FSA IT Management
Investment ID: 018-000000125
Overview
Program Title
FSA IT Management
Description
The FSA IT Management (F-ITM) investment provides essential IT strategy, software engineering and testing services, configuration management services and support, Capital Planning and Investment Control, IT Project Management, Enterprise Architecture, and DevSecOps tools that are critical to the operational support and execution of all key FSA business applications. Details follow.
F-ITM is supported by 13 contracts or task orders. FSA IT Management includes the six components of the former Enterprise Architecture and Engineering (EAE) investment: Enterprise Middleware and Architecture Services, Enterprise Architecture Program Support (EAPSS), Technical Design Oversight Services (TDOS), Enterprise IT Architecture SME support, Enterprise Performance Testing, and Enterprise Architecture Repository. Other components of F-ITM are Enterprise Testing Services (ETS), Enterprise Change Management (ECM), Rational Support. IT Portfolio Management and DevSecOps.
Type of Program
Standard IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Investment Detail
The F-ITM investment will ensure that Enterprise Architecture at Federal Student Aid will be performed in a centralized and coordinated fashion. Enterprise Architecture increases operational excellence and reduce risk by:
Enhancing governance & risk management
Increased communication & discovery
Increased compliance
Improving relationships with external parties
Providing input to project planning
Preventing unnecessary duplication of functionality and effort.
Compliance with the legislatively mandated program for Federal agencies to carry out the functions of Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) in complying with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 requires that the Congressional mandates for IT architecture therein are met, thus EAE returns compliance for virtually every other FSA investment.
Benefits of the operational component of the EAE investment include:
a) Supporting enhanced modernized delivery of essential services for the business;
b) Lowering costs by providing a shared infrastructure for reuse and shared use, and
c) Reducing risk by providing localized expertise and support for IT services essential to FSA business and partners.
This investment and its software components permit a single enterprise point-of-contact for middleware and architecture support, saving time and providing common enterprise hosting platform, technologies, tools, and frameworks that individual application vendors do not have to procure separately or develop themselves. This investment also provides the ability to test the performance of applications prior to release. By testing the performance of the application by simulating use, application owners can be confident that expected load on the application can be managed effectively and that users will be able to access and use the system as planned.
Enhancing governance & risk management
Increased communication & discovery
Increased compliance
Improving relationships with external parties
Providing input to project planning
Preventing unnecessary duplication of functionality and effort.
Compliance with the legislatively mandated program for Federal agencies to carry out the functions of Federal Chief Information Officers (CIO) in complying with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 requires that the Congressional mandates for IT architecture therein are met, thus EAE returns compliance for virtually every other FSA investment.
Benefits of the operational component of the EAE investment include:
a) Supporting enhanced modernized delivery of essential services for the business;
b) Lowering costs by providing a shared infrastructure for reuse and shared use, and
c) Reducing risk by providing localized expertise and support for IT services essential to FSA business and partners.
This investment and its software components permit a single enterprise point-of-contact for middleware and architecture support, saving time and providing common enterprise hosting platform, technologies, tools, and frameworks that individual application vendors do not have to procure separately or develop themselves. This investment also provides the ability to test the performance of applications prior to release. By testing the performance of the application by simulating use, application owners can be confident that expected load on the application can be managed effectively and that users will be able to access and use the system as planned.