Develop
identification and validation
processes
for emerging technologies
POC Name: John McManus
Phone: [deleted]
Organization: AIC
Emerging Technologies Subcommittee Co-chair
Place of Performance:
1.0 BACKGROUND
The Federal Government lacks a clear and open process to
support the identification and validation of Emerging Technologies that support
the President’s e-government goals, allows for submissions from commercial
entities (vs. Government entities), provides a market mechanism to bring
together component supply and demand as well as Communities of Practice (CoP),
and supports the “graduation” of these technologies into the Federal
marketplace (Core.gov).
A process is needed that provides emerging technology
vendors with a primary point of entry to the Federal IT community and that
promotes information sharing about these technologies across Federal agencies.
The Emerging Technology Subcommittee of the CIO Council’s
Architecture and Infrastructure Committee is charged with examining
cross-cutting emerging technology components and developing recommendations for
their use in the Federal Government.
The Subcommittee has been tasked with defining a process that will allow
the IT innovation life-cycle to be managed on a Government-wide basis, and to
accelerate the discovery, validation, and maturation of Federal Enterprise
Architecture components that improve Federal performance and the delivery of
citizen services while reducing aggregate costs through the promotion of
component integration and reuse versus bespoke development.
It is expected that such a process will lead to
better-coordinated and more productive response to submissions of components in
support of the eGov initiatives and within the framework of the Federal
Enterprise Architecture (FEA). The desired outcome is the well-coordinated
availability of logically separable technology components for potential
Government-wide usage that utilizes a sustainable, self-supporting process for the
technical assessment of emerging technologies.
2.0 PURPOSE
The purpose of this task will be Stage 1 of the process
described in the U.S. CIO Council document titled “Managing the IT Innovation
Life-Cycle: Proposed Stages/Schemas” of May 27, 2003. Stage 1 is known as the
“Identification” stage, in which vendors, integrators, and other organizations
(known as “submitters” in this document) can identify and “nominate” a proposed
component merely be providing the required information in the form of an XML
instance document, as specified by a group of XML schemas (known as “component
XML schemas” in this document).
The XML instance document containing the component
information would be stored on the submitter’s own Web site at a given URL.
This URL - along with additional information regarding the component - would be
registered through the use of a Web form with a site known as “ET.gov”. Both
the Web form and the ET.gov site are to be created as part of this task.
Selected metadata will then be “indexed” for each registered component at
ET.gov, thereby enabling efficient discovery of available components through
their metadata properties be Federal agency representatives. Full-text search
will also be available.
We envision a relationship between the overall proposed
process and CORE.gov. We envision that ET.gov will accept submissions from the
vendor/integrator community while CORE.gov will focus on submissions from the
federal community, and that a component will graduate from ET.gov to CORE.gov
once a sufficient level of subscription and commitment to the component exists
within the federal community based on the CoPs. However, defining this
relationship formally will be out of scope of this task, as it will require
integration with stages beyond Stage 1.
3.0 TASK
OBJECTIVES
The Stage 1 process will involve the following Major Tasks:
Each of these tasks is described in general terms below, and
more specifically in Section 4.
Task 1 - Establishment of ET.gov Web site: We will
establish the “ET.gov” Web site and install all associated hardware. This site
will be hosted at GSA on the same servers that support XML.gov. This will involve the creation of static and
dynamic web pages, creation and configuration of a database to store
information and the establishment of the ET.Gov brand, user interface, and site
navigation. We will also create the Web
form that submitters will use to register the ET components, based on the
component XML schemas and we will create the Web form that Federal agents will
use to browse and discover the component registry to search for new/existing
components that meet specific requirements.
We intend to develop ET.Gov in conjunction with the Emerging Technology
Subcommittee, to ensure that it meets the Subcommittee’s needs.
Task 2 - Creation of submitter documentation: We will
create the necessary documentation to help submitters create their component
XML instance documents and register their components on the ET.gov Web site.
Task 3 - Enhancement of proposed process (if necessary): We will
work with the ET Subcommittee to review the proposed process, and determine if
any enhancements are required. If enhancements are required, we will work with
the ET Subcommittee to enhance the proposed process as necessary.
4.0 TASK
ACTIVITIES, AND WORK PRODUCTS
This section describes the activities and work products for
each task listed in Section 3. It is
assumed that all infrastructure requirements (e.g. server, database product,
etc.) are already in place and available at GSA and therefore will not be
included in this document.
Task |
Activity |
Work
Product |
Task 1: Establishment of ET.gov Web site |
Create ET.gov site |
ET.gov site |
|
Create draft ET component registration Web form
with search index |
N/A |
|
Review draft ET component registration Web form
with ET Subcommittee and enhance as necessary |
N/A |
|
Deliver final ET component registration Web form
with search index |
ET component registration Web
form with index |
Task 2: Creation of submitter
documentation
|
Create draft submitter documentation |
N/A |
|
Review draft submitter documentation with ET
Subcommittee and enhance as necessary |
N/A |
|
Deliver final submitter documentation |
Submitter documentation |
Task 3: Enhancement of proposed process (if
necessary) |
Review proposed Stage 1 process with ET
Subcommittee and enhance as necessary |
N/A |
|
Release final Stage 1 process |
Finalized Stage 1 process |
Task 4 - Finalization of component
XML schemas
|
Review existing component XML schemas with ET
Subcommittee and determine required enhancements |
N/A |
|
Enhance component XML schemas and review with ET
Subcommittee |
N/A |
|
Deliver finalized component XML Schemas |
Finalized component XML schemas |
The supporting assumptions for the task are noted below.
5.0 PERIOD AND
PLACE OF PERFORMANCE
The period of performance is September 1, 2004 –
December 1, 2004. The place of
performance is in