
> verify the contract awardee is in the CCR.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Doris Gibson, OS
>
> Web Site: <http://www.acquisition.gov/>
>
> **Electronic Records Management**
>
> **(**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-4-8-erecManage.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: NARA** The E-Records Management initiative
> provides policy guidance to help agencies better manage their
> electronic records, so that records information can be effectively
> used to support timely and effective decision making, enhance service
> delivery, and ensure accountability. The Initiative is developing
> policies and guidance in four major issue areas: Correspondence
> management, Enterprise-wide electronic records management, Electronic
> Information Management Standards, Transferring permanent records to
> NARA. As a participant in this initiative, HHS ensures compliance with
> NARA-established guidelines.

**[Crosscutting Initiatives]{.underline}**

> **e-Authentication
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-5-authent.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: GSA (Infrastructure)** Minimizes the burden
> on businesses, public and government when obtaining services on-line
> by providing a secure infrastructure for on-line transactions,
> eliminating the need for separate processes for the verification of
> identity and electronic signatures. HHS participates in this
> initiative and has provided funds as required. Also, HHS serves on the
> Executive Steering Committee. HHS will manage the implementation of an
> e-Authentication service for Grants.gov.

**HHS Lead:** Ken Calabrese, OS

Web Site:
[www.cio.gov/eauthentication](http://www.cio.gov/eauthentication)

**[Lines of Business]{.underline}**

> **Case Management
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-6-1-case.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: DOJ** Utilizing common solutions and data
> standards, case management information is easily and appropriately
> shared within and between federal and local agencies.

**Financial Management
(**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-6-2-financial.html>**)**

> **Agency Managing Partner: DOE and DOL** A government-wide financial
> management solution that is efficient and improves business
> performance while ensuring integrity in accountability, financial
> controls and mission effectiveness. HHS participates in this LoB,
> serves on the Advisory Board, and provides funds as required.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Terry Hurst, OS
>
> **Grants Management
> (**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-6-3-grants.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partners: HHS and NSF** A government-wide solution
> to support end-to-end grants management activities that promote
> citizen access, customer service, and agency financial and technical
> stewardship. HHS serves as a co-manager and Executive Board member of
> this initiative. HHS provides funds as required.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Charles Havekost, OS

**Human Resources Management**

(<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-6-4-human.html>**)**

> **Agency Managing Partner: OPM** Government-wide, modern, cost
> effective, standardized, and interoperable Human Resource (HR)
> solutions providing common core functionality to support the strategic
> management of Human Capital. HHS participates in this LoB, serves as a
> member to the Multi Agency Executive Steering Committee, and provides
> funds as required.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Patricia Pearson, OS
>
> **Federal Health Architecture/Consolidated Health Informatics**
>
> **(**<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-3-6-chi.html>**)**
>
> **Agency Managing Partner: HHS**
>
> F[ederal Architecture]{.underline}
> **(**<http://www.hhs.gov/fedhealtharch/index.html>**)** Under HHS
> leadership, 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. [CHI]{.underline} Adopts a portfolio of existing health
> information interoperability standards (health vocabulary and
> messaging) enabling all agencies in the federal health enterprise to
> "speak the same language" based on common enterprise-wide business and
> information technology architectures. In carrying out its mission, HHS
> works closely with federal partners, state, local and tribal
> governments, corporations, and the general public (including clients,
> consultants, collaborators, and stakeholders). HHS provides funds to
> this LoB, as required.
>
> **HHS Lead:** Vish Sankaran, OS
>
> **IT Security** (<http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/c-6-6-its.html>)
>
> **Agency Managing Partners: OMB, DHS, NSA** The Federal Government's
> information systems security program enables agencies' mission
> objectives through a comprehensive and consistently implemented set of
> risk-based, cost-effective controls and measures that adequately
> protects information contained in Federal Government information
> systems.