Seeking Volunteers
Overview
Many federal agencies, science, research and education institutions, state and tribal communities have network connectivity requirements in regions where terrestrial based network services are not available, are available with very low capacity, or are offered with unacceptable deployment timelines. Additionally, these entities may have mobile operations or require rapid deployment of network communications that is not traditionally supported through terrestrial network services.
Post-Solicitation Best Practices
Overview
The ACT-IAC Acquisition COI project will explore the following:
Retirement and Replacement for Legacy Copper Networks
In Progress
Summary
The project entitled “Accelerating IT Modernization” will deliver a toolkit playbook and best practice report to support improving agility and reducing risk/ cost - with a focus on how to effectively accelerate the approach, processes, and people needed to drive an effective IT Modernization program
Summary:
The ACT-IAC Artificial Intelligence Working Group (AI-WG) seeks to enable government agencies with the ability to assess their organization to identify areas that would benefit from the introduction of artificial intelligence and share best practices to implement AI to drive mission and operational value.
OBJECTIVES:
In the context of the ET COI’s charter mission, the AI-WG seeks to:
Overview
The ACT-IAC Cybersecurity COI project is intended to help reduce the time and cost of assessment & authorization (A&A) activities through the use of Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL).
Project Information
OSCAL can help streamline the generation and maintenance of A&A artifacts through automation. Currently, these activities are time consuming and labor-intensive.
Summary:
The Blockchain Working Group's goal is to provide an authoritative resource for government agencies looking to understand and incorporate blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology functionality into their organization.
- Blockchain Sharktank
- Complete Blockchain Playbook with addition of Integration chapter
- Use of Blockchain in Federal Acquisitions
OBJECTIVES
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:
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.
Policy, Data, and Technical Questions About Using FHIR for Federal Health Research Studies
Summary
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
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
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
Summary:
The purpose of this project is to identify advanced talent acquisition (i.e., recruiting and hiring) practices being used within the Fortune 500, and develop a guidebook for Federal Agencies can implement some of them. This guidebook will include recommendations for modifying current business processes and changing legacy OMB, OPM and Departmental guidance.
Background:
Summary:
This project will research and develop recommendations for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on how to address some of their current data initiatives supporting 1) usage of synthetic data and/or 2) Authoritative Data Sources (ADS).
Completed
Summary:
The purpose of this project is to explore how 5G and its adjacent technologies impact work approaches, data exchange and intelligence as well as budget optimization for mission achievement of federal agencies. Complementary to the internal study is an external study of how 5G will impact the Federal Government’s ability to serve the needs of the citizens, other Government entities and industry in the future.
Summary
Many smaller Federal Government Agencies (outside the 24 CFO Act) face challenges to provide state-of-the-art IT services to support mission and business delivery for their organizations.
This project will Research and propose ways that small agencies can leverage management approaches and shared service models for IT infrastructure and standard applications, such as e-mail or financial management, rather than having to provide such services on their own.
Compiled and shared “Lessons Learned’ in cloud migration by Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Federal partners with a focus on-government use cases: collaboration, time keeping, email, and other key areas.
Summary:
The project goal is to improve understanding of the current federal cybersecurity requirements. Success factors include identification of industry and government resources to inform and improve contract awards and performance by improving baseline cybersecurity requirements and resiliency against modern cyber threats.
Objective
Assess the customer experience and customer service playbooks and create a government version that captures the state of customer experience and aligns with the Digital Services Playbook. It will address top plays needed to improve the experience the public has with government and give the incoming Administration a baseline by which to establish goals and specific targets. It will also establish a common vocabulary for the incoming appointees when they begin exploring CX.
Summary:
Create a semi-annual event to present the latest initiatives in CX across the government, examples of best practices from government and industry, and to highlight some of the recommendations that the Administration should consider.
When: Wednesday, April 5, 2017, 8:00 AM-Noon
Where: Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, located at 999 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Summary:
ACT/IAC Customer Experience Summit
May 2018
Title: "Driving Operational Efficiency through Better Citizen Experience"
Summary:
The number one goal of the Federal Government is to ensure the health, safety and security of our nation’s citizens. Governments need to connect with citizens on a personal level delivering experiences that engender trust, confidence and satisfaction as customers.
Summary:
A ½ day forum on key cybersecurity issues relevant to the cyber space and the needs of the government and private sector communities.
Forum, entitled "Prescription for Healthcare Cyber" was held on May 4, 2017.
Track and document the progress of the DATA Act from the pilot phase through implementation, providing useful information for industry and government managers to consider as they assess their readiness and develop their strategies to meet the new requirements.
Unique identification paper can be found at: https://www.actiac.org/act-iac-financial-management-information-sharing-and-shared-services-coi-migrating-new-unique-2
Summary
The Emerging Technology Accelerator provided a collaborative forum where business representatives, technologists, and researchers who work in public sector technology focused on emerging technologies which address the incorporation of equity across emerging technology design and development. The Accelerator initiatives included government-to-citizen (G2C), government to business (G2B), government to government (G2G), and government to employees (G2E) emerging technology products and services.
OBJECTIVES
Summary:
This project will research and propose methods to expand the ACT-IAC IT Management Maturity Model to support agencies in their FITARA implementation and IT governance
Provide an ongoing forum for capturing government and industry comments, feedback, and recommendations on relevant topics related to the FTI-2 program throughout its lifecycle.
The FAA obtains approximately 25,000 telecommunications services under the existing FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) contract that expires September 2017. The FAA, in collaboration with industry, is planning for the subsequent program, known as "FTI-2", to provide all telecommunication services nationwide.
Summary:
- Charter: Facilitate collaboration of Government, 3PAOs, and CSPs to provide feedback and input to FedRAMP on the new process
Anticipated Outcomes:
- Input and practical recommendations to further enhance FedRAMP
Additional Details:
Background
For nearly forty years, the Federal government has been exploring, evolving, and implementing shared services models. From Reinventing Government in the 1990s, to the Lines of Business initiatives and the Presidents Management Agenda in the mid-2000s, to efforts of the current administration to reorganize and consolidate agencies and agency functions, shared services models remain an important element in driving efficiency, cutting costs, and delivering services to the taxpayers.
Serve as a liaison between GSA, Government and Industry to drive collaborative conversations around NS2020 timelines, vehicle requirements and transition. The focus of projects/meetings will be on issues that are not procurement related.
The COI will create responses to GSA inquiries, develop and deliver white papers, support meetings and industry days.
Summary:
This project is an ACT-IAC Executive Committee Focus Area.
Create a plan to establish a Government Shared Service for expedited recruiting/hire/onboard/retain cycle of federal employees, within 45 days or less from recruitment to on-boarding. Document feasibility/best practices for concepts and ideas supporting; centralized hiring, the exchanging of staff between agencies, and between agencies and the private sector (rotations/blended workforce). Leverage the HR analytics work being done by the COI.
Summary:
ACT-IAC has undertaken a project with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence Partner Engagement Information Sharing Environment (ODNI PE-ISE) to support a common initiative on identity, credential and access management (ICAM). The purpose of this project is to advance the Information Sharing ICAM Initiative, which supports a variety of Federal, state and local efforts.
Summary:
The Intelligent Automation Project focuses on what agencies can start doing today as part of their AI journey.
Project goals include helping agencies to:
Learn – Educate federal agencies on intelligent automation
Assess – Help agencies assess problems that can be automated
Implement – Provide a blueprint for full lifecycle implementation
There are two separate and distinct Internets, the original one based on the Internet Protocol (IP) version 4, and an improved one based on IPv6. The IPv4 Internet and enterprise network evolution over the years, constrained by the original design and limits of address space, has lead to IPv4 Internet performance degradation and overly complex enterprise network configurations including multiple layers and lack of end to end visibility.
Summary:
The project is sponsored by David Chiles, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) United States Patent and Trademark Office, and will identify 2-4 government IT modernization use cases and then identify the best lessons learned that apply to those use cases.
Deliverable
The project team will prepare and publish “Best of Breed” from successful government IT Modernization case studies and best practices.
Summary:
Leaders in the government human capital community serve as panelists presenting their current work on topics selected by the Evolving the Workforce COI Government Advisors and EWF COI members. Panelists discuss the topics in conversational format as well as in questions and answers with the session attendees.
This project is an ACT-IAC Executive Committee Focus Area.
A series of events to identify myths pertaining to specific laws, regulations, court rulings or policies, and separate fact from fiction so participants will have informed, accurate conversations with their superiors, subordinates and stakeholders.
The series will prioritize agile principles and practices in requirements and contract execution, legal counsel, disruptive technology.
Summary:
The General Services Administration (GSA) EIS Program is a 15 year, $50B, multiple award contract providing telecommunications and elated services to every agency in the Federal government. More than 180 agencies currently use GSA telecommunications contracts for more than 7 million telecommunications service instances; all services must be transitioned from these contracts to EIS by the end of May 2020.
Network Modernization Forum
June 19, 2018
Pre-Solicitation and Solicitation Best Practices
Overview
The ACT-IAC Acquisition COI project will explore the following:
Summary:
The purpose of the Securing the Supply Chain project is to identify and provide opportunities to build awareness around the various supply chain challenges facing the acquisition community through collaboration with the Cyber COI. The project also aims to identify one or two specific challenges that we can target for specific projects or facilitate a forum event.
Background
There are a number of policy issues that are impacted by a shared service environment, they are listed below:
Summary:
Technology Business Management (TBM) is a value-management methodology to provide IT cost, consumption, and performance transparency. Initiated in private industry and adopted by Australia, OMB has included TBM into the F19 budget formulation process per recent A-11 and CPIC guidance, TBM has 4 taxonomy layers (Cost Pool/Sub-Pool, IT Tower & Sub-Tower, Applications & Services, Business Units) and will be implemented in a phased, multi-year fashion.
This project is an ACT-IAC Executive Committee Focus Area.
Determine the role of cyber insurance in Government operations including expansion of the DHS Cyber Incident Data and Analysis Working Group (CIDAWG) program, insurance’s role in infrastructure protection and resiliency, and other issues.
Assess the technical maturity, determine availability for procurement, and identify and address other important issues related to zero trust networking (ZTN) and software defined networking (SDN) for potential federal agency adoption.
Challenge: to prevent the exfiltration of sensitive data and to improve government’s ability to defend against constantly evolving cyberthreats.