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U.S. Department of Labor
FY 2005-2009
IT
Strategic Plan
September 2005
Secretary's Message - Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor
 Information Technology is transforming the American workforce and
workplace. President Bush's Management Agenda, which includes the goal of
Expanded Electronic Government, has helped the Department of Labor more
effectively utilize and manage its technology resources. In FY 2005, the
Department was the first and only Federal Agency to achieve "green" status
scores in all five areas of the President's Management Agenda.
The goals presented in this IT Strategic Plan show how the Department of
Labor will use information technology to support our Departmental strategic
goals:
- A Prepared Workforce
- A Secure Workforce
- Quality Workplaces
- A Competitive Workforce
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The Department of Labor is well on its way to becoming a Digital
Department. As information technology transforms our world, DOL is using this
technology to open the channels of communication between the Department and the
people we serve. We are also using information technology to provide training,
information on available jobs, and new opportunities to conduct business
electronically. To prepare American workers to be competitive in the 21st
Century workplace, we will use the new technologies available to help workers
access the tools they need to adapt to this new era of empowering
technology.
This IT Strategic Plan will help the Department ensure that our
workforce remains safe, secure, prepared and competitive as we face the
challenges ahead. |
CIO Message - Patrick Pizzella, Chief Information
Officer
 At the Department of Labor, it is our mission to help
workers and their families share in the American Dream. To do so, we work to
ensure that American workers are prepared for the opportunities that face them,
can depend on fair wages, secure benefits, and safe working conditions, are
afforded quality workplaces, and can compete in the economy of the 21st
Century.
Information technology plays a critical role in helping us achieve these
goals. As the information age continues to unfold, the foresighted and
well-planned use of information technology can be a vital enabler of mission
success all across the Federal government. Our information technology
professionals are key collaborators. They continually seek cost-effective,
reliable, secure, and innovative solutions through which to deliver the
Department's services to the American public.
Information technology helps enable mission success. As such, our
information technology initiatives must be closely aligned with the needs of
those who carry out the Department's mission. They must also align with the
broader framework provided by the President's Management Agenda, and relevant
legislation and guidance. The strategic planning process provides an
opportunity for clarifying and strengthening these alignments.
| This IT Strategic Plan is a living
document. Fresh challenges will surely confront us as we move forward as a
Department. We will revisit the strategic planning process on a regular basis
and adjust the plan as necessary to ensure that it remains a sound framework
for guiding our activities. |
Agency, Bureau, and Office Participants in the Information Technology
Strategic Plan Working Group
- Appeals and Review Boards
- Administrative Review Board (ARB)
- Benefits Review Board (BRB)
- Employees' Compensation Appeals Board (ECAB)
- Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA)
- Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
- Employment Standards Administration (ESA)
- Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
- Office of the Administrative Law Judges (OALJ)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management
(OASAM)
- Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy (OASP)
- Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO)
- Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)
- Office of the Inspector General (OIG)
- Office of Public Affairs (OPA)
- Office of the Solicitor (SOL)
- Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC)
- Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS)
- Women's Bureau (WB)
Executive Summary
This Information Technology Strategic Plan provides a framework to guide
our Information Technology (IT) efforts at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
for the next five (5) years. The plan confirms the critical role of Information
Technology as an enabler of success in achieving the four strategic mission
goals of the Department, namely, a prepared workforce, a secure workforce, a
quality workplace, and a competitive workforce.
In developing this plan, the Department adopted a comprehensive
strategic decision making process that recognizes and honors the critical
contributions of the individual Agencies, Bureaus and Offices. This plan is the
product of both a collaborative group effort and a formal strategy formulation
procedure enacted over a period of six months.
In seeking the best IT strategy for the Department there were several
challenges that had to be faced:
- DOL's IT Program exists within a heterogeneous environment where
important differences in business goals must be supported.
- The IT Program operates within a complex mission and business
environment with DOL's twenty-five (25) Agencies, Bureaus and Offices.
- Presidential, legislative, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and
other key stakeholder directives continually modify any IT strategy.
- DOL is challenged to continue to achieve results-driven performance
by balancing appropriate IT resources.
The Department of Labor created a blended IT strategy that adopted an IT
strategic framework, an IT strategy and a set of five IT strategic goals. These
five goals provide a practical guide and a scope within which the Department
will focus its IT planning, development and management.
The five (5) IT strategic goals are:
- E-Government: Ensure IT initiatives and
investments are customer-focused, results-oriented, market-based, and
cost-effective.
- Enterprise Architecture: Develop and
maintain an Enterprise Architecture that is reliable, adaptable, scalable and
driven by business and technology requirements.
- IT Management and Governance: Promote
cost-effective IT solutions by sharing and implementing best practices,
collaborating on projects and initiatives, and ensuring interoperability where
appropriate.
- Security: Provide a secure IT infrastructure
that proactively assures integrity, confidentiality, and availability of DOL
data and information systems.
- Human Capital: Develop and maintain a high
quality, competitive IT workforce.
Using these strategic goals as a basis for justification, the Department
has developed a comprehensive catalog of IT initiatives currently underway or
planned.
This catalog includes initiatives that relate to federally-defined
management and results goals (Presidential, e-Gov, etc.) along with those
initiatives defined at the Department and individual Agency level. These
initiatives are described in terms that make clear their alignment with the
mission of the Department, and the strategic program goals of the Agencies. The
timeframes and performance measures are projected to assure that these
initiatives are carried out in a timely and effective manner. This strategy
will evolve and sharpen to improve business delivery through the use of
information technology.
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