U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

STATEMENT OF DIRECTOR KAY COLES JAMES

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President Bush, the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget are proud to announce the next step in our effort to dramatically transform the business and human resource processes of government.

The business of government relies fundamentally on information and communication. The fuel that fires these functions is education. We are here today to take the next giant step in education - government, online, this millennium, relevant, useful education.

This is an exciting day for the future of government. We are here to launch the second Module of golearn.gov, the government's on-line learning resource.

By making learning available on-line, the Federal government will save $1.19 billion dollars over the next ten years.

In July of last year, when OPM opened the virtual doors to the Government Online Learning Center, we anticipated that the government workforce would utilize this resource. We were right.

The results so far are very impressive:

• We launched the Gov Online Learning Center ahead of schedule and under budget.
• We have had over 35 million hits
• The program now has 38,000 registered users and
• We have had 10,000 course completions

Homeland Security is one of our top priorities today. OPM is especially proud to announce our e-training partnership with the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

This partnership will deliver e-training, information and collaboration capabilities to public safety and law enforcement personnel. This is just one of the critical partnerships OPM has with Federal agencies that will make the online learning center a resource for the development of the Federal workforce.

The objective is simplified and one-stop access to high quality e-training products and services.

Our formal partners in this initiative include:

• Department of Defense
• Department of Labor
• Department of Transportation
• Department of Treasury
• General Services Administration

The new features of the Gov Online Learning Center that we are launching here today represent the continuing fulfillment of the goals of the e-Government Initiatives contained in the President's Management Agenda.

President Bush has given us all the challenge to simplify and unify, to take advantage of economies of scale, and to reduce redundancies. That is what we do here today.

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