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The Secretary of Labor makes final decisions about the Department's
policies and priorities. For Information Technology (IT), the Secretary has
established a Departmental decision-making process for formulating
recommendations regarding IT policy, capital investments, and information
resource management. The following are part of the DOL decision-making
structure:
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) has Department-wide information
resource management responsibilities as a primary duty and advises the
Secretary of Labor about IT policy, practices, and investments. The Office of
the CIO (OCIO) is responsible for ensuring that the Department implements all
Federal policies, procedures, and requirements for the management, acquisition,
security, and use of IT within the Department. The OCIO is also responsible for
implementing the Federal requirement to minimize the paperwork burden on the
public and performing information collections in a timely, cost-effective
manner. In addition, the OCIO champions crosscutting initiatives that address
the needs of multiple DOL agencies and/or the entire Department. These
value-added services implement Federal policies for improving the government's
return on IT investments.
An Investment Review Process addresses the Department's IT policies and
priorities through the framework of capital planning and budgeting. A diagram
of the decision-making process is available. Two panels carry out this process:
The Management Review Board (MRB) is the top-level panel of DOL
agency heads designated by the Secretary of Labor. The MRB has broad
responsibilities for addressing the Department's overall policy and management
issues. One area of responsibility is to ensure that IT investments result in
substantial benefit to the Department of Labor and/or the taxpayer.
The Technical Review Board (TRB) is the second-level panel of
agency administrative officers and information resource managers, who make
technical and investment recommendations to the CIO and the MRB. The Technical
Review Board has two standing subcommittees--one addressing IT Capital Planning
and the other dealing with Enterprise Architecture.
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