# Presentation: 221536

## Steps to Green

**Maintaining Excellence**

- OMB Status 12/18/03

- Monday, March 1, 2004

- OMB Progress 12/18/03

**Vicki Novak**

** ****Tom Luedtke**

** ****Gwen Brown**

**Pat Dunnington**

**Steve Isakowitz**

**Maintaining Excellence**

**Steps to Green**

**Steps to Yellow**

**Steps to Green**

_**Primary Challenge **_
**	**Maintain green status by delivering on Proud to Be commitments and assuring that best practices are sustained and diffused throughout agency.
_**Last week**_
- 1. Working with OPM staff to resolve their comments on NASA’s Workforce Plan (for NASA Human Capital legislation; OPM approval required before plan submitted to Congress).
_**This week**_
- Working on 12 Q2, 2004, deliverables.
- Scheduling 2nd Quarter meeting with OPM and OMB.

- Develop a “green” plan acceptable to OMB.
_**Primary Challenge**_
- 	Finalize the site selection to
- 	prevent schedule impact to the NSSC competition.
_**Last week**_
- All consultants are in place on both sides of the firewall for the LaRC Metallic Test Article and General and Precision Machining.
- The draft Acquisition Plan for NSSC was posted to the FedBizOpps website for public comment.
_**This week**_
- The ACST plans to meet with the NSSC ATO concerning the issue of incumbency and whether certain information is proprietary and/or competition-sensitive data that should not be released to all potential competitors.

_**Primary Challenge**_
- Maintain green status by
- delivering on Proud to Be
- commitments and assuring
- that best practices are
- sustained and diffused
- throughout agency.
_**Last week**_
- 1. 2006 Budget kickoff at GSFC.
- 2. 2006 Budget guidelines 	released.
- 3. ISO audit of Agency strategy 	and performance planning 	process.
_**This week**_
- 1. Developing plan for 2006 	Strategic Plan.
- 2. Updating detailed proud-to-	 be action plan.

- Acceptable business cases for all major systems.
- Bring operational IT systems within 90% secure threshold.
- Reduce cost/schedule overruns to 10% standard.
_**Primary Challenge**_
-     Meeting IT security challenges given implementation of new NIST standards.
_**Last week**_
- 1. E-Payroll Steering Committee meeting 2/23 with DOI to discuss implementation plan and schedule.  NASA August 2004 is priority for DOI.  Technically do-able - FY04 NASA cost is issue.
- 2. Pre-scorecard discussions with OMB conducted Feb. 26th.
_**This week**_
- Continue IT Security planning   restructuring based on Feb. 26th OMB feedback.
- 2. Scheduling meeting with Karen Evans.
- 3. Scorecard prep with functional offices to assess status for Q2 FY 2004 and demonstrate successful completion of Proud to Be and passback actions.

- Overcome Disclaimer of an Audit Opinion on the FY 2003 Financial Statements, overcome  material weaknesses, and bring systems into compliance with FFMIA.
_**Primary Challenge**_
-     Primary issue is to regain an  unqualified audit opinion and improve the data quality within the new accounting system.
_**Last week**_
- Continued to work with all of the Centers and the Competency Center towards improved data quality within IFMP.
_**This week**_
- Continue the work efforts for improving IFMP data quality, financial reporting and results for FY 2004.