RE: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

["Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund () medline com>]

Here is another great document, their Strategic IT Plan 
http://www.opm.gov/about-us/budget-performance/strategic-plans/strategic-it-plan.pdf.  I especially like this excerpt 
from Page 9.

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Phase 3 – Assess (December 2014): We will baseline and begin routinely reporting against our performance outcomes:
• Compliance with laws, policies, and successful practices;
• User and stakeholder satisfaction with improved IT capabilities; and
• Cost per IT service or transaction.

No additional funding or manpower is required to implement these initiatives. Stronger IT leadership will result in 
cost avoidance and cost savings that will allow us to shift valuable, scarce resources to high priority programs.

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I guess money is not the problem according to this.  I guess their "Stronger IT Leadership" is not strong enough.

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL


-----Original Message-----
From: Naslund, Steve 
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 12:30 PM
To: Naslund, Steve; Jim Popovitch; nanog () nanog org
Subject: RE: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

Here is a great quote straight out of the OPM budget of 2013.
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Human Resources Line of Business (HR LOB) The Human Resources Line of Business (HR LOB) leads the government-wide 
transformation of HR Information Technology by focusing on modernization, integration, and performance assessment. The 
HR LOB is a model for its cross-agency collaboration which achieves HR service delivery improvements and cost savings 
results.

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I guess being the model for cross-agency collaboration means providing all of the employee data any Chinese agency 
wants :)  

Steven Naslund
Chicago IL


> > On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Naslund, Steve <SNaslund () medline com> wrote:
> > There is an O&M budget created for the day to day operation and maintenance of IT systems.  This is approved along 
> > with your department's budget annually.  If you classify updating equipment as an O&M function (which it routinely 
> > > > is) then you have no issues.  You purchase your equipment off pre-existing purchasing agreements in place with 
> > your agency or the GSA.  If your purchases exceeds certain threshold or the amount available under your O&M funding, 
> > > > then you need to go out and negotiate a project and contract it out.  Trust me I know how this works, I was also a 
> > contracting inspector for communications systems during my time with the US Air Force.
> >
> > I'm fairly certain that new IDS purchases, for an org as large as OPM, 
> > which would also include project-term Support contracts, isn't going 
> > to fit into any pre-approved O&M day to day budget... other than maybe 
> > an AF budget :-)

> > -Jim P.