Federal Aviation
Administration
IT Management
How Evolving Technology
is Driving Change
Presented to: PMIWDC/Fairview Park
By: Beth Ward
Date: October 22, 2014
Baseball Management
• The official rules of baseball have changed
almost every year since 1845
• Base Runners:
 1858: The base runner is no longer required to
touch each base in order.
 1864: Each base runner must touch each base in
making the circuit.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rulechng.shtml
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Play Ball!
• 1863: The pitcher is no longer allowed to take a
step during his delivery and he had to pitch
with both feet on the ground at the same time .
• 1867: Pitcher is now permitted to move
around.
• 1879: The pitcher had to face a batsman before
pitching to him.
• 1884: All restrictions on the delivery of a
pitcher were removed.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/rulechng.shtml
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IT Management Rules
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Capital Planning and
Investment Control (CPIC)
requirements were
established in the ClingerCohen Act of 1996
Required more structured
oversight for large software
development programs
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Technology Keeps Evolving
2000’s
1980’s
Client
Servers
1960’s
Cloud
Computing
Mainframes
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Modernizing CPIC
• Evolving nature of IT now drives a portfolio
approach
 What information does an agency CIO need to
manage his/her portfolio?
 What services do customers require?
• CPIC process must address entire portfolio
 Everything from legacy systems to Bring-Your-OwnDevice to the “Internet of Things”
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Moving Forward
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Update the CPIC discipline to reflect the evolving
nature of IT
 Move away from large capital assets and towards IT as a
service
 Focus on the data itself rather than how it is
provided/managed
 Provide appropriate level of oversight for each investment
 Support effort to eliminate duplication in commodity IT and
mission systems IT
 Provide governance bodies and processes with more
meaningful, actionable data
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The End of Capital Assets?
• Agency IT no longer consists of only large
capital assets
• Select – Control – Evaluate has to apply to:
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Wireless / Mobile computing
Shared / Multi-Agency services
Other procured / provisioned services
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Mission, Mission, Mission
• Direct line between every IT investment and
agency strategic goals
• Address the data itself, rather than just
how it is provided/managed
 Enterprise Information Management
 Service Orientation
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Eliminate Duplication
• CPIC must support efforts to eliminate
duplication in commodity IT and
infrastructure
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Use Enterprise Architecture as primary driver of
every investment
Manage commodity IT across the entire portfolio
“Search and Destroy” shadow infrastructure that’s
embedded in mission systems
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Portfolio Performance
• A complete inventory is vital
• Collect data that provides meaningful,
actionable data about the entire portfolio
• Develop the right metrics
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Planning vs. DME vs. Operations
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Mission Systems vs. Infrastructure vs. Services
• Leverage data analytics
• Conduct rigorous risk management
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What’s Next?
• Improve cost reporting
 Standardize reporting requirements, including life
cycle definition and funding cycle
 Business Function vs. Project vs. Program vs.
Investment vs. Asset vs. Component vs. System
• Identify all infrastructure
 Include infrastructure embedded in mission systems
• Standardize metrics
 Stronger ties from IT directly to strategic goals and
mission success
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Community of Practice
• In late 2013, the Federal CIO Council chartered a
Community of Practice (COP) around Capital
Planning and Investment Control (CPIC)
 Executive Sponsor is Richard McKinney, CIO, Department of
Transportation
 Co-Chairs are Beth Ward, Department of Transportation, and
Francis O’Hearn, Treasury Department
• Our goal is to strengthen the CPIC community by:
 Establishing communications and collaboration forums
 Identifying, assessing, and publishing best practices (CIOpedia)
 Providing training/workshops to the CPIC community
 Working to move the discipline forward
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COP Operating Model
• Steering committee
 Meet monthly/bimonthly as needed
 Coordinate with CIOC and OMB E-Gov
 Establish working groups to address discrete tasks
• Reviewers/Working Groups
 Participate in task-specific working groups
Federal CIO
CIO Council
Executive Co-Sponsors
OMB E-Gov
 Review materials and provide input
 Submit/Review potential best practices
•Steering
Committee
•Reviewers
•Work Groups
•Entire CPIC
Community
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Beyond BY2016
• Improve IT cost reporting and collection
• Improve accounting/reporting for all Infrastructure
costs
• Standardize metrics used to analyze and benchmark
IT operational and procurement data
• Reach out to additional related communities
 Government
 Industry
 Academia
 Non-Governmental Organizations /Advocacy Groups
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Questions?
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