The Office of Management and Budget has announced that it
is conducting a government-wide analysis of three new
“lines of business” initiatives to identify opportunities
to reduce the cost of government and improve services
through performance improvements.
It said analysis of the fiscal 2007 budget shows opportunities
to share common IT infrastructure, geospatial data and
capabilities, and budgeting processes and functions across
government.
Accordingly, the three new LOBs are IT Infrastructure
Optimization, Geospatial, and Budget Formulation and Execution.
These join six other LOBs, Financial Management, Human
Resources, Grants Management, Case Management, Federal Health
Architecture and IT Security.
The federal government can squeeze between 16 and 27 percent
each year out of its IT infrastructure budget — between $18
and $29 billion — over 10 years, through a more coordinated
approach to spending on commodity IT infrastructure, OMB said,
based on industry benchmarks and analysis of agency budget
submissions.
“We are pursuing a number of government-wide opportunities to
improve the effectiveness and efficiency of our IT investments,”
said OMB’s deputy director for management Clay Johnson.
An interagency task force will analyze the new LOBs throughout
the fiscal year to identify common solutions and target
architectures, as well as develop a business case to be
submitted for the fiscal 2008 budget review, according to OMB
memo 2006-9.
