REPORT TO CONGRESS 

ON THE BENEFITS 

OF THE PRESIDENT’S 

E-GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES 
Executive Summary for E-Government Report to Congress 

The Federal government is delivering results through expansion and adoption of electronic 

government principles and best practices in managing information technology, and is 

increasingly providing timely and accurate information to the citizens and government decision 

makers while ensuring security and privacy. 

In the fall of 2001, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Federal agencies 

identified 24 E-Government Initiatives which were approved by the President’s Management 

Council. Operated and supported by agencies, these Initiatives are providing high-quality and 

well-managed common solutions for citizen tax filing, Federal rulemaking, and electronic 

training among others. Beneficiaries include citizens, businesses, and Federal and state 

government employees. In the spring of 2004, OMB announced the formation of five Line of 

Business task forces. These five Lines of Business (LoB) were identified through a 

comprehensive analysis of agencies’ enterprise architecture data. The LoB task forces identified 

common solutions and methodologies in order to decrease duplication, increase operational 

efficiencies, and improve service delivery to agencies in administrative areas. 

Selected examples of how citizens and Federal employees are benefiting through the use of the 

Presidential E-Government Initiatives include: 

 GovBenefits.gov – Currently, GovBenefits.gov is receiving more than 190,000 visits per 

month by citizens and, on average, is providing more than 128,000 referrals per month to 

agency benefits programs. GovBenefits.gov provides a single point of access for citizens to 

locate information and determine potential eligibility for government benefits and services. 

 IRS Free File – For the 2005 filing season, more than 5.1M citizens filed taxes online for 

free using the Free File E-Government solution, representing an increase of 46% over the 

2004 season. 

Citizens Filing Using IRS Free File

3,510,000

5,142,125

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2,000,000

3,000,000

4,000,000

5,000,000

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Citizen Utilization
 E-Rulemaking – Since the initiative launched in 2003, over 1.6M citizens have visited 

Regulations.gov to participate in the Federal rulemaking process. To date, more than 8.9M 

rules and regulations have been downloaded by members of the public. 

 Disaster Management – Deployed at 25 Federal agencies, the Disaster Management 

Interoperability Services (DMIS) E-Government tool has been used by first responders and 

other public safety organizations to share information in over 116 disaster situations, 

including fire, floods, and power outages. 

 Grants.gov – Of the 2,259 funding opportunities for discretionary Federal assistance in 

FY05, 994 (44%) were available for electronic application submission via Grants.gov. 

Grants.gov currently provides Federal grants-seekers with access to over 1,600 Federal grant 

programs and is the single access point for all grants offered by the 26 Federal grant making 

agencies. Examples include the Small Business Innovation Research Program, the New 

Bedford Harbor Restoration Project, and the Emerging Technologies in Cancer Research 

Program. 

Grant Programs Available for Electronic Application Through 

Grants.gov

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1,697

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Grant Programs

 E-Training (www.USALearning.gov) – To date, over 680,000 Federal employees have 

registered in the GoLearn.gov Learning Management System. Federal employees have 

completed more than 1.3M courses provided through the E-Training initiative. E-Training is 

assisting the Federal government in maintaining a highly skilled workforce at a fraction of 

the cost otherwise afforded through solely classroom training.
GoLearn.gov Registered Users

180,383

684,259

441,357

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200,000

300,000

400,000

500,000

600,000

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 Registered Users

 Recruitment One-Stop – Each month, over 100,000 resumes are created on USAJobs.gov, 

the Federal online recruitment service. USAJobs.gov receives over 240,000 visits daily from 

job seekers looking for information regarding career opportunities with the Federal 

government. 

 E-Payroll – To date, E-Payroll has completed the migration of 17 (24 planned) departments 

or agencies from legacy payroll operations to one of the four consolidated payroll service 

providers. Currently, more than 83% of Federal employees are serviced by one of the four EPayroll providers. 

OMB submits the enclosed document to fulfill reporting requirements under Section 841 of the 

Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, and Independent 

Agencies Appropriations Act of 2006 (PL 109-115). 

The Act requires OMB to submit an E-Government report detailing: 

(1) the amount proposed for transfer for any department and agency by program office, 

bureau, or activity, as appropriate; 

(2) the specific use of funds; 

(3) the relevance of that use to that department or agency and each bureau or office within, 

which is contributing funds; and 

(4) a description on any such activities for which funds were appropriated that will not be 

implemented or partially implemented by the department or agency as a result of the 

transfer. 

The following attachments provide the funding level, use, and relevance for each proposed 

transfer/reimbursement as required by provisions 1, 2, and 3 of Section 841: 

 E-Government Report (Initiative Summaries and Agency Narratives) – Provides a 

summary of the purpose of each E-Government Initiative followed by individual agency 

reports describing the relevance of the initiatives to which the particular agency provides 

funds.
 Attachment A (Funding for E-Government by Agency) – Provides, by agency, funding 

contributions to E-Government Initiatives in which the agency participates. Includes Fiscal 

Year 2006 (FY06) agency contributions. 

 Attachment B (Funding for E-Government by Initiative) – Provides, by E-Government 

Initiative, agency funding contributions to the initiative. Includes FY06 agency contributions. 

 Attachment C (Breakout of Funding by Agency/Bureau) – Provides a breakout for each 

agency, by bureau, of funding sources for the E-Government Initiatives in which the agency 

participates. Both E-Government funding request and amount to be provided by agency are 

reflected. Bureau listing based on Appendix C of OMB Circular A-11. 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives serve 

citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services more efficiently at 

a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies work together to develop 

common solutions which achieve mission requirements at reduced cost, thereby making 

resources available for higher priority needs. For example, the E-Rulemaking initiative is 

replacing the 20 existing individual agency electronic regulatory systems and over 150 paperbased docket systems with a common system which results in lowered costs, modernized 

technology and improved service to agencies and citizens. Thus, there are no agency activities 

which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a result of the transfers or 

reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Note: This report addresses agency funding contributions. Agency contributions reflect 

commitments of funding and/or in-kind services provided by partner agencies to initiative 

managing partner agencies in support of developing, implementing, and/or migrating to E-Gov 

common solutions. Contribution amounts are determined annually through collaborative, interagency E-Gov initiative governance structures and subject to approval by OMB. 

“Fee-for-service” contributions represent transfers of funds by partner agencies to initiative 

service providers in exchange for services rendered by initiative service providers. The amounts 

are typically based on a transaction/usage-based fee structure (e.g., for payroll processing, 

payroll service providers base their service fees on the number of employees at a customer 

agency). Initiative service providers use fees collected from partner agencies to cover ongoing 

operational costs, perform routine maintenance, and support their customer base. 
Summary of E-Government Initiatives

This document provides a summary overview of all E-Government Initiatives and Line of 

Business Initiatives. 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

E-Loans – Managing Partner Department of Education (ED) 

 Objective – E-Loans creates a single point of access for Federal loan program 

information on the Web, GovLoans.gov. GovLoans.gov is a “plain speak” website 

that educates citizens on the Federal loan programs and directs them to the best 

available loan program information at government and private sector websites. The 

E-Loans initiative helps citizens to benefit from a more transparent and citizenfocused Federal loan experience. Not only do citizens have quicker and easier access 

to Federal loan program information on the Web, but they also benefit from lower 

costs and faster service overall as a result of the coordinated efforts of the E-Loans 

partners. 

GovBenefits.gov – Managing Partner Department of Labor (DoL) 

 Objective – GovBenefits.gov empowers people to make decisions for themselves and 

their families by providing a single website, GovBenefits.gov, for access to 

information on nearly 1,000 government benefit and assistance programs. 

GovBenefits.gov features an easy-to-use online screening tool to help individuals or 

caseworkers quickly determine potential eligibility for benefit programs. By 

answering a few questions regarding income, marital or employment status, and 

family size, users are guided to a list of benefits they may be eligible to receive. 

Program descriptions and contact information are provided for each benefit program. 

GovBenefits.gov significantly reduces the amount of time individuals spend trying to 

identify and access relevant information about government benefit programs that 

match their specific needs. GovBenefits.gov allows local government or social 

service caseworkers to quickly identify and match alternative programs with an 

individual’s specific needs. 

GovBenefits.gov provides the infrastructure for all Partner agencies to benefit from 

cost avoidance as a direct result of the site’s pre-screening functionality. Costs are 

avoided by GovBenefits.gov reducing the number of telephone calls to benefit 

program call centers. That is, it is expected that as GovBenefits usage increases, the 

volume of phone calls to government benefit programs will decrease. 

Internal Revenue Services (IRS) Free File – Managing Partner Treasury 

 Objective – IRS Free File creates a single point of access to free online preparation 

and electronic tax filing services provided by Industry Partners to reduce burden and 

costs to taxpayers. 

Recreation One-Stop – Managing Partner Department of Interior (DoI) 

 Objective – The Recreation One-Stop initiative makes it easier for citizens to plan a 

vacation and make a reservation for a campsite, cabin, or tour at Federal recreation 

sites. The initiative provides a customer-friendly recreation portal (Recreation.gov) 

with information for planning visits to Federal recreation sites and making 

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campground/tour reservations. Additionally, the initiative offers citizens interested in 

recreation opportunities can find consistent information about Federal recreation 

areas via different channels (databases, websites, and publications), by standardizing 

data and interfacing recreation-related computer systems. In FY 2006, the initiative 

plans to launch a consolidated recreation reservation system. 

USA Services – Managing Partner General Services Administration (GSA) 

 Objective – Managed by the Office of Citizen Services and Communications 

(OCSC) in GSA, the mission of USA Services is to respond to citizen inquiries about 

government in an accurate, timely, and consistent manor. USA Services uses the 

existing infrastructure of the Federal Citizen Information Center and the FirstGov.gov 

portal to develop citizen-centric solutions that improve the ease with which citizens 

can interact with the government and acts as a citizen customer service solution 

provider for other Federal agencies and E-Government Initiatives. In particular, USA 

Services: 

– Improves services to citizens, allowing them to get information from Federal 

agencies in both English and Spanish via the Internet, publications, telephone, and 

e-mail in a privacy-protected environment. 

– Provides services to agencies for misdirected telephone and e-mail inquiries and 

provides contact center services through FirstContact. 

– Reduces partner agency expenses for infrastructure, procurement, and labor 

within the agency or for expenses related to contact centers that respond to e-mail 

and telephone calls. 

Government to Business Portfolio

Business Gateway – Managing Partner Small Business Administration (SBA) 

 Objective – Business Gateway (BG) is the only Federal provider of cross-agency 

access to government information, including forms, compliance assistance resources, 

and tools in a single access point. To provide small and medium sized businesses 

with a single access point to these types of information BG created Business.gov. To 

accomplish BG's objective, www.business.gov offers businesses the following critical 

capabilities: 

– "Issue-based" search and organized agency links to answer business questions, 

– Links to resources to help businesses understand what regulations to comply and 

how to comply, 

– Easy, online access to government forms to reduce the time it takes for businesses 

to find forms, and 

– Streamlined submission process to reduce the regulatory paperwork burden on 

businesses 

E-Rulemaking – Managing Partner Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) 

 Objective – E-Rulemaking is a Federal-wide electronic system to promote public 

access to the regulatory process while reducing the number of redundant federal 

systems. E-Rulemaking’s one-stop website, Regulations.gov, now allows citizens 

and organizations interested in regulatory development to have free and easy access 

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to Federal rulemaking information. The initiative opens the door to individuals who 

have never been involved in the rulemaking process and gives the public the 

opportunity to contribute their views via the Internet while potentially increasing the 

diversity and content that should be factored into the regulatory process. In addition, 

the design of Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) also assists Federal 

agencies in managing and organizing materials and comments associated with 

rulemakings, while also providing them ready access to materials that have 

historically been difficult to review and cumbersome to handle especially when large 

quantities of paper were involved. 

Since 2003, Regulations.gov has enabled the public to search, view, and submit 

comments on all proposed Federal rulemakings. Regulations.gov’s many 

innovations/accomplishments include the first: 

– one-stop Internet site for the public to search and comment on all Federal 

rulemakings; 

– time virtually all Federal agencies can accept electronic or web-form comments; 

– “configurable” comment web-form, tailored to allow the public to submit 

comments in a format specified by an agency. 

The E-Rulemaking Initiative’s Regulations.gov and the Federal FDMS effectively 

promote a key principle of E-Democracy – using information technology to enable all 

citizens to more effectively participate in their government. The next generation of 

Regulations.gov, launched September 2005, now enables the public to access entire 

rulemaking dockets, including Federal Register notices, supporting analyses, and 

public comments. FDMS and its public side, Regulations.gov, is a full-fledged 

content management system that builds on capabilities of the first Regulations.gov 

and includes additional features such as enhanced navigational and searching tools for 

agency regulatory information. 

The FDMS provides agency staff full text search capabilities, e-mail notification, 

bulk data import and export, and reporting and tracking functions. With FDMS, 

internal rulemaking business processes are more efficient and transparent. Agencies 

can distribute workload across staff, track docket management performance, and 

collaboratively develop joint rulemakings. Finally, the system improves document 

storage and management; the FDMS will be able to serve as an electronic system of 

records in summer 2006, which can reduce paper storage needs, thereby lowering 

costs. 

FDMS will ultimately replace the 20 existing individual agency electronic regulatory 

systems and over 150 paper-based docket systems. The system incorporates the best 

practices and capabilities from existing systems and uses state-of-the-art technology 

to manage the huge volume of data that pass through its servers each day. In 

addition, the system interfaces with existing information systems at the Government 

Printing Office (GPO) and National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to 

automatically import Federal Register documents. 

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Expanding Electronic Tax Products for Businesses – Managing Partner Treasury 

 Objective – Expanding Electronic Tax Products for Businesses reduces the taxreporting burden on businesses while improving the efficiency and effectiveness of 

government operations. The initiative is comprised of seven projects that deliver 

benefits by reducing the number of tax-related forms that businesses must file, 

providing timely and accurate tax information to businesses, increasing the 

availability of electronic tax filing, and modeling simplified Federal and state tax 

employment laws. These projects include: 

– Form 94x Series 

– Form 1120/1120S 

– Form 8850 

– Internet Employer Identification Number (EIN) 

– Harmonized Wage Reporting 

– Single Point Electronic Filing of Form W-2/3 

– Standardized EIN 

Federal Asset Sales – Managing Partner GSA 

 Objective – The Federal Asset Sales (FAS) Initiative is creating a one-stop online 

marketplace for Federal agencies to sell retail, underutilized, non-utilized, seized, and 

forfeited Federal assets. FAS will enable citizens to search for all retail, personal, and 

real property for sale across the Federal Government, through a single online 

marketplace, regardless of whether the item is available online or through an offline, 

live auction. Personal property assets include: business equipment, vehicles (fleet), 

furniture, general inventory, and other miscellaneous assets. Real property assets 

include: industrial, commercial, agricultural, and government-owned residential real 

estate. 

International Trade Process Streamlining – Managing Partner Department of Commerce 

(DoC) 

 Objective – The International Trade Process Streamlining (ITPS) initiative was 

created to make it easier for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to obtain the 

information and documents needed to conduct business abroad. DoC, through the 

International Trade Administration (ITA), has the mandated responsibility to 

coordinate the export promotion and finance activities of the 19 Federal agencies 

through the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC). The TPCC is 

mandated to “provide a central source of information for the business community on 

Federal export promotion and export financing programs” (PL 102-429, Title II, 

Section 2312, 10/21/92). 

Export.gov, the government’s existing online portal for small business export 

assistance information, has been enhanced to meet the mandate and is integrated with 

the 1-800-USA-Trad(e) call center and the domestic and foreign offices that are 

staffed by trade specialists. Export.gov provides online information about foreign 

market intelligence, trade leads, trade shows, export finance, and other valuable 

information and directs the SME toward their local Export Assistance Center or to the 

office in the foreign market the SME is interested in. Commercial Service trade 

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specialists in the domestic and foreign offices provide value-added and tailored 

counseling to help SMEs understand the nuances of operating in the foreign 

marketplace. 

Government to Government Portfolio

Disaster Management – Managing Partner Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 

 Objective – The central value proposition of the Disaster Management (DM) 

program is to save lives and reduce property damage through more effective 

information sharing. This sharing takes place both within the responder community 

in the form of information sharing and improved availability of digital tools and 

across the nation’s citizens, businesses, and other organizations through the continued 

development of a “one-stop shopping” source of disaster information. The program 

provides significant advantages in risk-adjusted benefits to the public and the 

government through cost avoidance and cost savings. Benefits include reduced costs 

to the government, particularly through cost avoidance at the state, local, and tribal 

levels, improved productivity, more efficient use of emergency management 

resources, reduced redundancies, reductions in property damage, saved lives, and 

reductions to insurance costs. 

E-Vital – Managing Partner Social Security Administration (SSA) 

 Objective – The E-Vital Initiative assists states in automating and streamlining the 

current paper-bound processes used to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate 

death records information among government agencies and others that require access 

to vital records data according to state and Federal laws and regulations. The 

processes currently used to collect and maintain vital records data are largely manual 

and paper-based, resulting in error rates, fraud and delays in service delivery to 

citizens as well as cross-agency data exchanges. E-Vital assists states in 

implementing their Electronic Death Registration (EDR) systems, which automate the 

transfer of death certificate information using the Internet, resulting in quicker access 

to more accurate information. 

Geospatial One-Stop – Managing Partner DoI 

 Objective – The Geospatial One-Stop initiative (GOS) promotes coordination and 

alignment of geospatial data collection and maintenance among all levels of 

government. By providing the building blocks for a National Spatial Data 

Infrastructure (NSDI), GOS: 

– Provides one-stop web access to geospatial information through development of a 

portal. 

– Encourages collaborative planning for future investments in geospatial data. 

– Expands partnerships that help leverage investments and reduce duplication. 

– Facilitates partnerships and collaborative approaches in the sharing and 

stewardship of data. 

The availability of up-to-date and accessible information helps leverage resources and 

support programs such as economic development, environmental quality, and 

homeland security. 

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The vision for GOS is to revolutionize E-Government by providing a geographic 

component for use in all E-Government activities across local, state, tribal, and 

Federal Government. GOS goals are as follows: 

– To provide fast, low cost, reliable access to geospatial data needed for Federal, 

state, and local government operations. 

– To facilitate government to government interactions needed for vertical missions 

such as homeland security and improve delivery of services to the public. 

– To obtain multi-sector input for coordinating, developing, and implementing 

geospatial (data and service) standards to create the consistency needed for 

interoperability and to stimulate market development of tools. 

Grants.gov – Managing Partner Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) 

 Objective – Grants.gov is the Federal Government’s single website for over 900 

grant programs that award more than $400 billion dollars by the 26 grant-making 

agencies and other Federal grant-making organizations. The system enables Federal 

agencies to publish grant funding opportunities and application packages online while 

allowing the grant community (state, local, and tribal governments, education and 

research organizations, non-profit organizations, public housing agencies, and 

individuals), which includes over 1 million organizations, to search for opportunities, 

and download, complete, and electronically submit applications. The initiative has 

implemented efforts to transform the Federal grants environment by streamlining and 

standardizing the public-facing grant processes and data of 26 Federal agencies and 

other (small) grant-making organizations and commissions. 

As of September 2005, over 1,500 application packages have been posted by 24 of 

the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The grant community has submitted over 

15,600 applications to agencies via Grants.gov (representing approximately 32% of 

all Federal grants). All 26 grant-making agencies have posted their discretionary 

funding opportunities on Grants.gov FIND. As of September 2005, over 7,000 

discretionary grant opportunities have been posted. Grants.gov also receives over 

1.5M hits and sends over 1M email notifications per week at the public’s request. 

SAFECOM – Managing Partner DHS 

 Objective – SAFECOM serves as the program within the Federal Government to 

provide guidance and assistance for local, tribal, state, and Federal public safety 

agencies working to improve public safety response through more effective and 

efficient interoperable wireless communications. This allows public safety agencies 

to talk across disciplines and jurisdictions via radio communications systems, 

exchanging voice and/or data with one another on demand, in real time, when needed 

as authorized. SAFECOM, in collaboration with its Federal partners, provides 

research, development, test, and evaluation, guidance, tools, and templates on 

communications-related issues to public safety agencies to help them achieve shortterm interoperability and long-term compatibility. SAFECOM enables the public 

safety community to leverage resources by promoting coordination and cooperation 

across all levels of government.

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Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

E-Clearance – Managing Partner Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 

 Objective – The E-Clearance Initiative streamlines and improves the quality of the 

current security clearance process through automation and the use of common 

systems and policies. The initiative assists in the reduction in processing times for 

clearance-level employees and increases reciprocity among Federal agencies. 

Enterprise Human Resources Integration – Managing Partner OPM 

 Objective – The Enterprise Human Resource Integration (EHRI) Initiative is 

developing policies and tools to streamline and automate the electronic exchange of 

standardized HR data needed for an official employee record across the Executive 

Branch. The EHRI tool set and central data repository provides comprehensive 

knowledge management workforce analysis, forecasting, and reporting across the 

Executive Branch for the strategic management of human capital. 

E-Payroll – Managing Partner OPM 

 Objective – The E-Payroll Initiative standardizes and consolidates government-wide 

Federal civilian payroll services and processes by simplifying and standardizing 

human resources (HR)/payroll policies and procedures and better integrating payroll, 

HR, and finance functions. Prior to beginning the initiative, 26 Federal agencies 

provided payroll services. Four providers have been selected to furnish payroll 

services for the Executive branch. Migration of the 22 non-continuing payroll 

providers to one of the four selected E-Payroll Providers is underway. 

The initiative benefits agencies by permitting them to focus on mission related 

activities rather than on administrative payroll functions. Payroll processing costs are 

reduced through economies of scale and avoiding the cost of duplicative capital 

system modernization activities. The initiative promotes standardization of business 

processes and practices and unified service delivery. 

E-Records Management – Managing Partner NARA 

 Objective – The E-Records Management (ERM) Initiative provides policy guidance 

to help agencies better manage their electronic records. The purpose of ERM 

guidance is to allow records information to be effectively used to support timely and 

effective decision making, enhance service delivery, and ensure accountability. The 

initiative is developing policies and guidance in three major issue areas: Enterprisewide electronic records management, Electronic Information Management Standards, 

and transferring permanent records to NARA. 

E-Training – Managing Partner OPM 

 Objective – E-Training provides a premier electronic training environment to support 

the development of the Federal workforce and advances the accomplishment of 

agency missions through simplified and one-stop access to E-Training products and 

services. E-Training is working to enhance the ability of the Federal Government to 

attract, retain, manage, and continuously educate the highly skilled professionals 

needed for a flexible and high-performing government workforce. The E-Training 

Initiative benefits the government and the Federal workforce by: 

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– Reducing redundancies and achieving economies of scale and in the purchase 

and/or development of E-Learning content and in purchase of learning technology 

infrastructure (e.g., Learning Management Systems, Learning Content 

Management Systems, and other Information Technology hardware/software), 

consolidation, and sharing of hardware/software wherever possible; 

– Offering user-friendly, one-stop access to a robust and high-quality E-Training 

environment; and 

– Encouraging E-Learning investments as part of the strategic, systematic, and 

continuous development of Federal government human capital. 

E-Travel – Managing Partner GSA 

 Objective – The E-Travel Program provides government-wide a standard set of 

world-class travel management services to consolidate Federal travel, minimize cost, 

and produce superior customer satisfaction. The E-Travel Service is based on 

commercially hosted solutions to minimize technology costs to the government and 

guarantee current and advanced functionality. Services range from travel planning 

and authorization to reimbursement. End-to-end service leverages administrative, 

financial, and information technology best practices to realize significant cost savings 

and improved employee productivity. 

Integrated Acquisition Environment – Managing Partner GSA 

 Objective – Federal agencies have been actively embracing the use of electronic 

commerce and working toward increased efficiencies in the acquisition process in 

response to legislation and policy changes. However, lack of coordination among 

Agencies has led to duplication of effort, stove-piped information systems, lack of 

data/messaging standards, lack of scale, and insufficient leverage. 

The Integrated Acquisition Environment (IAE) initiative is designed to create a 

secure business environment that facilitates and supports cost-effective acquisition of 

goods and services by agencies, while eliminating inefficiencies in the current Federal 

acquisition landscape. Through IAE, common acquisition functions and services 

provided benefit all agencies, such as the maintenance of information about 

organizations (e.g., banking, certifications, business types, capabilities, performance), 

are managed as a shared service. IAE provides benefits to the government and 

organizations by improving cross-agency coordination to help the government to 

better use its buying power, while providing organizations maximum visibility and 

transparency into the process. In addition, agencies can focus on agency-specific 

needs such as strategy, operations, and management while leveraging shared services 

for common functions. 

IAE operational objectives include: deploying a single point of registration and 

validation of supplier data accessed by all agencies; implementing a central point for 

consolidated collection and access of statistical and management information related 

to government acquisitions; and a directory of interagency contracts to simplify 

selection and facilitate leverage of Government buying; and developing a standard 

glossary and vocabulary to facilitate exchange of data between and within agencies. 

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Recruitment One-Stop – Managing Partner OPM 

 Objective – Recruitment One-Stop simplifies the search process for Federal job 

seekers by providing state-of-the-art online recruitment services including online job 

posting, intuitive job searching, resume warehousing, online application submission, 

automated eligibility and status feedback, applicant data mining, and integration with 

sophisticated automated assessment tools. Through the deployment of 

USAJOBS.gov, Recruitment One-Stop provides an online portal through which 

citizens can easily search for employment opportunities through out the Federal 

Government. To date, USAJOBS.gov has serviced over 112 million visitors. 

USAJOBS also provides a better way for managers to become more effective in 

finding qualified applicants for vacant positions and has made the government more 

efficient at managing the Federal workforce.

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

E-Authentication – Managing Partner GSA 

 Objective – The E-Authentication Initiative provides a trusted and secure standardsbased authentication architecture to support Federal E-Government applications and 

initiatives. This approach provides a uniform process for establishing electronic 

identity and eliminates the need for each initiative to develop a redundant solution for 

the verification of identity and electronic signatures. E-Authentication’s federated 

architecture also enables citizens and businesses to use credentials issued by 

commercial entities, such as financial institutions, to conduct transactions with the 

government. 

Since the initial E-Authentication launch, the Federation has grown to 10 members, 

including five agencies with live E-Authentication-enabled implementations, and five 

parties (government and commercial) providing identity verification services to those 

applications. In addition to the 10 current live members, another 5 agencies have 

signed participation agreements and are expected to launch live implementations in 

the near future. 

Lines of Business

Case Management – Managing Partner Department of Justice (DoJ) 

 Objective – The Case Management Line of Business (CM LoB) defines case 

management as activities associated with the collection, qualification, analysis, and 

use of information either for law enforcement purposes, to prevent acts of terrorism, 

or to defend the government (including its officers and agents) against legal 

challenges. Sometimes called a matter, a case represents the collection of 

information (usually maintained in a case file) that coalesces around one or more 

subjects of official interest to a case manager – e.g., an intelligence analyst, an 

investigative agent, or a Federal attorney. Automated case management systems are 

employed to facilitate the identification, organization, storage, processing, and 

communication of case-related information. 

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The vision of the CM LoB is to utilize common solutions and data standards such that 

case management information is easily and appropriately shared within and between 

Federal and local agencies. Case Management solutions addresses distinct business 

improvements to enhance the government’s performance and services for citizens, 

focusing especially on case management programs that support the litigation and 

investigation functions at major Federal agencies such as DoJ and DHS. The 

objective of all LoB efforts is to save taxpayer dollars, reduce administrative burden, 

and significantly improve service delivery to citizens. 

Case management solutions serve three levels of business needs. At the user level, 

case management systems allow legal professionals, agents, analysts, and other staff 

to track and manage information about, and in support of individual cases. At the 

supervisory level, case management systems allow supervisors to track and report 

performance, and balance case workload across their organization. At the executive 

level, case management systems provide organizational performance data to support 

executive level decision-making, including recognizing trends and allocating 

resources in support of mission and strategic goals. Specific goals of the Case 

Management Common Solutions Program include: 

– In conjunction with OMB’s Federal Enterprise Architecture Model (FEAM) 

initiative, develop a common solutions architecture that enables case management 

data to be shared efficiently within and across agencies. 

– Improve effectiveness and efficiency of investigation and both civil and criminal 

litigation case management business processes. 

– Identify common case management processes across components and agencies 

that drive process standardization and system consolidation. 

– Address immediate and long-term case management needs and opportunities in 

the Federal case management community. 

– Provide guidance for future case management investments across the Federal 

Government. 

Federal Health Architecture Line of Business – Managing Partner HHS 

 Objective – The Federal Health Architecture (FHA) helps ensure safer and healthier 

citizens by improving access to health related information and services. The FHA is 

creating a consistent federal framework to (1) allow health care agencies to 

collaborate and communicate, and (2) improve the exchange of health information, 

including health care delivery, and appropriate patient access to improved health data.

To enable this transformation within the Federal Government, the FHA provides a 

collaborative forum for partners that have strengths in various areas to share their 

successes and experiences. Some of our partners have been very successful in these 

areas and by working together, efforts of other partners are advanced as well. 

The FHA’s goals are to: 

– Improve coordination and collaboration on national Health information 

technology (IT) Solutions, and 

– Improve efficiency, standardization, reliability, and availability of comprehensive 

health information solutions. 

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To achieve these goals, the FHA community is working together to: 

– Create integrated target architectures to permit interoperability and guide 

decision-making for future Federal health investments; 

– Establish Federal health vocabulary and health technology standards; 

– Ensure the protection of privacy; 

– Enable appropriate access to health information; 

– Implement proven market technologies; 

– Create long term partnerships and collaboration across the health line of business 

(LoB); 

– Populate a robust FHA architectural repository serving as a tool for decisionmaking; 

– Identify gaps and solution needs or areas where consensus has not been reached; 

and 

– Suggest transition strategies. 

The first release of the FHA architecture (V1.0) is due in March 2006 and will allow 

health-related investments to be consistently categorized across agencies and 

departments. In addition, standard vocabularies across specific domains have been 

adopted that will be supported through implementation guidelines. The FHA has 

provided a foundation for developing standard information exchanges. 

Financial Management Line of Business – Managing Partners Department of Energy 

(DoE) and DoL 

 Objective – The FM LoB supports efficient and improved business performance 

while ensuring integrity in accountability, financial controls and mission 

effectiveness. Its goals are to: 

– Enhance process improvements 

– Achieve cost savings 

– Standardize business processes and data models 

– Promote seamless data exchange between Federal agencies 

– Strengthen internal controls 

In FY 2004, the Administration asked agencies with the skills and capabilities to 

function as government-wide service providers in the area of Financial Management 

to submit business cases as part of the FY 2006 budget process. The following 

agencies were designated as eligible to enter into competitions to become crossagency service providers: the Department of the Interior (National Business Center), 

General Services Administration, Department of Transportation, and Department of 

Treasury (Bureau of Public Debt). OMB will issue guidance early in calendar year 

2006 to assist agencies in selecting a financial management service center. 

Governance of the LoB is organized under the CFO Council’s Financial Systems 

Integration Committee. 

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Grants Management Line of Business – Managing Partners HHS and National Science 

Foundation (NSF) 

 The Grants Management LoB supports end-to-end grants management activities 

promoting citizen access, customer service, and agency financial and technical 

stewardship. Its goals are to: 

– Improve customer access and efficiency of the grants submission process 

– Improve decision making 

– Integrate with financial management processes 

– Improve efficiency of reporting procedures in order to increase usable information 

content 

– Optimize post-award and closeout actions 

To date, the initiative has defined an implementation approach for consolidating 

grants management systems around "consortia" service providers, with agencies 

participating as members in various consortia built around particular grant types. The 

initiative also developed a process for forming consortia and agencies participating in 

consortia as members. In FY 2006, OMB will select three consortia service providers 

to begin solution planning and alignment for FY 2006. 

Human Resources Management Line of Business – Managing Partner OPM 

 Objective – The Human Resources (HR) Line of Business provides governmentwide, modern, cost effective, standardized, and interoperable HR solutions providing 

common core functionality to support the strategic management of Human Capital 

and addressing duplicative and redundant HR systems and processes across the 

Federal government. Common core functionality includes functions such as staff 

acquisition, compensation management, benefits management, and time and 

attendance. Key benefits include: 

– Improve the government-wide strategic management of human capital; 

– Achieve or increase operational efficiencies in the acquisition, development, 

implementation, and operation of human resources management and supporting 

systems; 

– Achieve or increase cost savings/avoidance from HR solution activities; and 

– Improve customer service 

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Department of Agriculture 

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following 

E-Government Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Recreation One-Stop 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (34) – GovBenefits.gov supports USDA’s mission to work to reduce hunger in 

America by helping increasing public awareness of USDA benefit programs. In 

addition, GovBenefits helps USDA provide access to safe, affordable, and 

nutritious food, enhancing the capacity of all rural residents. Benefits programs 

include Farm Labor Housing Loans and Grants (provided by the Rural Housing 

Service Bureau), the Women Infants and Children Farmer’s Market Nutrition 

Program (provided by the Food and Nutrition Services bureau), various farm loan 

and disaster assistance programs provided through the Farm Service Agency 

bureau, the Wildlife Habitat Incentives program (provided by the Natural 

Resources Conservation Services bureau), and Crop Insurance (provided by the 

Risk Management Agency bureau). For the year ending August 2005 

GovBenefits.gov generated over 140,000 referrals to USDA state and Federal 

program pages.

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 Recreation One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The initiative benefits USDA and specifically the Forest Service (FS) by 

providing information related to recreational activities in our national forests and 

grasslands on the Recreation One-Stop portal. Citizens looking to utilize 

recreational services have a central place to search and do not need to search FS’s 

website in order to find information such as cabin/campsite reservations materials, 

maps, facts and figures, and permit forms. 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– The Business Gateway Initiative supports USDA by giving agricultural producers 

easy, online access to resources that help them understand what regulations to 

comply with and how to comply. BG also supports USDA by offering a single 

location where rural business owners can search for compliance forms by subject. 

The initiative benefits many agencies/offices/bureaus within USDA, including: 

 Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) – Business Gateway provides 

citizens with an additional access point to FSIS’s documentation, guidance 

materials for federally inspected establishments to use in designing and 

implementing sanitation standard operating procedures. Business.gov has 

compliance information and links relevant to inspected facilities.

 Farm Service Agency – Business Gateway provides farmers another access 

point to find all applicable forms to ensure they are complying with all 

applicable rules and regulations and able to effectively operate their 

businesses. Business.gov currently contains links to 231 guidance 

resources/forms. 

 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) – APHIS has made 

compliance assistance resources available to small business entities in several 

formats. All work extremely well in that APHIS has not received complaints 

or negative comments regarding insufficient information or difficulty gaining 

access. Business Gateway provides another access point to this compliance 

information. In addition, Business.gov currently contains links to 

approximately 10 forms associated with animal and plant inspections.

 Forest Service – Business Gateway supports the Forest Service by providing 

an additional vehicle for private forest land owners to access compliance and 

regulatory information.

 Rural Business-Cooperative Service – Business Gateway provides an 

additional access point to critical forms to assist rural businesses with their 

compliance needs. Business.gov currently contains links to 27 guidance 

resources/forms for rural businesses.

 Agricultural Marketing Service – Business Gateway provides access to 

forms and resource information that assist businesses working within the six 

commodity programs (Cotton, Dairy, Fruit and Vegetable, Livestock and 

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Seed, Poultry, and Tobacco). Business.gov currently contains links to 40 

guidance resources/forms. 

 Agricultural Research Service – Business Gateway provides citizens with an 

additional access point for research documents and forms. Business.gov 

currently contains links to 5 guidance resources/forms within this bureau. 

 Rural Housing Service – Business Gateway provides rural citizens and 

lenders with access to loan forms to assist them on their way to home 

ownership. Business.gov currently contains links to 82 such forms. 

 Grain Inspection, Packers, & Stockyards Administration – Business 

Gateway provides farms and small businesses that slaughter cattle greater 

access to compliance information they need to ensure their meat is USDA 

certified. Business Gateway also provides grain producers with another 

channel to regulations and laws they need to know as they use biotechnology 

to grow grain or simply to market their grain. Business.gov currently contains 

116 links to such regulatory forms. 

 Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) – Business Gateway 

offers compliance information for companies such as those vying for Biomass 

Research and Development projects, funded by USDA. Business.gov 

currently has 5 NRCS forms. 

 Rural Utilities Service – Because of the public-private partnership between 

Rural Development Utilities Programs and industries bringing services to 

rural Americans, it is important a site such as business.gov exist. 

Business.gov connects such private utilities to the government, giving them 

greater access to compliance information, forms, and regulations. 

 Foreign Agricultural Service – Business.gov gives farmers and businesses 

wishing to export their goods to foreign markets greater access to compliance 

information. Business.gov has links to sites such as Export.gov and contains 

11 forms related to the agricultural exporting industry. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– E-Rulemaking supports USDA’s goal of transforming the delivery of information 

and services and cutting costs by delivering services collaboratively. By 

including USDA’s regulations on Regulations.gov, E-Rulemaking helps USDA 

focus on customers, work with business partners, and empower employees while 

providing functions “better, cheaper, faster.” 

With the assistance of E-Rulemaking, USDA is moving from a paper-based 

agency to a central web-based system to support its efforts of improving citizens’ 

knowledge of and access to USDA, enhancing collaboration with public and 

private organizations, improving internal efficiency by promoting enterprise-wide 

solutions, and ensuring the security of information provided by USDA. In 

addition, USDA does not currently operate an electronic docket system. Due to its 

large volume of regulatory and notice activities, USDA expects to benefit from 

the cost savings from electronically managing the materials associated with these 

actions. 

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USDA consists of a relatively large number of sub-agencies with unique functions 

requiring varying degrees of notice and regulatory activities to accomplish their 

missions. The Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) benefits each subagency within USDA, including: the Rural Business-Cooperative Service which 

in some years has had nearly 300 publications in the Federal Register, the Rural 

Utilities Service which publishes on average 75 Notice and regulatory actions, the 

Rural Housing Service which publishes over 50 Notice and regulatory actions 

annually, and the Food and Nutrition Service and Foreign Agricultural Service 

respectively publishing 43 and 33 FR documents annually, in addition to the 

Cooperative State Research, Education Service. Reliance on FDMS for electronic 

docket services helps encourage greater consistency in the business processes at 

each of these sub-agencies and others within USDA, which should greatly 

increase USDA’s enterprise-wide access to the related information furthering its 

value as a resource. 

Other E-Rulemaking benefits for specific USDA sub-agencies/offices are 

described below: 

 Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) – FDMS enables AMS, with a 

limited number of rule actions per year, to post and receive comments 

electronically on the marketing of agricultural products in domestic and 

international markets. 

 APHIS – FDMS supports APHIS’s goal to protect and promote agricultural 

health by providing citizens an additional access point to the more than 100 

rules published yearly. Quick and easily accessible public access also assists 

APHIS in determining how best to carry out wildlife damage management 

activities. 

 Farm Service Agency – Through a single internet connection, FDMS helps 

farmers and ranchers gain access to regulations on income as USDA seeks to 

conserve resources, provide credit, and relieve operations from the effects of 

disaster. A paper-based agency, this agency published 26 rules in CY 2004. 

 FSIS – FSIS enhances public health and well-being by protecting the public 

from food-borne illness and ensuring the nation’s meat, poultry, and egg 

products are safe, wholesome, and correctly packaged. FDMS provides 

citizens and businesses electronic access to this critical regulatory 

information. 

 Forest Service (FS) – FDMS helps improve citizens’ knowledge of and 

access to FS information on the nation’s vast acres of forests and grasslands. 

It also enables the FS to electronically view public comments on plans to meet 

the needs of present and future generations. 

 Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) – In 

CY 2003, GIPSA published 14 regulatory actions that facilitated the 

marketing of livestock, poultry, meat, cereals, oilseeds, and related 

agricultural products. E-Rulemaking is helping GIPSA collaborate with 

consumers and businesses by providing direct electronic access to published 

regulatory actions as well as supporting documentation. 

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 NRCS – FDMS helps NRCS establish leadership and partnerships with 

consumers and businesses by providing direct, electronic access to regulatory 

information on conserving, maintaining, and improving earth’s natural 

resources and environment. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– USDA is a major Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. 

USDA enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings 

by making USDA geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, 

USDA helps enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large 

repository of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the 

GOS Portal. 

USDA is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from USDA, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

GeoData.gov provides one-stop access to data provided by USDA’s Geospatial 

Data Gateway, which in turn provides access to data collected by various USDA 

service center agencies – the Farm Services Agency (FSA), the Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS), and the Forest Service (FS).

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits USDA and its component organizations by 

providing a single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and 

application packages, and by providing a single site for the grants community to 

apply for grants using common forms, processes, and systems. USDA has 

implemented the Grants.gov functionality in its component organizations (e.g., 

Foreign Agricultural Service, Forest Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, 

Agricultural Research Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, 

Natural Resources Conservation Service, Risk Management Agency, Rural 

Utilities Service, and Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services). USDA has 

leveraged Grants.gov in the development of two agency specific forms; they use 

government-wide forms 98% of the time for their application packages. As of 

September 2005 USDA had posted over 375 funding opportunities and 45 

application packages on Grants.gov. USDA has received over 315 electronic 

applications from the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, USDA improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions across the agency and 

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allows it to replace manual processes. If USDA were not allowed to use the IAE 

systems, they would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor 

and contract information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency 

purchasing officials would not have access to databases of important information 

from other agencies on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace 

paper-based and labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits USDA by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

USDA to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its USDA 

credential service, USDA E-Authentication Service (with 44 or more publicfacing applications), and National Finance Center’s payroll service by the end of 

FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows USDA and its bureaus to use 

identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside the 

Federal Government, thereby relieving USDA of much of the cost of providing its 

own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits USDA by providing the reference tools and templates 

needed to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected 

center of excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern 

the activities and decision making process for the initiative. USDA’s involvement 

with this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting 

their FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively 

offer recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the 

common solution. In the short term, USDA will be provided key tools such as a 

Request for Proposal (RFP) framework and Service Level Agreement (SLA) 

guides to help them develop agency agreements with their selected service 

providers. In the long term, USDA will have the opportunity to play an active 

role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. USDA’s 

involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows USDA to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits USDA and specifically the bureaus of Food and Nutrition 

Services, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, Animal 

and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Resources Conservation, Forest 

Services, and Office of the Secretary by improving the delivery of services to 

grant recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

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building and maintaining Grants Management information technology (IT) 

systems. GM LoB identifies Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work 

with customer agencies to define requirements, streamline processes, improve 

reporting, and host a grants management system. The grants management system 

can be used by multiple grant-making agencies to make awards and manage 

grants programs. By sharing services, USDA’s costs to build and maintain grants 

management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, USDA continues to make award 

decisions and perform all administrative and programmatic grants management 

functions. USDA evaluates whether it intends to host a Federal Grants 

Management Service Center or be a customer of one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– USDA operates the National Finance Center, one of the approved service 

providers for the HR LoB. This initiative allows USDA to spread the cost of 

managing HR systems and processes across a larger customer base, reducing 

agency costs to operate these systems and processes. 

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Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce (DoC) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following 

E-Government Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 International Trade Process Streamlining 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway’s (BG) mission of providing the nation’s businesses with easier 

access to information and tools they need to innovate, compete, and succeed 

closely aligns with DoC’s mission. By creating a portal where businesses can 

access government forms, information, and tools (Business.gov), the BG better 

equips businesses to succeed and contribute to the nation’s competitiveness and 

growth. DoC’s participation in this cross-agency, collaborative initiative enables 

DoC to contribute to a shared vision, as well as to leverage the expertise and 

resources of other agencies. 

Business.gov contains 750+ forms and related information from DoC in its online 

Forms Catalog, which helps reduce burden and the time required for businesses to 

find and submit forms. Business Gateway supports the following DoC bureaus: 

 Economic Development Administration (EDA) – BG’s mission is 

inextricably tied to EDA’s mission: BG helps businesses comply with laws 

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and regulations and provides access to government resources and information 

the nation’s businesses need to generate jobs, retain existing jobs, and 

stimulate industrial and commercial growth, including in economically 

distressed areas of the US.

 Census Bureau – BG furthers the Census Bureau’s mission by increasing 

businesses’ access to census data and resources. By organizing links to 

content businesses find useful, such as census data, BG makes it easier for 

businesses, wherever they may be located, to access relevant information. 

 International Trade Administration (ITA) – BG helps further ITA’s 

mission by increasing access to trade information businesses need. Some 

businesses may not be aware of the information ITA offers, and BG helps 

increase awareness by providing links on Business.gov which businesses 

might not otherwise find. Links BG already posted on Business.gov include: 

www.ita.doc.gov, www.export.gov, www.trade.gov/td/tic, 

www.export.gov/exportamerica. 

 Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) – Business.gov is useful 

to MBDA’s target audience as not all target businesses may be aware MBDA 

exists. Business.gov, as a cross-agency portal of government information for 

businesses, serves to cross-sell agency information by increasing businesses’ 

access to MBDA’s resources, and increasing access to other agencies’ 

resources of which MBDA’s users might not be aware.

 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – As an 

online portal for government resources that help businesses, BG helps further 

NOAA’s mission by increasing access to “NWS data and products”, which 

“form a national information database and infrastructure which can be used by 

other governmental agencies, the private sector, the public, and the global 

community.” BG places a link to NOAA’s resources on the portal to allow 

businesses to learn about and plan for weather conditions that might enable or 

disable their operations.

 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – For many businesses, 

securing patents and trademarks is essential to establishing strategic 

advantages over competitors. BG provides links to the USPTO home page 

and numerous USPTO forms. Because of the inextricable link between 

intellectual property and business, USPTO is a critical participant in this 

initiative. 

 Economics & Statistics Administration (ESA) – BG helps ESA provide 

timely access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau 

of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau. By increasing access to 

this data on a site businesses frequent, BG helps ESA create awareness and 

usage of their statistics. 

 Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) – Business.gov helps BIS increase 

businesses’ awareness of and compliance with regulations related to the 

export of sensitive goods and technologies, etc. Links for inclusion in BG 

include: http://www.bis.doc.gov/PoliciesAndRegulations/index.htm, 

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http://www.bis.doc.gov/Licensing/index.htm, 

http://www.bis.doc.gov/ComplianceAndEnforcement/index.htm, 

http://www.bis.doc.gov/SeminarsAndTraining/index.htm, 

http://www.bis.doc.gov/InternationalPrograms/index.htm 

 National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – BG helps NIST 

increase awareness to businesses of its technologies, measurement methods, 

standards, and technical regulations. Links for inclusion in BG include: 

http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/industry.htm, http://www.mep.nist.gov/, 

http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/210/ssd.htm, 

http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/235/owmhome.htm, 

http://ts.nist.gov/ts/htdocs/230/232/232.htm. 

 National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) – 

BG helps NTIA increase awareness of and compliance with policy regarding 

the telecommunications and information sectors that promote innovation, 

competition, and consumer welfare. Links for inclusion in BG include: 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/opad_mm.htm, 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/opad_wire.html, 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/opad_ic.html, 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/domainhome.htm, 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/opad_brbn.htm, 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/opad_MTDP.HTM, 

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/opadhome/opad_MTDP.HTM

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– The E-Rulemaking initiative supports DoC’s core strategic goal to “provide the 

information and tools to maximize US competitiveness and enable economic 

growth for American industries, workers, and consumers” by giving them easy, 

online access to regulatory material which affects every facet of American 

businesses and consumer activities. 

Without a central electronic docket system, access to DoC’s regulatory material 

and review of incoming comments is disparate throughout the Department and 

often paper-dependent. Through use of a single web-site, Regulations.gov, DoC 

and its sub-agencies can establish for industry, businesses, and the public quick 

and easy access to necessary material and information. 

In addition, DoC has a significant volume of regulatory and notice activities. 

DoC can achieve cost savings from managing their materials associated with 

these actions electronically. 

The conversion to the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) impacts the 

sub-agencies at Commerce at varying rates, but a number of benefits provided by 

FDMS are shared by all. DoC sub-agencies such as NOAA has had over 1,000 

FR publications in a single year, while others such as the USPTO had an average 

of 62 FR publications annually. FDMS greatly simplifies and enhances public 

access to the regulatory actions and Notices produced by these sub-agencies. 

Other DoC sub-agencies such as the NTIA, MBDA, and EDA also realize 

benefits by implementing FDMS such as electronic records management. 

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DoC sub-agencies with active notice and regulatory programs are described 

below: 

 Census Bureau – The Census Bureau, in its pursuit of providing quality data 

about the nation’s people and economy, publishes a large number of rules and 

notices (148 actions in CY 2004). FDMS helps Census by increasing the 

Bureau’s outreach through the provision of an additional access post to the 

Bureau’s regulatory information and material. 

 EDA – EDA assists economically distressed communities by promoting a 

favorable business environment through its strategic investments in public 

infrastructure and technology. FDMS supports these goals of capacitybuilding by implementing an application that increases ease of electronic 

access. 

 ITA – Through a single internet connection, FDMS helps ITA reach out to 

small businesses by providing an easy-to-find single access point to the 

Administration’s regulatory information and material. 

 NOAA – FDMS provides an online portal that helps the public, industry, and 

businesses access NOAA’s significant regulatory material. In CY 2004, 

NOAA published more than 1,000 actions in the FR. 

 BIS – BIS advances US national security, foreign policy, and economic 

interests, including export of sensitive goods and technologies, enforcing 

export control and public safety laws, and assisting US industry to comply 

with international arms control agreements. FDMS’s Federal regulatory 

system provides worldwide access to BIS regulatory material. 

 International Trade Process Streamlining (Managing Partner DoC) 

– ITA and other Federal export promotion and finance agencies benefit by having 

their programs and services included in Export.gov as it enhances their ability to 

achieve their respective missions. Over 160,000 unique visitors come to 

Export.gov and view over one million pages of content per month. Export.gov’s 

registry of US firms is shared with TPCC partner agencies to improve their 

respective outreach and customer service initiatives. ITPS and Export.gov is fully 

paid for by DoC/ITA because it is integral to delivering its services to its 

customers. The current funding amounts support and maintain the operations of 

ITPS and Export.gov, all development work on the technical solution has already 

been completed.

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DoC is a major Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. 

DoC enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings 

by making DoC geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, 

DoC helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large 

repository of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the 

GOS Portal. 

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DoC is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DoC, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests. 

The “Atmosphere and Climatic” and the “Oceans and Estuaries” pages on 

GeoData.gov provide one-stop access to a listing of the most relevant metadata 

records for these categories. A vast amount of data is provided from DoC’s 

NOAA. In addition, GeoData.gov provides access to Census bureau data on its 

“Administrative and Political Boundaries” and “Business and Economic” pages. 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits DoC and its component organizations, 

including NOAA, NIST, and EDA by providing a single location to publish grant 

(funding) opportunities and application packages, and by providing a single site 

for the grants community to apply for grants using common forms, processes, and 

systems. DoC derives its largest source of benefits from Grants.gov by not 

building and maintaining systems for collecting electronic grant applications. 

DoC has leveraged Grants.gov in the development of one agency specific form 

and has used it 150 times; they use government-wide forms 93% of the time for 

their application packages. As of September 2005 DoC had posted over 194 

funding opportunities and 308 application packages on Grants.gov. DoC has 

received over 2,150 electronic applications from the grants community via 

Grants.gov. Within DoC, NOAA is the largest grant-making component and the 

primary user and benefactor of Grants.gov.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– DoC is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to EDS, one of the three 

designated E-Travel service providers, in April 2006. By completing this 

migration, DoC can provide more efficient and effective travel management 

services. The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government 

purchasing agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel 

policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency 

oversight and audit capabilities. DoC employees also benefit through more 

efficient travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DoC improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If DoC were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems that replace paper-based and 

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labor-intensive work efforts. DoC hosts the Wage Determination Online 

(WDOL) system for the IAE initiative. WDOL replaces the paper-based system 

to calculate Service Contract Act and Davis Bacon Act wage determinations for 

each contract action. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DoC by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DoC to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Export.gov 

Initiative and the portal system that provides access to MBDA’s services by the 

end of FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows DoC and its bureaus to 

use identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside 

the Federal Government, thereby relieving DoC of much of the cost of providing 

its own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits DoC by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision-making process for the initiative. DoC’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, DoC will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, DoC will have the opportunity to 

play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. 

DoC’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows DoC to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits DoC and specifically the bureaus of NIST, NTIA, EDA, 

and NOAA by improving the delivery of services to grant recipients, improving 

decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with building and maintaining 

Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies Federal Service Centers. 

These Service Centers work with customer agencies to define requirements, 

streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants management system. 

The grants management system can be used by multiple grant-making agencies to 

make awards and manage grants programs. By sharing services, DoC’s costs to 

build and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, DoC 

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continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. DoC is evaluating whether it intends 

to host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a customer of one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoC benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of Defense 

The Department of Defense (DoD) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following EGovernment Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Federal Health Architecture 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway directly supports the Small Business Innovation Research’s 

(SBIR) mission of supporting the small businesses that bring technological 

innovation to soldiers in the field. Business.gov contains 203 forms/instructions 

in the Forms Catalog which small and medium-sized contractors must use in the 

process of supporting the vast military construction programs of DoD. Finally, 

BG provides access to DoD’s compliance related information including 

procurement related information. 

 Operations & Maintenance: Many of the businesses that supply/maintain 

military equipment, facilities, fuel, and repair parts look to the BG to comply 

with the various regulations of the Federal Government. In addition, BG 

helps smaller businesses identify opportunities, either for direct contracts or to 

establish relationships with larger contractors who service DoD. 

 Procurement: There are many small and medium sized businesses that 

directly or indirectly play the role of subcontractor to large prime contractors 

in the defense industry. These subcontractors need access to Federal 

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Government compliance information, as they support the acquisition and 

modification of aircraft, ships, combat vehicles, satellites, launch vehicles, 

weapons, and all capital equipment. 

 Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation: The SBIR programs are 

some of the most successful in DoD. These are the businesses directly 

supported by BG. Information concerning patents and trademarks, as well as 

the ability to identify opportunities, is of most value to these users of the BG. 

 Military Construction: BG supports the small to medium businesses at the 

heart of a myriad of service functions within the Military Construction 

programs by giving them easy access to forms and compliance information. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– In CY 2004, DoD published more than 1,000 regulatory actions. These actions 

come from every Office of the Department: the Air Force, the Navy, the Army, 

U.S Army Corps of Engineers, and Defense Logistics. With a single online 

website, the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) enables DoD to 

improve public access to all rulemaking material, provide a central location for 

the public to find and comment on regulatory actions that affect their lives, and in 

addition, reduces data storage costs and allow regulation writers an easy way to 

have cross-agency/cross-government collaboration on regulatory matters. In 

addition, DoD does not currently operate an electronic file or docket system and 

the conversion to FDMS is expected provide cost savings from managing their 

materials associated with their actions electronically. 

 Air Force Department – The E-Rulemaking Initiative supports the Air Force 

by providing public access with a single online website to all rulemaking 

material, enabling businesses and the public to quickly identify needed 

information and to easily respond electronically. In CY 2004, the Air Force 

published 69 regulatory actions. 

 Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) – The purpose of the DLA is to “provide 

worldwide logistics support for the missions of the Military Departments and 

the Unified Combatant Commands under conditions of peace and war.” 

FDMS supports the DLA by providing an additional access point for the 

public and businesses to regulatory notices and other material. In CY 2004, 

DLA published 25 regulatory notices. 

 U.S Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) – USACE serves the Armed Forces 

and the nation by “providing vital engineering services and capabilities, as a 

public service, across the full spectrum of operations—from peace to war—in 

support of national interests.” FDMS helps the USACE build broad-based 

relationships and alliances by providing tools essential in collaboratively 

developing comprehensive solutions to national and international challenges. 

In CY 2004, USACE published 99 regulatory actions. 

 Navy Department – In an effort to “maintain, train, and equip combat-ready 

naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression, and maintaining 

freedom of the seas”, the utilization of FDMS assists the Navy in its efforts to 

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provide electronic access for all interested parties. In CY 2004, the Navy 

published 125 regulatory actions. 

 Army Department – The Army’s mission is to “defend US territory and 

occupied areas”. As such, the Army aims to “overcome any aggressor that 

imperils the nation’s security and peace”. FDMS is furthering this mission by 

increasing business and publics’ access to necessary regulatory information. 

In CY 2004, the Army published 122 regulatory actions. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DoD is a user of civil geospatial information and metadata contributor to GOS, in 

support of homeland security. DoD enables other Federal agencies to both avoid 

costs and realize cost savings by making selective, unclassified DoD geospatial 

data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, DoD helps to enhance overall 

Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository of current and historical 

data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

DoD is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DoD, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. 

GeoData.gov provides one-stop access to geographic activities conducted by 

DoD. Data is provided from various bureaus within DoD including USACE and 

the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov initiative benefits DoD and its Branches by providing a single 

location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, and by 

providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes, and systems. DoD has implemented the Grants.gov 

functionality in Air Force and Navy grant programs. As of September 2005 DoD 

had posted approximately 370 funding opportunities.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DoD improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and enables it to 

replace manual processes. If DoD were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. DoD is the system steward for the Central 

Contractor Registration (CCR), Online Representations and Certifications 

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(ORCA), Federal Agency Registration (FedReg), and Federal Technical 

Document Solution (FedTeDS) systems for IAE. These systems allow all 

agencies to maintain vendor registration through a single source, track 

information on intragovernmental transfers, and post classified, sensitive 

acquisition information safely. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DoD by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DoD to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Defense 

Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) myPay application and Defense 

Manpower Data Center (DMDC) Family Account application by the end of FY 

2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows DoD and its bureaus to use 

identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside the 

Federal Government, thereby relieving DoD of much of the cost of providing its 

own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Federal Health Architecture Line of Business (Managing Partner HHS) 

– Within the DoD, the Military Health System (MHS) directly benefits from the 

FHA program by allowing MHS to reach consensus with other Federal agencies 

on health-related standards in areas such as medical vocabularies, messaging, 

data, technology, and security. The mission of MHS is to enhance the DoD and 

our nation’s security by providing health support for a full range of military 

operations, regardless of time or location, and sustaining the health of all those 

entrusted to our care. Specific to active duty members, the MHS supports a 

smooth transition from the DoD to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) upon 

discharge to civilian life. The timely sharing of accurate health care information 

is a significant contributor to continuity of care and patient safety. The FHA 

provides an important forum for DoD to collaborate with other federal health 

agencies to reach consensus on health-related standards in areas such as 

messaging, data, technical, and security. These efforts are intended to transform 

the process of sharing health information and improve quality health care to the 

citizens we all serve.

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits DoD by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. The DoD’s involvement 

with this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting 

their FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively 

offer recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the 

common solution. In the short term, DoD will be provided key tools such as an 

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RFP framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with 

their selected service providers. In the long term, DoD will have the opportunity 

to play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data 

elements. DoD’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and 

requirements are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture 

supporting the FM LoB common solution. This work allows DoD to influence 

the future direction of financial management across the government from both an 

information technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits DoD by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards and manage grants programs. By sharing 

services, DoD’s costs to build and maintain grants management systems decrease. 

Under GM LoB, DoD continues to make award decisions and perform all 

administrative and programmatic grants management functions. DoD has 

expressed an interest in becoming a customer of a Federal Grants Management 

Service Center. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoD operates DFAS, one of the approved service providers for the HR LoB. This 

initiative allows DoD to spread the cost of managing HR systems and processes 

across a larger customer base, reducing agency costs to operate these systems and 

processes.

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Department of Education 

The Department of Education (ED) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following EGovernment Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (56) – GovBenefits.gov supports ED’s strategic goals by promoting benefit 

programs that create a culture of achievement, improving student achievement, 

and enhancing the quality of and access to postsecondary and adult education. 

Benefit programs include: Advanced Placement Program (Office of Elementary 

and Secondary Education), Education Consolidation Loans (Federal Student Aid), 

International Education and Graduate Programs Service/ Office of Postsecondary 

Education (Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need), Special Education 

(ages 3-21) (Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services), and 

Vocational Education Basic Grants to States (Division of Vocational-Technical 

Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education). For the year ending August 

2005 GovBenefits.gov generated over 98,000 citizen referrals to ED program 

pages. 

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Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– In recent focus groups Business Gateway conducted, a representative from a 

large, local, postsecondary educational institution participated and said this 

initiative is useful for managing her operations. Educational institutions are not 

just educators, but at the same time are also large employers, landowners, and/or 

public land users, financial investors and accountants, etc., and perform other 

operations for-profit businesses perform. Educational institutions therefore must 

be aware of and comply with laws and regulations from numerous agencies and 

would benefit by the approach to regulations and compliance assistance BG 

provides. By providing resources from different Federal agencies, BG helps 

educational institutions better manage their operations. Rather than having to 

visit multiple agency websites, school administrators can access the government 

resources they need to manage their operations, all via Business.gov. In addition, 

BG’s Business.gov contains 50 Education forms and related information (e.g., 

instructions) in its online Forms Catalog.

 Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) – Students 

directly benefit from the OESE’s participation in BG. BG offers resources for 

students and young, budding entrepreneurs: 

http://www.business.gov/topics/special_entrepreneurs/youth/index.html. BG 

invites ED to actively engage in the identification and selection of materials 

that should appear in this section of the website. By supplementing school 

curricula with the Gateway’s resources, this initiative expands the reach and 

impact of education experienced outside the classroom. 

 Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) – BG, as a cross-agency 

portal of government information for businesses, serves to promote agency 

information by increasing businesses’ awareness of OVAE programs they 

may not have been aware of and sparking interest in providing 

internship/externship opportunities.

 Federal Student Aid (FSA) – ED’s participation in BG allows the agency to 

better communicate FSA’s regulations and policies to the business 

community. For example, BG provides a link to ED’s Employer Handbook 

that outlines wage garnishment procedures and steps employers should take to 

withhold money from employees’ earnings in the event they become 

delinquent on student loan payments 

(http://www.business.gov/phases/managing/manage_employees/index.html). 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– The mission of ED is to strengthen the Federal commitment to assuring access to 

equal educational opportunity for every individual. In addition, the Department 

seeks to increase involvement of the public, parents, and students in Federal 

education programs. Through the use of the Federal Docket Management System 

(FDMS), the E-Rulemaking Initiative supports ED’s outreach efforts by providing 

a simple, easy-to-use access point for all Department regulatory material. FDMS 

provides one site location for the more than 450 regulatory actions completed 

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annually over the last three years. In addition, this site provides a central location 

for the public to comment on regulatory actions, reduce ED’s data storage costs, 

and allow regulation writers an easy way to have cross-agency/cross-government 

collaboration on regulatory matters. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The National Center for Education Statistics demonstrates ED’s commitment to 

using geospatial data and GIS tools to provide information to the public. Its 

School District Demographics website provides access to school district 

geographic and demographic data useful for describing and analyzing 

characteristics of school districts, children, and K-12 education. 

ED is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. ED 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making ED geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, ED 

helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository 

of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

ED is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) individual 

requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests maps and 

other geospatial data from ED, particularly during emergency response situations. 

The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate (and focus) these 

requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the potential to 

reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits ED and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes, and systems. ED has leveraged Grants.gov in the 

development of six agency specific forms and has used them 211 times; ED uses 

government-wide forms 61% of the time for their application packages. As of 

September 2005 ED had posted approximately 375 funding opportunities and 45 

application packages on Grants.gov. ED has received approximately 875 

electronic applications from the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– ED plans to migrate its travel services to one of the three designated E-Travel 

service providers by October 2006. ED is currently evaluating the approved 

vendors and will award a task order to one of these vendors during Q1 FY 2006. 

The use of E-Travel allows ED to provide more efficient and effective travel 

management services. The benefits include cost savings associated with crossgovernment purchasing agreements and improved functionality through 

streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and 

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enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. ED employees benefit through 

more efficient travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, ED improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If ED were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits ED by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, and 

documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable ED 

to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Education 

Central Automated Processing System (EDCAPS) e-Payments application and an 

FSA application. The E-Authentication Federation allows ED and its bureaus to 

use identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside 

the Federal Government, thereby relieving ED of much of the cost of providing its 

own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits ED by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. ED’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, ED will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, ED will have the opportunity to play 

an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. ED’s 

involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows ED to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

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 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits ED by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards and manage grants programs. By sharing 

services, ED’s costs to build and maintain grants management systems decrease. 

Under GM LoB, ED continues to make award decisions and performs all 

administrative and programmatic grants management functions. ED is a candidate 

to become a Federal Grants Management Service Center. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– ED benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of Energy 

The Department of Energy (DoE) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following EGovernment Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (1) – By helping to raise public awareness of Energy’s Weatherization program, 

GovBenefits.gov supports DoE’s strategic goals of reducing the burden of energy 

prices on low-income families by working with state and local agencies to 

weatherize at least 123,000 homes per year from 2004 through 2005. For the year 

ending August 2005 GovBenefits.gov generated over 19,000 referrals to DoE 

state and Federal program pages.

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway has developed the Single Source Coal Reporting System 

(SSCR), which benefits the coal mining industry and consequently DoE. The 

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SSCR reduces the reporting burden on industry by employing database 

technology to reduce the requirement for redundant data submission. This pilot 

project was successfully implemented in FY 2005 and will yield positive returns 

during FY 2006 as the regulatory burden faced by the surface coal industry is 

reduced. Business.gov will have a link to this tool on the site. This project 

reduces DoE’s forms processing, systems development, and maintenance costs 

and allow DoE to comply with the President’s Management Agenda. 

In addition, Business.gov contains 147 DoE forms and related resources in its 

Forms Catalog. 

 Environmental and Other Defense Activities – The Business Gateway 

benefits private contractors employed by DoE to clean up contaminated sites 

and dispose of radioactive waste. BG helps these contractors to easily find 

regulatory forms and information. Additionally, BG serves companies within 

the energy sector by giving them easy access to the environmental regulations 

with which they must comply.

 Energy Programs – Business.gov furthers the Energy Programs’ mission to 

increase the viability and deployment of renewable energy technologies and 

increase energy efficiency in all aspects of the economy. By linking to 

resources such as http://www.eere.energy.gov/EE/industry.html, Business.gov 

helps increase access to Energy Efficiency and Renewal Energy Office 

(EERE) information and helps to educate businesses on energy-efficient 

technologies and on financing sources available to fund industrial energy 

efficiency improvements.

 National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) – Business.gov helps 

further the NNSA fulfill mission by increasing access to information and 

resources on web pages such as the following: www.nnsa.doe.gov. 

 Power Marketing Administrations – Business.gov helps the Power 

Marketing Administrations by increasing access to their regional web sites. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– Implementation of the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) benefits 

DoE by improving public access to all rulemaking material, provides a central 

location for the public to find and comment on regulatory actions that affect their 

lives, and in addition, reduces data storage costs and allows regulation writers an 

easy way to have cross-agency/cross-government collaboration on regulatory 

matters. 

 Energy Efficiency and Renewal Energy Office (EERE) – FDMS benefits 

the EERE by supporting their outreach to states, local communities, private 

individuals and businesses. This is achieved through FDMS’ easy access via 

a single website to all related regulatory information. In CY 2004, EERE 

published more than 30 Federal regulatory actions. 

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Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DoE is involved in many projects within its programs that utilize geospatial 

systems to carry out significant goals within the mission of the agency. For 

example in the area of environmental management, modeling and monitoring of 

environmental factors associated with energy production is accomplished using 

GIS technology. 

DoE is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. DoE 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making DOE geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, DoE 

helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository 

of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

DoE is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DoE, particularly during emergency response 

situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate (and 

focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits DoE and its grant programs, including those of 

the Golden Field Office, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Chicago 

Operations Office, Idaho Operations Office, and Office of Science, by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. DoE uses government-wide forms 100% 

of the time for their application packages. As of September 2005 DoE had posted 

over 450 funding opportunities and 80 application packages on Grants.gov. DoE 

has received over 710 electronic applications from the grants community via 

Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– DoE is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Northrop Grumman, 

one of the three designated E-Travel service providers by June 2006. Phase 1 of 

this migration, incorporating ME, is scheduled to be completed shortly. Phase 2, 

which includes Fossil Energy (FE), OA, SP, Office of Security and Safety 

Performance Assurance (SSA), Chicago, PNR, SNR, Idaho, and the rest of 

Headquarters, will be completed by the end of Q1 FY 2006. By completing this 

migration, DoE can provide more efficient and effective travel management 

services. The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government 

purchasing agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel 

policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency 

oversight and audit capabilities. DoE employees benefit through more efficient 

travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

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 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DoE improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If DoE were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DoE by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DoE to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Vendor 

Inquiry Payment Electronic Reporting System (VIPERS) and Industry Interactive 

Procurement System by the end of FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation 

allows DOE and its bureaus to use identity credentials issued and managed by 

organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby relieving DOE 

from having to provide its own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits DoE by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. DoE’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, DoE will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, DoE will have the opportunity to 

play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. 

DoE’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows DoE to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits DoE and specifically the program office of Energy 

Programs by improving the delivery of services to grant recipients, improving 

decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with building and maintaining 

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Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies Federal Service Centers. 

These Service Centers work with customer agencies to define requirements, 

streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants management system. 

The grants management system can be used by multiple grant-making agencies to 

make awards and manage grants programs. By sharing services, DoE’s costs to 

build and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, DoE 

continues to make award decisions and perform all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. DoE has expressed an interest in 

becoming a customer of a Federal Grants Management Service Center. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoE benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of Health and Human Services 

The Department of Health and Human (HHS) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Federal Health Architecture 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (98) – GovBenefits.gov supports HHS’s strategic goals of improving the wellbeing and safety of families and individuals, reducing the major threats to health 

and productivity of all Americans, and improving access to health services by 

increasing awareness of HHS benefit programs. Benefits programs include: 

Assistance for Victims of Trafficking (Administration for Children & Families), 

Extramural Clinical Research Loan Repayment Program for Individuals from 

Disadvantaged Backgrounds (National Institutes of Health), the National Vaccine 

Injury Compensation Program (Health Resources and Services Administration), 

the Indian Health Service Loan Repayment Program (Indian Health Service), 

Prevention of Hemophilia Complications (Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention), Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (Substance 

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Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration), and the Medicare Program. 

For the year ending August 2005 GovBenefits.gov generated over 310,000 

referrals to HHS state and Federal program pages.

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– The Business Gateway Initiative helps HHS lead America to better health, safety, 

and well-being by improving awareness of and compliance with HHS’s 

regulations and policies. HHS’s participation in this initiative allows the agency 

to effectively communicate its regulations and policies applicable to the business 

community. Many small businesses within the healthcare field do not know 

which agency within HHS requires certain forms. BG provides a menu of all the 

necessary forms and explains which agency requires each specific form.

 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – Because home 

healthcare of the elderly is a large industry and because it is almost entirely 

comprised of small businesses having less than 50 people, the filling of CMS 

forms is a significant task for many of these companies. Many of these small 

business owners need help in deciding which forms need to completed and 

also may require contact information for HHS officials. BG meets these 

needs. 

 Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – Business.gov helps promote 

FDA’s mission by increasing businesses’ access to resources that help 

businesses understand how to produce safe food and medicines. Resources 

Business.gov link to include: http://www.fda.gov/oc/industry/default.htm. In 

addition, Business.gov contains 113 FDA forms and resources in its Forms 

Catalog. 

 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Business.gov helps 

CDC accomplish its mission to promote healthy workplaces by increasing 

businesses’ access to important public health resources by linking to CDC 

web pages such as: http://www.cdc.gov/node.do/id/0900f3ec8000ec09. In 

addition, Business.gov contains 35 CDC forms and related resources in its 

Forms Catalog. 

 National Institutes of Health (NIH) – Business.gov helps further NIH’s 

mission to foster communication of medical and health sciences information 

by increasing businesses’ access to occupational health research contained on 

web pages such as: http://health.nih.gov/result.asp/478/34. In addition, 

Business.gov contains 12 forms and related resources in its Forms Catalog. 

 Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) – Business.gov helps 

HRSA by supporting one of its primary goals of providing citizens with 

access to health care resources. Business.gov contains 10 forms and related 

resources in its Forms Catalog that provide relevant health care information.

 Indian Health Service (IHS) – Business.gov helps IHS by providing access 

to health information Native American owned businesses may need access to. 

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Business.gov contains 10 forms and related resources in its Forms Catalog 

that provide access to both health services and financial needs.

 Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) –

Business.gov helps SAMHSA by providing businesses with access to 

necessary drug treatment/prevention processes that any small business can 

institute. Business.gov contains 4 forms and related resources in its Forms 

Catalog for businesses can use when dealing with any drug prevention related 

needs.

 Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) – Business.gov helps 

AHRQ by providing increased awareness of AHRQ’s quality best practice 

health care research and data.

 Administration for Children & Families (ACF) – Business.gov helps ACF 

by providing access to federal programs that promote the economic and social 

well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.

 Administration on Aging (AoA) – Business.gov helps AoA by providing 

increased awareness of the Public Health and Welfare Act 

(http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title42/chapter35_.html) that provides 

opportunities for employment with no discriminatory personnel practices 

because of age. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– HHS is the United States government’s principal agency for protecting the health 

of all Americans and providing essential human services. HHS includes more 

than 300 programs, covering a wide spectrum of activities administering more 

grant dollars than all other federal agencies combined. HHS’s Medicare program 

is the nation’s largest health insurer, handling more than 1 billion claims per year. 

Medicare and Medicaid together provide health care insurance for one in four 

Americans. HHS has a number of sub-agencies, several with active notice and 

regulatory programs. Among these include HRSA which publishes on average 

150 notices per year, SAMSHA which publishes 168 notices annually, CMS 

which publishes on average 48 regulatory actions and over 100 notices per year, 

and the Inspector General’s Office which publishes a combined total of 37 notice 

and regulatory actions each year. These organizations can take advantage of the 

functionality that the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) provides to 

assist with electronically managing their public notice and comment activities. 

Sub-agencies with minimal notice and rulemaking actions, such as the AHRQ, 

and NIH and AoA, can use FDMS to implement an electronic workflow process 

and can manage documents as records within the system. 

 FDA – The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring 

the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological 

products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products 

that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public 

health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more 

effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, 

science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve 

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their health. To carry out these tasks, the FDA has a very active notice and 

regulatory program. The FDA currently operates a web site containing useful 

information about implementing their current programs in addition to posting 

information on Federal Register notices and regulatory proposals. The FDA 

site also accepts comments on the notices and actions it posts. HHS 

including FDA is scheduled to implement FDMS in the first quarter of 2007. 

FDMS is scheduled to have a record management component available to 

participating agencies within this time-frame to provide FDA the additional 

capability to manage electronic materials posted in FDMS as records, a 

capability not currently supported by the FDA site. 

 CDC – The CDC’s primary mission is to promote health and quality of life by 

preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. The CDC published 

nearly 520 notices in 2004, many of which have health related implications 

extending internationally. By relying on FDMS to support their regulatory 

and notice activities, the CDC provides a single site to broadcast these and 

provides additional supporting information critical to understanding the 

implications of their findings and recommended actions. 

 ACF – The ACF within HHS is responsible for federal programs promoting 

the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and 

communities. While their regulatory activities are very limited they do publish 

a significant number of Notices. Over the last three years, ACF has published 

on average over 175 notices in the Federal Register. By implementing FDMS, 

ACF is able to accept electronic feedback on their notices and to more 

accurately gauge the impacts of their actions. 

 IHS – IHS is currently pursuing a number of initiatives to meet the particular 

health and social needs of Native Americans. These include behavioral health, 

chronic disease management, and health promotion/disease prevention. 

FDMS assists IHS by providing a dependable means to disseminate 

information and collect feedback on the effectiveness of these initiatives. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– There are three key areas in HHS which exploit geospatial systems to meet their 

mission goals. The first key area includes the HHS Secretary’s Command Center 

which functions as the principal point for coordination and facilitates information 

sharing among the public health partners. Geospatial analysis provides the 

cornerstone for the management of national and international public health issues. 

The second key area is mapping technology for public health surveillance, 

preparedness, and response using geospatial technologies to manage public health 

assets, monitor the health of the nation, and track disease. The third key area is the 

use of geospatial tools to characterize affected populations during health 

emergencies. 

HHS is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. HHS 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

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making HHS geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, HHS 

helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository 

of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

HHS is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from HHS, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

The Human Health and Disease category page on GeoData.gov provides one-stop 

access to a listing of the most relevant metadata records of health related 

information including health services, human ecology, and safety. Data is 

provided from various bureaus within HHS including the National Center for 

Health Statistics, CDC, CMS, and HRSA. 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits HHS and its Operating Divisions by providing 

a single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application 

packages, and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for 

grants using common forms, processes and systems. HHS derives its largest 

source of benefits from Grants.gov by not building or decommissioning systems 

for collecting electronic grant applications. HHS has implemented the Grants.gov 

functionality in all of its eleven Operating Divisions (AoA, ACF, AHRQ, CDC, 

CMS, FDA, HRSA, IHS, NIH, OS (Office of Public Health and Science), and 

SAMHSA). HHS has leveraged Grants.gov in the development of three agency 

specific forms and has used them 377 times; they use government-wide forms 

93% of the time for their application packages. As of September 2005 HHS had 

posted over 2,260 funding opportunities and 550 application packages on 

Grants.gov. HHS has received over 2,900 electronic applications from the grants 

community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– HHS is scheduled to migrate its travel services to Northrop Grumman, one of the 

three designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. HHS has 

already begun processing vouchers through the E-Travel system and plans to have 

processed approximately 6,000 vouchers by the end of this month. By completing 

this migration, HHS can provide more efficient and effective travel management 

services. The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government 

purchasing agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel 

policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency 

oversight and audit capabilities. HHS employees also benefit through more 

efficient travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

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 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, HHS improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If HHS were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits HHS by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

HHS to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Grants.gov 

Initiative and another application by the end of FY 2006. The E-Authentication 

Federation allows HHS and its bureaus to use identity credentials issued and 

managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby 

relieving HHS of much of the cost of providing its own identity management 

solutions.

Lines of Business

 Federal Health Architecture Line of Business (Managing Partner HHS) 

– HHS administers more than 300 programs covering a wide spectrum of activities, 

and is the largest grant-making agency in the Federal government. HHS 

programs provide direct health care services, health care insurance, health science 

research, disease prevention, food and drug safety, and medical preparedness for 

bio-terrorism and other emergencies. To provide these services effectively, they 

must be delivered in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. 

In carrying out its mission, HHS works closely with federal partners, state, local, 

and tribal governments, corporations, and the general public (including clients, 

consultants, collaborators, and stakeholders). HHS operating divisions (ACF, 

AoA, AHRQ, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, CDC, CMS, 

FDA, HRSA, IHS, NIH, and SAMHSA) and stakeholders directly benefit from 

common vocabularies and technology standards through increased information 

sharing, increased efficiency, decreased technical support burdens, and decreased 

cost. The FHA leverages current collaborations (e.g. IHS with DoD and VA, CDC 

with EPA, FDA with USDA) and facilitates new collaborations. For example, the 

FHA Food Safety working group identified an information sharing opportunity to 

streamline and strengthen the import process. 

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits HHS by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

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excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. HHS’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues with an impact on 

their FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively 

offer recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the 

common solution. In the short term, HHS will be provided key tools such as an 

RFP framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with 

their selected service providers. In the long term, HHS will have the opportunity 

to play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data 

elements. HHS’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and 

requirements are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture 

supporting the FM LoB common solution. This work allows HHS to influence 

the future direction of financial management across the government from both an 

information technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits HHS and specifically FDA, NIH, CDC, SAMSHA, 

AHRQ, CMS, AoA, ACF, and Departmental Management by improving the 

delivery of services to grant recipients, improving decision-making, and 

decreasing costs associated with building and maintaining Grants Management IT 

systems. GM LoB identifies Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work 

with customer agencies to define requirements, streamline processes, improve 

reporting, and host a grants management system. The grants management system 

can be used by multiple grant-making agencies to make awards and manage 

grants programs. By sharing services, HHS’s costs to build and maintain grants 

management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, HHS continues to make award 

decisions and performs all administrative and programmatic grants management 

functions. HHS is currently consolidating its internal grants management systems 

to two: ACF which is a candidate to become a Federal Grants Management 

Service Center; and the NIH eRA system. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– HHS operates one of the approved service providers for the HR LoB. This 

initiative allows HHS to spread the cost of managing HR systems and processes 

across a larger customer base, reducing agency costs to operate these systems and 

processes. 

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Department of Homeland Security 

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Disaster Management 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 SAFECOM 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (17) – GovBenefits.gov supports DHS’s mission by helping to raise public 

awareness of disaster recovery and emergency response personnel training benefit 

programs. For the year ending August 2005, GovBenefits.gov generated over 

12,000 referrals to DHS program pages.

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) - The departments vast network of 

organizations and institutions creates a complex environment for businesses to 

navigate. Business.gov makes it easier for businesses to get answers to their 

questions through an issue-based search capability, links to compliance resources, and 

access to forms and contact information.

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 Emergency Preparedness and Response – Business Gateway aids FEMA in 

its mission of responding to emergencies by helping contracted businesses 

comply with Federal regulations and small business owners to gain access to 

critical recovery information.

 Science and Technology – DHS partners with the Small Business Innovation 

Research (SBIR) program to foster the participation of innovative and creative 

small businesses in Federal Research and Development programs 

(http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=3200). As DHS continues its 

efforts to include the private business community in its mission of defending 

America, this initiative is a valuable resource for businesses as they seek to 

comply with Federal regulations. 

 Information Analysis & Infrastructure Protection (IAAP) – Contractors 

developing information systems and protection must comply with stringent 

regulations due to the high-security environment in which they work. 

Business.gov provides a broad access point for companies interested in 

winning such contracts, providing compliance tools and access to federal laws 

and regulations. In particular, the Protected Critical Infrastructure 

Information (PCII) Program is targeting the private sector and is seeking to 

help businesses share information relevant to defense of the homeland with 

the government and with each other. 

 Border & Transportation Security (BTS) – DHS’s Office of Small 

Business Programs, in conjunction with Small Business Specialists from other 

agencies, is focused on outreach to small businesses and is providing vendor 

outreach sessions (VOS). DHS is working to leverage relationships with 

small businesses to determine the work these companies are capable of doing. 

As these companies are hired, they require assistance in complying with the 

stringent security prerequisites for working with DHS. Business.gov currently 

contains 117 forms related to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and 

in the future will have a compliance “wizard” to help small businesses 

understand the different ways in which they must comply. 

 Coast Guard (USCG) – The businesses USCG hires to perform work on its 

facilities (e.g., boats, aircraft, bases) must comply with strict Federal 

Government laws. Businesses may be unaware as to the number of forms 

they must complete and which agencies require those forms. BG provides 

assistance for these firms in determining the types of forms they may be 

required to complete. 

 U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) – Business.gov benefits 

USCIS by providing increased access to information for resolving individual 

and employer problems. Business.gov contains 98 such forms and related 

information in the Forms Catalog. 

 Secret Service – Business.gov increases awareness of the Secret Service’s 

mission to provide information regarding violations of laws relating to 

counterfeiting of obligations and securities of the United States; financial 

crimes that include, but are not limited to, access device fraud, financial 

institution fraud, identity theft, computer fraud; and computer-based attacks 

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on our nation’s financial, banking, and telecommunications infrastructure. 

Business.gov contains forms in the Forms Catalog regarding investigative 

needs for citizens to access. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– DHS consists of several sub-agencies that publish a large number of rulemakings 

in performing their duties and ensuring compliance with Federal statutes. When 

DHS was formed, it did not have a docket center and relied on the EPA’s 

eDOCKET electronic system and the docket centers of other agencies to meet its 

regulatory responsibilities. Based on the large size of DHS and its regulatory 

actions, the Department needs the Federal Document Management System 

(FDMS) and the capabilities and access it provides. FDMS greatly increases the 

public’s interaction with the diverse number of sub-agencies and it permits these 

sub-agencies to communicate with each other on their rulemakings. The subagency information below provides an example of the regulatory action volume 

these sub-agencies must handle on an annual basis. With a single online website, 

FDMS enables DHS to improve public access to its rulemaking materials, provide 

a central location for the public to find and comment on regulatory actions that 

affect their lives, and in addition, reduces data storage costs and allows regulation 

writers an easy way to have cross-agency/cross-government collaboration on 

regulatory matters. These benefits also are shared by other DHS sub-agencies 

which are not detailed below, including the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the 

Secret Service, BTS, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Science and 

Technology, and the Office of Infrastructure Protection. As part of the DHS 

implementation of FDMS, the capability to establish secured lines of 

communication with restricted roles and access privileges to information or 

documents under development can be created among personnel from any of the 

sub-agencies within DHS. Further examples of benefits include: 

 USCG – The USCG mission is to protect the public, the environment, and US 

economic interests in the nation’s ports and waterways, along the coast, on 

international waters, or in any maritime region. In 2004, the Coast Guard 

published 447 regulatory actions which is a relatively large number, and 

therefore the benefits to the Coast Guard to manage its regulatory and non 

regulatory dockets and public comments are also significant. Likewise, the 

Coast Guard is able to complement their existing record management program 

with the features for managing electronic records in FDMS. 

 FEMA – FEMA is tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from 

and mitigating against disasters. In 2004, they published 117 regulatory 

actions. 

 USCIS – USCIS is responsible for the administration of immigration and 

naturalization benefits and establishing immigration services policies and 

priorities. These functions include: adjudication of immigrant visa petitions; 

adjudication of naturalization petitions; adjudication of asylum and refugee 

applications; adjudications performed at the service centers, and all other 

adjudications performed by the former Immigration and Naturalization 

Services (INS). The FDMS ensures the public has a central place to comment 

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on rulemakings that deal with these functions addressing significant human 

issues. 

 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) – TSA’s mission is to 

protect the nation’s transportation systems by ensuring the freedom of 

movement for people and commerce. In February 2002 TSA assumed 

responsibility for security at the nation’s airports. The formation of TSA 

resulted in a new agency promulgating a new set of regulations. TSA 

functions were originally part of DoT. DoT provides centralized docket 

services and TSA will continue to use those services until DoT implements 

FDMS in CY 07. In CY 2007, TSA will implement FDMS and follow the 

guidelines for use of FDMS DHS has provided. FDMS will then provide a 

more coordinated view for all entities within DHS. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Disaster Management (Managing Partner DHS) 

– All of the DHS agencies benefit directly or indirectly from the DM program. 

First, the agencies benefit from the Disaster Management Interoperability 

Services (DMIS) platform and the interoperable data exchange standards project - 

which permits their emergency operations centers to exchange data smoothly both 

during an emergency incident and during day to day operations with any other 

user of DMIS software. 

Second, specific agencies such as FEMA benefit from the ability to use the DMIS 

toolset during an emergency to communicate collaboratively with local 

communities that have installed the DMIS toolset. Data exchange standards 

created through DM help FEMA as well as any incident management 

organization by providing seamless sharing of information with any compliant 

incident management software user. Other DHS components such as Immigration 

and Customs Enforcement (ICE), CBP, and USCG can use the basic DMIS 

toolset and backbone for communicating incident information, sharing hazmat 

incident information, mapping, and communication. They can also use the toolset 

and exchange standards for preparedness planning and information sharing prior 

to an incident, and for preparedness exercises. 

Finally, all DHS agencies can use the DisasterHelp.gov portal for information 

sharing, training, and data exchange and document storage. The DisasterHelp.gov 

portal provides a one-stop portal for Federal emergency/incident information 

where US citizens can link to sites across the Federal Government for information 

on preparing for and responding to an emergency incident. Within DHS, specific 

organizations such as Mitigation extensively use the collaborative capabilities of 

DisasterHelp.gov to help manage the interaction with external partners. Providing 

a free collaborative and information sharing internet portal also promotes the 

ability to share information with DHS partners in state, local and tribal 

governments, associations and the private sector. The creation of approximately 

5,000 knowledge centers on DisasterHelp.gov means collaborative services 

throughout the community are valued. 

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 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DHS is a major Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. 

DHS enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings 

by making DHS geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, 

DHS helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large 

repository of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the 

GOS Portal. 

DHS is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DHS, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

The Homeland Security Channel and its sub-channels on GeoData.gov provide 

one-stop access to geospatial data and resources relevant to agency homeland 

security mission and objectives. General homeland security information is 

provided from DHS and data related to natural and manmade emergency disasters 

and events is provided from FEMA. 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits DHS and its component organizations, 

including USCG, FEMA, Office of Domestic Preparedness (ODP), and TSA, by 

providing a single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and 

application packages, and by providing a single site for the grants community to 

apply for grants using common forms, processes and systems. DHS uses 

government-wide forms 100% of the time for their application packages. As of 

September 2005 DHS had posted over 100 funding opportunities and two 

application packages on Grants.gov. 

 SAFECOM (Managing Partner DHS) 

– The SAFECOM activities are funded through the DHS Office for Interoperability 

and Compatibility (OIC). The OIC, part of the Science and Technology 

directorate, oversees the wide range of public safety interoperability programs and 

efforts currently spread across Homeland Security. These programs address 

critical interoperability issues relating to public safety and emergency response, 

including communications, equipment, training, and other areas as needs are 

identified. 

The initiative benefits DHS by coordinating and leveraging the vast range of 

interoperability programs and related efforts spread across the Federal 

Government to reduce unnecessary duplication in programs and spending, 

identify and promote best practices, and coordinate Federal activities related to 

research and development, testing and evaluation, standards, technical assistance, 

training, and grant funding related to interoperability. 

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Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– DHS is scheduled to migrate its travel services to EDS, one of the three 

designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. By completing this 

migration, DHS can provide more efficient and effective travel management 

services. The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government 

purchasing agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel 

policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency 

oversight and audit capabilities. DHS employees benefit through more efficient 

travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DHS improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If DHS were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DHS by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DHS to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its 

DisasterHelp.gov portal, located in FEMA, and another application by the end of 

FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows DHS and its directorates to 

use identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside 

the Federal Government, thereby relieving DHS of much of the cost of providing 

its own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits DHS by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the activities 

and decision making process for the initiative. DHS’s involvement with this 

board provides them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their FM 

systems, voice their needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement common 

solutions. In the short term, DHS will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, DHS has the opportunity to play an 

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active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. This 

work allows DHS to influence the future direction of financial management 

across the government from both an information technology and business process 

perspective. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DHS benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of Housing and Urban Development 

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is providing funding in FY 

2006 to the following E-Government Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (31) – By increasing public awareness of HUD benefit programs, 

GovBenefits.gov supports the agency’s strategic goals to increase homeownership 

opportunities, promote decent affordable housing, and strengthen communities, as 

well as ensure equal opportunity in housing. For the year ending August 2005 

GovBenefits.gov generated over 105,000 referrals to HUD program pages.

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway’s primary focus on compliance provides another avenue for 

HUD to highlight and communicate to the business community the requirements 

of housing and community development rules and regulations. Many of the 

organizations working with HUD operate as business entities, and BG provides, 

through the portal, easy access to HUD’s programs.

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In addition HUD has numerous forms/instructions (139) in the BG Forms Catalog 

that include applications for funding for housing programs and community 

initiatives. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– HUD’s mission is to increase homeownership, support community development 

and increase access to affordable housing free from discrimination. Two major 

HUD organizations, the Office of Community Planning and Development and the 

Office of Housing, published 66 regulatory actions in 2004. HUD has been active 

in E-Rulemaking. From 2004 until the launch of the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) in the fall of 2005, HUD used EPA’s electronic docket system 

(E-Dockets). HUD is one of the first agencies to migrate to the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS). Through its experience with E-Dockets and the 

implementation of FDMS (which centralize HUD’s regulatory actions for public 

review and comment on the Internet) HUD’s interaction with its public continue 

to increase when promulgating regulations that affect the building of communities 

and the promotion of affordable housing. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– HUD has various major programs that utilize geospatial information to carry out 

significant goals within the mission of the agency. HUD has exploited GIS 

technology to support its user community by offering geospatial tools over the 

Internet. For example the HUD Enterprise Geographic Information System 

(EGIS) enables the pubic to map their community. EGIS integrates HUD data 

with transportation, environmental, demographic, and other data. Users can also 

see if their home address is inside an Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community 

or Revitalization Area. 

HUD is a Federal geospatial data producer/distributor and metadata contributor to 

GOS. HUD enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost 

savings by making HUD geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In 

addition, HUD helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its 

large repository of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through 

the GOS Portal. 

HUD is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from HUD, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests. 

GeoData.gov provides one-stop access to HUD’s Environmental Mapping (EMAPS). HUD E-MAPS provides: location, type and performance of HUD-funded 

activities in every neighborhood across the country; and select EPA information 

on brownfields, hazardous wastes, air pollution and waste water discharges.

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 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov initiative benefits HUD and the applicant community by 

providing access to funding opportunities and electronic application packages 

through a central portal. All information needed to find opportunities for funding 

from over 50 competitive opportunities was made available using Grants.gov Find 

and Apply. The Grants.gov portal allows HUD to use a single mechanism to post 

and receive applications in a unified fashion, eliminating the need to build 

separate systems to receive and review applications for funding. The common 

application forms and process allowed HUD to develop a common standardized 

database from which both program reports and Department-wide reports are 

attainable. HUD programs use standard HUD forms and the SF 424 and SF 424 

Supplement. Survey on Ensuring Equal Opportunity for Applicants. HUD has 

leveraged Grants.gov in the development of 11 agency specific forms and has 

used them 461 times; they use government-wide forms 45% of the time for their 

application packages. As of September 2005 HUD had posted approximately 230 

funding opportunities and 55 application packages on Grants.gov. HUD has 

received approximately 5,800 electronic applications from the grants community 

via Grants.gov.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– HUD will begin processing vouchers in FY 2006 through EDS, one of the three 

designated E-Travel service providers, and will be processing all agency vouchers 

through EDS over the next few months. By completing this migration, HUD can 

provide more efficient and effective travel management services. The benefits 

include cost savings associated with cross-government purchasing agreements and 

improved functionality through streamlined travel policies and processes, strict 

security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and audit 

capabilities. HUD employees also benefit through more efficient travel planning, 

authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, HUD improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If HUD were not allowed to use the IAE systems, the 

agency would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and 

contract information, to post procurement opportunities, track and report 

subcontracting data, and evaluate vendor performance. Agency purchasing 

officials would not have access to shared databases of important information 

supporting acquisition decision-making and would return to paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts, greatly taxing an already overburdened workforce. 

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Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits HUD by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

HUD to develop and begin implementation of an enterprise solution for EAuthentication. The E-Authentication Federation allows HUD and its bureaus to 

use identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside 

the Federal Government, thereby relieving HUD of much of the cost of providing 

its own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– HUD participates in this initiative and has fully aligned with the E-Government 

goals and priorities. The Project Team has been working collaboratively to 

identify financial systems modernization approaches and strategies to provide the 

greatest benefit to the government and stakeholders who depend on critical 

services and support. Federal agencies and financial management subject matter 

experts work together to: 

1. Achieve or enhance process improvement and cost savings in the acquisition, 

development, implementation, and operation of financial management 

systems through shared services, joint procurements, consolidation and other 

means; 

2. Provide for standardization of business processes; and 

3. Promote seamless data exchanges between and among Federal agencies. 

HUD has been an active participant in the FM LoB Project Team and has 

developed a business case consistent with direction established through this 

initiative. The HUD Integrated Financial Management Improvement Project 

(HIFMIP) was re-scoped to reflect an enterprise perspective to achieve 

“integrated financial management” for the Department, including all program and 

financial functions currently supporting the Department. The Department and the 

HIFMIP Program organization are migrating to an outside service provider; the 

specific schedule is based on HUD’s IT system lifecycle development process and 

ensures current independent financial systems modernization initiatives support 

the eventual transition to a single core financial system and qualified external 

service provider. 

The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the activities and 

decision making process for the initiative. HUD’s involvement with this board 

affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their FM systems, 

voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer recommendations 

and influence decisions on how best to implement the common solution. Finally, 

HUD has the opportunity to play an active role in standardizing core FM business 

process and data elements. HUD’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their 

needs and requirements are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise 

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architecture supporting the FM LoB common solution. This work allows HUD to 

influence the future direction of financial management across the government 

from both an information technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits HUD by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards and manage grants programs. By sharing 

services, HUD’s costs to build and maintain grants management systems 

decrease. Under GM LoB, HUD continues to make award decisions and performs 

all administrative and programmatic grants management functions. HUD is a 

candidate to become a Federal Grants Management Service Center. 

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Department of Interior 

The Department of Interior (DoI) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following EGovernment Initiatives: 

 Recreation One-Stop 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 Recreation One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The initiative benefits DoI and specifically the National Park Service (NPS), 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and 

Bureau of Reclamation by providing information related to recreational activities 

in our national parks, wildlife refuges, lakes, and public lands on the Recreation 

One-Stop portal. Citizens looking to utilize recreational services have a central 

place to search and do not need to search through the separate websites of the 

bureaus to find information such as hours of operation, cabin/campsite 

reservations materials, maps, facts and figures, and usage fees. 

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Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– The Business Gateway Initiative benefits DoI by providing citizens with access to 

forms and plain-English compliance guidance tools. Specifically, this initiative 

benefits the following agencies/offices/bureaus within DoI: 

 Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement – BG benefits this 

office by providing funding and assistance for the single surface coal mining 

reporting project. This pilot project was successfully implemented in FY 

2005 and will yield positive returns during FY 2006 as the regulatory burden 

faced by the surface coal industry is reduced. Business.gov will have a link to 

this tool on the site and currently contains 41 instructional forms for the 

Office of Surface Mining.

 BLM – Business.gov currently contains links to 49 guidance resources/forms, 

which pertain to public lands in America. 

 FWS – Business.gov currently contains links to 107 guidance 

resources/forms. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– As a whole, DoI publishes an average of 281 regulatory actions and over 1,760 

notices annually. The community interested in activities for which the DoI is 

responsible is extremely large and diverse and can benefit greatly from the 

consolidated functions the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) 

provides. DoI currently operates two systems to manage some of their regulatory 

materials electronically. DoI’s conversion to FDMS is expected to reduce the 

operating costs to maintain these separate systems, while increasing the 

functionality available. 

 Minerals Management Service (MMS) – MMS manages the nation’s 

natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf. 

MMS also collects, accounts for and disburses more than $8 billion per year in 

revenues from Federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral 

leases on Federal and Indian lands. On average, MMS publishes roughly 20 

regulatory actions and 92 notices annually. MMS’ reliance on FDMS 

provides access to these action/notices and their supporting materials for the 

length of time required by the agency requires to conduct its business and 

document its actions. 

 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) – BIA is has the responsibility to administer 

and manage 55.7 million acres of land held in trust by the US for American 

Indians, Indian tribes, and Alaska Natives. There are 562 Federal recognized 

tribal governments in the U.S. Developing forestlands, leasing assets on these 

lands, directing agricultural programs, protecting water and land rights, 

developing and maintaining infrastructure, and economic development are all 

part of the bureau’s responsibility. In addition, the BIA provides education 

services to approximately 48,000 Indian students. The use of FDMS by the 

BIA helps add greater consistency to their regulatory and notice processes. 

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 NPS – NPS has the responsibility to manage the preservation, access, and 

history of our national parks. While the number of regulatory actions are 

small (an average of 18 annually), the number of notices NPS advertises (402 

average annually) is substantial. Furthermore, the notices are often extremely 

controversial in nature. Reliance on FDMS by the NPS helps significantly to 

expose activities that impact our Nation’s Parks to broader publication and 

comment. 

 FWS – The mission of the FWS entails working with others to conserve, 

protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the 

continuing benefit of the American people. Similar to the NPS’s activities, 

those of the FWS are of interest to a large portion of the US population—

many of whom follow their activities with great interest. On average, FWS 

publishes 92 regulatory actions and 355 notices annually. FDMS provides 

FWS with a tool to ensure the public’s participation is well documented and 

as open and transparent a process as is reasonable. 

 Bureau of Reclamation – The Bureau of Reclamation’s mission is to assist in 

meeting the increasing water demands of the West while protecting the 

environment and the public’s investment in these structures. The Bureau of 

Reclamation places great emphasis on fulfilling their historic water delivery 

obligations, promoting water conservation, water recycling and reuse, and 

developing partnerships with our customers, states, and Indian Tribes, and in 

finding ways to bring together the variety of interests to address the competing 

needs for our limited water resources. As part of DoI, the Bureau of 

Reclamation is scheduled to implement FDMS at the end of FY 2006. On 

average, the bureau publishes over 280 regulatory actions and nearly 60 

notices annually. Providing a record management function is extremely 

useful to the bureau to support its management of documents including public 

comments as records related to its decisions which often direct impact private 

citizens and values of their properties. 

 BLM – BLM’s mission (1) seeks to minimize government’s more traditional 

management practices, (2) reaffirms and advances citizen-focused 

management practices that have arisen in tandem with the BLM’s long-term 

commitment to community-based collaboration and partnership, and (3) 

expands the ongoing 4 C’s practices of the BLM (conservation through 

cooperation, communication, and consultation). Through the 4 C’s, the BLM 

proposes new and higher levels of community participation, governance, 

innovation. BLM has an active use of the Federal Register with an average of 

13 regulatory actions and 687 notices annually. With the emphasis on 

community awareness and engagement in its policies and practices, BLM 

greatly benefits from the functionality provided by FDMS to broadly advertise 

notices, rulemakings, supporting materials, and the comments submitted. 

 U.S. Geologic Survey (USGS) – USGS provides scientific information to 

describe and understand the Earth, minimize loss of life and property from 

natural disasters, manage water, biological, energy, and mineral resources, and 

enhance and protect our quality of life. The USGS is often the lead agency in 

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developing associated standards and, as such, relies on the Federal Register to 

notify interested parties of modifications to existing information or new 

developments in topographic imagery. Many of these notices request public 

input and FDMS simplifies the process of determining who is affected most 

by their actions. 

 Office of Surface Mining (OSM) – The mission of OSM is to carry out the 

requirements of the Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act, of 1977 in 

cooperation with states and tribes. OSM’s primary objectives are to ensure 

coal mines are operated in a manner that protects citizens and the environment 

during mining, the land is restored to beneficial use following mining, and the 

effects of past mining are mitigated by aggressively pursuing reclamation of 

abandoned coal mines. OSM can use the controlled workflow designation 

functions of FDMS for managing not only their material intended for public 

review, but also for the documents intended for internal purposes at relatively 

little cost. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DoI is a major Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. DoI 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making DoI geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, DoI 

helps enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository of 

current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

DoI is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DoI, particularly during emergency response 

situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate (and 

focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests. 

GeoData.gov provides one-stop access to a vast amount of data collected by DoI 

across multiple data categories including Administrative and Political Boundaries, 

Cadastral, and Geological and Geophysical.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits DoI and its grant programs, including those of 

FWS, by providing a single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and 

application packages, and by providing a single site for the grants community to 

apply for grants using common forms, processes and systems. DoI derives its 

largest source of benefits from Grants.gov by not building a system for collecting 

electronic grant applications. DoI has leveraged Grants.gov in the development 

of two agency specific forms; they use government-wide forms 98% of the time 

for their application packages. As of September 2005 DoI had posted over 165 

funding opportunities and 25 application packages on Grants.gov. DoI has 

received over 310 electronic applications from the grants community via 

Grants.gov. 

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Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– DoI is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Carlson Wagonlit, one 

of the three designated E-Travel service providers. Phase 1 of this migration, 

which includes the MMS, OSM, and BLM will be completed in Q1 FY 2006. 

Phase 2, incorporating DO, the Fish & Wildlife Service, and the National Park 

Service, will be completed by Q1 FY 2007. The third and final phase, 

incorporating the BIA, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the USGS, will be 

completed by October 2007. By completing this migration, DoI can provide more 

efficient and effective travel management services. The benefits include cost 

savings associated with cross-government purchasing agreements and improved 

functionality through streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and 

privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. DoI 

employees benefit through more efficient travel planning, authorization, and 

reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DoI improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If DoI were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DoI by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DoI to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its National 

Park Service Research and Permit System (RPRS) application, Geospatial OneStop Initiative, Recreation One-Stop Initiative, and National Business Center 

(NBC) Payroll Services by the end of FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation 

allows DoI and its bureaus to use identity credentials issued and managed by 

organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby relieving DoI 

of much of the cost of providing its own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– Interior’s NBC is one of 4 current Federal Financial Management Center of 

Excellences (COE). It services multiple small agencies and the Bureaus of 

Interior. The initiative benefits DoI by enabling them to leverage their 

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information technology (IT) and financial processing expertise to provide FM 

hosting and support services to additional Federal agencies. As DoI’s customer 

base continues to grow, the agency can create economies of scale and use the 

growth to gain leverage with the financial management software vendor 

community. 

The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the activities and 

decision making process for the initiative. DoI’s involvement with this board 

affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their FM systems, 

voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer recommendations 

and influence decisions on how best to implement the common solution. In the 

short term, DoI will provide key input and recommendations for the migration 

process. In the long term, DoI will have the opportunity to play an active role in 

standardizing core FM business process and data elements. DoI’s involvement in 

this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are addressed in the target 

FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB common solution. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits DoI and specifically the United States Fish and Wildlife 

Service bureau by improving the delivery of services to grant recipients, 

improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with building and 

maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies Federal Service 

Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to define 

requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards and manage grants programs. By sharing 

services, DoI’s costs to build and maintain grants management systems decrease. 

Under GM LoB, DoI continues to make award decisions and performs all 

administrative and programmatic grants management functions. DoI is evaluating 

whether it intends to host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a 

customer of one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoI operates the NBC, one of the approved service providers for the HR LoB. 

This initiative allows DoI to spread the cost of managing HR systems and 

processes across a larger customer base, reducing agency costs to operate these 

systems and processes. Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR 

services. 

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Department of Justice 

The Department of Justice (DoJ) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following EGovernment Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Case Management 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway provides another valuable channel for small business 

contractors to find and take advantage of the many opportunities presented by the 

substantial number of DoJ contracts awarded to small and disadvantaged 

businesses. In addition, DoJ’s special “Attorney Honors Program” forms and 

instructions are found in the Business Gateway Forms Catalog. 

 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) – Business.gov enables businesses to 

easily find and access FBI related information concerning enforcement actions 

in the financial community as well as report on major white collar crimes. In 

addition, key FBI contact lists are accessible for businesses needing to report 

potential white collar crimes.

 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – The DEA’s mission includes 

the seizure and forfeiture of assets derived from, traceable to, or intended to 

be used for illicit drug trafficking. In addition, some of it programs deal with 

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money laundering. Business.gov allows businesses access to the schedule of 

sale of the forfeited property. Through an organized list of key governmental 

contacts, businesses are able to easily and quickly identify whom to contact 

with suspicions of money laundering activity. 

 Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) – Each BOP facility is responsible for 

buying the necessary supplies, services, and equipment to operate. 

Business.gov provides easy navigation for businesses seeking contracting 

opportunities with the federal government. Business.gov provides value for 

both BOP and businesses in facilitating the interaction between both groups.

 Executive Office for United States Attorney (EOUSA) – A component of 

the EOUSA’s mission is to provide general direction and supervision of the 

management and policy activities of the United States Attorneys’ financial 

litigation programs, including the establishment of policy and procedures for 

debt collection activities, affirmative civil enforcement and bankruptcy 

litigation, litigative and technical support, training, publication of newsletters, 

coordination and implementation of legislative initiatives and the 

establishment of guidelines, advice, and other guidance. 

 U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) – The USMS benefits from business.gov in 

two specific areas. U.S. Marshals purchase commodities and cutting edge 

equipment. In doing so, the USMS actively seeks small, women-owned, hubzone, disadvantaged, service-disabled, and veteran-owned businesses 

interested in doing business with them. Business.gov provides an excellent 

venue for such businesses to identify opportunities with the USMS. 

Business.gov also provides another venue for the U.S. Marshals to market 

their Asset Forfeiture Program. 

 Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) – The Bureau of 

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives has a proactive approach to 

managing its business opportunities. ATF offers a wide range of small 

business opportunities. It also conducts various proof-of-concept pilots and 

initiatives. Business.gov is an excellent venue for making the business 

community aware of these opportunities. In addition, there are 44 ATF forms 

are available on the web through the Business.gov Forms Catalog. 

 Office of Justice Programs (OJP) – Business.gov provides an excellent 

marketing opportunity for OJP to reach out to the business community for the 

many grants and research projects regularly funded by OJP. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– With a single online website, the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) 

enables DoJ to improve public access to all rulemaking material, provides a 

central location for the public to find and comment on regulatory actions that 

affect their lives, and in addition, reduces data storage costs and allows regulation 

writers an easy way to have cross-agency/cross-government collaboration on 

regulatory matters. In addition, DoJ does not currently operate an electronic 

docket system and is considered moderate in terms of the volume of regulatory 

and notice activities they produce. The sub-agencies with more active regulatory 

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and Notice programs are described below along with their anticipated benefits, 

but benefits for implementing FDMS are available to other DoJ sub-agencies such 

as the Civil Rights Divisions, the EOUSA, the Executive Office for Immigration 

Review (EOIR), USMS, the Executive Office for U.S. Trustees, and OJP. These 

sub-agencies can configure their business process in FDMS to assist them with 

establishing an electronic workflow process. In addition, shortly after DoJ’s 

implementation of FDMS, the record management component will be available to 

participating agencies and they will be able to complement their existing records 

programs with the feature in FDMS. 

 ATF – The mission of the ATF is to conduct criminal investigations, regulate 

the firearms and explosives industries, and assist other law enforcement 

agencies. This work is undertaken to prevent terrorism, reduce violent crime 

and to protect the public in a manner faithful to the Constitution and the laws 

of the U.S. ATF protects the public against crime, violence, and other threats 

to public safety. The FDMS enables the regulation writers at ATF to better 

coordinate their regulatory processes and improve public access to important 

regulatory actions. 

 Antitrust Division – The mission of the DoJ Antitrust Division has been to 

promote and protect the competitive process — and the American economy 

— through the enforcement of the antitrust laws. The antitrust laws apply to 

virtually all industries and to every level of business, including manufacturing, 

transportation, distribution, and marketing. An example of how FDMS assists 

the Division is by improving its regulatory communications with partner 

agencies. The antitrust division often works with agencies such as the Federal 

Trade Commission. FDMS provides the tools necessary to enable the two 

agencies to work together on regulatory actions electronically. 

 DEA – The mission of the DEA requires it to manage a national drug 

intelligence program, enforce of the provisions of the Controlled Substances 

Act, coordinate and cooperate with Federal, state and local law enforcement 

officials on mutual drug enforcement efforts. DEA is responsible for all 

programs associated with drug law enforcement counterparts in foreign 

countries. The FDMS helps the DEA staff to collaborate in their drafting of 

regulatory actions and provides a central web-based location for the public as 

well as partner states and localities to find DEA’s regulatory materials. 

 FBI – The recent reengineering of the FBI and implementation of the Patriot 

Act has resulted in the Bureau ensuring it is dedicated to protecting civil rights 

along with its duties to protect the nation. It has strengthened its support to 

Federal, county, municipal, and international law enforcement partners and is 

upgrading its technological infrastructure to successfully meet each of its 

priorities. FDMS improves and increase information dissemination and 

participation of the community that falls under the laws, regulations, and 

enforcement actions the Bureau is tasked with upholding. All members of the 

public will have easy access to and the ability to comment on regulatory 

actions that may affect them. 

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 United States Parole Commission – The mission of the U.S. Parole 

Commission is to promote public safety and to strive for justice and fairness 

in the exercise of its authority to release and supervise offenders under its 

jurisdiction. For the community it serves, being able to easily and quickly 

access proposed regulatory actions may be very important. FDMS helps the 

Commission in ensuring the community under its authority and all members 

of the public have easy access to and the ability to comment on any regulatory 

actions that may directly affect them. 

 BOP – The BOP was established in part to provide more progressive and 

humane care for Federal inmates and to ensure consistent and centralized 

administration of the 11 Federal prisons in operation at the time. The Bureau 

consists of more than 106 institutions, six regional offices, a Central Office 

(headquarters), two staff training centers, and 28 community corrections 

offices. The regional offices and Central Office provide administrative 

oversight and support to Bureau facilities and community corrections offices. 

With the available online tools developed for Federal regulation writers, 

FDMS facilitates communication for the Bureau with all of its institutions, 

offices, etc., when it is drafting a regulatory action or reviewing the comments 

received from the public. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DoJ is involved in many projects within its programs that utilize geospatial 

systems to carry out significant goals within the mission of the agency. For 

example, the National Drug Intelligence Center uses GIS technology to analyze 

information from local, state, regional, and Federal agencies in order to produce 

threat assessments addressing specific drug types. 

DoJ is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. DoJ 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making DoJ geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, DoJ 

helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository 

of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

DoJ is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DoJ, particularly during emergency response 

situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate (and 

focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests. 

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 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits DoJ and its grant programs, including those 

from OJP, the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, Bureau of Justice 

Assistance, and the BOP, by providing a single location to publish grant (funding) 

opportunities and application packages, and by providing a single site for the 

grants community to apply for grants using common forms, processes and 

systems. DoJ derives its largest source of benefits from Grants.gov by not 

building systems for collecting electronic grant applications. DoJ has leveraged 

Grants.gov in the development of five agency specific forms and has used them 

45 times; they use government-wide forms 75% of the time for their application 

packages. As of September 2005 DoJ had posted over 170 funding opportunities 

and 12 application packages on Grants.gov. DoJ has received approximately 370 

electronic applications from the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– DOJ is currently scheduled to select a GSA-contract E-Travel service provider 

and to commence migration by September 30, 2006. Through full 

implementation of the service DoJ can achieve more efficient and effective travel 

management. The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government 

purchasing agreements and improved functionality through uniform streamlined 

travel policies and processes, strict security and privacy tools, and enhanced 

agency oversight and audit capabilities. DoJ employees also benefit through more 

efficient travel planning, authorization and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DoJ improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If DoJ were not allowed to use the IAE systems, it 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DoJ by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DoJ to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its ATF’s 

Bomb, Arson Tracking System (BATS) and e-Trace applications by the end of 

FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows DoJ and its bureaus to use 

identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside the 

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Federal Government, thereby relieving DoJ of much of the cost of providing its 

own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Case Management (Managing Partner DoJ) 

– This initiative helps DoJ and the FBI, which is leading – in partnership with DHS 

– the investigative case management project known as the Federal Investigative 

Case Management System (FICMS). FICMS provides a framework within which 

investigation case management solutions (such as the FBI’s Sentinel project) can 

be designed and implemented. It establishes a standard by which law enforcement 

officials can more easily share information, by allowing other agencies to develop 

similar systems based on common system functions and requirements. Not only 

does FICMS provide a framework for improving the sharing of case-related 

information within and among investigative agencies (such as ATF, DEA, and 

USMS), at DoJ and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at DHS it also 

serves as the architectural basis for interfacing Federal investigative case 

management systems with the Litigation Case Management System (LCMS) 

being implemented by DoJ’s Litigation Divisions and the 94 US Attorneys’ 

Offices – to streamline the processing of case leads, the handling and analysis of 

evidence, the allocation of resources, and the management of case-related records 

and workflow. Solid integration of the FICMS architecture with the LCMS 

architecture will go a long way to ensure any Federal case management solution, 

for either the Investigation community of interest (COI) or the Litigation COI, is 

built to enable information sharing and common process improvements (e.g., 

secure electronic enablement of previously manual file transfer processes). 

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits DoJ by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. DoJ’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, DoJ will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, DoJ will have the opportunity to play 

an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. 

DoJ’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows DoJ to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

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 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits DoJ and specifically OJP, the Community Oriented 

Policing Office (COPs), and the BOP by improving the delivery of services to 

grant recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, DoJ’s costs to build 

and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, DoJ 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. DoJ OJP is a candidate to become a 

Federal Grants Management Service Center. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoJ benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of Labor 

The Department of Labor (DoL) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following EGovernment Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) 

– GovBenefits.gov provides citizens easy access to benefits programs provided by 

DoL, including: Federal Employees’ Work-Related Injury or Disease 

Compensation,; the One-Stop Career Center Initiative; and Trade Adjustment 

Assistance for Dislocated Workers. For the year ending August 2005 

GovBenefits.gov generated over 160,000 referrals to DoL program pages.

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– DoL’s goals of improving working conditions, advancing opportunities for 

profitable employment, protecting retirement and health care benefits, helping 

employers find workers, strengthening free collective bargaining, etc., are 

inextricably tied to Business Gateway’s mission of helping businesses find, 

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understand, and comply with government regulations and of making it easier for 

businesses to access government resources. 

BG recognizes DoL already has in place user-friendly, well-organized, and 

comprehensive compliance assistance resources, and BG increases businesses’ 

awareness of and traffic to those resources. BG, as a cross-agency portal of 

government information for businesses, serves to cross-sell agency information 

by increasing businesses’ access to DoL’s resources, and increasing access to 

other agencies’ resources of which DoL’s users may not be aware. 

BG organizes compliance information around business issues in an intuitive way 

businesses can easily navigate. In addition, BG is in the process of building a 

comprehensive, smart Compliance Assistance tool to allow users to search for 

compliance assistance information across the Federal Government, including 

DoL, to help push important information out to businesses to help change 

management behavior to comply with Federal regulations. BG also contains 223 

forms and related information from DoL in its online Forms Catalog, which helps 

reduce burden and the time required for businesses to find and submit forms.

 Employment and Training Administration (ETA) – BG furthers ETA’s 

mission by increasing awareness of relevant programs to businesses by 

posting relevant forms and content links on Business.gov, including: foreign 

labor certification programs, Work Opportunity Tax Credit, Welfare-to-Work 

Tax Credit, www.doleta.gov/etaindex.cfm, and 

http://wdr.doleta.gov/directives. The Compliance Assistance tools ETA 

provides are critical to businesses, and BG increases awareness and access to 

these resources for the nation’s businesses.

 Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) – BG currently links 

to the EBSA website, helping increase awareness of EBSA’s resources. BG 

also has a Compliance Assistance tool that helps those working on behalf of 

plans to know what forms they are required to file. As such, BG helps further 

EBSA’s mission to “assist plan officials to understand the requirements of the 

relevant statutes in order to meet their legal responsibilities” and “deter and 

correct violations of the relevant statutes.”

 Employment Standards Administration (ESA) – ESA’s information 

regarding enforcement and administration of laws governing legally-mandated 

wages and working conditions is critical information for businesses to be 

aware of and understand. BG provides links to ESA information, and 

continued access to and engagement with ESA is critical for achievement of 

BG’s mission. As employment standards are so important for businesses to 

uphold – whether child labor, minimum wages, overtime and family and 

medical leave, or workers' compensation – ESA is a critical participant in the 

BG Initiative.

 Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) –OSHA sets and 

enforces standards for businesses in order to assure the safety and health of 

America’s workers, and BG directs businesses to OSHA guidance on what 

these standards are and how to abide by them. As such, BG’s focus on 

business compliance is inextricably tied to OSHA’s mission. BG increases 

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businesses’ awareness of OSHA’s regulations. In particular, small and 

emerging businesses may not necessarily know to go to the DoL or OSHA 

sites to obtain such important information and forms. These businesses can 

easily find the information within a couple clicks from Business.gov, a onestop-shop for business compliance information and forms.

 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) – Because MSHA’s 

mission is heavily geared toward administering and enforcing “compliance 

with mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal 

accidents”, it is important for mining businesses to be well informed of 

MSHA’s regulations. BG helps inform businesses by pointing them to 

MSHA’s wealth of helpful compliance guides and resources. BG is in the 

process of building a comprehensive, smart Compliance Assistance tool to 

allows users to search for compliance assistance information across the 

Federal Government.

 Veterans’ Employment and Training Service (VETS) – VETS compliance 

information is of particular importance to businesses today because of the 

number of National Guard and Reservists who are being called to duty. Under 

the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act 

(USERRA), employment discrimination on the basis of an individual’s 

military service or related military obligations is prohibited. BG helps 

businesses learn about this law and raise the awareness of the many tools and 

resources provided by VETS to help businesses comply.

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– DoL fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and 

retirees of the U.S. In carrying out this mission, the Department administers a 

variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers’ rights to safe 

and healthful working conditions, a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay, 

freedom from employment discrimination, unemployment insurance, and other 

income support. With a single online website, the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) enables DoL to improve public access to rulemaking material, 

provide a central location for the public to find and comment on regulatory 

actions that affect their lives, and reduces data storage costs to the Department 

and allow regulation writers an easy way to have cross-collaboration on 

regulatory matters. 

 EBSA – EBSA protects the integrity of pensions, health plans, and other 

employee benefits for more than 150M people. EBSA’s mission is to: assist 

workers in getting the information they need to exercise their benefit rights, 

assist plan officials to understand the requirements of the relevant statutes in 

order to meet their legal responsibilities, develop policies and regulations that 

encourage the growth of employment-based benefits, and deter and correct 

violations of the relevant statutes through strong administrative, civil and 

criminal enforcement efforts to ensure workers receive promised benefits. 

EBSA had ten rulemaking actions in 2004. FDMS enables EBSA to better 

fulfill its commitment to the working public by increasing awareness and 

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providing a central electronic access to employment and benefit related 

rulemaking actions. 

 ESA – The mission of the DoL Employment Standards Administration is to 

enhance the welfare and protect the rights of American workers. As an 

enforcement and benefit delivery agency, ESA is composed of four major 

programs: the Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the Office of Federal 

Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), the Office of Workers’ 

Compensation Programs (OWCP), and the Office of Labor-Management 

Standards (OLMS). These program offices protect the rights of the nation’s 

workers and use regulations to enforce a myriad of laws which employers 

must abide by. The regulatory staff greatly benefits from the available online 

tools developed for regulation writers under FDMS and the system also 

facilitates the public’s interaction with these offices, providing a central 

location for employers and employees nationwide to review and comment on 

proposed regulatory actions. 

 MSHA – The mission of MSHA is to administer the provisions of the Federal 

Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 and to enforce compliance with 

mandatory safety and health standards as a means to eliminate fatal accidents, 

to reduce nonfatal accidents, to minimize health hazards, and to promote 

improved safety and health conditions in the nation's mines. Promulgating 

regulations is one of the ways MSHA enforces the Mine Act and ensures the 

safety of the Nation’s mine workers. FDMS allows fast, central, electronic 

access to the proposed and final regulatory actions of MSHA providing the 

public with an increased awareness and ability to participate in the 

development on mine-related regulations. 

 OSHA – A major component of OSHA’s mission is to assure the safety and 

health of America’s workers by setting and enforcing standards. OSHA and its 

state partners have approximately 2,300 inspectors, plus investigators, 

engineers, physicians, educators, standards writers, and other technical and 

support personnel spread over more than 150 offices throughout the country. 

This staff establishes protective standards and enforces those standards. 

Nearly every working man and woman in the nation comes under OSHA’s 

jurisdiction OSHA’s mission is greatly assisted by the FDMS as the public as 

well as the large national network of OSHA employees have improved access 

and the ability to participate in proposed rulemaking efforts. FDMS enables 

the public to track and provide comment on proposed regulations that affect 

them. With this central electronic docket system, the OSHA regulatory staff 

receives comments from the affected public faster and with the ability to 

review and work on responses with software “tools” designed to facilitate 

internal coordination and enhance the rulemaking process. 

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Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DoL is employing geospatial systems to carry out significant goals within the 

mission of the agency. For example, CareerOneStop, is a collection of electronic 

tools, operating as a Federal-state partnership, and funded by grants to states. 

Each tool offers a unique solution to the overwhelming demands of today’s labor 

market from the perspective of the job seeker, the employer, and the public 

workforce community. CareerOneStop and its America’s Service Locator (ASL) 

portal makes extensive use of maps, online geospatial interfaces for users, and the 

power of GIS technology and geospatial data to empower their user community to 

manipulate geographic information in searching for employment or career 

opportunities. GeoData.gov also provides one-stop access to the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics' interactive maps of unemployment rates dating back to 1978. 

DoL is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. DoL 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making DoL geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, DoL 

helps enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository of 

current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

DoL is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DoL, particularly during emergency response 

situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate (and 

focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests. 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits DoL and its grant programs, including those of 

the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management and 

Employment and Training Administration, by providing a single location to 

publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, and by providing 

a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using common forms, 

processes and systems. DoL derives its largest source of benefits from Grants.gov 

by not building a system for collecting electronic grant applications. DoL uses 

government-wide forms 100% of the time for their application packages. As of 

September 2005 DoL had posted approximately 50 funding opportunities and 11 

application packages on Grants.gov. DoL has received approximately 310 

electronic applications from the grants community via Grants.gov.

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Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– DoL is currently scheduled to fully migrate its travel services to Carlson Wagonlit 

Government Travel, one of the three designated E-Gov service providers, by Q4 

of FY 2006. The benefits include cost savings associated with streamlined 

desktop operating procedures that eventually eliminate paper transactions, allow 

electronic routing and approvals of travel authorizations and travel vouchers, and 

provide instantaneous desktop reporting capabilities to maximize productivity. 

Split disbursements are implemented to help eliminate payment delinquency. By 

completing this migration, DoL can provide more efficient and effective travel 

management services allowing for more efficient travel planning, authorization, 

and reimbursement processes. 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DoL improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If DoL were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DoL by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DoL to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for MSHA elaws. 

MSHA Online Forms Advisor application. and another application by the end of 

FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows DoL and its bureaus and its 

bureaus to use identity credentials issued and managed by organizations within 

and outside the Federal Government, thereby relieving DoL of much of the cost of 

providing its own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The FM LoB enables DoL to benefit from Government-wide standardization of 

business processes and data definitions while taking advantage of lower costs due 

to the economies of shared-service solutions. Through the FM LoB, DoL is able 

to improve internal controls and provide better access to timely and reliable 

information for decision-making. The FM LoB facilitates seamless data 

integration, allowing financial data to be easily compared and aggregated across 

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agencies, reducing the cost and risk of establishing costly interfaces between 

agency business systems. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits DoL by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, DoL’s costs to build 

and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, DoL 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. DoL is evaluating whether it intends 

to host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a customer of one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoL benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of State 

The Department of State is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following E-Government 

Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (13) – GovBenefits.gov supports State’s mission by helping to increase public 

State Department benefit programs, including programs providing US citizens 

with opportunities to participate in educational and/or cultural exchange programs 

abroad that contribute to the Department’s public diplomacy efforts; and 

programs to assist US fishing vessels involved in international fishing disputes. 

For the year ending August 2005 GovBenefits.gov generated over 4,000 referrals 

to State program pages. 

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Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– By including State’s information on Business.gov, this initiative helps businesses 

locate State’s information more easily, when they may not have known State 

offers business-related resources. Business-related resources Business.gov 

includes are as follows: Doing Business in International Markets; Business 

Support, Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs; Guide to Doing Business 

with the Department of State; and Investment Climate Statements. In addition, 

BG’s online Forms Catalog contains 38 forms and related materials (e.g., 

instructions), which helps reduce burden and the time required for businesses to 

find and submit forms.

 Bureau for Economic and Business Affairs (EB) – The EB has a host of 

information relevant to businesses, and BG benefits EB by making these 

resources more accessible to businesses.

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– The mission of State is to create a more secure, democratic, and prosperous world 

for the benefit of the American people and the international community. The 

activities conducted by State affect nations and individuals all over the world. It 

is vital to the success of State that its actions be clearly articulated and accessible 

to the broadest audience possible. Reliance on the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) enhances State’s ability to receive public comment on a worldwide basis. State publishes on average 36 regulatory actions. Coupled with nearly 

340 non-comments annually, State ranks as medium in terms of its use of the 

Federal Register. However, with State Department’s significant number of 

personnel working abroad, FDMS provides another tool to share information in 

real time. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The Department of State Geospatial activities are focused outside the continental 

United States. Geospatial One-Stop does not collect, maintain, or exchange data 

other than inside the continental United States. The Geospatial One-Stop does not 

have any representative maps or spatial imagery available for the Department’s 

“communities of interest”, those being external to the United States. However, 

Geospatial One-Stop is promoting a series of standards which allow exchange of 

data and mapping elements. The Department is therefore interested in continued 

participation in this initiative for potential future interoperability when data and 

maps become available for the areas external to the United States. 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits State and its grant programs, including those of 

the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, Bureau of Political-Military 

Affairs, and Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, by providing a single 

location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, and by 

providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

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common forms, processes and systems. State derives its largest source of benefits 

from Grants.gov by not building a system for collecting electronic grant 

applications. State uses government-wide forms 100% of the time for their 

application packages. As of September 2005 State had posted approximately 120 

funding opportunities and 11 application packages on Grants.gov. State has 

received approximately 25 electronic applications from the grants community via 

Grants.gov.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– State is currently scheduled to migrate all of its domestic bureau travel services to 

Carlson Wagonlit, one of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by 

September 2007, with a pilot implementation to begin in Q1 FY 2006. All 

bureaus, domestic and international, will have implemented the E-Travel service 

by the end of FY 2008. By completing this migration, State can provide more 

efficient and effective travel management services. The benefits include cost 

savings associated with cross-government purchasing agreements and improved 

functionality through streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and 

privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. State 

employees will also benefit through more efficient travel planning, authorization, 

and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, State improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If State were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits State by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

State to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Defense 

Trade Application System (DTAS) by the end of FY 2006. The E-Authentication 

Federation allows State and its bureaus to use identity credentials issued and 

managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby 

relieving State of much of the cost of providing its own identity management 

solutions.

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Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits State by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. State’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, State will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, State will have the opportunity to 

play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. 

State’s involvement in this crucial task ensures that needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows State to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits State by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, State’s costs to build 

and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, State 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. State is currently working with the 

Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement a new grants 

management system, beneficial to both agencies under the Joint Assistance 

Management System (JAMS) program. State is evaluating whether it intends to 

host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a customer of one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– State benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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U.S. Agency for International Development 

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing funding in FY 

2006 to the following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal provides USAID with the ability to identify a full array of 

available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to either 

maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The organization of 

the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables USAID to choose from 

and/or join compatible geospatial "communities of interest". In addition, the 

portal has an increasing availability of representative maps and spatial imagery. 

These resources provide the agency with context as to how it can effectively 

utilize the data and resources accessible through the GOS Portal to enhance its 

own spatial readiness.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits USAID and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. USAID has leveraged Grants.gov in the 

development of four agency specific forms and has used them 228 times; they use 

government-wide forms 50% of the time for their application packages. As of 

September 2005 USAID had posted approximately 640 funding opportunities and 

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60 application packages on Grants.gov. USAID has received three electronic 

applications from the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– USAID is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Carlson Wagonlit, 

one of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. 

USAID is scheduled to begin processing vouchers through the E-Travel service in 

Q1 FY 2006. By completing this migration, USAID can provide more efficient 

and effective travel management services. The benefits include cost savings 

associated with cross-government purchasing agreements and improved 

functionality through streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and 

privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. USAID 

employees benefit through more efficient travel planning, authorization, and 

reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, USAID improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If USAID were not allowed to use the IAE systems, 

they would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and 

contract information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing 

officials would not have access to databases of important information from other 

agencies on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based 

and labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits USAID by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

USAID to achieve production implementation of a USAID application by the end 

of FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows USAID to use identity 

credentials issued and managed by organizations within and outside the Federal 

Government, thereby relieving USAID of much of the cost of providing its own 

identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits USAID by providing the reference tools and templates 

needed to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected 

center of excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern 

the activities and decision making process for the initiative. USAID’s 

involvement with this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues 

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impacting on their FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and 

collaboratively offer recommendations and influence decisions on how best to 

implement the common solution. In the short term, USAID will be provided key 

tools such as an RFP framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency 

agreements with their selected service providers. In the long term, USAID will 

have the opportunity to play an active role in standardizing core FM business 

process and data elements. USAID’s involvement in this crucial task ensures 

their needs and requirements are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise 

architecture supporting the FM LoB common solution. This work allows USAID 

to influence the future direction of financial management across the government 

from both an information technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits USAID by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, USAID’s costs to 

build and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, 

USAID continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. USAID is currently working with 

State to implement a new grants management system, beneficial to both agencies 

under the Joint Acquisition and Assistance Management System (JAAMS) 

program. USAID is evaluating whether it intends to host a Federal Grants 

Management Service Center or be a customer of one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– USAID benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of Transportation 

The Department of Transportation (DoT) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Payroll 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– DoT requires businesses in several different industries (trucking, airline, train, 

etc.) to comply with their regulations. The Business.gov website helps these 

businesses locate compliance information and to find the appropriate forms to file. 

Numerous DoT organizations benefit from the Business Gateway, including:

 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) – The FAA has offices 

(http://www.sbo.faa.gov/sbo/) focused on developing business within the 

small business community. The BG helps these companies comply with 

FAA’s regulations.

 Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) – BG 

augments RITA’s mission of partnering with small businesses to develop new 

technologies (http://www.volpe.dot.gov/sbir/) by helping these companies 

comply with Federal law and have greater access to the forms they require. 

 Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) – BG assists the Federal Lands 

Highway program by supporting the small and medium-sized businesses that 

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conduct engineering studies, perform bridge inspections, pave roads, and 

construct facilities. Each of these contractors must comply with rigorous 

federal regulations because of the public nature of their work. Although the 

FHWA’s Office of Acquisition Management (HAAM) has good resources 

(http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/aaa/hamhome.htm) to help businesses navigate the 

contracting process, www.business.gov augments HAAM’s services by 

offering broader compliance assistance such as tax legislation, access to 

EPA’s requirements, compliance forms for the Department of the Interior, etc. 

 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) – Business 

Gateway’s portal provides a point of access to the rules and regulations 

imposed by the NHTSA. Small businesses need access to these requirements: 

For example, a car dealership searching for general governmental compliance 

information on www.business.gov might come across a link directing them 

the NHTSA, where they could find important information about safety 

requirements with which their cars must comply. Currently, the business.gov 

site has access to twelve NHTSA forms/instructions.

 Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) – Business Gateway’s portal 

provides a far-reaching point of access to the rules and regulations imposed by 

the FRA. Small businesses need access to these requirements: For example, a 

business desiring to purchase space on a train to ship their goods would be 

directed (via the www.business.gov compliance tool that is being created) to 

the FRA site, where they could learn about the federal regulations with which 

they must comply. Additionally, business.gov serves the over 500 carriers in 

the rail industry by giving them greater access to inter-agency information 

they may not know about, such as environmental regulations (EPA), minority 

business hiring practices (DoC), fuel issues (DoE), employee benefits 

programs (DoL), etc.

 Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) – 

Contracted businesses have greater access to information about PHMSA 

compliance regulations, such as how to file incident reports, on the 

Business.gov site. Business.gov currently provides access to six PHMSA 

regulatory forms including instructions. 

 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) – FMCSA has a 

large number of rules and regulations that would be prominently featured on 

business.gov as a compliance assistance site. Business.gov was designed to 

help small businesses comply with regulations just such as those of FMCSA. 

Business.gov also provides an excellent venue to disseminate research 

information, data, and statistics for use by small businesses. 

 Federal Transit Administration (FTA) – Business.gov provides an excellent 

avenue for the FTA to promote their grant programs for metropolitan, urban, 

and rural planning. Business.gov is also an excellent for access to FTA 

research on best practices as well as available training for professionals. 

Business.gov highlights FTA’s plain language guidance for legal issues. 

 Maritime Administration (MARAD) – The following programs highlighted 

by MARAD are of great interest to the business community and could be 

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found by businesses through use of business.gov. As such, business.gov 

serves as an excellent outreach channel. These programs include: 1) Ship 

Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP). The purpose of the SOCP is to 

address and promote commercial operations through the identification, 

development, and application of new methods, procedures, and technologies. 

2) Cargo Preference is the reservation, by law, for transportation on U.S.-flag 

vessels, of all or a portion of all ocean borne cargo which moves in 

international trade either as a direct result of the Federal Government's 

involvement. 3) Port security grants are just one of many steps the Department 

is taking to address potential vulnerabilities in our Nation’s ports and 

waterways. 4) The Federal Ship Financing Program provides for a full faith 

and credit guarantee by the United States Government to promote the growth 

and modernization of the U.S. merchant marine and U.S. shipyards. 5) Port 

Security Grants. DHS has announced $179,025,900 million dollars in Port 

Security Grants to enhance security at our nation’s key ports and facilities. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– DoT was established by an act of Congress in 1966 with the mission of serving

the United States by ensuring a fast, safe, efficient, accessible, and convenient 

transportation system that meets the vital interests of the U.S. and enhances the 

quality of life of the American people, today and into the future. DoT is made up 

of nine agencies largely based on mode of transportation, two offices, and a board 

that primarily deals with railroad rate and service disputes. Of these DoT 

components, eight separate agencies along with the DoT administration are 

scheduled to implement the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) in early 

2007. DoT currently operates the Docket Management System (DMS) to 

electronically manage the regulatory and adjudication actions for all of the DOT’s 

sub-agencies. DMS is centrally managed by DMS staff who then funnel 

questions back to the appropriate agency if issues arise. Once DoT implements 

FDMS, the subject matter experts will be much closer to the management of their 

individual dockets and their content. This should expedite the process and ensure 

the proper information is included or protected based on their unique knowledge 

of the issue supported. Several of the larger modes and the associated benefits 

anticipated by their implementation of FDMS are described below. In addition, 

some of the DoT modes with relatively few regulatory and Notice activities such 

as the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. (SLSDC) who publishes 

approximately 10 actions and Notices annually, and the PHMSA benefit from 

participating with FDMS. Once DoT implements FDMS, electronic records 

management capability will exist for participating agencies and these modes, 

along with all others, will be able to rely on this FDMS feature as a complement 

to their existing record management program. 

 FAA – FAA’s mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace 

system in the world and in doing this has generated on average nearly 1,600 

regulatory actions and 545 notices annually. FAA, like the other agencies that 

are part of DoT, currently relies on the DMS operated centrally by DoT. The 

conversion to FDMS in FY 2007 will provide FAA much more functionality 

to manage the content of their regulatory actions and notices and give them 

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increased control to manage the workflow of documents they intend to 

include in FDMS than is currently offered by DMS. 

 Other agencies within DoT that can take advantage of FDMS to manage their 

regulatory and associated actions include the FHWA, FMCSA, FRA, 

MARAD, NHTSA, RITA, and the SLSDC. These agencies have varying 

amounts of regulatory and notice activities on average, but ensuring their 

proposals and other actions are widely available and the supporting 

documentation is accessible to the public and industry segments is an essential 

part of achieving the mission of each agency and FDMS provides an 

instrumental tool to serve this purpose. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– DoT is a major Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. 

DoT enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings 

by making DoT geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, 

DoT helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large 

repository of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the 

GOS Portal. 

DoT is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from DoT, particularly during emergency response 

situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate (and 

focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

GeoData.gov provides one-stop access to transportation geospatial data depicting 

the transportation system in the United States provided by RITA’s Mapping 

Center. 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits DoT and its component organizations, 

including the FAA, FTA, FHWA, and FRA, by providing a single location to 

publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, as well as through 

providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. DoT derives its largest source of benefits 

from Grants.gov by not building a system for collecting electronic grant 

applications. DoT has received approximately 105 electronic applications from 

the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Payroll (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoT, with the exception of the FAA, is a customer of the National Business 

Center (NBC) for payroll services, having already completed three migrations. 

The Surface Transportation Board (STB) migrated its payroll services in 

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November 2003. The SLSDC migrated to NBC in July 2004. The remaining 

non-FAA agencies of DoT migrated to NBC in April 2005. The FAA is currently 

scheduled to complete its migration in October 2005. Once the FAA migration is 

complete, DoT benefits from having consolidated its payroll processing functions 

and will be sharing in the benefits of the cross-agency Payroll Provider 

partnerships. DoT is decommissioning its legacy payroll systems, including the 

Consolidated Uniform Payroll System (CUPS), Integrated Personnel and Payroll 

System (IPPS), Consolidated Personnel Management Information System 

(CPMIS), and the HR and Payroll Data Repository Information System (DARIS) 

as these functions are taken over by NBC.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, DoT improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If DoT were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems that replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts.

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits DoT by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

DoT to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its FMCSA 

SAFER and COMPASS applications and its FHWA User Profile and Access 

Control System (UPACS) application by the end of FY 2006. The EAuthentication Federation allows DoT and its bureaus to use identity credentials 

issued and managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, 

thereby relieving DoT of much of the cost of providing its own identity 

management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– Transportation’s Enterprise Service Center (ESC) is one of 4 current Federal 

Financial Management COE. It services some small agencies and all the 

Transportation administrations. The initiative benefits DoT by enabling them to 

leverage their IT and financial processing expertise to provide FM hosting and 

support services to additional Federal agencies. As DoT’s customer base 

continues to grow, the agency can create economies of scale and use the growth to 

gain leverage with the financial management software vendor community. 

The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the activities and 

decision making process for the initiative. DoT’s involvement in this board 

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affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their FM systems, 

voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer recommendations 

and influence decisions on how best to implement the common solution. In the 

short term, DoT will provide key input and recommendations for the migration 

process. In the long term, DoT will have the opportunity to play an active role in 

standardizing core FM business processes and data elements. DoT’s involvement 

in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are addressed in the 

target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB common solution. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits DoT and specifically the FAA, FHWA, NHTSA, FTA, and 

the Office of the Secretary by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. The FAA has 

expressed an interest in becoming a customer of a Federal Grants Management 

Service Center. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– DoT benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Department of Treasury 

The Department of Treasury is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following EGovernment Initiatives: 

 IRS Free File 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 IRS Free File (Managing Partner Treasury) 

– The initiative benefits Treasury by supporting the IRS statutory goals of increased 

e-filing, pursuant to the IRS Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, which 

encouraged the IRS to set a goal of having 80% of Federal tax and information 

returns filed electronically by the year 2007. In addition, the IRS benefits from 

direct paper processing savings as a result of increased e-filing. More than 5.1 

million citizens used Free File in the 2004 tax filing season. 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– The Business Gateway Initiative benefits Treasury by supporting Treasury’s 

desire to help businesses succeed. In particular, Treasury’s Office of Small 

Business Development (OSBD) benefits from the essential compliance tools and 

forms links offered on Business.gov. There currently is a link to Business.gov on 

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the Treasury site. Specifically, this initiative benefits the following 

agencies/offices/bureaus within Treasury: 

 Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) – BG augments 

TTB’s, providing citizens greater access to compliance tools and documents 

to ensure they are knowledgeable about the myriad alcohol, tobacco, firearms, 

and munitions rules and regulations. Business.gov currently contains 59 links 

to guidance resources/forms for the TTB.

 IRS – Businesses, particularly newer businesses, need help discerning how to 

comply with tax rules and regulations. While the IRS website does contain 

tax information focused on businesses, BG increases access to IRS’s forms 

and provides an overall (government-wide) compliance assistance tool. 

Currently, Business.gov has links to 674 tax guidance resources/forms/tools. 

Through the cross-agency strategy of BG, companies are more aware of 

changes to law, including changes in the tax code or potential new tax 

regulations, and have the opportunity to give feedback on such issues. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– Treasury’s role is to promote the conditions for prosperity and stability in the U.S. 

and encourage prosperity and stability in the rest of the world. These objectives 

highlight the Treasury’s role as the steward of U.S. economic and financial 

systems, and as an influential participant in the international economy. Treasury is 

the primary Federal agency responsible for the economic and financial prosperity 

and security of the U.S., and as such is responsible for a wide range of activities 

including advising the President on economic and financial issues, promoting the 

President’s growth agenda, and enhancing corporate governance in financial 

institutions. Treasury provides these functions through a number of sub-agencies. 

By and large, Treasury along with its sub-agencies conducts a large number of 

regulatory and notice activities with a combined annual average of 418 regulatory 

actions, and nearly 840 notices. 

Treasury and its sub-agencies are scheduled to implement the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) before the fourth quarter in 2006. These subagencies include: TTB, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Bureau of 

Engraving and Printing Bureau, the Departmental Offices, IRS, Financial Crimes 

Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Financial Management Service (FMS), Bureau 

of Public Debt (BPD), and Office of Thrift Supervision Office. Of these subagencies, the IRS accounts for nearly half of the regulatory actions and greater 

than 45% of the notice actions associated with Treasury. The actions of the IRS 

along with other agencies of the Treasury typically are of interest to very select 

constituents. The notification features offered by FDMS should simplify how 

interested parties are informed and potentially reduce the effort of those who have 

had to develop strategies to remain current. In addition, Treasury does not 

currently operate an electronic docket system and due to the large volume of their 

regulatory and notice activities they are expected to have significant cost savings 

from managing their materials associated with their actions electronically. 

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Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– Treasury is not a producer of geospatial data for other agencies, but is a moderate 

user of geospatial data within the TTB, IRS, FinCEN, and Community 

Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). These bureaus utilize locational 

information within their databases associated primarily with crime and taxation, 

and to a lesser degree financial services. Typically, this locational information is 

used at both the national and neighborhood levels and comes from Census, the 

USGS and DoT. GOS provides an avenue for Treasury to get at more accurate 

and detailed local geospatial information for their modeling of neighborhoods, 

particularly in areas where there is fast growth which the Census, USGS, and DoT 

databases tend to lag behind in terms of currency.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits Treasury and its grants programs, including 

those from the IRS, by providing a single location to publish grant (funding) 

opportunities and application packages, and by providing a single site for the 

grants community to apply for grants using common forms, processes and 

systems. Treasury has leveraged Grants.gov in the development of one agency 

specific form; they use government-wide forms 92% of the time for their 

application packages. As of September 2005 Treasury had posted 17 funding 

opportunities and three application packages on Grants.gov. Treasury has 

received 31 electronic applications from the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Treasury is currently in the process of migrating all of its travel services to 

Northrop Grumman, one of the three designated E-Travel service providers. To 

date, nine bureaus/offices within Treasury – including the FinCEN, TTB, BPD, 

FMS, OIG, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), DC 

Pension, Departmental Offices, and the Community Development Financial 

Institutions Fund (CDFI) – have completed their migrations. Other bureaus are 

scheduled to continue migration in FY 2006. By completing this migration, 

Treasury can provide more efficient and effective travel management services. 

The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government purchasing 

agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel policies and 

processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and 

audit capabilities. Treasury employees also benefit through more efficient travel 

planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes. 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, Treasury improves 

its ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

automate manual processes. If Treasury were not allowed to use the IAE systems, 

they would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and 

contract information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing 

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officials would not have access to databases of important information from other 

agencies on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based 

and labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits Treasury by providing E-Authentication expertise, 

guidance, and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, 

to enable Treasury to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for 

applications such as the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Automated 

Blocking and Reject Reporting System (ABaRRS) application and the FMS 

DebtCheck application by the end of FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation 

allows Treasury and its bureaus to use identity credentials issued and managed by 

organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby relieving 

Treasury of much of the cost of providing its own identity management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL)

– Treasury’s BPD Administrative Resource Center (BPD-ARC) is one of 4 current 

Federal Financial Management COE. It services multiple small agencies as well 

as most of Treasury. The initiative benefits Treasury by enabling them to 

leverage their IT and financial processing expertise to provide FM hosting and 

support services to additional Federal agencies. As Treasury’s customer base 

continues to grow, the agency can create economies of scale and use the growth to 

gain leverage with the financial management software vendor community. 

The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the activities and 

decision making process for the initiative. Treasury’s involvement this board 

affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their FM systems, 

voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer recommendations 

and influence decisions on how best to implement the common solution. In the 

short term, Treasury will provide key input and recommendations for the 

migration process. In the long term, Treasury will have the opportunity to play an 

active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. 

Treasury’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements 

are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM 

LoB common solution. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits Treasury by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

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grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, Treasury’s costs to 

build and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, 

Treasury continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. Treasury is evaluating whether it 

intends to host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a customer of 

one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– Treasury operates HR Connect, one of the approved service providers for the HR 

LoB. This initiative allows Treasury to spread the cost of managing HR systems 

and processes across a larger customer base, reducing agency costs to operate 

these systems and processes. 

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Department of Veterans Affairs 

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Federal Health Architecture 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (50) – GovBenefits.gov supports VA’s mission and strategic goals of increasing 

awareness of benefits for new veterans, providing timely education assistance, 

and enhancing the socio-economic well being of veterans. Benefits programs 

include: Gulf War, Agent Orange and Ionizing Radiation Registry Program 

(Veterans Health Administration, Environmental Agents Service), Veterans 

Prescription Service (Veterans Health Administration), and Veterans Disability 

Compensation (Veterans Benefits Administration). For the year ending August 

2005 GovBenefits.gov generated over 35,000 referrals to VA program pages.

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Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway provides another valuable channel for veteran small business 

contractors to find and take advantage of the many opportunities presented by the 

VA’s substantial number of contracts awarded to veterans each year. VA has 165 

forms/instructions than are found in the BG Forms Catalog.

 Medical and Benefit Programs – Many small businesses are not able to offer 

comprehensive medical and benefit programs to their employees. This puts 

them at a competitive disadvantage. The VA Medical and Benefit Programs 

allow small businesses to more effectively compete for employees who are 

veterans. Business.gov provides businesses access to this vital information. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– The operating vision of VA is to strive to meet the needs of the nation’s veterans 

and their families today and tomorrow by: becoming a veteran-focused 

organization, functioning as a single, comprehensive provider of seamless service 

to the men and women who have served our nation; cultivating a dedicated VA 

workforce of highly skilled employees who understand, believe in, and take pride 

in our vitally important mission; continuously benchmarking the quality and 

delivery of our service with the best in business and use innovative means and 

high technology to deliver world-class service; and fostering partnerships with 

veterans organizations, DoD and other Federal agencies, state and local veterans 

organizations, and other stakeholders to leverage resources and enhance the 

quality of services provided to veterans. The Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) assists the VA in providing these services by consolidating their 

rule and notice activities giving veterans a single source to find these and the 

supporting materials that affect their benefits. The customers VA supports have 

extremely focused interests and are another audience that greatly benefits from 

the notification features FDMS provides, enabling them to be alerted to activities 

that affect them the most. On average, the VA publishes around 70 rules and 284 

notices annually, and the notification feature in FDMS alerts users of the activities 

most impacting them and helps prevent users from searching through voluminous 

amounts of irrelevant materials. In particular, it is essential that the Notifications 

and regulatory proposals published by the VA’s Medical and Benefits Programs 

are easily accessible to their constituency and that veterans are able to participate 

in voicing their interest in modifications to existing services and benefits to fullest 

extent possibly. FDMS greatly enhances their ability to do so. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal provides VA with ready access in order to identify a full array of 

available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to either 

maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The organization of 

the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables VA to choose from and/or 

join compatible geospatial "communities of interest". In addition, the portal has 

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an increasing availability of representative maps and spatial imagery. These 

resources provide the agency with important context as to how it can effectively 

utilize the data and resources accessible through the GOS Portal to enhance its 

own spatial readiness.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits VA and its grants programs, including those 

from the National Cemetery Administration, by providing a single location to 

publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, and by providing 

a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using common forms, 

processes and systems. VA uses government-wide forms 100% of the time for 

their application packages. As of September 2005 VA had posted 11 funding 

opportunities and one application package on Grants.gov. VA has received two 

electronic applications from the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– VA is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to EDS, one of the three 

designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. By completing this 

migration, VA can provide more efficient and effective travel management 

services. The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government 

purchasing agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel 

policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency 

oversight and audit capabilities. VA employees also benefit through more 

efficient travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, VA improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If VA were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems that replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits VA by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, and 

documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable VA 

to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its VA Form 10-

10EZ Application for Health Benefits and its VA Form 10-10EZR Health 

Benefits Renewal Form applications by the end of FY 2006. The EAuthentication Federation allows VA and its bureaus to use identity credentials 

issued and managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, 

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thereby relieving VA of much of the cost of providing its own identity 

management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Federal Health Architecture Line of Business (Managing Partner HHS) 

– Within VA, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) directly benefits from the 

FHA program because FHA provides the critical underpinning to allow the 

exchange and flow of health information which is necessary in the treatment of 

the Veteran. FHA identification and recommendation of data and interoperability 

standards enables sharing of critical health information across department 

boundaries, thus improving the quality of care. This leadership provides the basis 

for the private sector to use as the healthcare industry increasingly endorses 

interoperability and personal health records. Interoperable technology plays a 

leading role in improving health care services, by facilitating fast, secure 

electronic access to patient information from multiple sources. The organizing 

principles of FHA avoid duplication of effort and ensure the necessary 

standardization within the Federal community. 

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits VA by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. VA’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, VA will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, VA will have the opportunity to play 

an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. VA’s 

involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows VA to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits VA by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, VA’s costs to build 

and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, VA 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

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programmatic grants management functions. VA is evaluating whether it intends 

to host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a customer of one. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– VA benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Recreation One-Stop 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of this initiative are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 Recreation One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The initiative benefits the USACE by providing information related to 

recreational activities at USACE-managed lakes on the Recreation One-Stop 

portal. Citizens looking to utilize recreational services have a central place to 

search and do not need to search through the USACE website to find information 

such as: hours of operation, cabin/campsite reservations materials, maps, facts and 

figures, and usage fees. 

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal provides USACE with ready access in order to identify a full 

array of available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to 

either maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The 

organization of the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables USACE to 

choose from and/or join compatible geospatial "communities of interest". In 

addition, the portal has an increasing availability of representative maps and 

spatial imagery. These resources provide the agency with an important context for 

how it can effectively utilize the data and resources accessible through the GOS 

Portal to enhance its own spatial readiness.

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Environmental Protection Agency 

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– The Business Gateway Initiative benefits EPA by supporting the agencies 

emphasis on the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002 and compliance. 

EPA has over 100 initiatives, activities, and services directed at small business 

needs. Business.gov provides a one-stop compliance tool enabling these small 

and emerging businesses access to link to compliance rules, regulations and tools 

across the Federal Government. BG augments EPA’s SBO function by providing 

the following benefits: 

 Advocating consideration of small business regulatory issues and regulatory 

relief on a government-wide scale. 

 Plain-English compliance guidance, fact sheets and links to checklists for 

small businesses. 

 Maintaining an extensive website with numerous links to other assistance 

sources—both inside and outside of EPA. Business.gov currently contains 

links to over 130 EPA forms/guidance documents. 

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 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– EPA’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. Since 1970, EPA 

has been working for a cleaner, healthier environment for the American people 

and in order to carry out its primary objectives, the EPA has enacted numerous 

regulations and initiatives. The agency has historically been media focused to 

address issues and enact controls to protect particular media such as air and water. 

More recently it has taken a more holistic approach in considering new initiatives 

while preserving the programs that keep each media in check. As a result, there 

are numerous offices and staff within each office that may develop and publish 

modifications to regulations and provide notices to the public. EPA has recently 

consolidated most of its docket related activities and created a web-enabled 

docket system (eDOCKET) to electronically manage Federal Register 

publications and supporting materials. On November 28, 2005, EPA began 

implementing the eRulemaking Initiative’s Federal Docket Management System 

(FDMS). The public can now search for and access EPA’s docket information 

previously found on EPA’s EDOCKET on FDMS’ public side, FDMS provides 

the agency with much more functionally to manage its annual average of 1,228 

annual regulatory publications and 1,230 notices and all of the materials 

associated with them. The agency’s conversion to FDMS provides various levels 

of workflow review that can be managed much more closely by the business 

matter experts prior to publicly posting.

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– EPA is a major Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. 

EPA enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings 

by making EPA geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, 

EPA helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large 

repository of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the 

GOS Portal. 

EPA is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from EPA, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests. 

EPA also expects to be able to better coordinate the collection and purchase of 

geospatial data with state and local government partners, through the portal Data 

Acquisition Marketplace. This provides an opportunity to realize cost savings to 

all such partners, based upon cost sharing arrangements and purchase agreements. 

GeoData.gov provides one-stop access to data provided by EPA’s EnviroMapper 

Store Front – which is used to map various types of environmental information to 

user defined geographic areas, Envirofacts – a single point of access to select U.S. 

EPA environmental data, and to live data and maps of Superfund and Toxic Sites.

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 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits EPA and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. EPA derives its largest source of benefits 

from Grants.gov by not building and maintaining a system for collecting 

electronic grant applications. EPA has leveraged Grants.gov in the development 

of two agency specific forms and has used them 79 times; they use governmentwide forms 81% of the time for their application packages. As of September 2005 

EPA had posted approximately 500 funding opportunities and 80 application 

packages on Grants.gov. EPA has received 320 electronic applications from the 

grants community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– EPA is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Northrop Grumman, 

one of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. EPA 

is beginning pilot implementations of these services in Q1 FY 2006 once financial 

interfaces with the E-Travel service are completed. By completing this migration, 

EPA can provide more efficient and effective travel management services. The 

benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government purchasing 

agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel policies and 

processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and 

audit capabilities. EPA employees also benefit through more efficient travel 

planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, EPA improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If EPA were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits EPA by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

EPA to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Central 

Data Exchange Node (CDX-Node) of the EPA=State Exchange Network (EN) 

and its Central Data Exchange Web Portal (CDX-Web) by the end of FY 2006. 

The E-Authentication Federation allows EPA to use identity credentials issued 

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and managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, 

thereby relieving EPA of much of the cost of providing its own identity 

management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits EPA by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. EPA’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, EPA will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, EPA will have the opportunity to 

play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. 

EPA’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows EPA to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits EPA by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, EPA’s costs to build 

and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, EPA 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. EPA has expressed an interest in 

becoming a customer of a Federal Grants Management Service Center. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– EPA benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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General Services Administration 

The General Services Administration (GSA) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 USA Services 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Federal Asset Sales 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 USA Services (Managing Partner GSA) 

– USA Services benefits a number of key areas with GSA, including: 

 Office of Citizen Services & Communications “National Contact Center” 

(NCC) – The initiative benefits citizens by providing a central reference to 

obtain Federal Government information from agencies in both English and 

Spanish via Internet, publications, telephone, and e-mail. This involves using 

FirstGov.gov, Espanol.gov, the NCC’s 1-800-FED-INFO and the national 

Publications Center at Pueblo, CO. The task order is spread over FY 2004 

through FY 2009 and includes a modification to assist with Hurricane Katrina 

contact center response.

 Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP) E-Authentication “Enterprise 

Operation Center” – Provides and manages multi-channel Customer Service 

Center to support the operation of the Enterprise Operations Center, the 

Agency Applications, the Credential Service Providers who are part of the EAuthentication Federation and the citizen user community. The initiative 

provides the American public with easily accessible, consistent, timely, and 

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professional responses to their inquiries via their preferred method of 

communication and reduces other agencies’ burden of handling misdirected 

inquiries. 

 Public e-mail inquiries for the GSA – The NCC currently provides e-mail 

inquiry response support to GSA. E-mail inquiries are directed to the NCC 

via an auto-forwarding webform established and maintained by GSA. The 

most popular inquiries relate to: companies who wish to do business with the 

Federal Government/get on GSA Schedule, Travel Management Policy, and 

getting a job with GSA. Volume is approximately 165 e-mails per month. No 

money was obligated for this work during FY 2005; while funds may be 

committed in FY 2006, they have not yet been. 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– GSA has been a key partner to Business Gateway. BG helps GSA achieve its 

goal of making government work better for citizens by improving the 

government’s face to businesses. For example, BG’s online Forms Catalog is 

instrumental in reducing burden and helping businesses find and submit forms. 

Also of particular note, BG’s Forms Catalog helps GSA coordinate and manage 

government forms internally across the government. The Catalog currently 

receives 47,250 unique visitors per month, contains information on 5,387 unique 

forms, and engages 52 agencies to actively populate the Catalog. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– GSA secures the buildings, products, services, technology, and other workplace 

essentials Federal agencies need. Thirteen thousand GSA associates support over 

one million Federal workers located in 8,000 government-owned and leased 

buildings in 2,000 US communities and overseas. Over the course of a typical 

year, GSA publishes on average 119 Federal regulatory actions and 148 notices. 

These rules and notices need to be clearly understood by all parties that are 

affected by them, including Federal workers and parties currently or those 

considering providing contracted services to the U.S. Government. Because the 

rules and notices affect U.S. interest across the globe, the single access point the 

Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) has is providing any interested 

party access to those announcements and their supporting materials at any time. 

In addition, personnel providing the highly specialized services Federal 

employees and their contracted counter parts provide to the U.S. Government can 

take advantage of the notification functionality FDMS has to simplify the process 

of being informed of the most current actions affecting them.

 Federal Asset Sales (Managing Partner GSA) 

– This initiative benefits GSA by providing additional exposure of GSA properties 

for sale. The consolidation of GSA properties for sale in one location enables 

citizens to locate the properties more readily. The single online marketplace will 

simplify advertising and marketing plans and allow Federal agencies such as GSA 

to focus on selling properties. The anticipated increase in the number of 

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prospective buyers viewing the properties is expected to result in increased 

competition. Research studies predict increased competition will have a positive 

impact on performance such as the reduction on sales cycle time and an increase 

in proceeds from sales. 

As the managing partner for FAS, GSA is able to develop stronger relationships 

with other Federal agencies involved in the disposal of government properties. 

By working with agencies and gaining an understanding of their best practices 

FAS will be able to improve procedures to make the disposal process more 

efficient across the Federal Government.

As part of FAS, additional value added services are being made available to all 

participating agencies. Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA’s) are being awarded 

to commercial vendors to provide ala carte realty services in support of the FAS 

initiative. These services will be available to agencies and range from due 

diligence reports to holding public auctions. Combining the best practices 

developed in the commercial industry with government requirements and 

processes will improve the efficiency and results of property disposals. 

 Real Property Activities – The Public Building Service (PBS) will be able to 

leverage expertise in asset disposal and management process used by other 

Federal agencies. For example, PBS would be able to leverage the experts 

from HUD for government-owned residential real estate. The Value Added 

Services provided by commercial vendors will enable agencies to contract out 

basic disposal activities and focus more attention on government inherent 

responsibilities. 

 Supply and Technology Activities – The Federal Acquisition Service will be 

able to leverage expertise in asset disposal and management process used by 

other Federal agencies. For example, Federal Acquisition Service would be 

able to leverage the experts from DoJ’s US Marshal Service for disposal of 

seized and forfeited automobiles. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– GSA is employing geospatial systems to carry out significant goals within the 

mission of the agency. The agency has been using their online Federal Real 

Property Profile – Internet Application (FRPP-IA) since 2002 to manage and 

track properties leased or owned by the Federal Government. 

GSA is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. GSA 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making GSA geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, GSA 

helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository 

of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

GSA is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from GSA, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

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(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– GSA is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Carlson Wagonlit, one 

of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by Q3 FY 2006. The first 

transactions through the E-Travel service are scheduled to take place in Q1 FY 

2006. By completing this migration, GSA can provide more efficient and 

effective travel management services. The benefits include cost savings 

associated with cross-government purchasing agreements and improved 

functionality through streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and 

privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. GSA 

employees also benefit through more efficient travel planning, authorization, and 

reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, GSA improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If GSA were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. GSA is the managing partner for IAE and the 

system steward for the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS), Federal Business 

Opportunities (FedBizOps), and the Federal Procurement Data System – Next 

Generation (FPDS-NG). These systems allow consolidated postings of Federal 

procurement opportunities and recordings of Federal procurement transactions. 

Through these common systems, GSA is better able to track and report on 

purchasing activities across Federal agencies and ensure conformance with the 

Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR). 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits GSA by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

GSA to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its eOffer 

application using commercial third-party credential providers from the financial 

services sector and the Department of Defense External Certificate Authorities 

(DOD ECA), and its Government-Initiated eModifications (eMods) application 

for all FSS schedules by the end of FY 2006. The E-Authentication Federation 

allows GSA and its bureaus to use identity credentials issued and managed by 

organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby relieving GSA 

of much of the cost of providing its own identity management solutions.

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Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The General Services Administration is one of 4 current Federal Financial 

Management Center of Excellences (COE). It services multiple small agencies as 

well as GSA. The initiative benefits GSA by enabling them to leverage their IT 

and financial processing expertise to provide FM hosting and support services to 

additional Federal agencies. As GSA’s customer base continues to grow, the 

agency can create economies of scale and use the growth to gain leverage with the 

financial management software vendor community 

The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the activities and 

decision making process for the initiative. GSA’s involvement this board affords 

them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their FM systems, voice 

their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer recommendations and 

influence decisions on how best to implement the common solution. In the short 

term, GSA will provide key input and recommendations for the migration 

process. In the long term, GSA will have the opportunity to play an active role in 

standardizing core FM business process and data elements. GSA’s involvement 

in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are addressed in the 

target FM LoB enterprise architecture that supporting the FM LoB common 

solution. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– GSA benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

NASA is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway provides a valuable channel for NASA to identify business 

with the interest and expertise to engage in technological development and 

partnerships. NASA provides a host of programs focused on small business from 

research contracts to Mentor/Protégé programs. BG provides a powerful outreach 

channel to match businesses with the various initiatives that are part of NASA’s 

outreach to the business community. BG provides plain-English compliance 

information to help businesses know what they need to do to comply with 

regulations across Federal agencies. In addition, the BG Forms Catalog contains 

links to 18 NASA forms/instructions. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– NASA exercises management over the nation’s space flight centers, research 

centers, and other installations that constitute NASA. In 2004, NASA had 111 

rulemaking actions. Through a single online website, the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) enables NASA to improve public access to its 

rulemaking materials, provides a central location for the public to find and 

comment on regulatory actions, and in addition, reduces data storage costs and 

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allows regulation writers an easy way to have cross-agency/cross-government 

collaboration on regulatory matters. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– NASA is a major Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. 

NASA enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings 

by making NASA geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, 

NASA helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large 

repository of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the 

GOS Portal. 

NASA is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from NASA, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests. 

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits NASA and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. As of September 2005 NASA had posted 

approximately 120 funding opportunities and nine application packages on 

Grants.gov. NASA has received four electronic applications from the grants 

community via Grants.gov. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– NASA is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to EDS, one of the 

three designated E-Travel service providers, by June 2006. By completing this 

migration, NASA can provide more efficient and effective travel management 

services. The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government 

purchasing agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel 

policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency 

oversight and audit capabilities. NASA employees also benefit through more 

efficient travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, NASA improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If NASA were not allowed to use the IAE systems, 

they would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and 

contract information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing 

officials would not have access to databases of important information from other 

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agencies on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based 

and labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits NASA by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

NASA to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its NASA 

Account Management System (NAMS) application to include a tie to all of its 

back-end applications that require authentication to NAMS by the end of FY 

2006. The E-Authentication Federation allows NASA to use identity credentials 

issued and managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, 

thereby relieving NASA of much of the cost of providing its own identity 

management solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits NASA by providing the reference tools and templates 

needed to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected 

center of excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern 

the activities and decision making process for the initiative. NASA’s involvement 

with this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting 

their FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively 

offer recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the 

common solution. In the short term, NASA will be provided key tools such as an 

RFP framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with 

their selected service providers. In the long term, NASA will have the 

opportunity to play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and 

data elements. NASA’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and 

requirements are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture 

supporting the FM LoB common solution. This work allows NASA to influence 

the future direction of financial management across the government from both an 

information technology and business process perspective. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– NASA benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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National Archives and Records Administration 

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is providing funding in FY 

2006 to the following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.Gov 

 E-Travel 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal provides NARA with ready access in order to identify a full array 

of available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to either 

maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The organization of 

the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables NARA to choose from 

and/or join compatible geospatial "communities of interest". In addition, the 

portal has an increasing availability of representative maps and spatial imagery. 

These resources provides the agency with an important context for how it can 

effectively utilize the data and resources accessible through the GOS Portal to 

enhance its own spatial readiness.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits NARA and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– NARA is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Northrop Grumman, 

one of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by December 2005. By 

completing this migration, NARA can provide more efficient and effective travel 

management services. The benefits include cost savings associated with crossgovernment purchasing agreements and improved functionality through 

streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and 

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enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. NARA employees also benefit 

through more efficient travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement 

processes. 

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National Science Foundation 

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– The Business Gateway Initiative helps NSF in its goals of promoting science, 

advancing the national health, and securing the national defense by helping small 

businesses partner with NSF. NSF has a program called “NSF SBIR/STTR” 

whose purpose is to increase “the incentive and opportunity for small firms to 

undertake cutting-edge, high risk, high quality scientific, engineering, or 

science/engineering education research that would have a high potential economic 

payoff if the research is successful” 

(http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13371). Additionally, the 

Business.gov website provides easy access to each of the 19 NSF 

forms/instructions relevant to businesses. The site also provides compliance 

assistance for companies seeking to meet all of the regulatory requirements of 

NSF and other Federal agencies. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– As described in its strategic plan, NSF’s mission includes support for all fields of 

fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. NSF's task of 

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identifying and funding work at the frontiers of science and engineering is not a 

‘top-down’ process. NSF operates from the “bottom up,” keeping close track of 

research around the US and the world, maintaining constant contact with the 

research community to identify ever-moving horizons of inquiry, monitoring 

which areas are most likely to result in spectacular progress and choosing the 

most promising people to conduct the research. The Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) provides the research community a web-based, central location 

to track proposed regulations by NSF and to provide comment when applicable.

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– NSF has had significant impact on the nation’s research in the area of GIS. It’s 

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) centers at the 

University of California- Santa Barbara, the State University of New York at 

Buffalo, and the University of Maine-Orono have developed and demonstrated 

powerful practical applications of geospatial data and technology. The NSF 

Geographic and Regional Science Program sponsors research on the geographic 

distributions and interactions of human, physical, and biotic systems on the 

Earth's surface utilizing GIS at the State, county and city level. These research 

programs benefit from GOS as a resource for locating data and other geospatial 

resources for use in their studies. 

NSF is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. NSF 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making NSF geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, NSF 

helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository 

of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

NSF is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from NSF, particularly during emergency response 

situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate (and 

focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits NSF and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. NSF has leveraged Grants.gov in the 

development of five agency specific forms and has used them 95 times; they use 

government-wide forms 55% of the time for their application packages. As of 

September 2005 NSF had posted approximately 500 funding opportunities and 20 

application packages on Grants.gov. NSF has received 10 electronic applications 

from the grants community via Grants.gov. 

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Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– NSF completed the migration of its travel services to EDS, one of the three 

designated E-Travel service providers, in April 2005. By completing this 

migration, NSF provides more efficient and effective travel management services. 

The benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government purchasing 

agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel policies and 

processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and 

audit capabilities. NSF employees also benefit through more efficient travel 

planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, NSF improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If NSF were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits NSF by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

NSF to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its FastLane 

application and credential service and its Education and Human Resources 

Internet Applications System (EHR) application by the end of FY 2006. The EAuthentication Federation allows NSF to use identity credentials issued and 

managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby 

relieving NSF of much of the cost of providing its own identity management 

solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits NSF by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. NSF’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues that have an 

impact on their FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and 

collaboratively offer recommendations and influence decisions on how best to 

implement the common solution. In the short term, NSF will be provided key 

tools such as an RFP framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency 

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agreements with their selected service providers. In the long term, NSF will have 

the opportunity to play an active role in standardizing core FM business process 

and data elements. NSF’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and 

requirements are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture 

supporting the FM LoB common solution. This work allows NSF to influence the 

future direction of financial management across the government from both an 

information technology and business process perspective. 

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits NSF by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, NSF’s costs to build 

and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, NSF 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. NSF is a candidate to become a 

Federal Grants Management Service Center. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– NSF benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission 

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– NRC is employing geospatial systems to carry out significant goals within the 

mission of the agency. The agency has developed a standard framework for 

communication between modeling systems, geographic information viewers, and 

geographic information storage and processing systems that adhere to existing and 

emerging GIS standards. This framework allows NRC staff modeling natural 

systems as part of environmental reviews to readily incorporate vital information 

from spatial input needed for site environmental models of varying complexity. 

NRC is a Federal producer/distributor and metadata contributor to GOS. NRC 

enables other Federal agencies to both avoid costs and realize cost savings by 

making NRC geospatial data available through the GOS Portal. In addition, NRC 

helps to enhance overall Federal Spatial Readiness by making its large repository 

of current and historical data discoverable and accessible through the GOS Portal. 

NRC is able to realize cost savings by not having to handle (i.e., process) 

individual requests for data in an ad-hoc fashion. The public frequently requests 

maps and other geospatial data from NRC, particularly during emergency 

response situations. The portal provides an integrated environment to coordinate 

(and focus) these requests, making the agency's response more efficient. It has the 

potential to reduce the cost of supporting such data requests.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– NRC is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Carlson Wagonlit, one 

of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. By 

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completing this migration, NRC can provide more efficient and effective travel 

management services. The benefits include cost savings associated with crossgovernment purchasing agreements and improved functionality through 

streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and privacy controls, and 

enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. NRC employees also benefit 

through more efficient travel planning, authorization, and reimbursement 

processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, NRC improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If NRC were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

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Office of Personnel Management 

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Enterprise Human Resources Integration 

 E-Payroll 

 E-Training 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– The Business Gateway Initiative benefits OPM by providing citizens with an 

additional access point to necessary forms and compliance tools. At this time 

Business.gov contains links to 72 OPM guidance documents/forms. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– OPM is tasked with building a high quality and diverse Federal workforce. OPM 

works to ensure Federal agencies adopt human resources management systems 

that improve their ability to build successful organizations and use effective 

merit-based human capital strategies to create a rewarding work environment that 

accomplishes this mission. Regulatory actions are a critical part of OPM’s work 

in meeting its mission. In 2004, OPM published 45 regulatory actions. With a 

single online website, the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) enables 

OPM to improve public access to rulemaking material, provides a central location 

for the federal workforce to find and comment on regulatory actions that affect 

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their lives, and in addition, reduces data storage costs to the Department and allow 

regulation writers an easy way to have cross-collaboration on regulatory matters. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal provides OPM with ready access in order to identify a full array 

of available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to either 

maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The organization of 

the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables OPM to choose from and/or 

join compatible geospatial "communities of interest". In addition, the portal has 

an increasing availability of representative maps and spatial imagery. These 

resources provide the agency with an important context for how it can effectively 

utilize the data and resources accessible through the GOS Portal to enhance its 

own spatial readiness.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 Enterprise Human Resources Integration (Managing Partner OPM) 

– OPM is providing services to include electronic personnel folders and workforce 

analysis tools available for OPM and all agencies adopting the EHRI tools. EHRI 

is able to provide substantial cost savings to these agencies through discounted 

purchasing power as reflected through its BPA pricing. By acquiring services 

through the EHRI initiative and leveraging its buying power and best practices, 

bureaus and agencies are saving, on average, up to 60% on software licensing, up 

to 25% in backfile conversion of Official Personnel Folders (OPFs) by leveraging 

buying power and lessons learned, and saving an additional 10-20% on software 

development costs by utilizing a common system roadmap. Furthermore, EHRI 

has streamlined contract and program management services which results in 

additional cost savings for these services through a consolidated fee-for-service. 

Additionally agencies are saving money through re-engineered business processes 

based around electronic folders vs. paper-based folders. This reduces time 

agencies spend on copying, faxing, storing, scanning, retrieving, and mailing 

paper folders. As the Managing Partner of EHRI, OPM also benefits by reducing 

time and costs to retrieve personnel information across the Federal government 

and through the improved analytical capabilities provided by the EHRI data 

warehouse on personnel statistics across the Federal government. The EHRI 

initiative supports OPM’s overall mission of helping to build and maintain a high 

quality federal workforce through the deployment of tools and systems that better 

allow agencies to gather and assess personnel information. 

 E-Payroll (Managing Partner OPM) 

– As the managing partner of the E-Payroll initiative, OPM is leading the effort to 

standardize payroll services and processes across the Federal Government. One 

of the principal goals of OPM is to assist Federal agencies to adopt human 

resources management systems that improve their ability to build successful, high 

performance organizations. E-Payroll establishes payroll policies and procedures 

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that are uniform and easy to understand and administer, fostering the achievement 

of this goal. Additionally, OPM is a customer of the GSA for its own agency 

payroll processing services. By obtaining payroll processing services through one 

of the approved E-Payroll service providers, OPM does not need to spend funds to 

build and maintain separate payroll processing systems. Operating a separate 

system would be more expensive for OPM which would have to bear the costs of 

maintenance and future upgrades themselves rather than sharing these costs with 

other Federal agencies. 

 E-Training (Managing Partner OPM) 

– The initiative benefits OPM and OPM’s workforce by encouraging E-Training 

investments as part of a systematic and continuous development of Federal 

Government human capital, reducing redundancies in the development and 

purchase of E-Training content, achieving economies of scale through 

consolidated purchasing, offering easy, one-stop access to a robust, high quality 

E-Training environment, and leveraging components of existing E-Training 

systems. OPM additionally benefits because it operates the GoLearn training 

provider, one of the three approved E-Training service providers. OPM receives 

service fees from other agencies whose employees access training content through 

GoLearn. By participating in E-Training as the managing partner, OPM furthers 

its mission to assist agencies in improving their ability to build successful, high 

performance organizations. 

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– OPM is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Northrop Grumman, 

one of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. OPM 

is scheduled to start processing vouchers through Northrop Grumman in Q2 FY 

2006. By completing this migration, OPM can provide more efficient and 

effective travel management services. The benefits include cost savings 

associated with cross-government purchasing agreements and improved 

functionality through streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and 

privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. OPM 

employees also benefit through more efficient travel planning, authorization, and 

reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, OPM improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If OPM were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

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Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits OPM by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

OPM to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its e-Training 

Initiative’s Government-wide e-Learning Portal: GoLearn.gov, the Governmentwide EHRI Portal: ehr.OPM.Gov, and its Recruitment One-Stop Initiative’s 

government-wide portal: USAJOBS.gov application by the end of FY 2006. The 

E-Authentication Federation allows OPM to use identity credentials issued and 

managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby 

relieving OPM of much of the cost of providing its own identity management 

solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits OPM by providing the reference tools and templates 

needed to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected 

center of excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern 

the activities and decision making process for the initiative. OPM’s involvement 

with this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting 

their FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively 

offer recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the 

common solution. In the short term, OPM will be provided key tools such as an 

RFP framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with 

their selected service providers. In the long term, OPM will have the opportunity 

to play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data 

elements. OPM’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and 

requirements are addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture 

supporting FM LoB common solution. This work allows OPM to influence the 

future direction of financial management across the government from both an 

information technology and business process perspective. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

The HR LoB initiative identifies and promotes the use of best-in-class systems 

and processes for administering back-office personnel functions for the Federal 

workforce. As managing partner of this initiative, OPM supports its mission to 

help agencies to build and maintain a high quality and diverse Federal workforce. 

Agencies benefit through use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided 

by one of the approved service providers, without the costs of developing and 

maintaining their own HR systems. Employees benefit from improved HR 

services. 

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Small Business Administration 

The Small Business Administration (SBA) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– SBA’s mission – to “maintain and strengthen the nation's economy by aiding, 

counseling, assisting and protecting the interests of small businesses and by 

helping families and businesses recover from national disasters” – is inextricably 

tied to Business Gateway’s mission of providing the nation’s businesses with 

easier access to information and tools to reduce burden and help businesses 

comply with government regulations. 

A key rationale for building the Business Gateway (www.business.gov) is to 

fulfill the statutory mission of SBA to help small businesses succeed by creating a 

more approachable, responsive, and accessible government. SBA's goal, 

as managing partner of the initiative, is to use the Internet to improve both the 

service and the efficiency and effectiveness of business operations, and to 

transform government into an innovative, reliable, trustworthy and citizencentered partner. Effective and efficient government also helps to improve the 

competitive position of the United States and in turn contributes to the growth in 

the American economy and benefits all citizens. Not only does the Business 

Gateway offer equal opportunities for citizens to access more easily government 

information, but it provides a basis for a central resource to help businesses 

interact with the Federal government. 

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 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– With a single online website, the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) 

enables SBA to improve public access to all rulemaking material, provides a 

central location for the public to find and comment on regulatory actions that 

affect their lives, and, in addition, reduces data storage costs and allow regulation 

writers an easy way to have cross-agency/cross-government collaboration on 

regulatory matters. Currently, SBA’s regulatory repository is paper-based, with 

no central regulatory management system despite publishing almost 400 

regulatory actions in CY 2004. By establishing a portal where businesses can 

access governmental regulatory information, FDMS better equips them to succeed 

and contribute to maintenance and strengthening of the nation’s economy. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal provides SBA with ready access in order to identify a full array 

of available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to either 

maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The organization of 

the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables SBA to choose from and/or 

join compatible geospatial "communities of interest". In addition, the portal has 

an increasing availability of representative maps and spatial imagery. These 

resources provide the agency with an important context for how it can effectively 

utilize the data and resources accessible through the GOS Portal to enhance its 

own spatial readiness.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits SBA and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. SBA derives its largest source of benefits 

from Grants.gov by not building and maintaining a system for collecting 

electronic grant applications. SBA uses government-wide forms 100% of the time 

for their application packages. As of September 2005 SBA had posted 32 funding 

opportunities and seven application packages on Grants.gov. SBA has received 

approximately 300 electronic applications from the grants community via 

Grants.gov. As a result of Grants.gov, SBA has a fully electronic process for 

Finding and Applying for a 100% of its grant programs. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– SBA is currently scheduled to migrate its travel services to Carlson Wagonlit, one 

of the three designated E-Travel service providers, by September 2006. SBA is 

evaluating the results of its pilot implementation. By completing this migration, 

SBA can provide more efficient and effective travel management services. The 

benefits include cost savings associated with cross-government purchasing 

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agreements and improved functionality through streamlined travel policies and 

processes, strict security and privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and 

audit capabilities. SBA employees also benefit through more efficient travel 

planning, authorization, and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, SBA improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If SBA were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. SBA currently hosts the Electronic Subcontracting 

Reporting System (ESRS) for the Federal Government as part of the IAE 

initiative. This system provides a single point of collection for subcontracting 

reporting data across the Federal Government and replaced separate systems 

maintained by individual agencies. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits SBA by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

SBA to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its General 

Login System (GLS) enterprise-wide system by the end of FY 2006. The EAuthentication Federation allows SBA to use identity credentials issued and 

managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby 

relieving SBA of much of the cost of providing its own identity management 

solutions.

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– SBA utilizes a private Financial Management Center of Excellences (COE) for is 

Financial Management System. The initiative benefits SBA by enabling them to 

leverage private industries IT expertise to provide FM system hosting. SBA also 

benefits from the private provider’s economies of scale. As the initiative 

develops, SBA will have the capability of moving more freely among the various 

COE’s to better gain economies and efficiencies from a more competitive market. 

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Smithsonian Institution 

The Smithsonian is providing funding in FY 2006 to the following E-Government 

Initiative: 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of this initiative are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal provides the Smithsonian with ready access in order to identify a 

full array of available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to 

either maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The 

organization of the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables the 

Smithsonian to choose from and/or join compatible geospatial “communities of 

interest”. In addition, the portal has an increasing availability of representative 

maps and spatial imagery. These resources provide the agency with an important 

context for how it can effectively utilize the data and resources accessible through 

the GOS Portal to enhance its own spatial readiness.

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Social Security Administration 

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiatives: 

 GovBenefits.gov 

 Business Gateway 

 E-Rulemaking 

 E-Vital 

 Geospatial One-Stop 

 Grants.gov 

 E-Travel 

 Integrated Acquisition Environment 

 E-Authentication 

 Financial Management Line of Business 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Citizen Portfolio

 GovBenefits.gov (Managing Partner DoL) - (the number of benefit programs the 

agency features on GovBenefits.gov is indicated in parenthesis)

– (11) – GovBenefits.gov helps promote awareness of SSA’s benefit programs to 

the public, assisting SSA in its strategic goals of delivering citizen-centric worldclass service and strengthening public understanding of social security programs. 

Benefits programs currently available include: Social Security Child’s Insurance 

Benefits, Social Security Parent’s Insurance Benefits, and Social Security 

Surviving Divorced Spouse Benefits. For the year ending August 2005 

GovBenefits.gov generated over 31,000 referrals to SSA program pages. 

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Government to Business Portfolio

 Business Gateway (Managing Partner SBA) 

– Business Gateway benefits SSA by reducing burden and providing businesses 

with easier, quicker access to SSA forms via its online Forms Catalog. BG 

currently houses 190+ SSA forms and related information in its online Forms 

Catalog, which helps facilitate the collection of data SSA requires to execute its 

mission of managing the Social Security system. 

 E-Rulemaking (Managing Partner EPA) 

– The E-Rulemaking Initiative benefits SSA with improved public access through a 

single web portal to all rulemaking material the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) provides. In addition, FDMS provides a central location for the 

public to find and comment on regulatory actions that affect their lives, while 

reducing administration data storage costs and allowing regulation writers an easy 

way to have cross-agency/cross-government collaboration on regulatory matters. 

Government to Government Portfolio

 E-Vital (Managing Partner SSA) 

– States’ implementation of EDR benefits SSA by providing quicker receipt of the 

fact of death with a verified social security number. This results in significant 

savings for SSA. Administrative savings are achieved through elimination of 

paper-based processes and automation of verification and matching processes. 

Program savings are achieved through elimination of benefits fraud and erroneous 

payments due to more timely termination of benefits. In addition, the initiative 

improves SSA’s service delivery to other Federal agencies by enabling quicker 

distribution of death information.

 Geospatial One-Stop (Managing Partner DoI) 

– The GOS Portal is providing SSA with ready access in order to identify a full 

array of available geospatial data. The agency saves the expense of having to 

either maintain or generate such data and information on its own. The 

organization of the data by theme/topics (i.e., data channels) enables the SSA to 

choose from and/or join compatible geospatial "communities of interest". In 

addition, the portal has an increasing availability of representative maps and 

spatial imagery. These resources provide the agency with an important context for 

how it can effectively utilize the data and resources accessible through the GOS 

Portal to enhance its own spatial readiness.

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits SSA and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

as well as through providing a single site for the grants community to apply for 

grants using common forms, processes and systems. SSA derives its largest 

source of benefits from Grants.gov through increased organizational efficiencies. 

SSA has leveraged Grants.gov in the development of two agency specific forms 

and has used them 23 times; they use government-wide forms 78% of the time for 

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their application packages. As of September 2005 SSA had posted ten funding 

opportunities and 12 application packages on Grants.gov. SSA has received 

approximately 430 electronic applications from the grants community via 

Grants.gov. As a result of Grants.gov, SSA has a fully electronic grant process 

for Finding and Applying for a 100% of its grant programs.

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness Portfolio

 E-Travel (Managing Partner GSA) 

– SSA plans to migrate its travel services to one of the three designated E-Travel 

service providers. By completing this migration, SSA can provide more efficient 

and effective travel management services. The benefits include cost savings 

associated with cross-government purchasing agreements and improved 

functionality through streamlined travel policies and processes, strict security and 

privacy controls, and enhanced agency oversight and audit capabilities. SSA 

employees will also benefit through more efficient travel planning, authorization, 

and reimbursement processes.

 Integrated Acquisition Environment (Managing Partner GSA) 

– Through adoption of the tools and services provided by IAE, SSA improves its 

ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and allows it to 

replace manual processes. If SSA were not allowed to use the IAE systems, they 

would need to build and maintain separate systems to record vendor and contract 

information, and to post procurement opportunities. Agency purchasing officials 

would not have access to databases of important information from other agencies 

on vendor performance and could not use systems to replace paper-based and 

labor-intensive work efforts. 

Cross-Cutting Portfolio

 E-Authentication (Managing Partner GSA) 

– The initiative benefits SSA by providing E-Authentication expertise, guidance, 

and documentation, including project planning and reporting templates, to enable 

SSA to achieve production implementation of E-Authentication for its Direct 

Deposit and Change of Address applications by the end of FY 2006. The EAuthentication Federation allows SSA to use identity credentials issued and 

managed by organizations within and outside the Federal Government, thereby 

relieving SSA of much of the cost of providing its own identity management 

solutions.

On October 16, 2005 the Social Security Administration launched an EAuthentication-enabled version of its online Direct Deposit service in partnership 

with Fidelity Investments. Fidelity customers who logged in at the company’s 

Web site were presented a link that would take them directly to SSA Web-site, 

where they could start or change direct deposit of their Social Security benefits – 

without having to re-authenticate. This marked the first instance of a citizen 

presenting a commercially-issued user ID and password to gain access to an 

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online government service, and it signified the birth of the E-Authentication 

Federation. 

Lines of Business

 Financial Management Line of Business (Managing Partners DoE and DoL) 

– The initiative benefits SSA by providing the reference tools and templates needed 

to assist them in planning and managing their migration to a selected center of 

excellence. The FM LoB has established an Advisory Board to govern the 

activities and decision making process for the initiative. SSA’s involvement with 

this board affords them the opportunity to review critical issues impacting their 

FM systems, voice their unique needs and concerns, and collaboratively offer 

recommendations and influence decisions on how best to implement the common 

solution. In the short term, SSA will be provided key tools such as an RFP 

framework and SLA guides to help them develop agency agreements with their 

selected service providers. In the long term, SSA will have the opportunity to 

play an active role in standardizing core FM business process and data elements. 

SSA’s involvement in this crucial task ensures their needs and requirements are 

addressed in the target FM LoB enterprise architecture supporting the FM LoB 

common solution. This work allows SSA to influence the future direction of 

financial management across the government from both an information 

technology and business process perspective. 

 Human Resources Management Line of Business (Managing Partner OPM) 

– SSA benefits through its use of best-in-class HR services and systems provided by 

one of the approved service providers. Through its adoption of an approved 

service provider, the agency can achieve the benefits of “best-in-class” HR 

solutions without the costs of developing and maintaining their own HR systems. 

Employees across the agency benefit from improved HR services. 

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Corporation for National and Community Service 

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is providing funding in 

FY 2006 to the following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Grants.gov 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits CNCS and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes, and systems. Also, by publishing its funding 

opportunities on Grants.gov, CNCS is reaching a larger, more diverse applicant 

pool. As of September 2005 CNCS had posted 31 funding opportunities on 

Grants.gov. 

Lines of Business

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits CNCS by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, CNCS’s costs to 

build and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, CNCS 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. CNCS is evaluating whether it 

intends to host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a customer of 

one.

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Institute of Museum and Library Services 

The Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) is providing funding in FY 2006 to 

the following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Grants.gov 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits IMLS and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes, and systems. Also, by publishing its funding 

opportunities on Grants.gov, IMLS is reaching a larger, more diverse applicant 

pool. As of September 2005 IMLS had posted 27 funding opportunities and one 

application package on Grants.gov. 

Lines of Business

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits IMLS by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, IMLS’s costs to 

build and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, IMLS 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

programmatic grants management functions. IMLS is evaluating whether it 

intends to host a Federal Grants Management Service Center or be a customer of 

one. 

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National Endowment for the Arts 

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is providing funding in FY 2006 to the 

following E-Government Initiative: 

 Grants.gov 

 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of this initiative are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov Initiative benefits NEA and its grant programs, including those 

from the National Council on the Arts, by providing a single location to publish 

grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, and by providing a single 

site for the grants community to apply for grants using common forms, processes 

and systems. Also, by publishing its funding opportunities on Grants.gov, NEA is 

reaching a larger, more diverse applicant pool. NEA has leveraged Grants.gov in 

the development of two agency specific forms; they use government-wide forms 

75% of the time for their application packages. As of September 2005 NEA had 

posted approximately 60 funding opportunities and 14 application packages on 

Grants.gov. NEA has received 392 electronic applications from the grants 

community via Grants.gov. 

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National Endowment for the Humanities 

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is providing funding in FY 2006 to 

the following E-Government Initiatives: 

 Grants.gov 

 Grants Management Line of Business 

As the President’s Management Agenda explained in 2001, the E-Government initiatives 

serve citizens, businesses, and federal employees by delivering high quality services 

more efficiently at a lower price. Instead of expensive “stove-piped” operations, agencies 

work together to develop common solutions which achieve mission requirements at 

reduced cost, thereby making resources available for higher priority needs. Thus, there 

are no agency activities which will not be implemented or partially implemented as a 

result of the transfers or reimbursements to the E-Government initiatives. 

Benefits realized through the use of these initiatives are as follows: 

Government to Government Portfolio

 Grants.gov (Managing Partner HHS) 

– The Grants.gov initiative benefits NEH and its grant programs by providing a 

single location to publish grant (funding) opportunities and application packages, 

and by providing a single site for the grants community to apply for grants using 

common forms, processes and systems. Also, by publishing its funding 

opportunities on Grants.gov, NEH is reaching a larger, more diverse applicant 

pool. NEH has leveraged Grants.gov in the development of three agency specific 

forms and has used them 57 times; they use government-wide forms 57% of the 

time for their application packages. As of September 2005 NEH had posted 

approximately 100 funding opportunities and 40 application packages on 

Grants.gov. NEH has received approximately 140 electronic applications from 

the grants community via Grants.gov. 

Lines of Business

 Grants Management Line of Business (Managing Partners HHS and NSF) 

– This initiative benefits NEH by improving the delivery of services to grant 

recipients, improving decision-making, and decreasing costs associated with 

building and maintaining Grants Management IT systems. GM LoB identifies 

Federal Service Centers. These Service Centers work with customer agencies to 

define requirements, streamline processes, improve reporting, and host a grants 

management system. The grants management system can be used by multiple 

grant-making agencies to make awards. By sharing services, NEH’s costs to build 

and maintain grants management systems decrease. Under GM LoB, NEH 

continues to make award decisions and performs all administrative and 

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programmatic grants management functions. NEH is a candidate to become a 

Federal Grants Management Service Center. 

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Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

Corporation for National Community Service Grants.gov 

Grants Management LoB 

CNCS Total 

Department of Agriculture Recreation One-Stop 

GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

USDA Total $

Department of Commerce E-Rulemaking 

International Trade Process Streamlining Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

DoC Total $

Department of Defense E-Rulemaking $

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov Integrated Acquisition Environment $2
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB Federal Health Architecture LoB $

DoD Total $2

Department of Education GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

ED Total $

Department of Energy GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment $E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

DoE Total $

Department of Health and Human Services GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel $Integrated Acquisition Environment $E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB Federal Health Architecture LoB $

HHS Total $

Department of Homeland Security GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Disaster Management $1SAFECOM $2Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment $E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB 

DHS Total $3

Department of Housing and Urban Development GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

Financial Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

HUD Total $

Department of Justice E-Rulemaking 

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB Case Management LoB $

DoJ Total $

Department of Labor GovBenefits.gov $

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

DoL Total $

Department of State GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

State Total $

Department of the Interior Recreation One-Stop 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel $Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

DoI Total $

Department of the Treasury IRS Free File 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway $Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

Treasury Total $

Department of Transportation E-Rulemaking 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Payroll Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

DoT Total $

Department of Veterans Affairs GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment $E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB Federal Health Architecture LoB $

VA Total $

Environmental Protection Agency E-Rulemaking 

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

Grants Management LoB 

EPA Total $

General Services Administration USA Services $

E-Rulemaking Federal Asset Sales $Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop E-Travel $Integrated Acquisition Environment $E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB 

GSA Total $2

Institute of Museum and Library Services Grants.gov 

Grants Management LoB 

IMLS Total 

National Aeronautical and Space Administration E-Rulemaking 

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment $E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB 

NASA Total $

National Archives and Records Administration Geospatial One-Stop 

Grants.gov E-Travel 

NARA Total 

National Endowment for the Arts Grants.gov 

NEA Total 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

National Endowment for the Humanities Grants.gov 

Grants Management LoB 

NEH Total 

National Science Foundation E-Rulemaking 

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

NSF Total $

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Geospatial One-Stop 

E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment 

NRC Total 

Office of Personnel Management E-Rulemaking 

Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop E-Training EHRI $E-Payroll $E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB $

OPM Total $1

Small Business Administration E-Rulemaking 

Business Gateway 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB 

SBA Total $

Smithsonian Geospatial One-Stop 

Smith Total 

Social Security Administration GovBenefits.gov 

E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop E-Vital $2Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB 

SSA Total $2

U.S. Agency for International Development Geospatial One-Stop 

Grants.gov E-Travel Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

USAID Total $

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Recreation One-Stop 

Geospatial One-Stop 
Attachment A

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Agency

Agency Initiative 

FY06 

Contr

USACE Total 

Grand Total $19

Note: * - Agency contributions reflect commitments of funding and/or in-kind services provided by partner agencies to initiative managing partnin support of developing, implementing, and/or migrating to E-Gov common solutions. Contribution amounts are determined annually throcollaborative, inter-agency E-Gov initiative governance structures and subject to approval by OMB. “Fee-for-service” contributions represent transfers of funds by partner agencies to initiative service providers in exchange for services reninitiative service providers. The amounts are typically based on a transaction/usage-based fee structure (e.g., for payroll processing, payproviders base their service fees on the number of employees at a customer agency). Initiative service providers use fees collected from agencies to cover ongoing operational costs, perform routine maintenance, and support their customer base. Once an initiative has completed all implementation and migration activities, and initiative will no longer be funded through agency fundincontributions but rather will be exclusively funded through fee-for-service agreements. 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

Recreation One-Stop DoI 

USDA USACE 

Recreation One-Stop Total 

GovBenefits.gov DoE 

ED DoL $HHS HUD SSA State USDA VA DHS 

GovBenefits.gov Total $

USA Services GSA $

USA Services Total $

IRS Free File Treasury 

IRS Free File Total 

E-Rulemaking DoC 

DoD $DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA GSA HHS HUD NASA 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

NSF OPM SBA SSA State Treasury USDA VA DHS 

E-Rulemaking Total $1

Federal Asset Sales GSA $

Federal Asset Sales Total $

International Trade Process Streamlining DoC 

International Trade Process Streamlining Total 

Business Gateway DoC 

DoD DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA GSA HHS HUD NASA NSF OPM SBA SSA State 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

Treasury $USDA VA DHS 

Business Gateway Total $1

Geospatial One-Stop DoC 

DoD DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA GSA HHS HUD NARA NASA NRC NSF OPM SBA Smith SSA State Treasury USAID USDA VA DHS USACE 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

Geospatial One-Stop Total $

Disaster Management DHS $1

Disaster Management Total $1

SAFECOM DHS $2

SAFECOM Total $2

E-Vital SSA $2

E-Vital Total $2

Grants.gov DoC 

DoD DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA HHS HUD NARA NASA NSF SBA SSA State Treasury USAID USDA VA DHS NEA NEH CNCS 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

IMLS 

Grants.gov Total $1

E-Training OPM 

E-Training Total 

EHRI OPM $

EHRI Total $

E-Payroll DoT 

OPM $

E-Payroll Total $

E-Travel DoC 

DoE ED DoI $DoJ DoL EPA GSA $HHS $HUD NARA NASA NRC NSF OPM SBA SSA State Treasury USAID VA DHS 

E-Travel Total $1
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

Integrated Acquisition Environment DoC 

DoD $2DoE $ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA GSA $HHS $HUD NASA $NRC NSF OPM SBA SSA State Treasury USAID USDA VA $DHS $

Integrated Acquisition Environment Total $3

E-Authentication DoC 

DoD DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

DoT EPA GSA HHS HUD NASA NSF OPM SBA SSA State Treasury USAID USDA VA DHS 

E-Authentication Total $1

Financial Management LoB DoC 

DoD DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA GSA HHS HUD NASA NSF OPM 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

SBA SSA State Treasury USAID USDA VA DHS 

Financial Management LoB Total $

Human Resources Management LoB DoC 

DoD DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA GSA HHS NASA NSF OPM $SSA State Treasury USAID USDA VA DHS 

Human Resources Management LoB Total $

Grants Management LoB DoC 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

DoD DoE ED DoI DoJ DoL DoT EPA HHS HUD NSF State Treasury USAID USDA VA NEH CNCS IMLS 

Grants Management LoB Total 

Federal Health Architecture LoB DoD $

HHS $VA $

Federal Health Architecture LoB Total $

Case Management LoB DoJ $

Case Management LoB Total $

Grand Total $19

Note: 
Attachment B

FY06 Agency Funding for E-Gov and LoB Initiatives by Initiative

Initiative Agency 

FY06 

Contr

* - Agency contributions reflect commitments of funding and/or in-kind services provided by partner agencies to initiative managing partnsupport of developing, implementing, and/or migrating to E-Gov common solutions. Contribution amounts are determined annually througcollaborative, inter-agency E-Gov initiative governance structures and subject to approval by OMB. “Fee-for-service” contributions represent transfers of funds by partner agencies to initiative service providers in exchange for services reninitiative service providers. The amounts are typically based on a transaction/usage-based fee structure (e.g., for payroll processing, payproviders base their service fees on the number of employees at a customer agency). Initiative service providers use fees collected from agencies to cover ongoing operational costs, perform routine maintenance, and support their customer base. Once an initiative has completed all implementation and migration activities, and initiative will no longer be funded through agency fundincontributions but rather will be exclusively funded through fee-for-service agreements. 
ATTACHMENT C

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Recreation OneStop[2] GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking[3] Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 

Office of the Secretary Executive Operations (OCFO) $ 9,696 

Office of Civil Rights Departmental Administration[1] $ 1,928 $ 789 Office of Communications Office of the Inspector General Office of the General Counsel Economic Research Service $ 1,810 $ 4,396 National Agricultural Statistics Service $ 5,127 Agricultural Research Service $ 53,784 Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service $ 7,622 $ 3,562 $ 2,854 $ 7,080 Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $ 42,804 $ 82,229 $ 84,199 Food Safety and Inspection Service $ 38,785 $ 73,924 $ 30,492 Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration $ 4,009 $ 7,681 Agricultural Marketing Service $ 10,969 $ 20,810 $ 20,301 Risk Management Agency $ 5,471 $ 2,549 $ 2,011 Farm Service Agency $ 110,868 $ 51,822 $ 99,854 $ 41,581 Natural Resources Conservation Service $ 96,830 $ 45,097 $ 85,953 $ 35,453 $ 85,402 Rural Development Rural Housing Service $ 23,712 $ 11,056 $ 21,145 $ 8,748 $ 21,291 Rural Business—Cooperative Service $ 23,712 $ 11,056 $ 21,145 $ 8,748 $ 21,291 Rural Utilities Service $ 23,712 $ 11,056 $ 21,145 $ 8,748 $ 21,291 Foreign Agricultural Service $ 9,881 $ 19,060 $ 19,819 Food and Nutrition Service $ 30,655 $ 14,326 $ 28,525 Forest Service $ 50,000 $ 193,028 $ 370,342 $ 153,640 $ 377,394 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE $ 50,000 $ 322,582 $ 450,000 $ 825,216 $ 300,001 $ 754,469 TOTAL E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 50,000 $ 322,583 $ 825,000 $ 825,216 $ 300,000 $ 754,467 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial Management 

LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Grants Management 

LoB 

Office of the Secretary Executive Operations Office of Civil Rights Departmental Administration[1] $ 96,175 $ 94,934 $ 17,580 $ 38,357 $ 1,288

Office of Communications Office of the Inspector General Office of the General Counsel Economic Research Service $ 1,738 $ 1,715 $ 318 $ 693 $ 584National Agricultural Statistics Service $ 4,878 $ 4,815 $ 892 $ 1,945Agricultural Research Service $ 23,423 $ 23,121 $ 4,282 $ 9,342 $ 7,146Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service $ 2,472 $ 2,441 $ 452 $ 986 $ 941Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service $ 30,546 $ 30,151 $ 5,584 $ 12,182 $ 11,188Food Safety and Inspection Service $ 30,346 $ 29,954 $ 5,547 $ 12,103Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration $ 2,936 $ 2,918 $ 540 $ 1,179Agricultural Marketing Service $ 9,028 $ 8,912 $ 1,650 $ 3,601 $ 2,697Risk Management Agency $ 1,958 $ 1,933 $ 358 $ 781Farm Service Agency $ 35,600 $ 35,141 $ 6,508 $ 14,198Natural Resources Conservation Service $ 35,293 $ 34,838 $ 6,451 $ 14,076 $ 11,347Rural Development Rural Housing Service $ 8,320 $ 8,213 $ 1,521 $ 3,318 $ 2,829Rural Business—Cooperative Service $ 8,320 $ 8,213 $ 1,521 $ 3,318 $ 2,829Rural Utilities Service $ 8,320 $ 8,213 $ 1,521 $ 3,318 $ 2,829Foreign Agricultural Service $ 6,690 $ 6,604 $ 1,223 $ 2,668 $ 2,633Food and Nutrition Service $ 9,901 $ 9,773 $ 1,810 $ 3,949 $ 3,790Forest Service $ 139,919 $ 138,113 $ 25,576 $ 55,803 $ 50,144 FY 2006 Total 

$ 3,973,529$ 4,277,201

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE $ 455,863 $ 450,002 $ 83,334 $ 181,817 $ 100,245TOTAL E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 455,884 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 28,900

FY 2006 

Notes [1] - Includes DA, NAD, OBPA, OC, OCE, OCFO, OCIO, OCR, OGC, OIA, OSEC/6, SCMI [2] - $300,000 of funding request will be in-kind contribution; no transfer required [3] - USDA previously transferred $375,000 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau E-Rulemaking 

International Trade 

Process Streamlining Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grant

Departmental Management $ 18,392 $ 2,047 $ 

Inspector General Economic Development Administration $ 10,510 $ 8,187 $ Bureau of the Census $ 39,411 $ 188,293 $ 150,000 Economic and Statistical Analysis $ 13,137 $ 19,102International Trade Administration $ 18,392 $ 730,000 $ 26,607 $ Bureau of Industry and Security $ 107,723 $ 24,560 Minority Business Development Agency $ 21,019 $ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $ 499,204 $ 113,249 $ 150,000 $ Patent and Trademark Office $ 42,038 $ 124,164 Under Secretary / Office of Technology Policy $ 5,255 National Technical Information Service National Institute of Standards & Technology $ 34,156 $ 6,822 $ National Telecommunications & Information Admin. $ 15,764 $ 2,729 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE $ 825,000 $ 730,000 $ 515,760 $ 300,000 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 825,000 $ 730,000 $ 515,760 $ 300,000 $ 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial Management 

LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Grants Ma

Lo

Departmental Management $ 1,228 $ 3,510 $ 649 $ 2,138 $ 

Inspector General $ 431 $ 1,215 $ 225 $ 295Economic Development Administration $ 7,688 $ 21,690 $ 4,016 $ 561 $ Bureau of the Census $ 15,997 $ 45,135 $ 8,357 $ 21,619Economic and Statistical Analysis $ 1,675 $ 4,725 $ 874 $ 1,392International Trade Administration $ 7,273 $ 20,565 $ 3,799 $ 5,735 $ Bureau of Industry and Security $ 1,723 $ 4,860 $ 891 $ 928Minority Business Development Agency $ 447 $ 1,260 $ 233 $ 246 $ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration $ 78,581 $ 221,715 $ 41,067 $ 32,302 $ Patent and Trademark Office $ 29,218 $ 82,485 $ 15,275 $ 17,497Under Secretary / Office of Technology Policy $ 111 $ 270 $ 57 $ 72National Technical Information Service $ 48 $ 90 $ 17 $ 402National Institute of Standards & Technology $ 13,572 $ 38,250 $ 7,091 $ 7,058 $ National Telecommunications & Information Admin. $ 1,499 $ 4,230 $ 782 $ 664 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE $ 159,491 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 159,491 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Authentic

Navy, Marine Corps Army Air Force Defense-wide $ 1,150,000 $ 515,760 $ 200,000 $ 452,680 $ 45

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE $ 1,150,000 $ 515,760 $ 200,000 $ 452,680 $ 45E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 1,150,000 $ 515,760 $ 200,000 $ 452,680 $ 45

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated 

Acquisition 

Environment[1] 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Grants Management 

LoB 

Federal He

Architecture 

Navy, Marine Corps Army Air Force Defense-wide $ 18,684,625 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 28,900 $ 1,72

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE $ 18,684,625 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 28,900 $ 1,72E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 23,432,500 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 28,900 $ 1,72

Notes 

[1] $4,747,875 of funding request will be non-funding resources; no transfer required 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Office of Indian Education Office of Innovation and Improvement Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Office of English Language Acquisition Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Office of Vocational and Adult Education Office of Postsecondary Education Federal Student Aid Institute of Education Sciences Departmental Management $ 322,583 $ 175,000 $ 515,760 $ 100,000 $ 754,467 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $ 322,583 $ 175,000 $ 515,760 $ 100,000 $ 754,467 E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 322,583 $ 175,000 $ 515,760 $ 100,000 $ 754,467 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau E-Travel 

Integrated 

Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Gra

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Office of Indian Education Office of Innovation and Improvement Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Office of English Language Acquisition Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Office of Vocational and Adult Education Office of Postsecondary Education Federal Student Aid Institute of Education Sciences Departmental Management $ 534,976 $ 54,782 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION $ 534,976 $ 54,782 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 534,976 $ 54,782 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 

National Nuclear Security Administration $ 34,172 $ 36,426 $ 9,940 $ 

Environmental and Other Defense Activities $ 35,891 $ 38,258 $ 18,297 $ Energy Programs $ 41,166 $ 43,879 $ 415,998 $ Power Marketing Administration $ 23,684 $ 25,245 $ Departmental Administration $ 26,370 $ 825,000 $ 28,112 $ 100,000 $ 8,445 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY $ 161,283 $ 825,000 $ 171,920 $ 100,000 $ 452,680 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 161,282 $ 825,000 $ 171,920 $ 100,000 $ 452,680 $ 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated 

Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Grants Management 

LoB 

National Nuclear Security Administration $ 199,477 

Environmental and Other Defense Activities $ 209,507 Energy Programs $ 240,296 Power Marketing Administration $ 138,247 Departmental Administration $ 1,471,709 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 14,450 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY $ 2,259,236 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 14,450 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 2,259,236 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 14,450 $ 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 

Food and Drug Administration $ 66,497 $ 170,064 $ 170,108 $ 20,614 $ 155,524 $ 

Health Resources and Services Administration $ 12,132 $ 31,027 $ 31,035 $ 3,761 $ 28,374 $ Indian Health Services $ 13,458 $ 34,419 $ 34,428 $ 4,172 $ 31,476 $ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $ 43,867 $ 112,189 $ 112,219 $ 13,599 $ 102,598 $ National Institutes of Health $ 96,840 $ 247,667 $ 247,732 $ 30,020 $ 226,493 $ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration $ 3,185 $ 8,145 $ 8,147 $ 987 $ 7,449 $ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality $ 5,202 $ 13,304 $ 13,308 $ 1,613 $ 12,167 $ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services $ 66,030 $ 168,869 $ 168,914 $ 20,469 $ 154,432 $ Administration for Children and Families $ 6,080 $ 15,549 $ 15,553 $ 1,885 $ 14,220 $ Administration on Aging $ 841 $ 2,150 $ 2,150 $ 261 $ 1,966 $ Departmental Management $ 4,632 $ 11,847 $ 11,850 $ 1,436 $ 10,834 $ Program Support Center Office of the Inspector General $ 3,820 $ 9,769 $ 9,772 $ 1,184 $ 8,934 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES $ 322,583 $ 825,000 $ 825,216 $ 100,000 $ 754,467 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 322,583 $ 825,000 $ 825,216 $ 100,000 $ 754,467 $ 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated 

Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB ants Management LoB 

A

Food and Drug Administration $ 223,332 $ 92,762 $ 17,178 $ 18,740 $ 17,872 $ Health Resources and Services Administration $ 40,746 $ 16,924 $ 3,134 $ 3,419 $ 3,261 $ Indian Health Services $ 45,200 $ 18,774 $ 3,477 $ 3,793 $ 3,617 $ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention $ 147,330 $ 61,194 $ 11,332 $ 12,362 $ 11,790 $ National Institutes of Health $ 325,243 $ 135,091 $ 25,017 $ 27,291 $ 26,028 $ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration $ 10,696 $ 4,443 $ 823 $ 898 $ 856 $ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality $ 17,471 $ 7,257 $ 1,344 $ 1,466 $ 1,398 $ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services $ 221,764 $ 92,111 $ 17,057 $ 18,608 $ 17,747 $ Administration for Children and Families $ 20,420 $ 8,481 $ 1,571 $ 1,713 $ 1,634 $ Administration on Aging $ 2,823 $ 1,173 $ 217 $ 237 $ 226 $ Departmental Management $ 15,558 $ 6,462 $ 1,197 $ 1,305 $ 1,245 $ Program Support Center Office of the Inspector General $ 12,829 $ 5,329 $ 987 $ 1,076 $ 1,027 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES $ 1,083,411 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 86,700 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 1,083,411 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 86,700 $ 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop 

Disaster Management 

S

Departmental Management $ 2,588 $ 445,338 $ 49,297 $ 150,000 $ 3,790,414Office of the Inspector General $ 667 $ 2,336 $ 2,336 Citizenship and Immigration Services $ 12,605 $ 52,159 $ 52,172 $ 507,994United States Secret Service $ 8,059 $ 33,866 $ 33,875 $ 273,535Border and Transportation Security $ 125,965 $ 44,024 $ 440,193 $ 3,087,038United States Coast Guard $ 7,870 $ 195,456 $ 195,507 $ 1,797,516Emergency Preparedness and Response $ 2,902 $ 12,619 $ 12,623 $ 2,618,121Science and Technology $ 478 $ 38,498 $ 38,509 $ 195,382 $ Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection $ 148 $ 704 $ 704 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $ 161,282 $ 825,000 $ 825,216 $ 150,000 $ 12,270,000 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 161,282 $ 825,000 $ 825,216 $ 150,000 $ 12,270,000 $ 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau Grants.gov E-Travel 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

ancial Management LoB Hum

Ma

Departmental Management $ 408,738 $ 3,913 $ 225,768 $ 7,221 $ 4,982 $ 

Office of the Inspector General $ 2,281 $ 3,328 $ 1,861 $ 236 $ Citizenship and Immigration Services $ 45,162 $ 62,898 $ 35,169 $ 5,269 $ United States Secret Service $ 319 $ 29,614 $ 40,215 $ 22,486 $ 3,421 $ Border and Transportation Security $ 16,592 $ 496,544 $ 628,568 $ 351,461 $ 44,447 $ United States Coast Guard $ 5,057 $ 210,616 $ 39,272 $ 21,959 $ 19,743 $ Emergency Preparedness and Response $ 20,313 $ 11,562 $ 14,481 $ 8,097 $ 1,275 $ Science and Technology $ 1,645 $ 1,454 $ 2,385 $ 1,333 $ 3,889 $ Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection $ 16 $ 3,649 $ 739 $ 413 $ 71 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY $ 452,680 $ 804,795 $ 1,017,654 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 452,680 $ 804,795 $ 1,017,654 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ Notes 

[1] Agency contributing additional funds (beyond requested amount) 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop 

Public and Indian Housing Programs Community Planning and Development Housing Programs Government National Mortgage Association Policy Development and Research Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Management and Administration $ 322,583 $ 825,000 $ 515,760 $ 100,000 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT $ 322,583 $ 825,000 $ 515,760 $ 100,000 E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 322,583 $ 825,000 $ 515,760 $ 100,000 

FY 2006 

Integrated 

Acquisition Financial G

Department / Bureau Grants.gov E-Travel Environment E-Authentication Management LoB 

Public and Indian Housing Programs Community Planning and Development Housing Programs Government National Mortgage Association Policy Development and Research Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes Management and Administration $ 754,467 $ 394,858 $ 54,429 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT $ 754,467 $ 394,858 $ 54,429 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 754,467 $ 394,858 $ 54,429 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ Notes 

All HUD funding comes from Department-wide account ("Working Capital Fund for Government Wide Activities") 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau or Account 

Recreation OneStop[1] E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Trave

Bureau of Land Management Minerals Management Service Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Bureau of Reclamation Central Utah Project United States Geological Survey $ 210,000

Bureau of Mines United States Fish and Wildlife Service National Park Service $ 50,000Bureau of Indian Affairs Departmental Management (Working Capital Fund 14X4523) $ 200,000 $ 825,000 $ 322,000 $ 300,000 $ 453,000 Insular Affairs Office of the Solicitor Office of Inspector General Natural Resources Damage Assessment and Restoration Office of Special Trustee for American Indians National Indian Gaming Commission 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR $ 250,000 $ 825,000 $ 322,000 $ 510,000 $ 453,000 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 200,000 $ 825,000 $ 322,350 $ 510,000 $ 452,680 $ 1,

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial Management 

LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Grants Management 

LoB 

Bureau of Land Management Minerals Management Service Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Bureau of Reclamation Central Utah Project United States Geological Survey Bureau of Mines United States Fish and Wildlife Service National Park Service Bureau of Indian Affairs Departmental Management (Working Capital Fund 14X4523) $ 396,566 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 14,450

Insular Affairs Office of the Solicitor Office of Inspector General Natural Resources Damage Assessment and Restoration Office of Special Trustee for American Indians National Indian Gaming Commission FY 2006 To

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR $ 396,566 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 14,450 $ 3,

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 396,566 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 14,450 $ 4,

Notes 

[1] Initiative reduced resource requirements - DoI is the managing partner [2] No transfer of funds required for E-Travel; agency to spend funds on migration activities 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov E-Travel[1] 

General Administration $ 6,659 $ 2,602 $ 807 $ 3,654 $ 8,180 

Executive Office of Immigration Review $ 9,323 $ 3,643 $ 1,130 $ 5,115 $ 11,451 

Antitrust Division $ 6,147 $ 2,402 $ 745 $ 3,373 $ 7,550 

Criminal Division $ 6,147 $ 2,402 $ 745 $ 3,373 $ 7,550 

Civil Division $ 8,401 $ 3,282 $ 1,018 $ 4,609 $ 10,319 

Civil Rights Division $ 5,122 $ 2,001 $ 621 $ 2,811 $ 6,292 

US Attorneys $ 72,634 $ 28,380 $ 8,804 $ 39,855 $ 89,220 

US Marshals $ 32,475 $ 12,689 $ 3,936 $ 17,819 $ 39,891 

US Trustees $ 8,298 $ 3,242 $ 1,006 $ 4,553 $ 10,193 

Federal Bureau of Investigation $ 218,723 $ 85,461 $ 26,512 $ 120,014 $ 268,667 

Drug Enforcement Administration $ 67,307 $ 26,299 $ 8,158 $ 36,932 $ 82,676 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives $ 37,188 $ 14,530 $ 4,508 $ 20,405 $ 45,680 

Federal Bureau of Prisions $ 246,998 $ 96,509 $ 29,941 $ 135,529 $ 303,399 

Office of Justice Programs $ 46,716 $ 18,253 $ 5,662 $ 25,633 $ 57,383 

Organized Crime Drug Enforcement TF $ 28,992 $ 11,328 $ 3,514 $ 15,908 $ 35,613 

Miscellaneous $ 23,870 $ 9,327 $ 2,893 $ 13,097 $ 29,320 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE $ 825,000 $ 322,350 $ 100,000 $ 452,680 $ 1,013,384 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 825,000 $ 322,350 $ 100,000 $ 452,680 $ 100,756 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB Grants Management LoB 

Case Manag

LoB 

General Administration $ 3,516 $ 3,632 $ 673 $ 1,468 $ 467 $ 1

Executive Office of Immigration Review $ 4,894 $ 5,085 $ 942 $ 2,055 $ 653 $ 1

Antitrust Division $ 3,227 $ 3,353 $ 621 $ 1,355 $ 431 $ 1

Criminal Division $ 3,227 $ 3,353 $ 621 $ 1,355 $ 431 $ 1

Civil Division $ 4,410 $ 4,582 $ 849 $ 1,851 $ 589 $ 1

Civil Rights Division $ 2,689 $ 2,794 $ 517 $ 1,129 $ 359 $ 

US Attorneys $ 38,131 $ 39,619 $ 7,337 $ 16,008 $ 5,089 $ 13

US Marshals $ 17,049 $ 17,714 $ 3,280 $ 7,157 $ 2,275 $ 5

US Trustees $ 4,356 $ 4,526 $ 838 $ 1,829 $ 580 $ 1

Federal Bureau of Investigation $ 114,823 $ 119,303 $ 22,093 $ 48,201 $ 15,324 $ 39

Drug Enforcement Administration $ 35,334 $ 36,713 $ 6,799 $ 14,834 $ 4,716 $ 12

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives $ 19,523 $ 20,284 $ 3,756 $ 8,196 $ 2,605 $ 6

Federal Bureau of Prisions $ 129,667 $ 134,726 $ 24,949 $ 54,435 $ 17,305 $ 44

Office of Justice Programs $ 24,524 $ 25,481 $ 4,719 $ 10,295 $ 3,273 $ 8

Organized Crime Drug Enforcement TF $ 15,200 $ 15,815 $ 2,928 $ 6,389 $ 2,031 $ 5

Miscellaneous $ 12,531 $ 13,020 $ 2,411 $ 5,261 $ 1,672 $ 4

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE $ 433,101 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 57,800 $ 1,50

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 433,101 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 57,800 $ 1,50

Notes 

[1] Agency contributing additional funds (beyond requested amount) 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov[1] 

Employment and Training Administration Employee Benefits Security Administration Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Employment Standards Administration Occupational Safety and Health Administration Mine Safety and Health Administration Bureau of Labor Statistics Departmental Management $ 2,000,000 $ 825,000 $ 825,000 $ 100,000 $ 559,000

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF LABOR $ 2,000,000 $ 825,000 $ 825,000 $ 100,000 $ 559,000

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 2,000,000 $ 825,000 $ 825,216 $ 100,000 $ 754,467

FY 2006 

Integrated 

Acquisition Financial Human Resources Grant

Department / Bureau E-Travel[2] Environment E-Authentication Management LoB Management LoB 

Employment and Training Administration Employee Benefits Security Administration Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Employment Standards Administration Occupational Safety and Health Administration Mine Safety and Health Administration Bureau of Labor Statistics Departmental Management $ - $ 166,000 $ 450,000 $ 83,000 $ 45,000 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF LABOR $ - $ 166,000 $ 450,000 $ 83,000 $ 45,000 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 167,252 $ 166,411 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 

Notes 

[1] DOL petitioning initiative Managing Partner (HHS) for reduced funding requirement [2] No transfer of funds required for E-Travel; agency to spend funds on migration activities 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 

Department of State, Capital Investment Fund Account (19X0120) $ 241,938 $ 365,000 $ 171,920 $ 30,000 $ 226,340 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF STATE $ 241,938 $ 365,000 $ 171,920 $ 30,000 $ 226,340 E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 241,938 $ 365,000 $ 171,920 $ 30,000 $ 226,340 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated 

Acquisition 

Environment 

E-Travel E-Authentication Financial Management LoB Human Resources Management LoB Gr

Department of State, Capital Investment Fund Account (19X0120) $ 342,634 $ 31,771 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF STATE $ 342,634 $ 31,771 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 342,634 $ 31,771 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 45,455 $ 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau E-Rulemaking[1] Business Gateway[1] 

Geospatial OneStop[2] Grants.gov E-Pay

Office of the Secretary $ 482,885 $ 263,978 $ 723 $ 

Federal Aviation Administration $ 443,900 $ 439,963 $ 52,155 $ Federal Highway Administration $ 16,905 $ 123,190 $ 660,432 $ Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration $ 39,445 $ 52,796 $ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration $ 123,190 $ 7,653 $ Federal Railroad Administration $ 19,550 $ 228,781 $ 482 $ Federal Transit Administration $ 2,185 $ 17,599 $ 29,195 $ Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration $ 54,050 $ 211,182 $ 3,773 $ Research and Innovative Technology Administration $ 70,394 $ Office of Inspector General $ Surface Transportation Board Maritime Administration $ 21,735 $ 228,781 $ 54 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $ 1,080,655 $ 1,759,854 $ 150,000 $ 754,467 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 825,000 $ 825,216 $ 150,000 $ 754,467 $ 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB Grants Manag

Office of the Secretary $ 15,307 $ 4,500 $ 2,392 $ 909 $ 

Federal Aviation Administration $ 6,560 $ 378,900 $ 50,375 $ 76,545 $ Federal Highway Administration $ 21,868 $ 22,500 $ 19,625 $ 4,545 $ Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration $ 1,531 $ 9,000 $ 3,417 $ 1,818 $ National Highway Traffic Safety Administration $ 6,560 $ 4,500 $ 833 $ 909 $ Federal Railroad Administration $ 2,187 $ 4,500 $ 1,183 $ 909 $ Federal Transit Administration $ 17,494 $ 4,500 $ 1,108 $ 909 $ Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation $ 1,350 $ 273 $ Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration $ 54,669 $ 9,000 $ 2,067 $ 1,818 $ Research and Innovative Technology Administration $ 656 $ 900 $ 292 $ 182 $ Office of Inspector General $ 4,500 $ 367 $ 909 $ Surface Transportation Board $ 21,868 $ 1,350 $ 192 $ 273 $ Maritime Administration $ 69,977 $ 4,500 $ 1,483 $ 909 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION $ 218,677 $ 450,000 $ 83,334 $ 90,908 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 255,065 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 90,909 $ 

Notes 

[1] Agency contributing additional funds (beyond requested amount) [2] Agency in process of determining allocations for Geospatial One-Stop 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau IRS Free File E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 

Departmental Offices $ 278,093 $ 1,547,280 $ 100,000 $ 226,340 Financial Crimes Enforcement Network $ 16,326 Interagency Law Enforcement Financial Management Service $ 5,442 Federal Financing Bank Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau $ 100,674 Bureau of Engraving and Printing United States Mint Bureau of the Public Debt $ 19,047 Internal Revenue Service $ 70,000 $ 340,116 Office of Housing Finance Oversight Comptroller of the Currency $ 29,930 Office of Thrift Supervision $ 35,372 Interest on the Public Dept Community Development Financial Insti. Funds DC Pensions Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture Office of Inspector General Treasury Franchise Fund Inspector General for Tax Administration 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY $ 70,000 $ 825,000 $ 1,547,280 $ 100,000 $ 226,340 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 70,000 $ 825,000 $ 1,547,280 $ 100,000 $ 226,340 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Travel[1] E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Grants Management 

LoB 

Departmental Offices $ 6,013 $ 61,447 $ 2,053 $ 14,450

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network $ 997 $ 1,145 $ 424Interagency Law Enforcement Financial Management Service $ 3,177 $ 7,420 $ 3,305Federal Financing Bank $ 44 $ 56Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau $ 1,142 $ 1,940 $ 830Bureau of Engraving and Printing $ 5,536 $ 8,329 $ 3,666United States Mint $ 5,815 $ 7,024 $ 3,291Bureau of the Public Debt $ 2,409 $ 4,532 $ 2,924Internal Revenue Service $ 141,936 $ 338,989 $ 158,057Office of Housing Finance Oversight Comptroller of the Currency $ 7,202 $ 9,759 $ 4,291Office of Thrift Supervision $ 2,605 $ 3,193 $ 1,462Interest on the Public Dept Community Development Financial Insti. Funds $ 166 $ 121DC Pensions $ 357 $ 69Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture $ 27 $ 59Office of Inspector General $ 227 $ 420 $ 164Treasury Franchise Fund $ 8,927 $ 2,474 $ 83,333Inspector General for Tax Administration $ 1,776 $ 3,023 $ 1,351 FY 2006 Total 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY $ 188,356 $ - $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 14,450 $ 3,686,577

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 188,357 $ 322,578 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 14,450 $ 4,009,156

FY 2006** 

Notes 

[1] No transfer of funds required for E-Travel; agency to spend funds on migration activities 

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ATTACHMENT C 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau GovBenefits.gov E-Rulemaking Business Gateway Geospatial One-Stop Grants.gov 

Medical Programs $ 109,000 $ 291,081 $ 150,968 

Benefits Programs $ 322,583 $ 256,000 $ 21,275 $ 75,372 Departmental Administration $ 9,994 $ 30,000 $ 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS $ 322,583 $ 365,000 $ 322,350 $ 30,000 $ 226,340 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 322,583 $ 365,000 $ 322,350 $ 30,000 $ 226,340 $ 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau 

Integrated 

Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human Resources 

Management LoB 

Grants Management 

LoB 

A

Medical Programs $ 1,207,755 $ 

Benefits Programs $ 88,079 $ 14,450Departmental Administration $ 72,921 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 

TOTAL DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS $ 1,368,755 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 14,450 $ 

E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 1,368,755 $ 450,000 $ 83,333 $ 181,818 $ 14,450 $ 

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ATTACHMENT C 

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau or Account USA Services [1] E-Rulemaking Federal Asset Sales Business Gateway Geospat

FCIC Appropriated - Fund 105 $ 7,564,000 

FCIC Reimbursable - Fund 105 $ 1,658,720 Operating Expense - Direct Fund 142 $ 1,532,000 General Supply Fund $ 1,800,000 Governmentwide Policy Fund $ 175,000 $ 64,470 $ Federal Buildings Fund $ 616,244 

TOTAL GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION $ 10,754,720 $ 175,000 $ 2,416,244 $ 64,470 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 9,229,254 $ 175,000 $ 2,416,244 $ 64,470 $ 

FY 2006 

Department / Bureau E-Travel 

Integrated Acquisition 

Environment E-Authentication 

Financial 

Management LoB 

Human 

Manag

Working Capital Fund $ 2,830,707 $ 631,149 $ 83,333 $ 

General Supply Fund - IFF Revenue $ 6,459,990 

TOTAL GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION $ 6,459,990 $ 2,830,707 $ 631,149 $ 83,333 $ E-GOV FUNDING REQUEST $ 6,459,990 $ 2,830,707 $ 631,149 $ 83,333 $ Notes 

[1] Agency contributing funds beyond the requested amount. 

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ATTACHMENT C 

OTHER AGENCIES

FY 2006 E-Government Distribution

Agencies without Bureau Breakouts 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Protection Agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration National Archives and Records Administration National Science Foundation Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Personnel Management Small Business Administration Smithsonian Institution Social Security Administration U.S. Agency for International Development 

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