Project Background
Over the years, the Federal Government has investigated several strategies to standardize and streamline the collections of IT spend (execution) data, which could then lead to future automation. This project reviews/evaluates the work that has been done to date, and will prepare a business case/white paper that provides recommendations on the best path forward, given the cost, time, and political will needed to implement one strategy over another.

Project Objectives

Overview
The purpose of this project is to explore options for creating standard protocols for the protection, availability, and sharing of health research and care data identified by the NIH Researcher Auth Service (RAS) community.

Background

Overview
Over the past few years, there has been a major focus on the development of tools that can detect, sense, and capture data across the IT spectrum, from devices to networks to identities.  This has resulted in massive stores of data. This data, however, is not being leveraged in a manner that significantly changes the cyber landscape. Similarly, a core component to Zero Trust Architecture is the protection of data assets, which are growing at an incredible rate.

Summary:

This Working Group will provide an authoritative resource for government agencies looking to understand and incorporate IoT and Smart Technologies into their organization​. This Working Group will have two functions: to provide a venue where members can hear about the latest in IoT/Smart Tech and to develop resources for adoption and use of this technology in government.

Planned Deliverables

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The purpose of this working group is to increase understanding of DevOps across the federal through providing information and resources to enhance culture, automation, learning, measures, and information sharing. The DevSecOps Working Group is tasked to develop a playbook and white papers in order to better educate government OITs, Program Managers, and Acquisition professionals on principles of DevOps.

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Summary:

When evaluating and prioritizing legacy systems for replacement and investments funds, the total cost of ownership (TCO) is often under-estimated in business cases, skewing return on investment (ROI) calculations.

Capturing application, infrastructure & operating costs is difficult because of the volume, detail and complexity of budget and spending data

Risks (i.e. unsupported HW/SW, unmet cyber security measures), opportunity costs, and other intangibles need to be included in the ROI and business case

Summary:

Utilizing Distributed Ledger Technology foundationally and layering smart contracts, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, the federal government can truly modernize the acquisition process.  The technology can:

Acquisition Obstacles/Myth Busting:  Share best practices or lessons learned or make recommendations for changes around acquisition policies that impact sharing services and/or IT modernization procurements that inhibit agencies and industry from getting to the desired results.