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NBC PROFILE - SUMMER 2005
IT Directorate Bringing New Opportunities
by Bob Haycock |
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This has been a very interesting 15 months for me. After spending 20 years with the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) in Denver, I thought I knew a lot about the NBC. However, since I have been here, I have had my eyes opened to what a unique organization I now belong to and what great people work here.
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Bob Haycock - NBC's CIO
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Having worked for the BOR for many years, I know many of the people now working at the NBC. I was with the BOR when the Management Operations Center was created in the 1980's and watched as the Denver Administrative Service Center (DASC) evolved. The DASC was one of three service centers that were merged to form the NBC. Many of the people that I worked with at the BOR moved to the DASC and became very successful. I watched and was involved from a bureau level in the initial discussions and work on Pay/Pers Future State, and then watched that evolve into the Federal Personnel Payroll System (FPPS). I was peripherally involved in the implementation of the Federal Financial System (FFS) within the BOR, and had staff involved in developing custom reporting for the BOR. I managed a project to develop a data warehouse and implement an early business intelligence tool to provide consistent financial reporting for the BOR. As part of this effort, we worked closely with the DASC to access FPPS and FFS data. Finally, as the Deputy CIO for the BOR, I worked in partnership with DASC staff and management to retire the CDC Cyber mainframe environment that had supported the PayPers application for many years.
In all of these activities, my experiences with the NBC staff and management was a pleasure and created a respect and admiration for the work done by this organization.
In 2002, I had the unique opportunity to join Mark Forman, then Associate Director of the OMB for Information Technology (IT) and e-Government as he kicked off the current e-Government (e-Gov) Initiative with the Quicksilver Task Force. I was a member of that task force for three months in the summer of 2002; and I had the opportunity to work closely with the initial group working on the Enterprise Human Resources Integration (EHRI), e-Records, and e-Authentication e-Gov Initiatives. That work led to being offered the opportunity to be the first Chief Architect of the Federal government. That role was principally engaged in development of the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). In this regard, I had the opportunity to work with most Federal agencies on Enterprise Architecture and IT management issues. This was a great learning experience; and it also opened my eyes to the possibilities and opportunities for cross-agency sharing of IT capabilities. This is an area where the NBC shines throughout the Federal government. I heard from many agencies a very positive reaction when it became known that I was coming to the NBC.
When I started with the NBC IT Directorate in April of 2004, there were already many Department of the Interior (DOI) and Federal government-wide activities underway: the e-Payroll implementation of NASA; the projected e-Payroll implementation of the Department of Transportation; and the Line of Business (LoB) opportunities in Human Resources and Financial Management, among others. The NBC was already a respected cross-agency provider of FPPS, FFS and IDEAS-PD application support, as well as IT hosting. The IT Directorate was already engaged with the DOI in helping to "stand up" the Enterprise Services Network (ESN), which will ultimately become the DOI enterprise network, as well as Enterprise Directory Services (EDS). The IT Directorate is also the major support entity for IT services within the Main Interior building in Washington, D.C., and for the Aircraft Services Directorate, as well as the Appraisal Services Directorate nationwide. We had already become a premier service provider to the DOI and many agencies in the Federal government.
And, there was more to come. In May 2004, the NBC was given the opportunity to compete for the hosting environment for the Financial Budget and Management System (FBMS). Through two significant efforts, the NBC was awarded that job, along with responsibility for application management of the FBMS in November 2004. The NBC IT community successfully installed, tested and now supports the infrastructure supporting the first deployment on schedule in early March of this year. The IT Directorate staff and contractors are now substantially engaged in laying down the infrastructure to support further deployments of the FBMS both in Denver and in Herndon at the DOI Enterprise Services Center.
In November, the IT Directorate was given the opportunity to submit a proposal to provide Enterprise Messaging services to all of the DOI. We are also engaged in development of a proposal to support the Enterprise Directory Services initiative of the DOI. In fact, we are closely involved with the DOI in discussions potentially leading to on-going operational support for all of the DOI Enterprise Initiatives. In the past, the NBC submitted proposals to the LoB task forces for Human Resources and Financial Management to become Federal government-wide Centers of Excellence for delivery of application and functional services. In both cases, the NBC has been selected to participate in these initiatives. The opportunities for the NBC and for the IT Directorate to play a substantial role in the fundamental change occurring within the Federal government through these initiatives are significant.
Looking at the past few years, both in terms of where the NBC has come from but also where I have come from, it occurs to me that we have arrived at the same place at an opportune time. I feel extremely fortunate to have the opportunity now to work for an exceptional organization, with exceptional people, at an exceptional time, not only in our evolution as an organization, but also in terms of where the Federal government is going. While the opportunities are great, the challenges are also great. Change is occurring rapidly, and expectations are aggressive, not only by the DOI, but also Federal government-wide. I feel that the NBC, and more specifically the IT Directorate, are more than up to the challenge.
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