OPM Seal U.S. Office of Personnel Management

FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan


(Administrative Services - OCIO)

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OFFICE OF THE CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

The information technology (IT) program supports OPM’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) in providing OPM’s senior managers with IT advice and oversight in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act. The IT program provides a broad spectrum of technical consultation that supports OPM’s core programs in the prudent use of technology to enhance service delivery and simplify and improve business processes. Services include: coordinating agencywide IT policy, plans, and capital investments; promoting improvements in OPM work processes; and implementing a sound and integrated agencywide IT architecture and a performance-based IT management system. In addition, this office responds to agencywide information resources management requirements and reports imposed by law and central management agencies and provides agencywide policy, advice, and services on data communications, computer security, Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act, and reports, forms, and records management.

ANNUAL PERFORMANCE GOALS FOR FY 2000
BY STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL AND OBJECTIVE

IT will play a major role in OPM’s accomplishment of the strategic business goals described in OPM’s FY 1997-2002 Strategic Plan. The IT program helps OPM to achieve Strategic Plan Goals I, II, III, and IV, particularly where performance goals and strategies involve the application of technology, by ensuring that IT resources are used most effectively. In order to ensure that OPM’s IT processes and infrastructure are able to support the agency’s strategic plan, OPM’s CIO will take a number of actions to oversee OPM IT initiatives, to implement the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, and to address the Year 2000 and information security challenges.

FY 2000 PRIORITIES

The Office of the CIO’s top program priorities for FY 2000 are: to ensure that OPM’s IT systems are Year 2000 compliant (OCIO Goal 5); to facilitate the development of the Virtual Federal Human Resources Data Repository through the Human Resources Technology Council (OCIO Goal 2a); and to continue to meet the mandates of the Clinger-Cohen Act, in particular by maintaining a sound and
integrated IT architecture (OCIO Goal 4).

OPM STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL I:  Provide policy direction and leadership to recruit and retain the federal workforce required for the 21st century.

FY 2000 Resource Summary:

Obligations (000): $1,500

Full-Time Equivalents:3

[Includes $1,500 and 3 FTE for the delivery of the initial capabilities to implement the Governmentwide vision of a Virtual Federal Human Resources Data Repository (VHRDR).]

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