ACT-IAC Reports

The federal government has a unique role to play in creating a national strategy for identity management to facilitate commerce, enhance mobility and travel security, and to promote privacy and accuracy in information security. Potential benefits...

Executive Summary This paper was initially commissioned by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as result of its commitment to transform the agency into an organization that delivers exemplary service to veterans and their dependents and exudes an...

Data Quality, Letting Data Speak for Itself within the Enterprise Data Strategy Developed by the Collaboration and Transformation Shared Interest Group Date Released: September 2015 Data quality and information management across the enterprise is...

NS2020 A Perspective on Emerging Technologies Developed by the NS2020 Working Group, Networks and Telecommunications (N&T) Community of Interest Date Released: September 2015 The ACT- IAC Networks & Telecommunications (N&T) SIG NS2020 Working Group...

The ACT-IAC Alliant 2 Committee has developed a consensus view related to the number of awards GSA intends to make on the upcoming Alliant 2 Unrestricted procurement. It is our position that the current standard of 40 awards is insufficient to...

The DATA Act - IT Infrastructure Guidance Developed by the Collaboration and Transformation Shared Interest Group Date Released: August 2015 Planning and implementing the IT changes required to meet the requirements and objectives of the DATA Act ( P...

Improving the Veteran Experience through Strategic Resource Planning & Management Developed by the Financial Management Committee, Collaboration and Transformation Shared Interest Group Date Released: August 2015 This report presents findings and...

Management of Change (MoC) DATA Act Think Tank Executive Report Developed by the Financial Management Committee, Collaboration and Transformation Shared Interest Group Date Released: July 2015 2015 was the first year that think tanks were...

Unique Entity Identifiers and the Global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): A Potential Cornerstone for Transparency of Federal Spending Data and the DATA Act Developed by the Financial Management Committee, Collaboration and Transformation Shared...

Transparency Enabling Transformation: The Benefits to Agencies through Implementation of the DATA Act Developed by the Financial Management Committee, Collaboration and Transformation Shared Interest Group Date Released: June 2015 At first glance...

Now that Congress has set a new standard for federal spending data with the DATA Act, agencies should look upon the implementation process not as a compliance exercise, but as a unique opportunity to transform how they generate, analyze, report, and...

Practical Advice to Advance Cloud Adoption Developed by the Cloud Computing Working Group Date Released: May 15, 2015 The Cloud-First mandate was released February 2011 with great fanfare, while adoption has proceeded much slower than expected. The...