RE: OPM Data Breach - Whitehouse Petition - Help Wanted

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

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.