Appendix E: IT INITIATIVES ALIGNED WITH IT STRATEGIC AND DEPARTMENTAL STRATEGIC GOALS
Federal-Level Initiatives
Presidential Priority Initiatives
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Initiative |
Key Performance
Indicators |
Timeline |
Alignment with IT Strategic
Goals |
Alignment with DOL Strategic
Goals |
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GovBenefits.gov GovBenefits is a partnership of many Federal Agencies with a shared vision to provide improved, personalized access to government assistance programs. This initiative was designed to improve citizen access to benefits through a one-stop web portal and provide a single entry point on the Internet that citizens can access to determine their eligibility for the universe of government benefits. |
Increase benefit programs
catalogued in site by 10% |
EOFY 2006 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Security |
A Prepared Workforce
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| Disabilityinfo.gov DisabilityInfo.gov is a partnership of many Federal Agencies, state and local governments, with a shared vision of streamlining access to information about employment, housing, transportation, income support, health care, technology and other programs relevant to the day-to-day lives of people with disabilities. |
Increase number of referrals to partner web sites by 5% Increase number of links to employers with model recruitment practices by 33% |
EOFY 2006 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Security |
A Prepared Workforce |
| New Core Financial Management System
(NCFMS) This initiative is a Department-wide project to enhance the operation of DOL's current core financial management system. The DOL New Core Financial Management System (NCFMS) will bring DOL's financial management system up to the high standards set by the Department's human resource and payroll COTS applications |
Expansion of COTS capabilities and interfaces with legacy applications implemented in Phase I | EOFY 2006 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Security |
A Secure Workforce |
| e-Travel Provide the U.S. Department of Labor with an eTravel solution that will integrate with the Federal e-Gov Presidential Priority Initiative of e-Travel. The Federal E-Travel initiative will create a common Internet web site for Federal travel services. This initiative will automate travel services across Federal Agencies and allow them to reduce processing time and costs for voucher claims. |
Eliminate 99% of the need for paper reports by 2005 - view all reports online and only print if necessary | EOFY 2005 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Management and Governance |
A Prepared Workforce |
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Human Resources Line of Business
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Initiative |
Key Performance
Indicators |
Timeline |
Alignment with IT Strategic
Goals |
Alignment with DOL Strategic
Goals |
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PeoplePower Department-wide integrated human resources, personnel, payroll, time and attendance system |
Prepare and generate CY05 W2s with zero avoidable errors 100% of DOL salaried employees are paid correctly and on time using NFC's automatic and manual systems Maintain a minimum availability 98% of workdays (not counting any disruptions) |
Q3/ FY 2006
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e-Government Enterprise Architecture |
Quality Workplaces |
| e-Recruit Improve the e-Recruit hiring process through the use of the DOL Online Opportunities Recruitment System (DOORS). |
Date FAX Imaging system implemented in DOORS | Q1/ FY 2006 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Human Capital |
A Prepared Workforce |
| HR Line of Business Migrate to a Shared Service Center for HR, benefits, payroll, and time and attendance processing. |
Complete transition to Shared Service Center | Q3/ FY 2008 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Human Capital |
A Prepared Workforce |
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Cross-Cutting Initiatives
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Initiative |
Key Performance
Indicators |
Timeline |
Alignment with IT Strategic
Goals |
Alignment with DOL Strategic
Goals |
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Safety and Health Information
System (SHIMS) This initiative is a web-based E-Filing System responsible for the collection, submission and tracking of CA1 (Notice of Traumatic Injury and Claim for Continuation of Pay/ Compensation) and CA2 (Notice of Occupational Disease and claim for Compensation) forms within the Department of Labor. |
Timeliness of filing and processing of workers compensation claims Decrease in lost production days Quantity of Federal Agencies utilizing the DOL
e-Filing service in FY 2005 |
Upgrade to new platform version 4.0 with enhanced features and host multiple Federal Agencies by FY 2006. Continuous thereafter. |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture |
A Prepared Workforce A Secure Workforce Quality Workplaces |
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Department-Level Initiatives Universal
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Initiative |
Key Performance
Indicators |
Timeline |
Alignment with IT Strategic
Goals |
Alignment with DOL Strategic
Goals |
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Enterprise Architecture The Department of Labor has invested significant time and resources to develop and use EA as part of its investment process. Current DOL-wide and component agency EAs contain useful and valuable EA information that provide the foundation for continued development, communication, and use of EA in the Department. The established EA Governance process utilizes the EA as the basis for decisions regarding the DOL investments and their implementation prioritization. |
100% of architecture layers, EA based investments and reference models aligned to FEAPMO and other applicable guidance 50% of DOL EA initiatives are implemented |
Ongoing |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Management and Governance Security Human Capital |
A Prepared Workforce A Secure Workforce A Competitive Workforce |
| Unified DOL Technology
Infrastructure (UDTI) The Unified Department of Labor (DOL) technology infrastructure is currently funded and run separately by DOL's Agencies in nine data centers. This is a multi-year program designed to dramatically improve the infrastructure through consolidation into a unified environment. |
Percent of customers rating services as good to excellent in annual customer satisfaction survey Number of security incidents |
Baseline established in FY 2006 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Management and Governance Security |
A Prepared Workforce A Secure Workforce |
| E-authentication Implement smart card pilot to establish an identification method that will credential users applying this technology for physical and logical security. |
Percentage of applicable systems enabled for interoperable e-authentication | 1 system by Q4/ FY 2005, 2 systems by Q4/ FY 2006, continuous thereafter |
Enterprise Architecture Security |
A Secure Workforce |
| Enterprise Communication Initiative
(ECI) The ECI is a centralization effort of five electronic communication channels throughout the Department: Internet, intranet, call centers, language translation and e-correspondence. This initiative centralizes Internet and intranet development, to address the current environment of Agencies supporting web services independently. |
Completion of Analysis phase | EOFY 2005 |
Enterprise Architecture Management and Governance |
A Prepared Workforce |
| e-Clearance Streamline the initiation of questionnaires for investigations processing and security clearances |
Date Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing System (e-QIP) implementation completed | Q2/ FY 2007 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Human Capital |
A Secure Workforce |
| EHRI - e-OPF Digitize the Official Personnel File. |
Complete e-OPF system implementation Complete paper file scanning into electronic
system |
Q4/ FY 2006
Q2/ FY 2007 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Human Capital |
A Prepared Workforce |
| E-Procurement Streamline procurement processes, reduce program office and administrative burden, ensure reliable and accurate procurement related financial information, lower purchasing costs, increase productivity, and improve customer service. |
Increase the number of eCommerce transactions/ catalog purchases by 10% | FY 2007 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture |
A Prepared Workforce |
| E-Property and Inventory
Initiative Promoting common administrative and management systems to ensure compliance with Federal guidelines. |
DOL Agencies record accountable personal property data in E-Property system | Q1/ FY 06 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture |
A Prepared Workforce |
| Enterprise Wide Directory Services
(EWDS) Develop DOL's Department Directory Service (DDS) by tying various systems together logically utilizing a metadirectory. |
All Agencies migrated to Exchange 2003 | EOCY 2005 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Management and Governance |
A Prepared Workforce |
| Departmental E-Budgeting System
(DEBS) A web-based budget formulation, publishing and reporting tool designed to improve operational efficiency and organizational performance by automating the current semi-manual budget formulation process. The predecessor to DEBS was known as EBS. This initiative will be categorized under the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business once it is approved and established at DOL. All future EA documentation will reflect this change. DEBS is currently in the Planning and Requirements
Definition Phase. |
To improve Internal Effectiveness and Efficiency (IEE) measures by at least 10-15% as defined in the President's Management Agenda under the Expanding Electronic Government. | FY 2006 - Pilot to 20% of
organization
FY 2007 - Enterprise Rollout to entire organization FY 2008 - Integration to internal and external system interfaces |
e-Government Management and Governance Human Capital |
A Prepared Workforce A Competitive Workforce |
| elaws (Employment Laws Assistance
for Workers and Small Businesses) Elaws is a cost-cutting, interactive, Web content service that enables the public-including workers and employers-to search for information pertaining to labor laws and regulations administered by DOL. |
elaws achieves 99% availability rate with an increased Advisor count | |||
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Investing in the IT Workforce
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Initiative |
Key Performance
Indicators |
Timeline |
Alignment with IT Strategic
Goals |
Alignment with DOL Strategic
Goals |
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IT Workforce Recruitment and
Retention Develop recruitment and retention strategies for IT workers. |
Competency Based Questions (CBQs) for Occupational Series 2210 completed for recruitment through DOORS | Q4/ FY 2005 | Human Capital | A Prepared Workforce |
| Project Management Competency
Development Program designed to assist IT Project Managers with obtaining the PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification. The program provides the IT Project Manager with the required PMP Prep Training and funds the PMP Certification Exam Fee. |
Our goal is to assist IT Project Managers obtain the PMP Certification. In FY 05 9 IT Project Managers obtained the PMP certification out of 64 participants. | The program is ongoing until DOL has satisfied the OMB requirement for qualified Project managers for all IT projects. A new class is formed every quarter consisting of 16 IT Project Managers. | Human Capital | A Competitive Workforce |
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Common
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Initiative |
Key Performance
Indicators |
Timeline |
Alignment with IT Strategic
Goals |
Alignment with DOL Strategic
Goals |
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e-Grants
An online grants management application designed to provide all grant making Agencies with a modern, web-based system that allows them to be more efficient and customer centric in pursuing their missions. |
20% reduction time in the number of days required to grant award in the Pre-Award and Award phases of the grants process. 20% reduction time to process a grant in the
Post-Award and Closeout phases of the grants process. |
Q3/ FY 2006 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture |
A Prepared Workforce A Competitive Workforce |
| e-Judication The e-Judication Initiative seeks to modernize current DOL legal and adjudicatory systems and business processes in order to integrate the existing processes into a fully electronic, citizen-centric, end-to-end procedure designed for the 21st Century. |
C2G & G2G - Citizen Web Site access to Research Tools - Phase I: Implement new Web Portal for e-Judication G2C & G2G Web Access to Case Status & Publishing of e-Judication documents - Phase II: Pilot COTS Tool Phase I & Pilot COTS Tool Phase II G2C & G2G e-Service to Citizens - Phase III: COTS Production Implementation G2C & G2G e-Filing and e-Status - Phase IV C2G & G2GInterface with scanners and DMS -
Phase V |
EOFY 2005
Pilot Phase I - Q1/ FY 2006 EOFY 2007
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e-Government |
A Prepared Workforce A Secure Workforce Quality Workplaces A Competitive Workforce |
| HSPD-12/FIPS-201
Implementation DOL Implementation of HSPD-12/FIPS-201, including issuance of PKI digital certificates |
Implementation Plan complete Personal Identity Verification process operational Begin issuing FIPS-201 compliant credentials |
Q3/ FY 2005
Q4/ FY 2005 Q4/ FY 2006 |
Enterprise Architecture Security |
A Secure Workforce |
| Mobile Workforce Automation This initiative provides the DOL workforce - inspectors, compliance assistance specialists, frequent travelers, episodic and long-term flexi-place, workers at home or other remote locations, with tools and a standardized mobile infrastructure. This initiative provides the capability for DOL staff to collect and distribute data and information, and perform staff and management responsibilities using portable devices and a standardized telecommunications infrastructure. |
Complete architecture development | FY 2008 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture |
A Prepared Workforce Quality Workplaces |
| Secretary's Information Management
System (SIMS) The Secretary's Information Management System (SIMS) is a Department-wide enterprise web-based system utilized for tracking correspondence and FOIA requests. SIMS is also used to help the agency respond to the public, congress and government in a timely fashion. |
Reduce days to respond to FOIA to \ under 20 to comply with mandate Reduce costs to process FOIA by 20% (from $15
Million) in 2007 |
EOFY 2006
EOFY 2007 |
Enterprise Architecture Management and Governance |
A Prepared Workforce |
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Agency-Level Initiatives
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Initiative |
Key Performance
Indicators |
Timeline |
Alignment with IT Strategic
Goals |
Alignment with DOL Strategic
Goals |
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Foreign Labor Certification
Systems Enable employers to apply for alien workers for hard-to-fill job openings after verifying that there are no qualified citizens. The program is operated in coordination with the Departments of State and Homeland Security. |
Application processing meets regulatory processing timeframes 99% of the time with no degradation of quality | FY 2005/ 2006 | e-Government | A Competitive Workforce |
| e-Learning Implement an e-Learning Management System (LMS) that provides a DOL-wide architecture for learning management and provides flexibility for course development. |
Complete e-LMS pilot Start phased implementation of e-LMS system |
Q2/ FY 2007
Q3/ FY 2007 |
e-Government Human Capital |
A Competitive Workforce |
| e-OIG Develop and expand the use of GOTS systems and applications designed to access, manage, and report from OIG information databases. |
Expand the e-OIG Information system to incorporate all remaining sub-systems and databases supporting other minor OIG functions | FY 2006-2008 | Management and Governance | A Prepared Workforce |
| e-Payment (MSHA) Enable electronic payment for the public for civil penalties assessed for violations of health and safety standards; training materials and courses; housing at the National Mine Health and Safety Academy; and the approval of certain equipment and materials for use in mining. Use Pay.gov, a portal and transaction engine created by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Management Service (FMS). |
Phase I of pay.gov commences Percentage of MSHA transactions using pay.gov |
EOFY 2007 | e-Government | Quality Workplaces |
| Executive Information/Corporate
Performance Management System EI/CPMS (MSHA) The Executive Information \ Corporate Performance Management System (EI/CPMS) will gather, analyze, and integrate internal and external data into dynamic profiles of mines and key indicators to support performance monitoring and executive reporting. |
Reduce average time to resolve customer/user reporting inquiries Reduce manual report development by users |
FY 2007-2009 | Management and Governance | Quality Workplaces |
| Web-based Miner Training/Distance
Learning To develop web-based training modules for delivery to miners and mine operators and also through the U.S. National Guard's Advanced Distributed Learning Network (ADLN). |
Reduced expense and difficulty of obtaining training from MSHA Reduced internal MSHA training costs |
Initiative start date FY 2005. One year to implement. | e-Government | Quality Workplaces |
| Flex Options for Women Sponsor additional demonstration project Virtual Conference Calls (VCC) that focus on audiences with specific real-life workplace flexibility issues. |
Increase in the number Internet hits to WB webpage Flex-Options for Women Increase in the number of Internet hits to the Flex-Options for Women section of our partnered website-Women Entrepreneurs, Inc. (www.we-inc.org) Expand the number of partnered websites and the overall number of WB partners Increase the number of demonstration project How
To guides placed on the WB website |
VCC scheduled July 2005
Q4/ FY 2005 |
e-Government | A Competitive Workforce |
| Occupational Safety and Health
Information System (OIS) The system will replace OSHA's current Integrated Management Information System (IMIS) and will add functionality for new regulatory and program areas which have been established since the original application was implemented. OIS provides OSHA with the tools to identify industries and workplaces with the most serious hazards, based upon superior analytical tools, and develop more effective methods to target worksites needing interventions. |
Better identify industry sectors experiencing high rates of injuries and specific trends in occupational injuries, illnesses, and fatalities Increase in the number of local and National emphasis programs that target those industries identified with high rates and new trends for inspections and other OSHA interventions Decrease injury and illness rates for these
industries measured over time |
FY 2005 -2012 |
e-Government Enterprise Architecture Management and Governance Security Human Capital |
Quality Workplaces |
