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Public Comment: Q2 FY26 Draft Update to Financial Management and Human Capital Data / Business Standards

January 15, 2026

GSA's Office of Shared Solutions and Performance Improvement is pleased to announce the release, for public comment, of the latest update to agency data and business standards for workforce and financial management on behalf of our partners at the Office of Personnel Management and the Department of Treasury. These draft updates to data and business standards for workforce and financial management include feedback from agencies as well as recent policy and statutory updates. The data and business standards are used to streamline procurements, plan for the modernization of agency management infrastructure, and to sustain modern, standards-based operations across the agency management and operations lifecycle.

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

Important: Please use the draft FY26 data and business 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 modern 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 identify 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.
  3. Agency Investment Review: The business standards support the investment planning needed to align a funding vision for modernization. Agencies can use the standards to evaluate 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 modernization. This includes identifying opportunities for consolidation based on common themes, and policy reform based on agency feedback.
  5. Agreement Across Agency Management Functions: The data and business standards establish government-wide consensus on what business processes belong in each management function to establish a common understanding of the coordination needed across the agency management and operations lifecycle.
  6. Emerging Technology Adoption: The data and business standards accelerate adoption of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, automation, etc.) by enabling agencies to map these capabilities to the standardized business functions, data, and outcomes needed to align solutions to mission.

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

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