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U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the CIO

USDA IT Modernization

-Chris Smith

-Chief Information Officer, USDA

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Overview

• Background

• Challenges

• Strategic Approach

• Initiatives

• Acreage Crop Reporting and Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI)

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USDA Background

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a diverse and

complex organization with programs that touch the lives of

all Americans every day:

• More than 100,000 employees

• Over 300 programs worldwide, leveraging an extensive

network of Federal, State, and local cooperators.

• 6,000 + offices around the Globe

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USDA Background

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Vision

To help America’s rural communities thrive and foster innovation as aresult of expanded economic opportunities and sustainable agriculturalproduction that nourishes America’s children and the world andconserves the Nation’s natural resources

Goals

• Assist rural communities to create prosperity so they are self-sustaining, repopulating, and economically thriving

• Ensure our national forests and private working lands are conserved, restored, and made more resilient to climate change, while enhancing our water resources

• Help America promote agricultural production and biotechnology exports as America works to increase food security

• Ensure that all of America’s children have access to safe, nutritious, and balanced meals


USDA IT Portfolio

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• 150,000 desktops/laptops

• 7,000 servers

• 5 Enterprise Data Centers

• ~110,000 Users

• ~ 6,000 Offices


USDA IT Challenges

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• Complex Business Models

• Multiple Business Verticals

• Broad Geographical Presence

• Aged Infrastructure – Much Of It Well Beyond Useful Life

• Outdated Technology – Many Systems Based on 1980s

Technology

• Lack of a Cohesive Strategy – Until Now!


USDA IT Presence

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USDA IT Modernization Framework

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Workflow

Content Mgt/Messaging/Collaboration

Mission Specific/Agency Specific Systems

Financial/ERP HR System GIS

UTN - Networks/Communications

Enterprise Data Center Hosting

Disaster Recovery/COOP

Service Desk

INFRASTRUCTURE

IT Security: Tools, Processes & People

IT Security: Tools, Processes & People

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USDA IT Modernization Strategic Drivers

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• Mission Focused/Business Driven Information Technology

Leadership, Services and Innovative Solutions

• Unified USDA Architecture, Systems and Infrastructure

• Robust, Comprehensive IT Security and Privacy

• Pro-Active Stewardship of Information Technology

• World Class Workforce, World Class Workplace (WCW2)


Modernization Initiatives -Enhancing Service Delivery

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Mission

• Comprehensive Loan Program (CLP)

• Modernize and Innovate the Delivery of Agricultural Services (MIDAS)

• Public Health Information System

• RMS IT Modernization (ITM)

• Web Based Supply Chain Management (WBSCM)

• Acreage Crop Reporting Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI)

Communications Collaboration Productivity

Foundational

• Financial Management Modernization Initiative (FMMI)

• Agriculture Security Operations Center (ASOC)

• Optimized Computing Environment (OCE)

• Enterprise Data Centers (EDC)

• Next Generation Network

• Unified Communications


Modernization Initiatives - Benefits

• Streamlined service delivery across programs

• Usage of new technology

• Process and data standardization across programs

• Provision and promote self service for users

• Leverage Geospatial Intelligence

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Acreage Crop Reporting and Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI) - Drivers

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• Based on listening sessions with producers and employees, the

Secretary has asked Deputy Under Secretary FFAS Michael Scuse

and USDA CIO Chris Smith to simplify the acreage reporting

process.

• The project is to focus on establishing a common USDA

framework for Producer commodity reporting in support of USDA

programs that will enable the producer to report common data

once and RMA, FSA, NRCS and NASS to share the data to

eliminate duplicate reporting by producers.

• Critical activity in defining data standards to support

modernization initiatives


Acreage Crop Reporting and Streamlining Initiative (ACRSI) – Drivers (cont)

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• Comments from meeting with Precision Ag Industry, USDA

Agencies and Approved Insurance Providers in July

• Private industry needs the common business elements, commodity identifiers,

data format and standards for USDA program participation in order to meet

standards required by agencies.

• USDA needs to resolve or provide translations for commodity differences and

major reporting differences such as crop insurance units and FSA Farm, Tract

and Field.

• Common Land Unit data elements and reporting standards are needed to allow

service providers or producers to use in their systems for record keeping.

• Compliance and oversight groups need to agree with the standards and

processes for calibrating Precision Ag equipment for USDA acceptance of the

information.


The ACRSI Program

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• Acreage Crop Reporting and Streamline Initiative (ACRSI)

Charter was approved in July 2010

• ACRSI is sponsored by the Deputy Undersecretary of Farm

and Foreign Agricultural Services (FFAS) and the Department

of Agriculture Chief Information Officer (CIO)

• The Executive Steering Committee is comprised of the

administrators of the RMA, FSA, NRCS, and NASS

• Project team of over 50 agency Subject Matter Experts has

been established and meets weekly to define a common

USDA framework for Producer Commodity Reporting


ACRSI – Goal and Benefits

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Goal

Establish data standards and framework for common information used for

producer commodity reporting to USDA

Objectives

• Develop Data Standards for collection, reporting and maintenance of USDA program

data and a multi-agency Governance Process

• Publish the standards on National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) to encourage

universal adoption in agriculture service providers systems and technologies thus

assisting producers in meeting USDA requirements

• Establish process to “share” and leverage data across agency systems

• Provide producers the option to report directly to a consolidated USDA Reporting site


ACRSI – Goal and Benefits (cont)

Benefits

• Simplify producer reporting

• Facilitate the implementation of the comprehensive USDA reporting strategy

• Minimize duplicate data entry

• Maximize data reuse

• Increase reliability, accuracy, integrity, and completeness of data

• Assist in early detection and prevention of waste, fraud, and abuse

• Process and data standardization to provide a framework for other modernization initiatives

The Project will

• Consider the voluntarily use of Precision Ag software and equipment to assist producers in meeting program participation requirements

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ACRSI Scope

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• Department-wide standardization of data and processes for

the following Business Areas

• Producer/Business Entity Identification

• Annual Crop/Commodity Report

• Land Location Information

• Crop/Commodity Production

• Implementation of the USDA Data Governance Process

• Release of approved standards for Government,

Commercial and Public use in National Information

Exchange Model (NIEM)


NIEM at a Glance

NIEM is a Federal, State, Local ,Tribal and Private inter-agency initiative providing a foundation

for seamless information exchange. NIEM is more than a data model, it is a community and

has a technical and support framework.

Support Framework

Tools for Development and

Discovery

Established Training Program

Implementation Support

Community

Self-Managing Domain Stewards

Formal Governance Processes

Online Repositories

Mission-Oriented Domains

Technical Framework

Data Model

XML Design Rules

Development Methodology

Predefined Deliverables (IEPD)


Scope of NIEM

NIEM is a data layer standard and intentionally does not address

all of the necessary technologies needed for information sharing.


NIEM Technical Architecture

NIEM Core consists of data

elements that are commonly

understood across domains

NIEM Domains include mission

specific data that is

managed through

independent

stewards

Agriculture domain

will be added

through the efforts

of the ACRSI

project


ACRSI – Critical Deliverables

• Short Term (<6 Months)

• Establish ACRSI data elements including common and unique sets of

valid values, attributes, collection requirements, and validation rules for

those data elements

• Customer (Producer/ Business Entity)

• Commodity (Crop)

• Location (CLU, PLSS, County Codes)

• Production

• Establish multi-agency governance process for maintaining the ACSRI

data elements

• Review impact of Section 1619 as it relates to the availability and access

to the CLU

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ACRSI – Critical Deliverables (cont)

• Medium Term (6 – 18 months)

• Release the standardized schema to the public through a National

Information Exchange Model (NIEM) repository

• Determine a Process for USDA Users and Producers to maintain and

retrieve their Producer/entity information

• Long Term (> 18 months)

• Implement process for Producers to input, retrieve and maintain certain

Producer/business entity information

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Questions

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