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The Baseline Assessment is more than just an inventory of investments; but serves as a 9
mechanism to normalize and compare investments; a means to demonstrate to Executive 10
Leadership the magnitude of the collective geospatial need across an enterprise; and can be used 11
as input to the OMB CPIC (Section 2.4.2) and annual OMB Roadmap submission for IT Asset 12
Inventory. Performed as a task under the direction of an organization’s Geospatial Executive 13
Steering Committee, the Baseline Assessment would include a profile of an enterprise’s 14
organizations which have, need or plan to have geospatial capabilities mapped to their Core 15
Stakeholders 16
Table 3-1). The Stakeholders could include communities or sectors such as: federal, state, local, 1
tribal and territory government, public, private and international as well as business/mission 2
areas or “Services for Citizens”52 such as Defense and National Security, Intelligence, Law
3
Enforcement, Operations, Emergency Management, etc. The OMB Federal Enterprise Architecture 4
Business Reference Model v353 provides further subdivisions of the Services for Citizens (e.g., 111
5
Homeland Security: 033: Border and Transpiration Security; 034: Key Asset and Critical 6
Infrastructure Protection; and 035: Catastrophic Defense) that can be used to provide detailed 7
business/mission area delineation. 8 9 52 http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/omb/egov/a-3-2-services.html 53 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/
Table 3-1. Geospatial Baseline Assessment: Core Mission Services and Stakeholders
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(1) SERVICES FOR CITIZENS ORG #1 ORG #2 ORG #3 ORG #4 ORG #5 ORG #6
(103) Defense and National Security Y Y Y
(111) Homeland Security Y Y Y Y Y Y
(113) Intelligence Operations Y Y Y
(104) Disaster Management Y Y Y
(114) International Affairs and Commerce (117) Natural Resources
(107) Energy Y
(108) Environmental Management (105) Economic Development
(101) Community and Social Services Y
(118) Transportation Y (106) Education (119) Workforce Management (110) Health (112) Income Security (115) Law Enforcement Y Y Y
(116) Litigation and Judicial Activities (102) Correctional Activities
(109) General Science and Innovation
Internal to Agency Y Federal Y Y State Y Y Y Local Y Y Y Tribal Y Y Y Territory Y Y Y Public Y Private International Y
These business/mission alignments are directly aligned to the OMB CPIC process (Section 2.4.2) 2
needed for investment planning and justification. Each fiscal year, Federal Agencies are required 3
to submit Exhibit 53s and Exhibit 300s to request funding for new major projects and on-going 4
capital investments and align these projects and investments to the Federal Enterprise 5
Architecture Business Reference Model. This enables OMB to identify projects and investments 6
across the Federal Government that support a common business purpose, which further allows 7
OMB to identify candidate shared services that more agencies can use, thereby reducing the 8
number of redundant services throughout the Federal Government. Through the use of a 9
standard classification scheme, the BRM functional taxonomy, opportunities for shared services 10
and elimination of redundancies may be identified. This high level profile provides a basic 1
awareness of the enterprise organization’s stakeholder communities of interest and an early 2
indication of the types of information sharing opportunities or limitations that may exist. 3
The Baseline Assessment Matrix describes an organization through a taxonomy of common 4
(shared) business/mission functional requirements and/or support service capabilities (Table 3-2) 5
instead of through a stove-piped single organizational view. 6
Table 3-2. Geospatial Baseline Assessment: Core Capability
7 Enterprise Investment Visualization Geo- Analysis/ Processing
Reporting Search & Discovery Alerts & Notifications Collaboration Content Mgmt Resource Mgmt Data Mgmt Asset Mgmt Decision Support IT Security Other Org #1 C C C P P P P C C P P C Org #2 C C C C C P C C C C Org #3 C C C C C C C C C Org #4 C C C C C C C C Org #5 C C C C C C C C C C C Org #6 C C C C C C C P C P Org #7 P P P Org #8 C C C C C C Org #9 C C C C C Commonality Score Percent (%) 9 7 6 6 8 6 4 4 7 3 5 9 0 100% 78% 67% 67% 89% 67% 44% 44% 78% 33% 56% 100% 0%
Status: C = Current, P = Planned
The Baseline Assessment Matrix will allow for a high-level view of an enterprise organization’s 8
investments (e.g., C = Current and P = Planned) in the areas of: Visualization, Geospatial Analysis 9
and Processing, Reporting, Search and Discovery, Alerts and Notifications, Collaboration, Content 10
Management, Resource Management, Data Management, Asset Management, Decision Support, 11
IT Security and other categories as defined by the Executive Steering Committee. This profile of 12
Current/Planned investments provides an initial, high-level profile of the general types of needs 13
each organization provides its stakeholders. This profile helps to frame the more detailed Baseline 14
Assessments that will come in the areas of: Data Inputs and Datasets (Chapter 4); Functionality 15
Assessment (Chapter 5); Infrastructure and Technology Assessment (Chapter 6). 16
Once all of the Baseline Assessment Matrices have all been developed, it will provide the 17
framework for the Executive Leaders, Program Managers and Solution Architects to begin to 18
assess opportunities to leverage and maximize shared-service capabilities across the enterprise. It 19
will also provide the basis for an assessment of where possible redundant investments could be 20
reduced; which planned investments could be avoided by agreeing to a steward or service 21
provider (e.g., Org #X or Org #Y) for the use of one of the investments which is most effective. The 22
Matrix will also begin to identify where gaps exist and planned investments can be prioritized and 23
leveraged. 24