Here is another great document, their Strategic IT Plan http://www.opm.gov/about-us/budget-performance/strategic-plans/strategic-it-plan.pdf. I especially like this excerpt from Page 9.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phase 3 – Assess (December 2014): We will baseline and begin routinely reporting against our performance outcomes: • Compliance with laws, policies, and successful practices; • User and stakeholder satisfaction with improved IT capabilities; and • Cost per IT service or transaction. No additional funding or manpower is required to implement these initiatives. Stronger IT leadership will result in cost avoidance and cost savings that will allow us to shift valuable, scarce resources to high priority programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I guess money is not the problem according to this. I guess their "Stronger IT Leadership" is not strong enough. Steven Naslund Chicago IL -----Original Message----- From: Naslund, Steve Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 12:30 PM To: Naslund, Steve; Jim Popovitch; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted Here is a great quote straight out of the OPM budget of 2013. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Human Resources Line of Business (HR LOB) The Human Resources Line of Business (HR LOB) leads the government-wide transformation of HR Information Technology by focusing on modernization, integration, and performance assessment. The HR LOB is a model for its cross-agency collaboration which achieves HR service delivery improvements and cost savings results. ----------------------------------------------------------------- I guess being the model for cross-agency collaboration means providing all of the employee data any Chinese agency wants :) Steven Naslund Chicago IL >>On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Naslund, Steve <snasl...@medline.com> wrote: >> There is an O&M budget created for the day to day operation and maintenance >> of IT systems. This is approved along with your department's budget >> annually. If you classify updating equipment as an O&M function (which it >> routinely >>is) then you have no issues. You purchase your equipment off >> pre-existing purchasing agreements in place with your agency or the GSA. If >> your purchases exceeds certain threshold or the amount available under your >> O&M funding, >>then you need to go out and negotiate a project and contract >> it out. Trust me I know how this works, I was also a contracting inspector >> for communications systems during my time with the US Air Force. >> >>I'm fairly certain that new IDS purchases, for an org as large as OPM, >>which would also include project-term Support contracts, isn't going >>to fit into any pre-approved O&M day to day budget... other than maybe >>an AF budget :-) >>-Jim P.
