How does the FHA tie in with other E-Government initiatives?
Heuer: The Office of Management and Budget several years ago came out with 24 E-Government “Quicksilver” initiatives in order to devise a citizen-centered strategy for E-Government. With E-Government, President Bush wants to use improved Internet-based technology to make it easy for citizens and businesses to interact with the government, save taxpayer dollars, and streamline citizen-to-government communications. What we are doing now is going through five lines of business focuses, and FHA is one of those lines of business initiatives. The OMB is encouraging federal agencies to work together to come up with solutions that will allow for better sharing of service delivery, information, and to be more citizen-centric. We want to look at the entire business process and not just an IT solution. We want to have a collaborative environment that doesn’t end at the federal agency and is cooperative with the private sector. This will be driven by a business perspective rather than a technology
