CIO Update for B&O
Spring 2005
George O. Strawn
NSF CIO
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Topics
• Large Facilities
– Security
• Organizational Excellence/Business Analysis
– CIOAG, KM
• eGov Projects
– grants.gov, Grants Management LoB, etc
• Other matters
– Web, Security, Interagency FASTER, etc
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Large Facility Security
• Several facility hacks heightened awareness
• FacSec ad hoc group formed at NSF
• Successful Facility community “security summit”
of last September likely to become an annual
event
• Proposal to formalize a FacSec working subgroup
of SWG (security wg) approved by SMIG
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OE & BA
• Expanded CIOAG (advisory group) approved
– Capital Planning and Investment Control
• Project evaluation and oversight
– Enterprise Architecture
• Document IT and Business processes
– Performance Measurement and Risk Assessment
• Knowledge Management pilot projects
– Communities of Practice (Groove collaboration tool)
– Advanced searching and clustering (with IIS)
– NSF manuals and metadata (budgetary woes)
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eGov Projects
• 24 initial eGov projects, then
e-Authentication, then 5 Lines of Business, now
more LoBs
• Many of interest to NSF; two of core interest
– Grants.gov: find funding opportunities (PIMS) and
apply for them (FastLane)
– 15 NSF programs to utilize apply in FY05
– Grant Management LoB (eJacket)
• Out-source, cross-source Federal agencies’ IT?
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Web Matters and IT Security
• New NSF Web released!
– R&E pages and Public pages
• New Web technologies: Coming to NSF?
– Web Services (“service-oriented architecture”)
– Semantic Web (“smart”, stand-alone information)
• NSF IT Security and Privacy (SPWG?)
– 4201 Wilson Ave
– US Antarctic Program
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Preview of Coming Attractions
• Science Agency CIO Special Interest Group
– Approved! First meeting held April 29
• (R)evolution in Scholarly Communication?
– Public draft of NSB white paper on “Long lived
data sets”
– NIH policy on public archive for NIH-funded
research
• No IT impediments to Telework
– New version of MS Exchange to be installed
• Reviewer System IT application
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