# Presentation: 151441

## eGovernment Working Group Meeting

Chris Niedermayer, USDA eGovernment Executive

October 1, 2003

** **
- Chris Niedermayer, USDA eGovernment Executive
- October 1, 2003

## Agenda

**Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Update**
**Records Management**
**Enablers Update**
**E-Board Update**
**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.

## Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Update

- Welcome Marty Mitchell, Departmental PRA Coordinator
-     (Phone: 720-8109, Email: Marty.Mitchell@usda.gov)
- OMB Compliance Requirements
- Significant improvements in PRA compliance Department-wide
- 	in FY 2003
- Thirteen USDA Agencies currently rated green for information collection portfolio management
- USDA has moved away from “expiration” violations, but still has “unapproved” or “extension” violations
- Please work with your Agency PRA contacts to address any violations and encourage full compliance

## Agenda

**Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Update**
**Records Management**
**Enablers Update**
**E-Board Update**
**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.

## Web Site Records Management Issues

-  Web sites are official USDA publications
-  Agency Webmasters and Program Managers need to know:
-  	   - Contents and presentation of a Web site are _official records_
-       -  Web site content should be current
- 	   - Out of date material should not be shown on a Web site
-  Please share this information with your Webmasters and Program
- 	 Managers
-  Contact Bette Fugitt with OCIO with any questions
**     **- Bette.Fugitt@usda.gov

## Agenda

**Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Update**
**Records Management**
**Enablers Update**
**E-Board Update**
**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.

## eAuthentication Update 

- Completed Agency design meetings
- Continued installation and testing in the Pre-Production Environment
- Completed Local Registration Authority (LRA) Training materials
- USDA eAuthentication Solution to be operational on October 19

**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.

## eLearning Update 

** **GoLearn Update
- Almost 40,000 employees have activated their accounts
-  USDA Learning Management System Status
- Signed Agreement with GoLearn to begin Release 1 of LMS Implementation
- Confirming/Preparing Phase 1 participants
-  Collaboration Tool Evaluations and Selection
- Continuing to evaluate products and services available through GoLearn

## eDeployment Update

- Distributed product questionnaires to identified companies
- Finalized product evaluation scorecards
- Completed Live Test Demonstration (LTD) scripts
- Product Selection team meeting schedules are posted on Intranet area of the eGovernment Web site (www.egov.usda.gov)

## Agenda

**Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Update**
**Records Management**
**Enablers Update**
**E-Board Update**
**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.

## E-Board Update

- Continued to endorse the USDA Enterprise Architecture (v.1.04) and “Transformation Path”
- Established 11 lines of business, 8 of which were derived directly from the USDA eGovernment Strategic Plan FY 2002-2006
- Support for Presidential Initiatives
- Restated its support for the approach to enterprise-wide initiatives identified in April:
- Web-based Supply Chain moved to Control
- Reaffirmed commitment to Enablers which were already in Control** **
- 67 “major” investments approved.  E-Board accountable not just for decision but also for leadership in implementation

- At its September 11 meeting, the E-Board:

## Agenda

**Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) Update**
**Records Management**
**Enablers Update**
**E-Board Update**
**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.

## Questions and Answers

## Next Steps

- Upcoming eGovernment Communications:
-       -  Enabler Postcards to be released the first week of October
-       -  September eGovernment Newsletter forthcoming
- eGovernment Team welcomes ideas for additional articles
- Future newsletters to feature interviews with Agency CIOs and
-     EGWG members
- Upcoming EGWG Topics:
- Demonstration of Prototype
- Update on USDA Smart Choice Strategic Initiatives
- Information on USDA activity in support of the Presidential Initiatives         and eGovernment Act of 2002.
- eGovernment Act of 2002 regulations published
- Department must report to OMB on progress by December 15, 2003.      More guidance from OMB and other Agencies still pending.