FGDC Business Update FGDC Secretariat Report CG Agenda Items

1. January 12, 2010 Coordination Group Meeting Updated 1/11/10 FGDC Business UpdateFGDC Secretariat ReportCG Agenda Items Ken Shaffer FGDC Deputy Executive Director 703-648-5740 kmshaffer@fgdc.gov

2. Background This presentation contains information that supplements a set of read-aheads on the topics covered in the CG meeting and will be used as a walk-though of all the topics at the CG meeting. Use this presentation before reviewing the read-aheads in order to gain context. Materials will not be presented in full at the meeting, it is the responsibility of the attendees to review the material prior to the meeting, as per CG standard operating procedures.

3. Content Summary • FGDC Business Update • Information on current FGDC initiatives/activities • FGDC Secretariat Report • Information on Secretariat staff activities (outside of support for business operations) • CG Agenda Items • Other items on the Coordination Group (CG) agenda with references to any read-aheads

4. FGDC Business Update • Monthly Decisions Summary • Coordination Group Co-Chair • Items for Executive Committee Meeting • Geospatial Line of Business Update • 2011 Budget Language • Monthly Geospatial LoB Report • HUD Geospatial Meeting • National Geospatial Forum • Place-Based Policy • Imagery for the Nation (IFTN) • Data.gov

5. FGDC Secretariat Report • National Geospatial Advisory Committee, March 24-25, Washington D.C. • Executive Committee, January 14, 2009 • 2010 NSDI CAP Program • Leadership and participation memo to Steering Committee • FGDC Standards Survey • FGDC Staffing

6. CG Agenda Items • Metadata Working Group Report • Geologic Data Subcommittee Report • U.S. Topographic Map • FAA Airports GIS • A-16 Supplemental Guidance

7. Monthly Decisions Summary • Coordination Group • Users/Historical Data Working Group charter was approved • Steering Committee • n/a • Executive Committee • none Contact: Ken Shaffer, FGDC, kmshaffer@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

8. CG Co-Chair Selection Process • Vote process • Call for additional CG members – email, complete • Call for CG Co-Chair nominations – email, closed 1/8/2010 • Self nomination with SAOGI concurrence on commitment • Vote – TBD by response Contact: Ken Shaffer, FGDC, kmshaffer@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

9. Items for Executive Committee Meeting • New CG Co-Chair will bring these items up at the ExCom meeting • Participation levels • Input discussion … What items does the CG want to take to the 1/14 ExCom meeting? Contact: Ken Shaffer, FGDC, kmshaffer@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

10. Geospatial Line of Business Update • Smart Buy Award • Program Milestones Summary • Work Group Highlights • GeoLoB Actions • FY2011 Support Contract Contact: Lew Sanford, FGDC, lsanford@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

11. SmartBUY a winner • Federal IT Procurement: Readers name 20 most-used federal contractsFederal Computer Week and Government Computer News surveyed a random sample of 91,622 readers in April and May about their IT buying habits. • The results yielded a list of the top 20 most used government IT contracts. The top five contain three contracts from the General Services Administration and two from the Department of Defense. The contracts are in rank order by the percent of readers who use them: • GSA SmartBuy - 35% • GSA Schedule 70 - 30% • Defense Department Enterprise Software Initiative - 18% • GSA FTS 2001/Networx - 18% • Army Small Computer Program - 16%.

12. And the awardees are: • We congratulate the following suppliers on receiving an award including: • SAIC at http://www.saic.com/about/; • Planet Associates at http://www.planet-gis.com/index.html; • ISC at http://www.isc.ca/; and • ONIX at http://www.onixnet.com/. • These geospatial information systems software providers offer a range of solutions for sophisticated geodata creating agencies, geodata consumers, and a wide variety of other potential users. • The existing SmartBUY will remain in force thereby providing access to ESRI, Inc.

14. Rollout Kit "live"

15. Program Milestones Summary

16. Work Group Highlights • Architecture & Technology WG • Interesting discussions have been initiated with GSA to partner around the GeoCloud initiative using apps.gov. GSA is interested in supporting the strategy to demonstrate value of computing and data sharing in the cloud. • Segment Architecture efforts are planning to use the ICAM (Security Segment) as a model. Continued work to partner in the architecture community remains a priority. • Geo-Enabled Business WG • On agenda today • Grants & Contracts – language in subcommittee, no status update.

17. WG Highlights continued • Common Services WG • Electronic market survey in progress to ascertain agency needs and priorities. Have you done your survey? • SmartBUY Rollout Kit is live on FGDC website • SmartBUY formal announcement on December 17, 2010.

18. WG Highlights continued • Lifecycle Work Group • Pre-validation Survey – in progress. Agency responses are delayed, but agencies seem engaged. This is a crucial step for any additional validation activity and may be the basis for the A-16 Ad Hoc Team for establishing an initial theme & dataset inventory. • Data Clean UpAgencies have identified 128 data set candidates for the A-16 Data Set Validation ExerciseAs of 1/07/0 four Agencies sent specific lists are still outstandingRemaining issues A few submittals are still not single Data Set Assets Some Definitions data set definitions need refinement • Validation toolDiscussions underway with 3 statisticians on approach and analysis algorithm • MetricsWork continues on refining life-cycle, financial and organization/administrative metrics • Walk through assessment • Finalizing assessments of first quarter walk through assessments will initiate evaluation of process and lessons learned in January • Will utilize results of evaluation and data call clean up to make 2nd quarter walk through selections. • Meeting with OMB has caused formation of A-16 Ad Hoc Team. This team will need inventory information from the survey to inform the revisions suggested by OMB.

19. Geo LoB Actions • Geospatial LoB met with the DOI-IRB in December to request transition to ‘steady-state’ to better fit our programmatic nature (Non-IT) • Met with OMB 1/8/10 where approval to transition to steady state was granted • Will set revised milestones in keeping with current work plans and support update to the IT Dashboard

20. Geo LoB FY2011 Contract • Draft tasks for planned contract have been posted to the MyUSGS website • This is for federal review only • Once comments are received we will evaluate and adjudicate if needed prior to submitting for contract review • USGS requires an NDA from all reviewers of the SOW • NDA will be posted to the share site for signature and fax return • Please review and comment on the draft tasks, in writing to Lew Sanford and Roxanne Lamb by January 30, 2010.

21. Monthly Geospatial LoB Report • GeoLob “At-a-Glance” • GeoLob Monthly Status Report – October Contact: Lew Sanford, lsanford@fgdc.gov Read ahead: GeoLoB At a glance dec.09.pdf (pending), Geo LoB Monthly Status Report Dec 2009.pdf (pending)

22. 2011 Budget Language • OMB Passback • Next Steps Contact: Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC, ideloatch@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

23. HUD Meeting • December 17, 2009 • Hosted by Rafael Bostic • Asst. Secretary of Policy Development and Research at HUD • HUD reaching out to the Federal geospatial community, a number of CG members present • Goals • Develop a few projects that are focused on influencing specific policy decisions or actions so data collection, systems development, and messaging are focused toward that end. • Garner attention to the utility of geospatial tools so that other decision-makers would want to use them also and wonder why they are not. • Follow-up meeting scheduled for 1/22/10 • How does this effort relate to Place-Based Policy? Contact: Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC, ideloatch@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

24. HUD Meeting Proposed Projects Coastal communities: Using geospatial analysis to help inform pre- and post-disaster decisions regarding where mitigation investments should be made. (NOAA Lead) Tightening Mortgage Practices: Using data on mortgage fraud collected by the DOJ, demonstrate the costs of foreclosure and fraud on neighborhoods and emphasize the need to improve and tighten state-level regulation (DOJ Lead) Cities in transition: Use data on brownfields, vacancies, and the like to help urban places experiencing long-term decline see their options for spatial investments to effect meaningful economic change. (HUD Lead)

25. National Geospatial Forum • 1st Forum was December 9, 2009 • Audience - federal government geospatial executives • Discussion about the development of a national place-based policy • The event was hosted on-line, lasted one hour, and included a brief introductory presentation followed by a facilitated discussion between panelists and participants • Good event, met the goal of testing the technology • Video will soon be available, linked from the FGDC web site • Future Forums will be targeted to other stakeholders • Next Forum targeted for late March 2010 • 1/13/10 meeting of the planning team to begin development of the next Forum and identify topic and audience Contact: Arista Salimi Maher, FGDC, amaher@usgs.gov Read ahead: none

26. Place-Based Policy - Background • Executive Office of the President Memorandum M-09-28: “Developing Effective Place-Based Policies for the FY 2011 Budget, August 11, 2009” • OMB Budget Data Request No. 09-42: “Place-Based Policies and Programs” • “… to advance the Administration’s domestic and fiscal priorities and to increase the impact of government dollars by leveraging place-conscious planning and place-based programming.” • “Place-based policies leverage investments by focusing resources in targeted places and drawing on the compounding effect of well-coordinated action. Effective place-based policies can influence how rural and metropolitan areas develop, how well they function as places to live, work, operate a business, preserve heritage, and more. Such policies can also streamline otherwise redundant and disconnected programs.” • FGDC support/participation in Place-based policies in continued discussions • http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_fy2009/m09-28.pdf Contact: Ivan DeLoatch, ideloatch@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

27. FGDC Executive Committee and leadership in on-going discussions with Executive Office of the President (EOP) leadership Many proposal from agency budget offices received by OMB in response to the memo CG members s/b tracking these within their agencies There are existing tasks in the GeoLoB GEB work plan to support Place-Based Policy CG needs to determine how to prepare and support these efforts Place-Based Policy

28. Imagery for the Nation • Finalizing the Phase 1 Plan • ExCom presentation on final content this week • Launching point for development of the business case Contact: John Mahoney, FGDC, jmahoney@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

29. New Concept of Operations (ConOps) document available to Federal agencies Incorporates suggestions from the FGDC ExCom Metadata quality issues need further discussion Federal CIO actively pushing tighter integration with GOS and the addition of more geospatial records Discussions are on-going to define what this integration will include Data.gov Contact: Ken Shaffer, FGDC, kmshaffer@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

30. FGDC Secretariat Report National Geospatial Advisory Committee, March 24-25, Washington D.C. Executive Committee, January 14, 2009 2010 NSDI CAP Program Leadership and participation memo to Steering Committee FGDC Standards Survey FGDC Staffing

31. NGAC Mar. 24-25, 2010 Meeting • Washington Circle Hotel, D.C. • Agenda in planning stages • New appointments are in final review stages at DOI, anticipate end of January announcement Contact: John Mahoney, FGDC, jmahoney@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

32. ExCom Jan. 14, 2010 Meeting • CG liaison participation (tentative) • IFTN report review • Data.gov • GeoLoB, passback language, A-16 Supplemental • Next National Geospatial Forum • Drafting NGAC direction for 2010 activities • Recent activity with Place-Based Policy Contact: Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC, ideloatch@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

33. 2010 NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program • Announcement posted on Grants.gov on October 16 - http://www.fgdc.gov/grants/ • Closed January 7, 2010 • Received 45 proposals • Total funds available $1,320,000 • Awards will start being made in February • Reviewers have been identified Contact: Gita Urban-Mathieux, FGDC, burbanma@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

34. Leadership and participation memo to Steering Committee • FGDC Secretariat will be sending a memo to the Steering Committee • Reiterating the importance of supporting the FGDC and GeoLoB subcommittees and work groups • Identifies GeoLoB WG leadership vacancies, needed expertise, and estimated LOE • Requests additional subject matter expertise and general participation Contact: Lew Sanford, FGDC, lsanford@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

35. FGDC Standards Questionnaire – Review of the Standards Process • Evaluating ways to improve the FGDC standards process • Input on current effectiveness • Ideas on how it might improve • Need to maintain the validity of FGDC standards • Possible follow-up with a workshop Contact: Julie Binder Maitra, FGDC, jmaitra@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

36. FGDC Standards Questionnaire – Review of the Standards Process • Questionnaire on FGDC standards process, http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GWCK335 • Open to Coordination Group members and SWG members - one response per person • Closes 1/22/10 • Should take 20 minutes or less to complete • Secretariat staff and interested SWG members will meet the week of 1/28 to review the results • Results, discussion and decision on path forward will be schedule for 60-90 minutes at the 2/9/10 CG meeting

37. FGDC Standards • Anticipated for delivery to FGDC • 2010-01: Committee draft Address Data Standard • 2010-01 Proposal to revise Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States, FGDC-STD-004 • 2010-04 Committee draft Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) • TBD: Proposal for Building and Facilities standard - GSA

38. 2010 Standards Working Group Meeting Dates • February 23 • May 12 • August 15 • December 8

39. FGDC Staffing • Retirement of Bonnie Gallahan • Training & Education / Tribal Liaison Coordinator Contact: Ken Shaffer, FGDC, kmshaffer@fgdc.gov Read ahead: none

40. CG Agenda Items Metadata Working Group Report Geologic Data Subcommittee Report U.S. Topographic Map FAA Airports GIS A-16 Supplemental Guidance

41. Metadata Working Group Report • Presentation • General activities update Contact: Sharon Shin, FGDC, sshin@fgdc.gov Read ahead: Metadata Work Group Report 20100112.ppt

42. Geologic Data Subcommittee Report • Presentation • General activities update Contact: Dave Soller, USGS, drsoller@usgs.gov Read ahead: none

43. U.S. Topographic Maps • Presentation • Program status and services Contact: Mike Cooley, USGS, mcooley@usgs.gov Read ahead: US Topo Map Presentation – Mike Cooley.pptx

44. FAA Airports GIS • Presentation • Standards • Symbology • AIXM Exchange Format • Interagency Agreements • Authoritative Sources Contact: Charles Adler, FAA, charles.ctr.adler@faa.gov Read ahead: FAA Airports – GIS Program Data Standardization Efforts – Charles Adler.pdf

45. A-16 Supplemental Guidance • OMB comments • Response planning • Ad-hoc response group • Response schedule • SC reviewed draft due to OMB February 2010 Contact: Lew Sanford, FGDC, lsanford@fgdc.gov Read ahead: A-16 Sup Guid OMB comments v3.pdf; A-16 Supplemental Guidance Presentation 20090112.pptx

46. Ken Shaffer FGDC Deputy Executive Director 703-648-5740 kmshaffer@fgdc.gov