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The Office of Management and Budget will get more hands-on in its management of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects by assigning 11th-hour gurus to make sure the efforts meet OMB's demands.
The Office of Management and Budget will get more hands-on in its management of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects by assigning 11th-hour gurus to make sure the efforts meet OMB's demands.
OMB will assign what it calls solution architects to each of the 24 projects when they near completion, said Bob Haycock, manager for the federal enterprise architecture initiative.
'The solution architect is someone who understands the broader implications of the technology and project as it relates to all 24 projects,' said Haycock, who in mid-June took over the temporary OMB post from Debra Stouffer. 'Their role is to facilitate the project, not oversee it. They will act like a SWAT team'move in quickly and provide assistance.'
OMB will assign architects to three or four projects within the next few weeks, Haycock said, but declined to identify the first projects to receive the extra assistance.
Volunteer architects
Haycock, who is on a 90-day detail at OMB from the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation, spoke last week at an Oracle Corp. Government Executive Forum in Washington.
Stouffer left after her 90-day detail to OMB to become chief technology officer at the Environmental Protection Agency.
The architects will be volunteers from agencies. Their job will be to make sure that each project has a link to the FirstGov Web portal, uses the E-Authentication initiative for managing user verifications and meshes with the government's enterprise architecture, said Norman Lorentz, OMB's chief technology officer.
OMB named Tice DeYoung, Roopangi Kadakia, Stuart Rabinowitz and Marion Royal'all are systems workers at the General Services Administration'as the first solution architects.
Haycock said each has expertise in a different aspect of enterprise systems management:
- DeYoung has experience in reviewing security requirements.
- Kadakia focuses on how projects are presented to users.
- Rabinowitz's emphasis is how applications carry out a business function.
- Royal's area is systems interoperability.
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