GovDTF Meetings

A synopsis of meetings is provided together with links to meeting minutes and all presentations made at those meetings

• Established RMS Revised Submission Date for the Santa Clara Meeting: The GovDTF established a Revised Submission Date for the Records Management Services RFP as 10-November-2008, the 4wk Rule for the OMG Technical Committee meeting in Santa Clara CA. In Santa Clara, another submission date vote is planned for the OMG TC Meeting in Washington DC where the submission team plans to move for issuance.
• Work Item Reviews
• • Overview of Records Management Services Initial Submission
  • Draft Records Management Maturity Model RFC
  • Whitepaper: "OMG Value Proposition for Government"
  • Draft Skills Management RFP's
• Planning Discussion for GovDTF Workshop in Washington DC, July 2009: In lieu of an "Information Day" at the OMG TC Meeting in Washington DC in March 2009, the GovDTF is planning a workshop for Washington DC in July 2009. The task force made an initial "sketch" of the event.
• FEA Segment Architecture Reporting RFP: This work item has been activated from the Roadmap. Plans for moving forward with the work item were discussed.
• Federal Transition Framework News: The Federal Transition Framework specification began the adoption votes for promotion to a formal Version 1.0. The Finalization Task Force expired without issues. The Beta 1 specification will be adopted as the first formal version.

Ottawa, Canada Meeting Results
Minutes: gov/2008-06-01
23-27 June 2008

• New Revised Submission Date for Records Management Services RFP: Motion Passed: Establish a Revised Submission Date for the Electronic Records Management Services Specification for 25 August 2008, the 4-week rule for the Orlando 2008 OMG Technical Committee Meeting.

• Skills Management RFP Work Item Begun: The objective of the RFP is to enable interoperability among a diverse set of existing standards and tools. The co-authors are Kenji Hirata of Toyo University and Michael Brown of SkillsNet Inc.

• Records Management Maturity Model (RM3): The RM3 effort is re-establishing its momentum. We are targeting the presentation of a draft RFC for Orlando in September. Issuance is planned for the December meeting in Santa Clara.

• Review of Active Work Items

• Roadmap Discussion

Washington DC Meeting Results
Minutes: gov/2008-03-01
10-14 March 2008

• The OMG sponsored a two-day "Government Information Days," 10-11 March 2008. The sessions spanned the following topics in a government context.

  • Federal Transition Framework

  • Overview of the GovDTF Model Based Acquisition initiative.

  • Architecture Driven Modernization

  • Business Modeling

  • Enterprise Architecture

• The proceedings of the Government Information Days can be found at http://doc.omg.org/gov/2008-03-19. Within these proceedings individual URL's and summaries of the presentations and panels. A compendium of all presentations can be found at http://doc.omg.org/gov/2008-03-18.

• A  new Records Management Services revised submission date was established for 26 May 2008, the four-week rule for the Ottawa TC Meeting.
• The GovDTF began roadmap discussions based on the Skills Management RFI responses.

Burlingame, CA Meeting Results
Minutes: gov/2007-12-01
10-14 December 2007

Jacksonville, FL Meeting Results
Minutes: gov/2007-09-02
25-29 June 2007

• Recommendation to Issue the Federal Transition Framework Specification
  • The GovDTF recommended issuance of the Federal Transition Framework Specification. The specification was reviewed and approved by the OMG Architecture Board. The specification is now under electronic vote by the Domain Technology Committee.
  • Errata to the Federal Transition Framework submitted specification, gov/2007-09-03
    • Summary of changes made to the FTF submission at the suggestion of the GovDTF                    and the Architecture Board during the Jacksonville OMG TC meeting, September, 2007
  • Specification submitted to DTC Vote: gov/2007-09-04
• Federal Transition Framework Finalization Task Force (FTF FTF) Chartered by the Domain Technology Committee
  • In anticipation of successful passage of the Federal Transition Framework Specification by the Domain Technology Committee and the Board of Director's, a Finalization Task Force was chartered (the FTF FTF).
  • Proposed Charter at: gov/2007-09-10... there were some modifications... see the FTF FTF project page for final details
• Skills Management RFI Response Review
  • Responses received to-date were reviewed by the GovDTF plenary. Completion of response review is anticipated for the Burlingame meeting in December 2007. At that time a Roadmap of Skills Management work items will be begun.
  • Review Presentation, Kenji Hirata, Toyo University, gov/2007-09-09
• Model Based Acquisition Request for Information Review
  • An initial draft of the RFI was reviewed. We will issue the RFI in the Burlingame Meeting, December 2007, or at the latest, the Ottawa Meeting, March 2008.
  • Draft available at: gov/2007-09-08
• Initiated New Work Item: Records Management Capability Maturity Model
• Presentations
  • Records Management Capability Maturity Model (RM-CMM), Ed McCeney, Department of the Interior, gov/2007-09-06
  • Business Process Maturity Model (RM-CMM), John Alden, Capability Measurement, gov/2007-09-07

• Skills Management Request for Information Issued
  • The Government DTF reviewed the RFI and made minor changes before recommending issuance to the Domain Technology Committee. In its plenary on the following Friday the DTC issued the RFI.
  • The markup document is available at: gov/2007-06-05
  • The issued RFI can be found at: gov/2007-06-06
• Revised Submission Deadline Established for Federal Transition Framework RFP
  • A new revised submission deadline was established for the Federal Transition Framework RFP. The new date is 3-September-2007.
• Presentations
  • Introduction to GovDTF, Larry Johnson, TethersEnd Consulting, gov/2007-06-08
  • MDA in the Government DTF, Larry Johnson, TethersEnd Consulting, gov/2007-06-09
  • Application of MDA to Records Management Services, Larry Johnson, TethersEnd Consulting, gov/2007-06-10
  • Overview of Skills Management, Kenji Hirata, Toyo University, gov/2007-06-11
  • Overview of Oasis Universal Business Language, Karsten Tolle, University of Frankfort (no slides provided... see minutes for discussion notes.
  • Government DTF Report to the DTC, Larry Johnson, TethersEnd Consulting, gov/2007-06-07

• Two Initial Submissions were Evaluated by the GovDTF in two plenary sessions:

  • Records Management Services RFP

    • Joint Submission by
      88 Solutions, CA Inc., Computer Sciences Corporation, and Model Driven Solutions

  • Federal Transition Framework RFP

    • Joint Submission by
      Adaptive, MEGA International, Model Driven Solutions, Telelogic AB, Troux Technologies
      

• Federal Transition Framework RFP Voting List Re-opened.

  • The voting list was re-opened with a new closure date of 16-April-2007

• Work Sessions were held on two in-process Requests for Information.

  • Skills Management RFI

    • Michael Brown of Skillsnet.org joined Kenji Hirata as co-editor

  • Model Based Acquistion RFI

    • Editor: Scott Armstrong

• Presentations:

  • KSAOs/Competency Modeling Overview, Kenji Hirata, gov/2007-03-05

  • Overview of Skills Management RFI, Kenji Hirata, gov/2007-03-06

  • An Experimental UML Profile for Japanese Gov's EA Initiative, Akira Tanaka, gov/2007-03-07

• Federal Transition Framework Request for Proposal (FTF RFP) was issued by the Domain Technology Committee under recommendation of the GovDTF and the Architecture Board

  • The FTF RFP is now available at:
    http://doc.omg.org/gov/2006-12-02

• Latin American Governments Working Group chartered. The Acting Chair of the new Working Group is Roberto Sasso, ICE, Costa Rica. The new WG is forming its GovDTF roadmap contributions.

• The in-process whitepaper, "OMG Value Proposition for Government Organizations" was reviewed. The review draft can be found at:
  http://doc.omg.org/gov/2006-12-11
  Work is continuing under its editor, Pam Corsini. We plan to issue this Whitepaper in the March 2007 TC meeting.

• Roadmap Review

  • The "Model Based Acquisition" Request for Information (RFI) work item was restarted. It had been deferred due to our work overload. Chris Armstrong will serve as RFI editor. We plan to issue this RFI in the March 2007 TC meeting.

  • New Work Item
    Sponsored by the Japan Government Working Group, a new RFI Work Item, "Skills Management" was started.

• Government DTF Information Day
  5 December 2006

  • Dr. Richard Soley, CEO OMG provided the introduction to the Info Day

  • Richard Burk, Chief Architect of the President's Office of Management and Budget delivered the keynote.

  • Presentations were made on:

    • GovDTF Organization and Mission

    • The OMG Process

    • Records Management Services

    • UML Profiles for MODAF & DoDAF and their relationship to the Federal Enterprise Architecture.

    • Regulations and Compliance

  • The presentations can be downloaded through links found in the minutes at http://doc.omg.org/gov/2006-12-03

20060810 FTFWG Teleconference
Minutes: gov/2006-08-06
OMG Federal Transition Framework Metamodel Working Group Teleconference Minutes
Working Meeting of the Federal Transition Framework Metamodel Working Group
 

London Workshop, 16 June 2006
The GovDTF held a briefing on its Records Management Services Work Item in conjunction with the
5th European Business Rules Conference,

• Goals
  • To introduce the OMG Government Domain Task Force.
  • To encourage the formation of focused GovDTF working groups centred around the EU and/or its constituents (similar to the US Government Working Group).
  • To brief participants on the OMG GovDTF activities standardizing Records Management Services, including the background of the effort in the USA.
  • To encourage and invite international participation in the formation of the emerging RMS standard.
• Presentations
  • gov/2006-06-02, Zip Package of all Presentations
  • gov/2006-06-03, Introduction to the Workshop
  • gov/2006-06-04, Overview of the OMG’s Government Domain Task Force
  • gov/2006-06-05, Introduction to the US National Archives and Records Administration’s Records Management Services Effort
  • gov/2006-06-06, Overview of the OMG Process
  • gov/2006-06-07, The Business Case for OMG Participation
  • gov/2006-06-08, Overview of the US National Archives and Records Administration’s Records Management Services Functional Requirements Documents
  • gov/2006-06-09, Summary & Review

December 5-9 - Burlingame GovSIG Meeting Results are available - gov/2005-12-03

• US Government Working Group Chartered to focus on applying Model Driven Architecture tools and techniques within the US government domain. Click here to see the Charter

September 12-16 - Atlanta GovSIG Meeting Minutes - PDF, Word

November 15 - Washington DC, MDA in the US Government Workshop