ETA Grant Performance Mission Delivery
Investment ID: 012-000000039
Overview
Program Title
ETA Grant Performance Mission Delivery
Description
Provides development for a cross-program, cloud-based Case Management Platform that supports ETA Offices as they manage grant and apprenticeship cases. Purpose is to record, process, track, and report on training grant performance in accordance with WIOA legislation. Supports ETA Programs, job seekers looking for employment education, and employers seeking skilled workers. The system allows DOL to track and process interactions, data, and content for decision-making and performance reporting.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Investment Detail
The GPMS Investment provides many benefits, both internally to the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and externally to the general public. GPMS is another enterprise cloud-based system leveraging the commercial cloud hosting vendor used by other ETA investments, which complies with OMB's cloud-first policy and supports the DOL IRM Goal 1 of Modernizing the DOL IT Infrastructure.This includes helping DOL meet its Agency Priority Goal of increasing apprenticeships by making it easier for businesses to start apprenticeship programs and for job seekers to find apprenticeship opportunities. It will allow users to track registered apprenticeship program sponsors from initial contact through the development of programs and collect employment outcomes of apprentices. These new cloud-based IT tools will improve the customer experience, improve efficiency for apprenticeship performance and evaluation, and greatly reduce the time necessary for registering, managing and reporting on programs and apprentices. GPMS will also help grantees in other Programs have easier access to data and report compliance requirements, and in the case of some programs will transform paper-based or desktop-applications into a web-based application, increasing availability, reducing processing time, and improving data quality.
EBSS: Under the President s Management Agenda, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other Federal agencies developed a set of common performance measures to be applied to certain Federally-funded employment and training programs with similar strategic goals. As part of this initiative, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) initially issued Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 15-03 and has more recently issued TEGL 28-04, Common Measures Policy, which rescinded TEGL 15-03 and reflected updates to the policy. The common performance measures are an integral part of ETA s performance accountability system, and ETA will continue to collect from grantees the data on program activities, participants, and outcomes that are necessary for program management and to convey full and accurate information on the performance of workforce programs to policymakers and stakeholders. EBSS ROI is based on providing excellent services and significant costs savings over the life of the investment. A large portion of the ROI is based on staff cost savings EBSS re-purposes program staff time away from repetitive tasks by using technology tools like workflow automation, and data management solutions.
WIPS: This investment fulfills ETA's Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requirements. The update to WIOA was mandatory and ETA had no choice to but to make the update to the system. The WIPS Investment provides many benefits, both internally to the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and externally to the general public. The WIPS Investment was the first enterprise cloud-based system leveraging a commercial cloud hosting vendor within the ETA, complies with OMB's cloud-first policy, and enables DOL to collect and process all of the data required by the WIOA legislation. The scalable and elastic cloud-based system addresses peak utilization concerns and saved ETA from spending significant financial resources building an in-house data center and then maintaining that data center across its life cycle.
EBSS: Under the President s Management Agenda, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other Federal agencies developed a set of common performance measures to be applied to certain Federally-funded employment and training programs with similar strategic goals. As part of this initiative, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) initially issued Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) 15-03 and has more recently issued TEGL 28-04, Common Measures Policy, which rescinded TEGL 15-03 and reflected updates to the policy. The common performance measures are an integral part of ETA s performance accountability system, and ETA will continue to collect from grantees the data on program activities, participants, and outcomes that are necessary for program management and to convey full and accurate information on the performance of workforce programs to policymakers and stakeholders. EBSS ROI is based on providing excellent services and significant costs savings over the life of the investment. A large portion of the ROI is based on staff cost savings EBSS re-purposes program staff time away from repetitive tasks by using technology tools like workflow automation, and data management solutions.
WIPS: This investment fulfills ETA's Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requirements. The update to WIOA was mandatory and ETA had no choice to but to make the update to the system. The WIPS Investment provides many benefits, both internally to the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and externally to the general public. The WIPS Investment was the first enterprise cloud-based system leveraging a commercial cloud hosting vendor within the ETA, complies with OMB's cloud-first policy, and enables DOL to collect and process all of the data required by the WIOA legislation. The scalable and elastic cloud-based system addresses peak utilization concerns and saved ETA from spending significant financial resources building an in-house data center and then maintaining that data center across its life cycle.