# Presentation: 742527

## USDA Presidential Initiatives Working Group Meeting

## Agenda

**eAuthentication**
**USDA Agency Action Steps**
**OMB Plans Next eGovernment Initiatives**
**Q&A/Next Steps**

**Agenda**

**Notes:**
High energy Welcome.

Get jazzed.  

Good things are happening:

	EITIRB meeting tomorrow for 30 minutes exclusively on 	eGov

	EC and I will be meeting with DS ideally this week as well 	but may slip to next week

	Relatively positive feedback from OMB based on our 	efforts – only Yellow

Thanks for efforts to date.  Time to roll up sleeves again.

## What is eAuthentication?

**Definition: ****Authorization**** is the process of allowing a user to perform specific tasks within an application. **
**The USDA eAuthentication Service currently provides site protection for 72 USDA applications.**
**In February 2004, there were 561,000 logins to the USDA eAuthentication Service.**
**There are currently 62,000 users, but this number continues to grow.**
**Explaining OMB’s four (4) Assurance Level Credentials ...**
**Level 1 and 2 – Pin/Password; and **
**Level 3 and 4 – Public Key Infrastructure. **

**What is eAuthentication?**

***USDA chooses WebCAAF as the Department Solution.***

**May 2001**
**Service Center Agencies release WebCAAF**
**December 2002**
**eAuthentication team – 30 USDA members**
**Agency Authentication requirements**
**Business case completed**
**March 2003**
**eAuthentication Team chooses to expand WebCAAF system**
**October 2003**
**The USDA eAuthentication Service Goes Live**
**March 2004 **
**Screen Redesigns – Web Presence standards**
- Demonstration Scheduled for Monday, March 22
**Operational Enhancements – Helpdesk, System maintenance**
**Streamlined application integration progress**

**USDA eAuthentication Service – History**

**Notes:**
High energy Welcome.

Get jazzed.  

Good things are happening:

	EITIRB meeting tomorrow for 30 minutes exclusively on 	eGov

	EC and I will be meeting with DS ideally this week as well 	but may slip to next week

	Relatively positive feedback from OMB based on our 	efforts – only Yellow

Thanks for efforts to date.  Time to roll up sleeves again.

***USDA has been an active participant in the E-Authentication Presidential Initiative being led by GSA.***

**GSA chooses USDA as key player**** **
**USDA provided input on the initial architecture – the GSA Gateway**
**GSA’s Technical Architecture is revised**
**USDA is asked to be on new Architecture Working Group**
**GSA accepts USDA Level 1 and Level 2 credentials**
**Credential Assessment Framework (CAF) completed December 2003**
**USDA credentials are the first Level 2 credentials to be accepted**
**USDA is asked to be a credential service provider (CSP) for the Grants.gov pilot of the new SAML-based architecture**
**This pilot is currently in progress**

**USDA Participation in Presidential Initiative**

**Notes:**
High energy Welcome.

Get jazzed.  

Good things are happening:

	EITIRB meeting tomorrow for 30 minutes exclusively on 	eGov

	EC and I will be meeting with DS ideally this week as well 	but may slip to next week

	Relatively positive feedback from OMB based on our 	efforts – only Yellow

Thanks for efforts to date.  Time to roll up sleeves again.

## Application Integration Process

- Pre-Design

**Application**** Go-Live**

- Funding

- Designate application contacts and owners for integration
- Introduce Application Integration Form – complete this form after pre-design with eAuth support available to answer questions /give suggestions
- Set up Design meeting with eAuth team

- Complete Application Integration Form
- Initiate setup of development environment to integrate with eAuthentication

- Build Meetings (eAuth team helps integrate on an as needed basis)
- Integrate development, Pre-Production and Production Environments
- Test each environment before moving on

- Cert only needed             if creating a custom   LRA process
- Work with eAuthentication team to create and certify any LRA processes or procedures needed
- Identify, register and train new LRAs using online training program supplied by eAuthentication

**Application Integration Process**

- Review eAuth  Guidebook
- Determine interactions to be hosted in new     application
- Complete Impact Profile Assessment    for each interaction to   be hosted in application
- Set up Pre-Design meeting with eAuth team

- Complete Funding form
- Discuss funding with agency CIO
- Transfer funding

**Notes:**
High energy Welcome.

Get jazzed.  

Good things are happening:

	EITIRB meeting tomorrow for 30 minutes exclusively on 	eGov

	EC and I will be meeting with DS ideally this week as well 	but may slip to next week

	Relatively positive feedback from OMB based on our 	efforts – only Yellow

Thanks for efforts to date.  Time to roll up sleeves again.

## USDA eAuthentication Service – Future Direction

**Notes:**
Integration with other USDA Initiatives

Agency Integration

Support for Levels 3 and 4

Additional Training Modules

Participation in the E-Authentication Presidential Initiative

## Agenda

**Agenda**

**Welcome**
**eAuthentication**
**USDA Agency Action Steps**
**OMB Plans Next eGovernment Initiatives**
**Q&A/Next Steps**

**Notes:**
High energy Welcome.

Get jazzed.  

Good things are happening:

	EITIRB meeting tomorrow for 30 minutes exclusively on 	eGov

	EC and I will be meeting with DS ideally this week as well 	but may slip to next week

	Relatively positive feedback from OMB based on our 	efforts – only Yellow

Thanks for efforts to date.  Time to roll up sleeves again.

## 

eGovernment Team created a Agency Action matrix that will be used to:
Map each USDA agency to the action items needed to fulfill PI goals (participation of agency personnel in planning sessions/other initiative activities, collection of requirements, etc.)
Provide accountability for PIs across all participating USDA agencies
Track agency progress and contribute to the overall SES Scorecard based on the ability to meet the specific action items

eGovernment Team will assist Leads in providing monthly updates on:
Progress in meeting milestones
USDA Agency support of the initiatives

If you have not yet sent us your Agency Action Steps information or have updates, please do so by COB Friday, March 12.

**eGovernment Team created a Agency Action matrix that will be used to:**
- Map each USDA agency to the action items needed to fulfill PI goals (participation of agency personnel in planning sessions/other initiative activities, collection of requirements, etc.)
- Provide accountability for PIs across all participating USDA agencies
- Track agency progress and contribute to the overall SES Scorecard based on the ability to meet the specific action items
**eGovernment Team will assist Leads in providing monthly updates on:**
- Progress in meeting milestones
- USDA Agency support of the initiatives
**If you have not yet sent us your Agency Action Steps information or have updates, please do so by COB Friday, March 12.**

**USDA Agency Action Steps**

## Agenda

**Agenda**

**Welcome**
**eAuthentication**
**USDA Agency Action Steps**
**OMB Plans Next eGovernment Initiatives**
**Q&A/Next Steps**

**Notes:**
High energy Welcome.

Get jazzed.  

Good things are happening:

	EITIRB meeting tomorrow for 30 minutes exclusively on 	eGov

	EC and I will be meeting with DS ideally this week as well 	but may slip to next week

	Relatively positive feedback from OMB based on our 	efforts – only Yellow

Thanks for efforts to date.  Time to roll up sleeves again.

## 
OMB assembled a task force to identify next wave of eGovernment initiatives 

Focus on consolidation
Grants Management
Human Resources
Public Health Information Systems
Criminal Investigation Applications
Financial Management Applications

"It has to take into consideration consolidation and cost savings. This is giving everyone the opportunity to look at that and come up with a common architecture.“—Karen Evans, OMB's administrator for information technology and e-government, Federal Computer Week, March 1, 2004

**OMB assembled a task force to identify next wave of eGovernment initiatives **
**Focus on consolidation**
- Grants Management
- Human Resources
- Public Health Information Systems
- Criminal Investigation Applications
- Financial Management Applications
***"It has to take into consideration consolidation and cost savings. This is giving everyone the opportunity to look at that and come up with a common architecture.“*****—Karen Evans, *****OMB's administrator for information technology and e-government*****, *****Federal Computer Week*****, March 1, 2004**

**OMB’s Next Phase**

***Our work on the original 25 initiatives is critical ***
***to the continued success of eGovernment***

## Agenda

**Agenda**

**Welcome**
**eAuthentication**
**USDA Agency Action Steps**
**OMB Plans Next eGovernment Initiatives**
**Q&A/Next Steps**

**Notes:**
High energy Welcome.

Get jazzed.  

Good things are happening:

	EITIRB meeting tomorrow for 30 minutes exclusively on 	eGov

	EC and I will be meeting with DS ideally this week as well 	but may slip to next week

	Relatively positive feedback from OMB based on our 	efforts – only Yellow

Thanks for efforts to date.  Time to roll up sleeves again.

## Questions and Answers

## Next Steps

**If you have not reviewed and revised the Agency Action Steps for your Presidential Initiatives, please do so by COB Friday (March 12). Please send any updates—to either your project plan or to the Agency Action Item Matrix (or both, if applicable) to the eGovernment Mailbox (**_**[egov@usda.gov](mailto:egov@usda.gov)**_**).**
**One-on-one sessions will be held with the eGovernment team to review all documents submitted; eGovernment Team—please schedule your session directly after this meeting!**
**Quarterly meetings with Scott Charbo are ongoing; if you have not had your meeting, Wanda Swann will be contacting you regarding your schedule.**
**If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the eGovernment Team at 202.720.6144 or **_**[egov@usda.gov](mailto:egov@usda.gov)**_**.**
**Next Meeting: April 13, 2004 from 10-11 AM.  Room S107.**