Reimagine How We Align Federal Missions with What Matters Most
How might we break down silos between mission goals and mission support? How can we uncover duplicate efforts across agencies before wasting time and resources? How could we make it easier to track progress toward mandates like the Evidence Act, GPRA, and cross-agency priority goals?
The Integrated Value Network (IVN) offers a bold new approach. IVN is a requirements registry of Federal programs, regulations, goals, budgets, regulations and laws. It works like a neural network, so you can find requirements that support or duplicate each other. Without addressing these interdependencies, Federal agencies risk wasting billions of dollars annually on misaligned programs, inefficiencies, and unmet stakeholder needs. Proactively leveraging IVN allows organizations to improve outcomes, collaborate across silos, and align resources with strategic goals.
This project is a joint initiative between the Institute for Innovation and the Federal Innovation Council (FIC).
Project Objective and Mission:
The purpose of this project is to evaluate and demonstrate the Integrated Value Network (IVN) as a foundational requirements registry and analysis tool for Federal programs, regulations, goals, budgets, and laws. This project will demonstrate and provide guidance that agencies can adopt to use IVN to identify and analyze interdependencies among requirements—whether they support, duplicate, or conflict with one another. Within the scope of this project are:
- Identifying and registering existing Federal requirements across diverse sources
- Mapping value pathways between requirements across organizational and legal silos
- Piloting use of IVN with real-world agency documents to demonstrate impact
- Creating a scalable, evidence-based framework for requirements integration
- Supporting innovation through alignment of strategies, performance metrics, and regulatory goals
Outcomes:
The project team will develop a IVN Use Case Playbook documenting methods, outcomes, and value pathways. Other deliverables could include:
- A White Paper detailing the IVN framework and early findings from pilot use
- A Presentation or Workshop at an ACT-IAC event to brief government stakeholders
- A Living Registry prototype populated with agency-submitted requirements and interdependencies
- A Collaboration Model for cross-agency and public-private requirements alignment
Membership:
We are inviting ACT-IAC members from government and industry with experience in:
- Federal program management, budgeting, workforce planning, and program evaluation
- Strategic operations or planning, performance, and regulatory compliance
- Data science, systems thinking, and requirements engineering
- Human-centered design, government innovation, cross-agency collaboration, and data sharing
- Knowledge and information management, including library science, knowledge architecture, and internal customer relationship management
Reference
How Might We Improve Federal Program Management by Addressing the Gap between the Mission and Mission Support? Published by ATARC, October 2024.
Group Project Lead
| Basil White |
| Beth Martin |