Unit 53 Essay
GUIDANCE ON EXHIBIT 53—INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-GOVERNMENT
GUIDANCE ON EXHIBIT 53—INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-GOVERNMENT
Table of Contents
53.1
53.2
53.3
53.4
53.5
53.6
53.7
53.8
53.9
53.10
Ex-53A
Ex-53B
Why must I report on information technology (IT) investments?
What background information must I know?
How do I ensure that IT investments are linked to and support agency strategic plans?
What special terms should I know?
How do I determine whether I must report?
How do I submit Exhibit 53 and when is it due?
If I submitted Exhibit 53 last year, how do I revise it this year?
How are Exhibits 53A&B organized?
How are Exhibits 53A&B coded?
What are the steps to complete Exhibits 53A&B?
Agency IT Investment Portfolio
Agency IT Security …show more content…
They provide the core linkage of the IT Investment Portfolio to the Agency’s performance management system. As such, segments are designed to be common across programs that support the same mission area. Increasingly, shared segments will be common across the government and agencies should plan to use approved government-wide shared segments as their target architecture.
Page 7 of 21 Exhibit 53
(2011)
GUIDANCE ON EXHIBIT 53—INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-GOVERNMENT
Solution Architecture is a standardized method of identifying business requirements and viable technology solutions within the context of a single agency’s enterprise architecture or a multi-agency sector or government-wide/international architecture. Solution architecture includes current and future views as well as transition plans at a number of levels of scope including applications, systems, segments, enterprise, sector, government-wide, national, and international. The Federal Solution Architecture Methodology (FSAM) is scheduled for release in October 2011 to provide the repeatable process for doing solution architecture.
Steady State (see “Operations and Maintenance” in this …show more content…
Submit an agency IT investment portfolio (Exhibits 53A) to OMB if your government agency is subject to
Executive Branch review (see Section 25.1). Submit an agency security portfolio (Exhibit 53B) as required.
Required agencies include all CFO Act agencies and any others as directed.
53.6 How do I submit Exhibit 53 and when is it due?
The guidance for Exhibit 53 requires agencies to submit draft and updated Exhibit 53As and final Exhibit
53Bs.
A draft Exhibit 53A shall be completed by the agency and submitted to OMB. This will allow the agency and
OMB to agree to which major and non-major IT investments will be reported as part of the next President's
Budget Request, and to confirm the mapping of agency investments to agency architectures. The initial draft
Exhibit 53A must conform to a template described later in this section, which will be published on the OMB
MAX portal, and shall be submitted to the IT Dashboard (http://www.itdashboard.gov/ ) by CIO Council agencies. Specific steps for completing the submission will be available on the OMB MAX portal and
GUIDANCE ON EXHIBIT 53—INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-GOVERNMENT
Table of Contents
53.1
53.2
53.3
53.4
53.5
53.6
53.7
53.8
53.9
53.10
Ex-53A
Ex-53B
Why must I report on information technology (IT) investments?
What background information must I know?
How do I ensure that IT investments are linked to and support agency strategic plans?
What special terms should I know?
How do I determine whether I must report?
How do I submit Exhibit 53 and when is it due?
If I submitted Exhibit 53 last year, how do I revise it this year?
How are Exhibits 53A&B organized?
How are Exhibits 53A&B coded?
What are the steps to complete Exhibits 53A&B?
Agency IT Investment Portfolio
Agency IT Security …show more content…
They provide the core linkage of the IT Investment Portfolio to the Agency’s performance management system. As such, segments are designed to be common across programs that support the same mission area. Increasingly, shared segments will be common across the government and agencies should plan to use approved government-wide shared segments as their target architecture.
Page 7 of 21 Exhibit 53
(2011)
GUIDANCE ON EXHIBIT 53—INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-GOVERNMENT
Solution Architecture is a standardized method of identifying business requirements and viable technology solutions within the context of a single agency’s enterprise architecture or a multi-agency sector or government-wide/international architecture. Solution architecture includes current and future views as well as transition plans at a number of levels of scope including applications, systems, segments, enterprise, sector, government-wide, national, and international. The Federal Solution Architecture Methodology (FSAM) is scheduled for release in October 2011 to provide the repeatable process for doing solution architecture.
Steady State (see “Operations and Maintenance” in this …show more content…
Submit an agency IT investment portfolio (Exhibits 53A) to OMB if your government agency is subject to
Executive Branch review (see Section 25.1). Submit an agency security portfolio (Exhibit 53B) as required.
Required agencies include all CFO Act agencies and any others as directed.
53.6 How do I submit Exhibit 53 and when is it due?
The guidance for Exhibit 53 requires agencies to submit draft and updated Exhibit 53As and final Exhibit
53Bs.
A draft Exhibit 53A shall be completed by the agency and submitted to OMB. This will allow the agency and
OMB to agree to which major and non-major IT investments will be reported as part of the next President's
Budget Request, and to confirm the mapping of agency investments to agency architectures. The initial draft
Exhibit 53A must conform to a template described later in this section, which will be published on the OMB
MAX portal, and shall be submitted to the IT Dashboard (http://www.itdashboard.gov/ ) by CIO Council agencies. Specific steps for completing the submission will be available on the OMB MAX portal and