# Presentation: 199049

## Drug Enforcement AdministrationOffice of Information Systems

**June 2005**

## DEA - IT Environment and Management

## Enterprise Architecture - Applications 

- Major Applications (OMB 300’s)
- Law Enforcement
**Case Investigation**
- M204 legacy apps
- Migration to Oracle, Web, Data Warehouse = Concorde
- Lab automation modernization = LIMS
**Intel **– Intelligence Research Support System (IRSS) classified
**El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC)**
**Investigative Technology**
- Regulatory
**Diversion **
- Modernization Program for IT (MPIT)
- Controlled Substance Ordering System/Electronic Prescription for Controlled Substances (CSOS/EPCS)
- Online Investigations
- Administrative
**Financial Management Program (FMP)/UFMS currently FFS**

## Firebird System Design

- Network
**TCP/IP Intranet**
**Frame-relay WAN**
**Being Upgraded**
- Computing infrastructure
**Windows NT server **
**Windows 95 workstation**
**Moving to XP and Server 2003**
- End user services
**COTS: Office automation, E-mail, web, utilities**
**Custom: case management, mainframe, database**
**Centralized systems management and support**

## Shoring Up The Foundation

**PC’s Windows 95 and NT**
** ****Worldwide Comm System (JCN)**
** ****COTS Office Automation Tools**
** ****Mainframe Access**
** ****Access and Sharing of Data/Info**
** ****Electronic Mail**
** ****Electronic DEA-6**

**Windows xp & Server 2003 OS**
**JUTNet **
**Update the Suite of COTS Tools**
**Migrate to Concorde**
**Concorde Enabled (OneDOJ now)**
**Enhanced E-Mail**
**e-Case Management in Concorde**

## DEA IT Priorities - FY05

- Keep Everything Working!
- Firebird
- Concorde
- Case Management
- GIS & Operations Planning
- Statistics Reporting
- Non-drug Evidence Management
- Priority Targeting Management
- Lab Information Management
- Property Management System
- Unified Financial Management System
- Information Assurance
- JUTNet

- Process
- Improvement

- Investment
- Management

**Best**
**Practices**

- CMMI 3 Certified Quality Management Practice

## FY 2003
DEA’s IT Base Budget cut by >20%
FY 2004 
DEA’s IT Base Budget cut by >9%
FY 2005 and Beyond
DEA’s IT Base Budget cut by >7%

Costs continue to escalate by ~ 4.5% each year

- DEA’s IT Base Budget cut by >20%
- FY 2004
- DEA’s IT Base Budget cut by >9%
- FY 2005 and Beyond
- DEA’s IT Base Budget cut by >7%
- Costs continue to escalate by ~ 4.5% each year

- IT Budget Facts

## Technical Services

- Infrastructure/Office Automation
- Maintenance and Tech Refresh
- End User Support
- Software Development
- Database Administration
- Data Repositories (warehouse, marts)
- Web Services
- Accessibility Adaptations (504, 508)
- Information Assurance (Shared responsibility with Office of Security)

## New Capabilities

- Focus will be on modular development of Concorde: a web-based, enter once-use many, data repository.
- $5.8M base recurring.
- Team with existing multiple-award vendors.
- Everything else will be Operations and Maintenance.

## Project Concorde

## Current Database Systems

## Silo View Today

**Silo View Today**

## Concorde Vision

- All DEA Data

**Investigative**
**Intelligence**
**Financial Mgmt**
**Diversion Control**
**Administrative**
**Forensic**

## Concorde Design Approach

- _Core Principles_
- Business Rule Driven
- Data Standardization
- Common Technical Solutions
- Code and Process Re-use
- Rational Unified Process Development Methodology

**Intelligence Layer**

**Administrative Layer**

**Investigative Layer**

**Financial Layer**

**Forensic Layer**

## Concorde Architecture

**Development Environment**

## Concorde First Phase – 

**OMB 300 Section – I.B. Justification**

**Case Management**
**Priority Target Management**
**Operations Planning and Deconfliction**
**Non-Drug Evidence Management**
**Arrest and Booking Management**
**Statistical Analysis & Reporting**
**Work Hours Activity Tracking**

- Concorde First Phase –
- Investigative Business Line

## Concorde 

- Concorde
- Intelligence Layer

**Intelligence Layer**

**Builds from the Enforcement Layer**
**Data Validation**
**Standard Electronic Data Formats (or “Data Standardization”) **
**Near-Real-Time Parsing & Injection of Data via Web access & Portal features**
**Centralized Concorde Architecture**
**Work on Merlin to Concorde Linkage . . .**
**Begin Development Cycle - 2d Quarter FY05**
**Using Lessons from Top Down Review**

## Clearance Requirements

- DEA Sensitive – 90 days to process with clean package.
- Similar to National Security SECRET with additional Drug Questionnaire, criminal and financial checks.
- US Citizenship Required.

## Contact Information

- _[DEACTO@USDOJ.GOV](mailto:DEACTO@USDOJ.GOV)_
- Send “line card” with core competencies and technologies and company contact information.
- Suggest establishing partnerships with larger companies.
- Almost all procurements are advertised in CBD... except GSA Schedule Orders and 8a directed procurements!