LINE OF BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITY ASSESSMENT INITIATIVE

Status Report

July 1, 2003

Introduction
This report describes the milestones that have occurred since the June 10th Status Report.  On June 25th, the project team briefed the President’s Management Council E-Government Committee on the findings and potential opportunities identified by the LoB initiative. The high-level milestones that have occurred since the June 10th Status Report are listed below.
Milestones
Focus Groups: June 5-12, ‘03
Focus groups for five of the six LoBs met to review and further validate the analysis of the current environment, to vet identified opportunities and to offer additional ones, and to provide feedback on the recommendations of the project teams.  The focus groups consisted of individuals from the major agencies, identified with the help of the LoB government points of contact.

Steering Committee Meeting: June 19, ‘03
The third LoB Steering Committee (SC) meeting was held on June 19th at the LoB offices (1776 G Street, Suite 105).  The SC reviewed the findings of the LoB teams and provided feedback on the design and content of the presentation created for the PMC briefing on June 25th.

The SC discussed the need to provide the PMC with more context, i.e., the assignment given by the PMC in January, and reduce some of the financial detail.  In addition, the SC agreed that SC members should deliver the briefs for their respective line of business to the PMC, to show support for findings and potential opportunities identified.

RMO Briefing: June 23, ‘03
The RMOs and other representatives from OMB attended a briefing on June 23rd in the LoB offices.  The following topics were covered:
o	The spend identified across the six LoBs
o	The findings and the potential opportunities
o	Next steps for the initiative
Much of the discussion revolved around how the potential savings for each of the lines of business were computed.  The meeting generated useful feedback for the LoB team for use in both the whitepapers and the presentation to the 
PMC.

LoB Recommendation White Papers
The line of business leads and liaisons completed drafting white paper descriptions of identified savings opportunities.  These papers provide more detail and justification about the opportunities presented in the June 25th presentation.  The LoB sponsors reviewed and commented on the papers. The papers were completed on July 1st, and will be contained in the final project report.

President’s Management Council E-Gov Meeting: June 25, ‘03
Mark Forman, Stu Reiter, Ron Sanders  (Human Resources), Linda Springer (Financial Management), Van Hitch (Criminal Investigations) and Melissa Chapman (Public Health Monitoring) briefed the PMC E-Gov Committee on the findings and potential opportunities identified by the LoB initiative project team.   Of the $25 billion in investment requests reviewed by the LoB team, the team recommended follow-on actions associated with $10 billion in investment requests (FY04 – FY08) contained in more than 100 Exhibit 300 submissions. 

The study team recommended that cross-agency business cases be developed on the opportunities identified in four LoBs (Federal Health Architecture, Criminal Investigations Case Management, Core Financial Management and Human Resources Information Systems), and that further assessment and opportunity development be performed in specific areas of the Human Resources, Data & Statistics, Monetary Benefits and Criminal Investigations LoBs.

If you have any questions, please contact Stu Reiter, the LoB Program Lead, at: stuart.reiter@gsa.gov;
(202) 275-4277.