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GovDTF July Workshop

On July 14 & 15 in the Washington DC area the Government Domain Task Force (GovDTF) of the Object Management Group (OMG) is planning to host a two-day workshop with the following objectives:

Inform the government community of the activities of the OMG in the government sector.
Receive feedback to guide our activities and our roadmap of planned activities.

The Workshop will focus on the two areas of greatest activity, spending one day on each. This is an opportunity to learn about

Records Management Services - A standardization track led by the National Archives and Records Administration based on requirements authored by an 18 Agency Interagency Project Team.
OMB/OMG Collaboration Agenda - Following the successful standardization of the Federal Transition Framework, a multi-agency team is addressing a Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture. Learn about this work in progress.

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Upcoming Technical Committee Meeting
San José, Costa Rica – 22-26 June 2009
GovDTF Agenda

Agenda Highlights

Issuance of the Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture RFP - Includes presentation to the GovDTF, Review by the GovDTF and the Architecture Board and modification of the RFP as necessary. On successful recommendations to issue, it will be issued in the Domain Technology Committee Plenary on Friday, 26 June.
Skills Management RFP Presentations.
Roadmap Session: We are exploring activating an RFP work item on a standard for Records Management Services Test Suites.

GovDTF Meeting Results
Washington DC – 23-27 March 2009
Meeting Minutes

Records Management Services Specification Adopted – The Records Management Services Specification was approved by the Government Domain Task Force and the Architecture Board. The specification is currently under an electronic vote by the Domain Technology Committee (nominally a 10-week process). This vote is a formality which seldom fails. Congratulations to the Joint Records Management Services specification team (JRMS) for a job well done.
GovDTF Whitepaper Issued: "OMG Value Proposition for Government Agencies" – The GovDTF issued a whitepaper, "OMG Value Proposition for Government Agencies" in a teleconference on 20-March-2009. The whitepaper can be found at: http://doc.omg.org/gov/2009-03-16
Joint Meeting on Case File Management: GovDTF & BMIDTF – The Business Modeling and Integration DTF is preparing to issue an RFP on "Case File Management" in collaboration with the GovDTF. The BMIDTF RFP builds on the recently adopted GovDTF Records Management Services specification. All are encouraged to review the RFP which can be found at: http://doc.omg.org/bmi/2009-03-03. Send comments to gov@omg.org and bmi@omg.org.
Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture (MFSA) RFC Open Submitters' Meeting Hosted by GovDTF – GovDTF's newest work item, the Model for Federal Segment Architecture (MFSA) is proceeding well. This work is being done in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget, and numerous US Agencies. There is a possibility that we will be able to issue the specification as an RFC as early as the June meeting in San José, Costa Rica. [Note this effort has since been switched over to the RFP process]

Government Domain
Task Force

Co-Chairs:

John C. Butler
Everware, Inc.

Larry Johnson
TethersEnd Consulting

US Government Working Group
Steering Committee (click here)

If you are interested in becoming a member of any of these Steering Committee, contact its Chair, Government or military employees are preferred as members.

Chair:

Robert Spangler
National Archives and
Records Administration

Members:

Edwin McCeney
Department of the Interior

Daryll Prescott
TethersEnd Consulting

George Thomas
General Services
Administration

The USWG has chartered a special task group:
Federal Transition Framework Metamodel Working Group
to address the OMB's FTF Work Items

Japan Government Working Group Steering Committee (click here)

Chair:

Kenji Hirata
Toyo University

Members:

To be appointed.

Latin American Governments Working Group Steering Committee (click here)

Acting
Chair:

Roberto Sasso
ICE

Members:

To be appointed.

Other Government Working Groups?

GovDTF would be pleased to be a vehicle for producing specifications of interest to your international, regional or local government organization or consortium

eMail Lists

The OMG maintains a number of email lists for our groups. Click here to view the email list(s) which are pertinent to this group. Many lists are only open to members of the OMG.

If you have any questions about adopted specifications, please feel free to contact the tech-editor.

How to Get Involved

If you are interested in becoming involved with the GovDTF, want more information or would like to come as a guest to an upcoming meeting and obtain temporary access to the mailing list, please contact one of our Account Representatives or contact a GovDTF Chair.

Your Assistance is Requested!

After a meeting, when we get to the task of updating these pages, we apply edits as quickly as accuracy allows.

ummm... sometimes faster than that.

Browse the pages if you have time. Please let the chairs know of any errors, inconsistencies, typos etc. that you come across... much appreciated.

– GovDTF Chairs –

Activated Work Items
The bulleted Link is the project page for each work item. Go there for further detail on each item.

RFP: MDA Models for Records Management Services RFP - Completed
A Revised Submission was received from the Joint Records Management Submission team (CA, CSC, Lockheed Martin, and Visumpoint) in time for the 4-week rule for consideration in the Washington DC meeting commencing 23-March-2009 The GovDTF and the Architecture Board approved the specification as noted in the Alpha Manifest, above. The submission began its DTC electronic vote. The RMS Finalization Task Force was chartered by the DTC.
RFP: Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture (MFSA)
This work item was activated from the roadmap in Orlando at the request of the US President's Office of Management and Budget. The OMG Governance process was recently changed back from the Request for Comment (RFC) to the Request for Proposal (RFP) process.

The RFP was posted 25-May-2009. The schedule is aggressive, targeting the San José, Costa Rica TC meeting for adoption in June 2009. See the project page for schedule.
RFC: Records Management Maturity Model
Work item on hold awaiting resources.

RFP: Skills Management
Work item on hold awaiting resources.

Whitepaper: OMG Value Proposition for Governmental Organizations - Completed
The GovDTF issued a whitepaper, "OMG Value Proposition for Government Agencies" in a teleconference on 20-March-2009. The whitepaper can be found at: http://doc.omg.org/gov/2009-03-16
RFI: Model Based Acquisition
Work item on hold awaiting resources.

Related Activities

RTF: Federal Transition Framework V1.1
This Revision Task Force was chartered to resolve issues raised against the V1.0 specification, producing V1.1. Go to this project page to register any issues concerning this specification.
FTF: Records Management Services
This Revision Task Force was chartered to create a Beta specification based on the Alpha specification and resolve issues raised against the Beta specification(s), producing a Formal Specification V1.0. Go to this project page to register any issues concerning this specification.