Imagine life for Civilian agency CIOs under one, metered Federal IT Grid.
Fast forward 10 years: CIOs now manage their own agency's SLA for services they 'buy' from the prevalent IT utility-the Federal IT Grid.
Instead of developing and managing individual agency financial, HR and even some agency specific citizen focused systems, Civilian CIOs shepherd the process between the Grid providers and Grid users to ensure agreed to service levels are provided at a fair cost. The idea isn't even that revolutionary. Instead, it is the evolution of OMB's Centers of Excellence and Lines of Business with their shared service center concept. If there is anything at all revolutionary about the Federal IT Grid, it is the positive change this could bring about in the agency budgeting process and the pooling of funds to buy more.
Although somewhat varied today agency to agency, the CIOs role in the budgeting process would change. Instead of gathering or writing OMB 300 businesses cases, the CIO would collect and then express Agency IT business system requirements to OMB through Federal Business Architects.
These architects are charged with delivering government wide horizontal services and will work closely with CIOs freeing CIOs to finally do what Clinger-Cohen put them in business do: manage information, people and processes related to the best functioning of the Civilian agency they serve.
Now come back to the present: it is happening today! Apart from the change in the budgeting component, DoD through the Global Information Grid (GIG) essentially provides a metered Grid service today and saves the DoD money by doing so. Chargeback mechanisms exist and we all know the money is being spent.
Civilian CIOs who have the energy and vision to stay abreast of these trends---along with reductions in organic government workers, increasing use of IT contractors and then a squeeze on this very cycle-will be the ones who can shape the policy and perhaps the law around the mandated use of the Federal IT Grid in the future.
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