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DATA ACT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

VERSION 2.0

AUGUST 12, 2016

POINTS OF CONTACT:

JILL DALY, JILL.DALY@NRC.GOV, (301) 415-8079

ANTHONY ROSSI, ANTHONY.ROSSI@NRC.GOV, (301) 415-7341
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Table of Contents

Steps towards Implementation ..................................................................................................3

Foreseeable Challenges ...........................................................................................................4

Risks Mitigation Strategy...........................................................................................................4

Competing Statutory, Regulatory, and Policy Priorities..............................................................4

Managing Costs........................................................................................................................4

Summary Resource Statement.................................................................................................5

Timeline....................................................................................................................................5

DATA Act Information Flow ......................................................................................................6

High Level Project Plan ............................................................................................................7
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Steps towards Implementation

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) operates an integrated financial management 

system FAIMIS (CGI Momentum), and a contract writing system STAQS (Compusearch

PRISM). For quality assurance and reporting purposes, the NRC operates a data warehouse

(CRISP) which captures many of the data elements from both systems. The NRC’s original 

plan included leveraging CRISP for the purpose of DATA Act reporting. This required 

updating the data extract files from both systems to include data elements originally required 

for DATA Act reporting, and loading the additional data elements into CRISP from STAQS 

and FAIMIS. Once the data was in CRISP, the NRC would create a data file conforming to 

the DATA Act schema format and submit to the broker. This effort has been discontinued as 

a result of the major revision to the DATA Act Information Model Schema (DAIMS), released 

April 29, 2016.

The April 29, 2016 revisions require the NRC to change the approach, which no longer 

requires any new reporting or additional data elements from the procurement system 

STAQS. The new approach leverages data currently reported from STAQS to the Federal 

Procurement Data System – Next Generation (FPDS-NG) and the Award Submission Portal 

(ASP). This mirrors the current method used to populate USASpending.com. This 

substantially reduces the effort required to populate procurement information into the DATA 

Act broker. Additionally, two other government-wide systems will be leveraged by the broker 

to obtain vendor-provided data, the Federal Subaward Reporting System (FSRS) and, the 

System for Award Management (SAM).

The DATA Act technical reporting schema requires seven data files as follows: (A) 

Appropriations Account; (B) Object Class and Program Activity; (C) Award Financial; (D1) 

Award & Awardee Attributes (Procurement); (D2) Award & Awardee Attributes (Financial 

Assistance); (E) Additional Awardee Attributes; and, (F) Sub-Award Attributes. As outlined in 

the April 29 DAIMS changes, the Treasury broker will extract the data for the file D1 from 

FPDS, file D2 from ASP, file E from SAM, and file F from FSRS, without involvement of the 

NRC. The NRC will provide files A, B, and C, to the broker extracted from the NRC central 

accounting system FAIMIS.

The NRC will comply with the DATA Act financial reporting requirements through a two-phase 

approach. In the first phase, the NRC will used the business intelligence tool Business 

Objects to extract data from FAIMIS to populate files A, B, & C, and organize the files into a 

broker-ready format. As of June 2016, the NRC has created these three files and are 

currently testing them with the broker. The second phase is to upgrade our version of CGI 

Momentum (FAIMIS) to version 7.4 (currently operating in version 7.1.3). The upgrade is 

scheduled for May 2017. The upgraded version includes DATA Act reporting functionality. 

Once we test and stabilize the upgrade, we will configure the DATA Act functionality. While 

we configure and test the new version of CGI Momentum, the NRC will continue to report to 

the DATA Act broker using the interim solution. Subsequently, we plan to run parallel until the 

new version of FAIMIS with DATA Act functionality is ready for production.
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NRC’s systems use unique award IDs for each commercial contract, interagency agreement

and grant/cooperative agreement awarded. This numbering scheme will be adjusted in FY17

to accommodate the new requirements provided in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). 

The NRC already uses the Procurement Instrument Identifier (PIID) and Federal Award 

Identification Number (FAIN) as the common link for transactions between the STAQS and 

FAIMIS systems. The PIID and FAIN will be used by the Treasury broker to match up 

financial data with procurement data. A new Award Submission Portal (ASP) file format is 

also scheduled to be issued and staff will work with Compusearch to update the extract from 

PRISM.

Foreseeable Challenges

In May 2017, NRC is planning a Momentum upgrade from version 7.1.3. to version 7.4 to

adhere to the newly mandated Treasury Invoice Processing Platform (IPP) by the end of

2018. We do not anticipate any field name changes related to DATA Act data. In addition to 

making NRC ready for IPP, version 7.4 will provide DATA Act reporting functionality which we 

will transition to from our interim process. The same staff implementing the DATA Act solution 

will be working on the upgrade of CGI Momentum which may present a challenge. The 

interim DATA Act reporting solution should mitigate any challenges. Thus, it is important that 

DATA Act reporting requirements do not change from the April 29 version of DAIMS.

Risks Mitigation Strategy

The primary strategy for mitigating risk is to implement an interim DATA Act reporting solution 

prior to the Momentum 7.4 upgrade. This will allow the NRC staff the time to perform testing, 

independent validation and verification (IV&V) and other tasks involved with the upgrade.

This will minimize the burden on both NRC and contractor personnel while keeping NRC on

track to meet the required completion dates.

Competing Statutory, Regulatory, and Policy Priorities

OMB Memorandum M-15-19, Improving Government Efficiency and Saving Taxpayer Dollars

Through Electronic Invoices, could cause an issue with resources allocated for the DATA Act

project. The same pool of resources will be used for DATA Act, pending system upgrades, 

and the implementation of IPP. This may lead to project delays or funding issues in order to

complete these competing projects.

Managing Costs

Utilizing our current infrastructure will allow NRC to meet the requirements of the DATA Act

while avoiding implementation of any major new systems. This should minimize the cost to

the agency. The budget will be closely monitored by the implementation team and program 

staff.
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Summary Resource Statement

As of the end of April 2016, the NRC utilized existing staff in its Office of the Chief Financial Officer and 

the Office of Administration for overall management and planning, identifying the NRC source of the 

data elements from FAIMIS and STAQS required for reporting under the original government-wide plan, 

developing the process for assembling that data in a database and sending it to the Treasury broker. 

While the NRC does not separately track work on the DATA Act solution, the effort to date involved 

approximately eight staff working 5 to 15 percent of their time on the DATA Act implementation. The 

NRC also used existing operations and maintenance (O&M) contractors to support DATA Act 

implementation within established contract ceilings.

Our current estimate is as follows in terms of dollars and FTEs. The NRC FY 2016 budget authorized 

$740,000 to obligate for the upgrade of Momentum from version 7.1.3 to 7.4, which will include DATA 

Act reporting functionality. The NRC FY 2017 budget includes a request for $903,000 for DATA Act 

implementation activities with a minimum requirement of no less than $543,000. The $903,000 would 

be applied as follows: $703,000 to complete the Momentum upgrade and $200,000 to configure and 

test the DATA Act reporting functionality of the upgrade. Our total FTE usage which includes the effort 

of a number of existing staff, part time, is estimated to be: 2.3 FTEs in FY 2016, 2.5 FTEs in FY 2017, and 

0.8 FTE in FY 2018. The NRC implementation cost is illustrated in the following chart:

DATA Act

Cost Category

FY 2016 FY 2017 FY 2018 TOTAL

$k FTE $k FTE $k FTE $k FTE

Transfer data to Treasury broker, test the data extracts in the 

Treasury broker, and make revision for any errors generated by the 

broker (Step 6)

0.0 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.3

Test submission process to Treasury broker, re-test the data transfer 

process as needed, and submit production data to Treasury (Steps 7-

8)

0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.0

Momentum (FAIMIS) upgrade and testing 740.0 1.0 703.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 1,483.0 2.0

Configure and test Momentum DATA Act reporting functionality 0.0 0.0 200.0 0.5 0.0 0.5 200.0 1.0

Parallel processing of Momentum functionality and interim DATA Act 

reporting solution 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 0.0 .3

TOTAL CONTRACT DOLLARS & FTE 740.0 2.3 903.0 2.5 0.0 0.8 1,683.0 5.6

FTE DOLLAR COST 350.4 392.5 127.2 870.1

TOTAL COST PER FISCAL YEAR 1,090.4 1,295.5 127.2 2,553.1

 

Timeline

Our timeline illustrates how the NRC will meet the statutory deadlines for implementation of the 

DATA Act and remaining steps as outlined in the DATA Act Implementation Playbook. 
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DATA Act Information Flow
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High Level Project Plan

The attached NRC DATA Act Implementation Project Plan shows how the NRC plans to meet 

the statutory deadlines for implementation of the DATA Act as well as all other requirements 

outlined by OMB and Treasury. 
ID Task Name 

1 Revised DATA Act Information Model Schema (DAIMS) Issued by Treasury/OMB [includes the Reporting Submission Specification (RSS) and the 

I t f D fi iti D t (IDD)]

2 Review RSS and IDD and revise data mapping as appropriate 3 Map data elements from financial system (Momentum), extract amd prepare Files B & C as defined in the RSS using Business Objects; prepare 

Fil A ll thi h i th NRC' i t i l ti

4 Update DATA Act Implementation Plan as required by OMB W5 Receive new ASP file format and work with Compusearch to update extract from PRISM M

6 STEP 6: TEST BROKER OUTPUTS AND ENSURE DATA ARE VALID 

7 Identify method to transfer data between agency and Treasury broker 

8 Test data extracts in the Treasury broker 9 Make revisions to data extracts to correct for any errors generated by the Treasury broker 

10 STEPS: 7 - 8: UPDATE AND SUBMIT M

11 Test submission process to Treasury M

12 Re-test data transfer process as needed M13 SUBMIT PRODUCTION DATA TO TREASURY 14 DATA Act Deadline --- Federal Agencies must Implement Government-wide Data Standards; OMB/Treasury to Ensure that the Required 

Financial Information is Posted on the USAspending.gov Website NLT this date and at Least Quarterly Thereafter

15 NRC PERMANENT SOLUTION DEVELOPMENT M

16 Implement Momentum upgrade from Version 7.1.3 to 7.4 and GO LIVE M

17 Configure and test Momentum DATA Act reporting functionality W

18 Parallel processing of Momentum and interim DATA Act reporting functionality 19 AUDIT / REVIEW OF IMPLEMENTATION W

20 IG issues an assessment of NRC's progress implementing the DATA Act requirements W

21 DATA Act Deadline --- OMB Submits Report to Congress on Results of the Pilot Program and any Recommendations for Simplifying 

Reporting Requirements

W

22 DATA Act Deadline --- IG Submits Report to Congress on the Completeness, Timeliness, Quality, and Accuracy of a Sample of Agency 

Data from the USAspending.gov Website

23 DATA Act Deadline --- Comp Gen Submits to Congress a Report that Assesses and Compares the Completeness, Timeliness, Quality, 

and Accuracy of Data Across Reporting Agencies

24 DATA Act Deadline --- OMB/Treasury Must Ensure that Information Posted on the USAspending.gov Website Conforms to 

Governement-wide Data Standards NLT than this Date

W

25 GRANTS 

26 DATA Act Deadline --- OMB or Agency Designees Establishes a Two-Year Pilot Program to Study Ways to Simplify Financial Reporting 

by Federal Award Recipients

27 DATA Act Deadline --- OMB Issues Guidance to Agencies as How to Implement Government-wide Data Standards for Federal Award 

Recipient Reporting

NRC DATA Act Implementation Project Plan

(Revised August 2016)