Department-wide Systems and Capital Investments Program

Program Summary by Budget Activity

Dollars in thousands

Appropriation FY 2011 FY 2012 FY 2013 FY 2012 TO FY 2013

 Enacted Enacted Request $ Change % Change

Department-wide Systems and Capital 

Investments Program $3,992 $0 $7,108 $7,108 NA

Subtotal, Department-wide Systems and 

Capital Investments Program $3,992 $0 $7,108 $7,108 NA

Offsetting Collections - Reimbursables $0 $0 $0 $0 NA

Total Program Operating Level $3,992 $0 $7,108 $7,108 NA

Direct FTE 0 0 0 0 NA

Reimbursable FTE 0 0 0 0 NA

Total FTE 0 0 0 0 NA

Summary

The Department-wide Systems and Capital 

Investments Program (DSCIP) is authorized to 

be used by or on behalf of the Treasury 

Department’s bureaus, at the Secretary’s 

discretion, to improve infrastructure, 

modernize business processes and increase 

efficiency through technology investments.

DSCIP FY 2013 Budget Highlights

Dollars in thousands

Department-wide Systems and 

Capital Investments Program

FTE Amount

FY 2012 Enacted - $0

Total FY 2013 Base - $0

Program Increases: - $7,108

Cyber Security - $2,000

Enterprise Content 

Management

- $883

Office of Financial Innovation 

and Transformation

- $3,000

Treasury Building - Repairs 

and Renovations

- $1,225

Total FY 2013 Request - $7,108

FY 2013 Budget Adjustments

FY 2012 Enacted

The FY 2012 enacted direct appropriation for 

DSCIP is $0.

Program Increases

Cyber Security +$2,000,000 / +0 FTE

$1,600,000 is requested to for specialized 

technical services to implement a Data 

Leakage Detection tool to protect sensitive 

Treasury data, especially Personally 

Identifiable Information (PII) and Controlled 

Unclassified Information (CUI), on the nonIRS perimeter of Treasury’s data network by 

leveraging an existing IRS-funded 

Department-wide product license. In addition, 

$400,000 is requested to enhance Treasury 

web site security to protect the public and 

Treasury business partners from being harmed 

from use of spoofed Treasury look-alike web 

sites. Both of these will help avoid very 

foreseeable security events that would result in 

loss of public trust in the Department and 

inappropriate disclosure of sensitive 

information.

Enterprise Content Management +$883,000 / 

+0 FTE

Funds are requested for development and 

deployment of application enhancements and 

development of enhancements and 

functionalities to existing applications; 

expansion of the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) database, build out of a robust Case 

Management system to leverage across all 

bureaus to include e-discovery functionality, 

and additional build-out of the Records 

Management component, which will assist in 

Treasury’s initiative to reduce paper-based 
processes and transactions. The ECM program 

makes it possible for Treasury to have a 

standardized approach to modernizing paperbased business processes.

Office of Financial Innovation and 

Transformation +$3,000,000 / +0 FTE

Funds are requested to support Treasury’s 

continued development and promotion, within 

the Office of Financial Innovation and 

Transformation (FIT), of the twelve high 

impact initiatives identified in the financial 

management strategy that collectively are 

anticipated to deliver $1-2 billion in annual 

savings upon full adoption by the Federal

government. The FY 2013 focus will be 

launching four initiatives that began 

development in FY 2011, including:

 Electronic invoicing – accelerate adoption 

of paperless invoice processing through 

promotion of Treasury’s Internet Payment 

Platform;

 Intra-governmental transaction 

clearinghouse – a central exchange for 

agencies to agree to trade terms and 

reconcile the accounts payable/accounts 

receivable accounting;

 Centralized Receivables Management - a 

shared service that manages billing and 

collection using an integrated platform;

 Streamline non-Treasury disbursing offices 

– eliminate redundant payment operations, 

centralize processing, and improve debt 

recovery.

Treasury Building - Repairs and Renovations 

+$1,225,000 / +0 FTE

Funding is requested to line the interior rain 

leaders of the Main Treasury Building to 

prevent water damage to other structural 

components. Rain leaders are vertical sections 

of cast iron pipe within the exterior walls of 

the Main Treasury Building designed to carry 

rain water off the roof and into storm drains. 

The rain leaders in Main Treasury are 

estimated to be 150 years old. Their cast iron 

composition over time has failed or rusted 

from the inside out. The deteriorated state of 

rain leaders permits water to penetrate the 

building shell and be absorbed by the plaster 

walls and the substrate below. The continued 

water intrusion results in routine and lengthy 

repair to the tenant spaces. Lining the rain 

leaders with a neoprene compound will 

minimize existing leaks and possibly abate 

them in their totality.

Explanation of Priority Programs

Department-wide Systems and Capital 

Investments Program ($7,108,000 from direct 

appropriations)

The purpose of DSCIP funds is to modernize 

business processes and increase efficiencies 

through capital investment. The following 

section describes what the Treasury 

Department expects to accomplish with the 

DSCIP funding.

Cyber Security. The Department-wide Cyber 

Security program is focused on improving the 

security of Treasury’s sensitive systems, 

services, and automated data. It also drives the 

Department to improve performance in 

meeting Government-wide security 

requirements and initiatives, addresses audit 

recommendations, and focuses upon and 

improves Department performance in meeting 

the requirements of the Federal Information 

Security Management Act (FISMA) and other 

government-wide security initiatives such as 

Trusted Internet Connections, Continuous 

Monitoring, and Domain Name System 

Security Extensions (DNSSEC). The 

Department’s cyber security program mitigates 

the risk of significant disruptions and delays in 

the Department’s business activities and 

protection of citizen and business information.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM). The 

Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Privacy, Transparency, and Records, in 

partnership with the Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, launched an Enterprise 
Content Management program which enhances 

collaboration, improves records management, 

accelerates responses to FOIA requests, and 

promotes paper reduction efforts.

Financial Innovation and Transformation 

(FIT). Treasury supports the Office of 

Financial Innovation and Transformation’s 

development of government-wide technology 

solutions, which share and expand common 

technologies and lower overall financial 

transaction processing costs, facilitate the 

resolution of audit issues, and increase 

transparency of financial information.

Through the FIT program, Treasury is working 

to promote financial innovation and 

transformation to resolve the disparate 

financial methods used by government 

agencies by developing a standard electronic 

invoicing platform and intra-governmental 

transaction processing. 

Main Treasury Building and Treasury 

Annex Repair and Renovation. 

The Main Treasury Building and the Treasury 

Annex are Departmental Offices’ non-IT 

capital investments. The Treasury Building is 

the oldest departmental building in 

Washington and the third oldest federally 

occupied building in Washington, preceded 

only by the Capitol and the White House. The 

Main Treasury Building covers five stories and 

a raised basement and sits on five acres of 

ground. The Treasury Building was dedicated 

as a National Historic Landmark on October 

18, 1972. The 90-year old Treasury Annex, 

owned by the Department, is part of the 

Lafayette Square National Register Historic 

District.

Legislative Proposals

DSCIP has no legislative proposals.

Description of Performance

Cyber Security. Cyber security provides for 

the protection of automated information, 

services and assets at the Department in 

support of its key role in providing requisite 

economic, financial and fiscal information and 

policy recommendations to the President. In 

FY 2011, Treasury tracked key security 

metrics, gathered relevant data from bureaus,

and produced weekly status reports on 

approximately 25 security metrics. While the 

Department has had significant successes in 

the cyber security realm, enormous challenges 

remain. For example, the Department must 

maintain and enhance its ability to identify and 

stop malicious code before it enters its

networks – defending against very wellresourced and technically advanced 

adversaries. Treasury also must develop realtime continuous monitoring of all 

Departmental information technology assets 

and ensure that all Bureaus are frequently 

conducting and analyzing inventory, 

vulnerability, and security configuration 

scanning. Migrating away from insecure reusable passwords to use of Personal Identity 

Verification credentials for logging onto 

systems is another key challenge. FY 2013 

performance outcomes include: Ability to 

measure the number of 

unauthorized/unintended unencrypted e-mails 

stopped from leaving the Department with 

sensitive information, including Personally 

Identifiable Information; and Compliance with 

Administration’s DNSSEC Policy.

Enterprise Content Management. ECM 

encourages critical information sharing in 

support of the counter-terrorism, law 

enforcement, financial stability, and regulatory 

responsibilities of the Treasury Department. 

ECM will support Treasury's technology goals 

by reducing the cost of infrastructure 

operations and increasing bureau productivity 

and collaboration. The enterprise-wide 

approach will provide the technological 
foundation and core capabilities to ensure all 

Treasury ECM efforts map to consistent 

standards, are aligned with related 

government-wide initiatives, and leverage 

tools, technologies, licenses, standards, 

processes, lessons learned, and commonalities 

in requirements among Departmental 

components, thereby achieving economies of 

scale and efficiencies in information sharing.

Looking towards FY 2013 and beyond, 

performance outcomes include: Faster 

production of documents/responses to FOIA 

requesters, Achieve “green” + operational 

efficiency goals through paperless 

environment, Increase information sharing, 

utilization, and transparency with outside 

partners, Enable electronic collaboration 

within Treasury 

Financial Innovation and Transformation 

(FIT) Program. The FIT program will be a 

catalyst in the transformation of Federal 

financial management by identifying, testing, 

and facilitating the development and 

deployment of innovative, common, and cost 

effective solutions that improve data quality 

and create efficiencies. The FIT office 

accomplished the following in FY 2011: FIT’s 

electronic invoicing initiative was 

implemented in a number of agencies. Three 

independent agencies and four large 

departments have started to implement the 

Internet Payment Platform (IPP), Treasury’s 

electronic invoicing and payment processing 

solution. Two large departments have 

mandated use of IPP and other Treasury 

bureaus are transitioning to IPP through the 

operational arm of Treasury’s Fiscal Service. 

Furthermore, IPP is implementing the 

electronic invoicing data standards that FIT 

developed and the Fiscal Service is working to 

develop the XML Schemas associated with the 

standards. Also in FY 2011, the Fiscal Service 

began to implement FIT’s high-level strategy 

for intra-governmental transactions. The 

Fiscal Service has developed a resolution team 

and is working on focusing audit attention on 

establishing authoritative sources for 

reconciling intra-governmental balances 

related to fiduciary transactions (beginning 

with the Department of Labor and then 

focusing on the Federal Financing Bank, and 

then the Office of Personnel Management). 

The Fiscal Service is using FIT’s 

recommendations to manage the technological 

updates to its systems to provide more controls 

and transparency around buy/sell and transfer 

activity. The FIT Office will measure 

performance in terms of two dimensions: 

Improved Data Quality & Transparency and 

Cost Savings. 

Main Treasury Building and Treasury 

Annex Repair and Renovation. Significant 

repair and renovation work was accomplished

in FY 2011. The building improvements 

yielded significant energy and water savings, 

improved life safety, and provided a more 

dependable infrastructure. The new fire alarm 

and mass notification system in the Annex 

Building will meet current life safety code 

requirements and be fully integrated with the 

system in the Main Treasury Building in order 

to permit coordinated response actions within 

both buildings. Sprinkler system upgrades in 

the Annex Building will address life safety 

code issues and will also be monitored by the 

new fire alarm system. The expected result of 

the FY 2013 rain leader repair is the 

elimination of water intrusion and plaster 

failure in the Main Treasury Building. 

Measures would include reduction of customer 

complaints and reduction in maintenance cost 

(for associated repairs).