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Public Comment Open for FY25 Annual Update to Mission Support Data and Business Standards

July 9, 2024

The Office of Shared Services and Performance Improvement is pleased to announce the release, for public comment, of the upcoming FY25 update to Mission Support Data and Business Standards. These updates integrate feedback from agencies, new legislation, and authoritative references to ensure agency management teams have the latest information needed to streamline procurements and sustain modern, standards-based operation of their mission support capabilities.

Included for public comment in this release on regulations.gov are draft data and business standards for:

Important: Please use the draft FY25 business and data standards attached to the above dockets for public review to provide your feedback.

Background Information

What are the data and business standards?

Data and Business standards, established and agreed to by agencies, using the Federal Integrated Business Framework (FIBF) enable the government to better coordinate on the decision-making needed to determine the types of services and technologies that can be adopted and commonly shared. They are an essential first step towards agreement on outcomes, data, and cross-functional end to end processes that will drive economies of scale and leverage the government’s buying power.

How are the data and business standards used?

  1. Translate Policy into Practice: They enable Federal agencies and their industry partners to coordinate and document business needs based on authoritative policy across agencies, focusing on outcomes, capabilities, and data.
  2. Procurement: Agencies can use the data and business standards as a starting point for the business requirements needed to engage with industry and Federal providers on the procurement of mission support technologies and services including cloud and software as a service based technologies where available.
  3. Agency Investment Review: The business standards support the investment planning needed to align a funding vision for modernization by enabling an agency to evaluate its modernization options against an agreed to taxonomy that represents the business lifecycle of its management functions.
  4. Assess Readiness for Service Adoption: They support the strategic planning to improve mission support services by giving decision makers the data needed to identify future opportunity areas for shared services. This includes identifying opportunities for modernization based on common themes, and policy reform based on agency feedback.
  5. Agreement Across Mission Support Functions: The business standards help obtain government-wide consensus on what business processes belong in each mission support functions to establish a shared understanding of the scope of services and coordination needed across shared services.

More information about business standards, generally, and the FY24 published baseline updates can be found on the government-wide business standards website at https://ussm.gsa.gov/fibf

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