E-Government Initiatives 

Introduction 

The primary purpose of the E-Government and Line of Business initiatives are to 

improve services to U.S. citizens and promote increases in the efficiency and 

effectiveness of government operations so that they provide savings to the taxpayer. The 

U.S. Department of the Treasury has made significant progress toward these goals by 

providing funding for 12 of the 25 E-Government initiatives and six of the nine EGovernment Lines of Business. By facilitating discussions between Departmental EGovernment representatives and the federal Managing Partners, the Department of the 

Treasury has improved the efficiency of many of its activities and has begun to identify 

and eliminate duplicative systems. For example, as managing partner of the Internal 

Revenue Service Free File program, the Department of the Treasury made it possible for 

3.97 million tax payers to file electronically in tax year 2005, producing a cost savings 

for the government of $9.9 million. The Treasury Department’s participation in the ETravel initiative allowed the Department to save $340,000 in travel management fees in 

FY 2006. In addition to these examples, the Treasury Department also saved $161,000 in 

FY 2005 by retiring an acquisition data system as result of its work with the Integrated 

Acquisition Environment effort. Further specifics on the benefits, level of funding, and 

source of funding for each of Department of the Treasury’s E-Government initiatives are 

laid out in this chapter. 

Program Summary by Funding Source 

Dollars in Thousands 

Funding Source FY 2007 FY 2008 $ Change % Change

FY 2007 FY 2007

To FY 2008 To FY 2008

Working Capital Fund (WCF) $19,446 $19,925 $480 2.47%

Department-wide Systems and Capital Investment Program (DSCIP) $2,366 $2,074 ($292) -12.33%

Bureau Specific Funding $5,623 $5,695 $72 1.28%

Grand Total Financial Plan Requirements $27,434 $27,695 $260 0.95%
Table of Contents

Section 1 – Program Benefits........................................................................................... 2 

1.1 – Description and Benefits of E-Government Initiatives.............................................. 2 

Government to Citizen.................................................................................................... 2 

IRS Free File ............................................................................................................... 2 

Gov Benefits.gov ........................................................................................................ 2 

Government to Business................................................................................................. 2 

Business Gateway ....................................................................................................... 2 

E-Rulemaking ............................................................................................................. 2 

Government to Government ........................................................................................... 2 

Grants.gov................................................................................................................... 2 

Recruitment One-Stop ................................................................................................ 3 

E-Payroll ..................................................................................................................... 3 

E-Travel ...................................................................................................................... 3 

Enterprise Human Recourses Integration ................................................................... 3 

E-Training................................................................................................................... 4 

Integrated Acquisition Environment........................................................................... 4 

Lines of Business............................................................................................................ 4 

Case Management....................................................................................................... 4 

Human Resources Management ................................................................................. 4 

Financial Management................................................................................................ 4 

Grants Management.................................................................................................... 4 

Budget Formulation and Execution ............................................................................ 5 

Geospatial ................................................................................................................... 5 

Information Technology Optimization Initiative........................................................ 5 

Cross-Cutting .................................................................................................................. 5 

E-Authentication......................................................................................................... 5 

Section 2 – Budget............................................................................................................. 7 

2.1 – Funding by Program .................................................................................................. 7 

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 Section 1 – Program Benefits

1.1 – Description and Benefits of E-Government Initiatives 

Government to Citizen.........................................................................................$383,799 

IRS Free File $70,000 The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Free File program allows 

eligible taxpayers to prepare and electronically file their tax returns over the Internet 

using commercial software for free. This free filing service is available at www.irs.gov 

and is made possible through a partnership between the government and the Free File 

Alliance, a coalition of tax preparation software manufacturers. For the 2005 tax year, 

the IRS reached out to 70 percent of the tax filing public and received 3.97 million e-filed 

tax returns through Free File services representing a cost-savings to the government of 

approximately $9.9 million. Since inception in 2003, IRS Free File has realized cost 

savings of $38 million.

Gov Benefits.gov $313,799 GovBenefits.gov supports the Department of the Treasury’s 

mission by increasing public awareness of valuable tax benefit programs that allow 

businesses and individuals to grow and prosper without being limited by unnecessary or 

obsolete rules and regulations. For the year ending September 2006, over 93,000 citizens 

viewed Treasury Department benefit program pages which generated over 9,800 referrals 

to Department of the Treasury program pages. 

Government to Business..................................................................$970,000 

Business Gateway $435,000 Business Gateway (BG) is a convenient portal for 

businesses to access a wide range of applicable forms online. BG reduces costs 

associated with forms printing, duplication, and distribution through the 

www.business.gov website and benefits the Department of the Treasury by supporting 

the Treasury Department’s desire to help businesses succeed. BG supports the Alcohol 

and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) by providing citizens greater access to 

compliance tools and documents including 59 links to guidance resources/forms. BG 

also benefits the IRS by providing links to 674 tax guidance resources/forms/tools and 

provides a centralized location for sharing changes in tax regulations or in the tax code 

and providing a forum to solicit feedback on such issues.

E-Rulemaking $535,000 The Department of the Treasury is scheduled to migrate all of 

its rulemaking processes to the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS), ERulemaking’s government-wide solution by the end of the second quarter of Fiscal Year 

(FY) 2007. The Treasury Department currently uses a manual process to publish 

approximately 200 proposed federal regulations on an annual basis. This initiative will 

enable the Treasury Department to streamline and automate the rulemaking process, 

improve citizen participation in the comment phases, and enhance information 

management processes within the Department of the Treasury. 

Government to Government...............................................................$77,250 

Grants.gov $77,250 Grants.gov benefits the Department of the Treasury by providing a 

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single location for citizens to find and apply for Treasury Department grant opportunities. 

The Department of the Treasury uses government-wide forms in 100 percent of its grant 

application packages. The Treasury Department has three grant-making programs: IRS 

Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, IRS Tax Counseling for the Elderly, and Community 

Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. The Department of the Treasury is 

meeting its targeted goals regarding posting of grant opportunities and applications on the 

Grants.gov portal. The Treasury Department has posted five funding opportunities and 

five application packages on Grants.gov. The Department of the Treasury received 293 

electronic applications and expects to report a total cost avoidance of $95,000 in FY 

2007. 

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness..............................................$25,573,473

Recruitment One-Stop $738,830 The USAJOBS.GOV web-portal allows the Treasury 

Department to announce position openings and attract qualified candidates from a larger 

and diversified pool. This expedites the Department of the Treasury’s ability to fill 

mission critical positions and reduce paper applications and processing time, thus 

improving access to top candidates and the efficiency of the hiring process. The Treasury 

Department also leverages the USAJOBS resume function by uploading into its 

automated system, CareerConnector. 

E-Payroll $18,014,954 As a participant in the E-Payroll initiative, the Department of the 

Treasury leverages economies of scale through the use of the National Finance Center 

(NFC). E-Payroll creates standardized services and provides full payroll services to the 

Treasury Department.

E-Travel $5,472,652 The Department of the Treasury is in the process of migrating all 

of its travel services to GovTrip, one of the designated E-Travel Service (ETS) providers. 

Eleven of 14 Treasury Department bureaus have fully deployed GovTrip and are 

realizing the following benefits. Through a combination of advantageous Travel 

Management Center (TMC) pricing and a substantially higher degree of On-Line 

Booking Engine (OBE) usage (80 percent), the Treasury Department saved over 

$340,000 in travel management service fees for reservations in FY 2006. By utilizing 

ETS, the Department of the Treasury reduced manual post travel audit by 30 percent. 

The Treasury Department continues to process vouchers through the ETS and processed 

over 4,000 in September 2006. The Department of the Treasury decommissioned costly 

stovepipe legacy systems further supporting the Presidential Management Agenda (PMA) 

goals and objectives.

Enterprise Human Recourses Integration $241,119 Enterprise Human Recourses 

Integration (EHRI) provides a standard Department-wide approach to gathering, 

maintaining, and analyzing personnel data across its 11 bureaus. Data warehouse and 

data-mining tools assist with forecast projections for strategic hiring, trend analysis, and 

succession planning. 

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E-Training $750,000 The Department of the Treasury currently has five separate 

Learning Management Systems (LMS) servicing over 110,000 employees and is 

consolidating these disparate LMSs to one system by the third quarter of Fiscal Year 

2007. This consolidation will eliminate redundant software and hardware, thereby 

decreasing maintenance costs. Additionally, the Treasury Department will leverage its 

buying power to lower the cost of future upgrades and enhancements. Upon completion, 

the Department of the Treasury will electronically collect, maintain, and report training 

information and monitor professional development Department-wide. 

Integrated Acquisition Environment $355,918 Through adoption of Integrated 

Acquisition Environment (IAE) tools and services, the Department of the Treasury is 

improving its ability to make informed and efficient purchasing decisions and automate 

manual processes. IAE will provide a common data warehouse to facilitate trend analysis 

and provide acquisition information across the Treasury Department. IAE has allowed 

the Department of the Treasury to automate manual and paper-based processes as well as 

retire legacy systems. For example, the Treasury Department retired an acquisition data 

system in FY 2005 for a savings of $161,000. 

Lines of Business........................................................................$624,780 

Case Management $0 The Case Management (CM) Line of Business (LoB) is defined 

as activities associated with the collection, qualification, analysis, and use of information 

for law enforcement purposes to prevent acts of terrorism or to defend the government 

(including its officers and agents) against legal challenges. CM LoB helped Treasury 

move their case management programs forward. The Treasury Department will use the 

Department of Justice’s business case to build the case for its own Enterprise Content 

Management (ECM) consolidation efforts. CM LoB shares best practices/lessons learned 

with the Department of the Treasury. The Department has no dedicated funding for this 

initiative in 2008.

Human Resources Management $260,870 The Department of the Treasury operates HR 

Connect, an approved HR LoB service provider. This initiative allows the Treasury 

Department to spread the cost of managing HR systems and processes across a larger 

customer base, reducing agency costs to operate these systems and processes. 

Financial Management $75,000 The Treasury Department’s Bureau of Public Debt is 

one of four Financial Management (FM) LoB shared service providers. The Department 

of the Treasury hosts financial systems and business operations for over 30 Government 

organizations, including most Treasury Department bureaus and 15 non-Treasury 

Department related organizations. The increased customer base reduces duplicative 

financial management systems within the Department of the Treasury and lowers overall 

operation and maintenance costs. The Treasury Department leverages its IT and financial 

processing expertise to realize cost savings and avoidance through the standardization of 

business processes and a common business language at the agency and bureau levels. 

Grants Management $28,460 By relying on shared service centers for the processing of 

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grants, the Department of the Treasury will benefit from improved delivery of services to 

grant recipients, improved decision-making and decreased costs associated with building 

and maintaining grants management IT systems. IRS, one of two grant making entities 

within the Treasury Department, will continue to rely on the Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) for grants processing. CDFI, the second grant making entity 

within the Treasury Department, has signed an Interagency Agreement (IAA) to migrate 

its grants processing functions to HHS and expects to report cost savings/avoidance as 

these functions migrate. 

Budget Formulation and Execution $85,000 The Budget Formulation and Execution 

(BFE) LoB is a cross-agency effort to find common solutions that produce efficiencies in 

budget formulation and execution activities across the federal government. In working 

toward this goal, the BFE LoB developed seven technology-based capabilities solutions. 

One of these solutions includes “Agency Budgeting Tools,” which is intended to make 

software applications already developed by some agencies available to the overall federal 

budget community. The Department of the Treasury volunteered to head this effort by 

working to make the Budget Formulation and Execution Manager (BFEM) available to 

any agency who wishes to use the tool. Using funds provided by the BFE LoB, the 

Treasury Department is standing up a BFEM service that other agencies may subscribe to 

and is also creating a compact disk and developing system administrator guides that will 

allow agencies to install the software on their own systems. Aside from benefiting the 

overall federal government by eliminating costs agencies must incur for independent 

development efforts, this effort has a direct benefit for the Treasury Department since it 

spreads the cost of future BFEM development work. By creating a pool of funds 

contributed to by a wide range of agencies, the Treasury Department no longer has to 

fund BFEM development itself and can share those costs with other agencies. 

Geospatial $15,450 The Department of the Treasury uses geospatial data to assist 

enforcement efforts and financial forecasting. The Geospatial LoB identifies 

opportunities for optimizing and consolidating federal geospatial-related investments to 

reduce the cost of government and improve services to citizens. The LoB also facilitates a 

more coordinated approach to producing, maintaining, and using geospatial data, and will 

ensure sustainable participation from federal partners to establish a collaborative model 

for geospatial-related activities and investments. 

Information Technology Infrastructure $160,000 The Information Technology 

Infrastructure LoB will complement and greatly advance the Treasury Department’s 

ongoing efforts to consolidate and optimize its IT infrastructure assets at the enterprise 

level. In FY 2007, the Department of the Treasury expects to make great strides in 

establishing solid baselines and targets with standard and defensible metrics, identifying 

optimization opportunities, and implementing plans. 

Cross-Cutting................................................................................$65,217 

E-Authentication $65,217 The E-Authentication initiative allows the Department of the 

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Treasury and its bureaus to use identity credentials issued and managed by organizations 

internal and external to the federal government, thereby relieving the Treasury 

Department of the cost of providing its own identity management solutions. 

Exhibit 300s for each of the E-Government initiatives can be found at 

http://www.treas.gov/exhibit300/ . 

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Section 2 – Budget

2.1 – Funding by Program 

Funding by Program Managing Agency Funding Source FY 2007 FY 2008

Government to Citizen

IRS Free File Department of the Treasury Bureau Specific Funding $70,000 $70,000

GovBenefits.gov Department of Labor WCF $315,000 $313,799

Government to Citizen (Total) $385,000 $383,799

Government to Business

Business Gateway Small Business Administration DSCIP $720,767 $435,000

E-Rulemaking Environmental Protection Agency DSCIP $615,000 $535,000

Government to Business (Total) $1,335,767 $970,000

Government to Government

Grants.gov Health and Human Services Bureau Specific Funding $75,000 $77,250

Government to Government (Total) $75,000 $77,250

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness

Recruitment One-Stop Office of Personnel Management WCF $717,311 $738,830

E-Payroll Office of Personnel Management WCF $17,490,247 $18,014,954

E-Travel General Services Administration Bureau Specific Funding $5,394,392 $5,472,652

EHRI Office of Personnel Management WCF $231,623 $241,119

E-Training Office of Personnel Management DSCIP $750,000 $750,000

Integrated Acquisition Environment General Services Administration WCF $430,840 $355,918

Internal Efficiency and Effectiveness (Total) $25,014,413 $25,573,473

Lines of Business

Case Management Department of Justice $0 $0

Human Resources Office of Personnel Management WCF $260,870 $260,870

Financial Management

 Department of Energy / Department

of Labor Bureau Specific Funding $83,333 $75,000

Grants Management

 National Science Foundation /

Department of Energy DSCIP $30,074 $28,460

Budget Formulation and Execution Department of Education DSCIP $75,000 $85,000

Geospatial Department of Interior DSCIP $15,000 $15,450

Information Technology Infrastructure Optimization Initiative General Services Administration DSCIP $160,000 $160,000

Lines of Business (Total) $624,277 $624,780

Cross-Cutting

E-Authentication General Services Administration DSCIP $0 $65,217

Cross Cutting (Total) $0 $65,217

Grand Total $27,434,457 $27,694,519

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