Requests for Proposals (RFP's)
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Work Item |
Description |
Business Benefits |
Status |
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Federal Transition Framework
Project Page |
Described
in the Whitepaper of the same name, the FTF Metamodel RFP will
produce an industry consensus specification in support of and in
cooperation with the President's Office of Management and
Budget. See the Federal Transition
Framework Whitepaper for a related work item. |
Provides an
industry consensus model supporting the Federal Transition
Framework of the President's Office of Management and Budget.
(see FTF Metamodel Working
Group) |
Adopted Beta Techology
Currently under Finalization Task Force |
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Records Management Services
Project Page |
Records management
services will capture the context of creation at the point of
creation and carry it forward, updating as necessary, adding
management attributes and providing management services, through
the entire record life cycle. |
Records management
services may be developed, implemented, reused, and improved
across an enterprise with lower costs and higher quality.
Records management services will enable more efficient and
effective management of electronic records throughout their life
cycle. |
Waiting Revised Submissions |
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Skills Management
Project Page |
The objective of the Skills Management RFP
is to enable integration and interoperability among these
standards as well as to enable:
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Standardized language/semantic lexicon
which represents the concepts in all of the above standards,
including mappings among them.
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Emerging Human Capital Interoperability
models
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Information exchange of skills data
among applications and content providers
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Visibility and alignment of skills data
to social and organizational networks
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Motivation for the Skills Management
Specification:
- HR information can not be shared among different
platforms, therefore HR information and data models are
needed for Interoperability especially in Knowledge, Skills,
Abilities, and Other Traits (KSAOs)/competency information.
- HR information is not easily used in HRD, because it
usually does not deal with KSAOs/competency information in
sufficient detail. Therefore, a clear definition of HR
practices and KSAO/competency descriptors including their
semantics using information/data model needs to be defined.
- Individual inventory of KSAOs/competency are not
consistent with most HR and skill management systems.
Therefore a proficiency measurement system is required that
is consistent across all types of applications.
- Individual Development Plan content cannot be
accommodated by most HR related systems. Therefore we need
standard semantic layer describing the content and uniform
exchange data structures.
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RFP under Development |
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Federal Enterprise
Architecture Metamodel |
In producing the Federal Transition
Framework (FTF) standard in collaboration with the President's
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), it was necessary to model
the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). This was due to the
fact that the FTF "touched" the FEA in several places. Some
classes were already modeled, such as those defined in the Data
Reference Model (DRM). But many were from the Business, Service,
and Technical Reference Models which are defined textually
without any formal model resulting in elements pointed to by the
FTF having no appropriate formal semantic definition. So the FEA
model was undertaken and completed, but left non-normative since
it was not requested in the RFP. |
Making the FEA
meta-model normative would be rather trivial low-hanging fruit
and lend OMG's well-defined processes toward maintaining it. |
Not Started |
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OMB's Segment Architecture
Metamodel |
The OMB's Segment
Architecture is currently being defined by a multi-agency team
in the form of a textual document. Building on a formal model of
the FTF and the FEA, it would be straight-forward to formalize
the concepts expressed in text to unambiguous formal semantics
describing segment architecture and its context in Federal
agencies. |
This would formalize the
concepts of the OMB's segment architecture and would dovetail
with initiatives in Federal Enterprise Architecture, Federal
Transition Framework and Model Based Acquistion. |
Not Started |
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UML Profile for Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
Project Page
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A UML Profile to
support modeling of the reference architectures described in the
US Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA |
Allow formal modeling
of FEA Architecture Models |
Not Started |
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Open Source eGov Reference Architecture (OsEra) |
A track in the GovDTF
championed by the General Services Administration that is
expected to lead to a family of RFP's that will be issued by
GovDTF and by other Task Forces as applicable. OsEra's
principal thrust is the provisioning of Enterprise Architecture
models expressed in MDA representations to open source execution
platforms (ESB's and other SOA's) through automated transforms
using semantic integration facilities.
For more information see
http://osera.modeldriven.org/ |
Provide government and
industry with a reference architecture and ready-to-run toolset
and platform that enables business objectives to be realized
more quickly and less expensively using an integrated approach
to enterprise, business and technology architectures. |
Under discussion.
It's not clear if this is a single or multiple work items. |
Requests for Comment
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Work Item |
Description |
Business Benefits |
Status |
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Records Management Maturity
Model Project Page |
Based on the OMG's
Business Process Maturity Model, the Records Management Maturity
Model will specialize its concerns to the Records Management
domain. |
Government and other
organizations will have a model of assessment through which they
can assess the maturity of their Records Management capabilities
and plan a course of improvement. |
Specification under Development |
Requests for Information (RFI's)
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Work Item |
Description |
Business Benefits |
Status |
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Model Based Acquisition
Project Page |
By providing models of
systems at the CIM or PIM levels, a more precise description of
functionality and compatibilities required by systems can be
specified. This RFI requests information on experience or ideas
regarding standards and capabilities that might support Model
Based Acquisition in the context of
OMB Circular A-76, |
Precise specification of
requirements that can be transformed into acceptance and test
criteria and validation systems |
Drafts under Review |
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Skills Management
Project Page |
There is a need to develop people with high level skills to meet
the demands of the IT industry in various areas. Objective
evaluation of those skills that represent not just knowledge, but
the practical application of knowledge is required.
What is required is standards for:
- Criteria for strategic HR development aligned with corporate
strategies
- Dictionary/Framework for education and training objectives
- Reference framework for individual career path and
development.
- Government vision and policy for development in IT
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Enable the precise
specification of skills and skill development that can be
transformed into objective criteria to assess skills and map
them to corporate objectives, and the design of training
programs based on a corporation's profiles of skill requirements
and the objective determination of the skill gaps that need to be filled. |
Completed |
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Records Management
Auto-File Functionality |
The RMS specification
being authored by the Joint Records Management Services
submission team will not have "auto-file" capabilities specified
(it was not a requested feature in the RFP).
This RFI would help define the RFPs necessary to extend the
RMS specification to include the capability to extract
attributes from a digital artifact and automatically populate
them in the Records Management Environment. These attributes
together with the content of the Record are then used to assign
the record to the correct Category in the Record Schedule. This
Request for Information would be used to gather information on
similar efforts, germane standards and technologies, possible
approaches, etc. |
Records can be (and
often are) generated automatically by automata as a side effect
of doing business. Electronic records are being generated at a
rate that makes it impractical for a human to decide in every
case what is a record and what Category in the Record Schedule
it belongs to.
Standards are needed to construct automata that can auto-file
Records reliably and accurately taking the burden of manual
labor out of the process. |
Not Started |
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Records Management to
Knowledge Management |
Records Management is moving into the
electronic age. The management of a digital artifact is not the
same as managing its content, which can be thought of as the
actual record, it's format or file-type being largely
irrelevant. Advancing the standards in this area is likely a
multi-domain undertaking and the application of existing and
emerging standards, as well as creating a standard to extend
Records Management into Knowledge Management. This work item
will explore the state of the art to determine what
specifications (RFPs) need to be added to the roadmap as work
items. |
Knowledge based search
will enhance the capabilities of discovery. |
Not Started |
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Standards for SOA in Government |
Requesting information
on special needs of government in establishing Service Oriented
Architecture in government environments. The RFI will be
coordinated with the OMG's SOA ABSIG |
Facilitate government
agencies and their vendors in the actualization of SOA's in
government systems consitent with the US Federal Enterprise
Architecture |
Not Started |
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Legacy Modernization in Government |
Requesting information
on the barriers and needed enablers required to transform legacy
and obsolete government systems to modern architectures. |
Facilitate government
agencies and their vendors in the transformation of legacy and
obsolete systems to modern and agile architectures |
Not Started |
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MDA Models for Integrated Justice |
Requesting information
concerning integration requirements for justice systems at all
levels of government: international, national, regional, and
local |
Facilitate and enable
the integration of justice systems to provide fast response and
notification capabilities to track criminal and terrorist
threats across justice systems across all levels of government. |
Not Started |
Whitepapers
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Work Item |
Description |
Business Benefits |
Status |
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OMG Value Proposition for Governmental
Organizations Project
Page |
Whitepaper Sections:
- Case Studies of MDA in the US Federal Government
- Enabling the FEA with MDA
- Using MDA to Drive SOA in Governmental Organizations
- Software Assurance in Government
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Provide a guide to
governmental organizations to the advantages of using Model
Driven Architecture in the context of the regulatory milieu
(e.g., Federal Enterprise Architecture, the Clinger Cohen Act)
and the disparate and ever changing panoply of technologies
(e.g., Service Oriented Architectures, Web Services, programming
languages, middleware protocols) |
Drafts under Review |
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OMG Federal Transition Framework
Project Page |
A white paper was issued by the GovDTF in its meeting in Anaheim CA
during the last week of September 2006, reflecting work done
and outlining the joint OMB/OMG FTF program. See the
Federal Transition Framework RFP
for a related work item. |
Provides an industry
consensus model supporting the Federal Transition Framework of
the President's Office of Management and Budget. (see
FTF Metamodel Working Group) |
Completed |
