E-Government Initiatives Move Forward

The Office of Management and Budget's list of 22 e-government initiatives includes projects ranging from tax filing for citizens to international trade processing for businesses.

The 22 projects were culled from about 269 projects suggested to OMB and its e-gov task force. OMB has grouped the projects into four categories: government to citizen, government to business, government to government and internal effectiveness and efficiency.

The projects should be deployed in the next 18 to 24 months. Each project has a managing partner or agency that will oversee its development. The initiatives cut across many federal agencies and include partnerships with state and local governments.

The projects and managing partners are:

Government to citizen:

• USA services - GSA


• EZ tax filing - Treasury


• Online access for loans - Education


• Recreation one stop - Interior


• Eligibility assistance - Labor

• Federal asset sales - GSA


• Online rule-making management - Transportation


• Simplified and unified tax and wage reporting - Treasury


• Consolidated health informatics - HHS


• Business compliance one stop - Small Business Administration


• International trade process streamlining - Commerce
  

• e-Vital - Social Security


• e-Grants - HHS


• Disaster assistance and crisis response - FEMA


• Geospatial information one stop - Interior


• Wireless networks - Justice

• e-Training - Office of Personnel Management


• Recruitment one stop - OPM


• Enterprise human resources integration with eTravel - OPM (two initiatives)


• Integrated acquisition - GSA


• e-Records management - National Archives and Records Administration