Geo-Enabled Federal Businesses Initiative
This is the home page for the production of the Geo-Enabled Federal Businesses Portfolio.
The purpose of the Geo-Enabled Federal Business Initiative is to effectively communicate to Federal business managers the value of incorporating geospatial approaches into business processes, especially to those who have had limited experience with geo-enabled decision-making.
Applied Cooperative Geo-Enabled Business Case
An applied business case that demonstrates integrated, geo-enabled decision-making across agencies, where there is a common goal for a given population. The geo-analytics emphasize the geography of the programs' effects on the constituents, and estimate the role of each agency in one or more appropriate outcomes. The geo-enable business decisions include those that are not readily informed by geospatial techniques.
Common Geo-Enabled Business Cases
A set of comprehensive business cases for geo-enabling decision-making processes that are common across Federal programs. The business cases include layman descriptions of the geography and analytics that apply to critical decisions, and supportive technical descriptions for program development of geo-analytic capacity, including the Federal Enterprise Architecture Geospatial Profile.
Federal Leadership
The National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) and the Federal Geospatial Line of Business (Geo LOB) represent concentrated efforts to strengthen cross organizational cooperation on developing and sharing of geospatial assets, and expand the capacity of organizations to use geospatial approaches within their operation. The Geo-Enabled Federal Business Initiative supports these efforts by demonstrating the value of geospatial technology and science to Federal program managers and executives, and helping them identify their requirements for specific and common data themes. In response, the Geo LOB can identify data theme gaps, develop shared licensing agreements, plan Federal-wide investment strategies for geo-enabling businesses, pilot cross-agency information exchanges, and build support for Federal-wide geospatial infrastructure. The Geo-Enabled Business Workgroup (GEB) was established as part of the Geo LOB in fiscal year 2006. It includes partners from across the Federal government and has the goal of informing Federal Managers about the advantages of incorporating geospatial approaches into business processes. The products from this initiative are intended to help the committee communicate with Federal managers on how they might use geospatial approaches within their organizations.
Timeline
| Tasks: GLC/GMU/Geo LoB Schedule |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Received guidance on portfolio outline (May 15, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Conduct kick-off meeting (July 6, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Conduct team alignment meeting (August 2, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS - Finalize business case targets and requirements for subject matter experts (August 15, 2007) |
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| GMU, MSS - Prepare request for subject matter experts (September 5, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS - Prepare taxonomy of Federal programs as defined by OMB (September 12, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS - Design requirements survey for program-level survey (September 26, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS - Collect requirements survey data (October 8, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS - Analyze data against program taxonomy functions defined by OMB (October 12, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS - Conduct case-specific workgroups with subject matter experts (October 17, 2007) |
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| GLC, MMS - Complete draft business cases in support of solution targets and identified requirements (November 1, 2007) |
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| GLC - Complete draft business case for multi-agency applied geo-enabled demonstration (November 1, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Send Portfolio version 0.1 to subject matter experts for review (November 8, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Send Portfolo version 0.2 to selected readers with schedule for version 1.0 (November 15, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Conduct DC seminar on Best Practices in Geo-Enabling Federal Businesses (December 6, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Conduct GLC seminar on Applied Business Cases Across Government Entities (TBD) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Expand business cases to include inputs from outside readers and seminar (TBD) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Prepare technical chapter for alignment with FEA geospatial capacity and competency development (TBD) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Release Geo-Enabling Federal Business Portfolio 1.0 with request for feedback (TBD) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Deliver proposal for work plans in support of Geo-Enabling Federal Business Primer 2.0 (December 7, 2007) |
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| GMU, MMS, GLC - Deliver project report and financial report (TBD) |
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