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Reference Material:
Next Generation Risk Management and Information Security
NIST 800-53 Revision 3 Presentation by Dr. Ron Ross
OMB Circulars
http://www.whitehouse.gov/OMB/circulars/index.html
OMB Circular No. A-11 (2007)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a11/current_year/a11_toc.html
MB Circular No. A-11, Part 7 (Section 300)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a11/current_year/s300.pdf
OMB Circular No. A-11, Section 53
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a11/current_year/s53.pdf
GAO - Assessing Risk and Returns: A Guide for Evaluating Federal Agencies IT Investment Decision Making, February 1997
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/ai10113.pdf
Government Performance Results Act (GPRA) of 1993
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/mgmt-gpra/print/gplaw2m.html
Part I - Section A: Overview
Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Manager (FAC-P/PM) Program Blueprints
http://www.fai.gov/certification/blueprints.asp
FAC-P/PM Certification Level of the Project/Program Manager
http://www.fai.gov/pdfs/FAC-PPM-Draft-Blueprint-100507-5.pdf
The President's Management Agenda (PMA)
http://www.results.gov
PMA Scorecard Status Score Criteria for Specific Initiatives
http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/agenda/standards.pdf
Program Assessment Rating tool (PART)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/part/
CIO Council PM Guidance - IT PM Qualification Guidance (per OMB Memorandum M-04-19), Posted 07.21.2004
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy04/m04-19.pdf
Federal IT Project Manager Guidance Matrix
http://www.cio.gov/documents/Federal%20IT%20PM%20Guidance%20Matrix.ppt
Improving IT Project Planning and Execution (per OMB Memorandum M-05-23), Posted 08.04.2005
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2005/m05-23.pdf
OMB Federal Financial Managers Improvement Act (FFMIA) of 1996 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/financial/ffmia_implementation_guidance.pdf
Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act (FMFIA) of 1982, Effective date 09.08.1982 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/financial/fmfia1982.html
OMB Circular No. A-127 Revised, Financial Management Systems, Posted 07.23.1993 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a127/a127.html
OMB Circular No, A-11, Section 52
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a11/current_year/s52.pdf
Policies for Federal Agency Public Websites (per OMB Memorandum M-05-04), Posted 12.17.2004
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2005/m05-04.pdf
Reports to Congress Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg/prareprt.html
OMB Circular No. A-130
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a130/a130trans4.pdf
GAO High-Risks Series, An Update, Jan. 2007
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07310.pdf
OMB High Risk IT Project List as of September 30, 2007 http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/documents/High_Risk_List_Q4FY07.pdf
Part I - Section B: Summary of Spending
Update to Civilian Position Full Fringe Benefit Cost Factor, Federal Pay Raise Assumptions, and Inflation Factors used in OMB Circular No. A-76, "Performance of Commercial Activities", Posted 03.11.2008
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2008/m08-13.pdf
2008 Discount Rates for OMB Circular No. A-94, Posted 01.14.2008
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2008/m08-08.pdf
OMB Circular No. A-94, Guidelines and Discount Rates for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Federal Programs
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a094/a094.pdf
Part I - Section C: Acquisition Strategy
OMB Circular No. A-11, Capital Programming Guide Supplement to Part 7
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a11/cpgtoc.html
The Federal Acquisition Reform Act and the FAR Implementation of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act can be found at the reference library for Acquisition Reform (ARNET)
http://www.arnet.gov/
Federal Real Property Council Guidance Documents can be found on the OMB Asset Management Website
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/financial/fia_asset.html
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) Information
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement/index.html
Chief Financial Officers Council Guidance Documents
http://www.cfoc.gov/
GAO - Responsibilities and Information and Technology Governance at Leading Private Sector Companies, Posted 09.09.2005
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05986.pdf
Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC)
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/financing/superespcs.html
Utility Energy Services Contracts (UESC)
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/financing/uescs.html
GAO NASA: Enhanced Use Leasing (EUL) Program Needs Additional Controls, Posted 03.01.2007
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07306r.pdf
The Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting Program, Posted 01.20.2006
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement/acq_wk/fac_contracting_program.pdf
Ensuring the Accessibility of Federal Electronic and Information Technologies Procured by Federal Agencies, Posted 11.06.2007
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement/508/electronic_info_technologies.pdf
Section 508 Compliance of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
http://www.acquisition.gov/far/current/html/Subpart%2039_2.html#wp1004775
Section 508 Compliance Information
http://www.section508.gov/
Refer EVM related links at Part II - Section C: Cost and Schedule Performance
Part I - Section D: Performance Information
FEA Performance Reference Model (PRM)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-2-prm.html
OMB Circular No. A-136 - Financial Reporting Requirements - Performance and Accountability Reports (PARs), Posted 07.24.2006
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a136/a136_revised_2006.pdf
GSA - Performance Based Management - Eight Steps to Develop and Use Information Technology Performance Measures Effectively, Posted Dec. 1996
http://www.koren21.net/research/down2.php?filename=../data/performance-based+management+8+steps.pdf
CIO Council - Value Measuring Methodology: How-to-Guide, Posted Oct. 2002
http://www.cio.gov/documents/ValueMeasuring_Methodology_HowToGuide_Oct_2002.pdf
GAO - Information Technology Investment Management (ITIM) - A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity, May 2000, version 1
http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/ai10123.pdf
Part I - Section E: Security and Privacy
Next Generation Risk Management and Information Security
NIST 800-53 Revision 3 Presentation by Dr. Ron Ross
E-Government Act of 2002, Effective date 12.17.2002
http://www.reg-group.com/library/E-GovLaw.pdf
S.803, E-Government Act of 2002 (Amended)
http://www.cdt.org/legislation/107th/e-gov/020325s803analysis.pdf
FY2007 Reporting Instructions for the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and Agency Privacy Management (per OMB Memorandum M-07-19), Posted 07.25.2007
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2007/m07-19.pdf
OMB Guidance for Implementing the Privacy Provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002, (per OMB Memorandum M-03-22), Posted 09.26.2003
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/m03-22.html
NIST Federal Information Processing Standard Publication (FIPS Pub. 199), Standards for Security Categorization of Federal Information and Information Systems, Posted Feb. 2004
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips199/FIPS-PUB-199-final.pdf
NIST 800-37, Guide for the Security Certification and Accreditation of Federal Information Systems, Posted May 2004
http://www.fylrr.com/archives.php?doc=SP800-37-final.pdf
NIST 800-53, Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems, Posted Dec. 2006
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-53-Rev1/800-53-rev1-final-clean-sz.pdf
NIST FIPS 200, Minimum Security Requirements for Federal Information and Information Systems, Posted Mar. 2006
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips200/FIPS-200-final-march.pdf
NIST FIPS 201-1, Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors, Posted Mar. 2006
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips201-1/FIPS-201-1-chng1.pdf
Government-wide Privacy Act Systems Of Records Notices (SORN)
http://www.dod.mil/privacy/govwide/
DLA Privacy Act Systems Of Records Notices (SORN)
http://www.dod.mil/privacy/notices/dla/
DoD Acquisition Community Connection EVM
https://acc.dau.mil/evm
Defense Acquisition Guidebook
https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=106830
EVMS Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) Case, Published in the Federal Register dated Jul. 05, 2006
http://www.pubklaw.com/facs/fac2005-11.pdf
DoD Earned Value Management Implementation Guide, Oct. 2006
http://guidebook.dcma.mil/79/EVMIG.doc
Federal EVM Community of Interest Group (EVM CoEye), POC - Neil Albert (nalbert@mcri.com)
http://www.fedevm.org
The Costs and Benefits of the EVM Process, David S. Christensen, Acquisition Review Quarterly, Fall 1998
http://www.dau.mil/pubs/arq/98arq/chrisevm.pdf
Valuable EVM Related Websites
http://www.niwotridge.com/Resources/DomainLinks/EarnedValue.htm
The Earned Value Management Maturity Model
http://www.mgmt-technologies.com/evmtech.html
Using CMMI to Improve EVM, Paul Solomon, Software Engineering Process Management, Oct. 2002
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/02.reports/pdf/02tn016.pdf
Part I - Section F: Enterprise Architecture (EA)
FEA Consolidated Reference Model Document version 2.3, Oct. 2007
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/documents/FEA_CRM_v23_Final_Oct_2007.pdf
FEA Technical Reference Model (TRM)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-6-trm.html
FEA Service Component Reference Model (SRM)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-4-srm.html
Part II - Section A - Alternative Analysis
Clinger Cohen Act of 1996 (formerly known as The Information Technology Management Reform Act)
http://www.cio.gov/documents/it_management_reform_act_feb_1996.html
Refer OMB Circular A-94 links at Part I - Section B: Summary of Spending
Part II - Section B: Risk Management
Next Generation Risk Management and Information Security
NIST 800-53 Revision 3 Presentation by Dr. Ron Ross
Part II - Section C: Cost and Schedule Performance
NDIA PMSC EVMS Intent Guide-Nov. 2006 Edition
http://management.energy.gov/documents/NDIA_PMSC_EVMS_IntentGuide_Nov_2006.pdf
NDIA PMSC Earned Value Management Systems Application Guide, Mar. 2007
http://www.ndia.org/Content/ContentGroups/Divisions1/Procurement/NDIA_PMSC_Application_Guide_March%202007%20Release.pdf
OMB Information on Earned Value Management System (EVMS) - Improving IT Project Planning and Execution (per OMB Memorandum M-05-23), Posted 08.04.2005
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/fy2005/m05-23.pdf
CIO Council - A Framework for Developing EVMS Policy for IT Projects, Posted 12.05.2005
http://www.cio.gov/documents/Framework_for_Developing_EVMS_Policy_12-5-05.pdf
Best Practices Guide for Coordinating the Preparation and Audit of Federal Financial Statements, Effective date 10.01.2007
http://www.cfoc.gov/documents/Coordinating-Prep-Audit_Fed_Financial_Statements.pdf
Part III: Operation and Maintenance (SS only)
Others:
OMB Management Watch List Investments
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/documents/MgtWatchList.pdf
Table 9-6: FY2009 Exhibit 300 Evaluation Criteria
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/ap_cd_rom/9_6.pdf
