Emerging Role of the CTO
ITPA Luncheon
March 12, 2015
THE ENERGY MISSION
Ensuring America’s security and prosperity
by addressing its energy, environmental and nuclear
challenges through transformative science
and technology solutions
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DOE is a nationwide collection of nearly 100
national laboratories, production plants, and
environmental clean-up sites
Operations Offices
Production/Cleanup
Laboratories
Field Offices
Site/Project Offices
Special Purpose Sites/Offices
Power Administrations
Service Business Center
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DOE CTO Functions & Initiatives
Enterprise Function and Goals
The Office of Technology & Innovation provides strategic direction and vision for accelerating technology to enhance the
mission of the Department of Energy. We lead multiple programs to investigate and influence the deployment of services,
build coalitions and develop public-private partnerships across the enterprise.
I. ENVISION
Emerging Technology
Identify emerging and disruptive technologies that
advance DOE’s strategic mission.
Technology Roadmap
The Technology Roadmap will outline the future state of IT that will
advance DOE’s missions over the next three-five years.
II. ENABLE
Outreach & Innovation
Forge strategic partnerships to help introduce
innovative technologies into DOE”s environment.
Technology Advisory Board
(TAB)
The TAB brings together DOE
Lab and HQ representatives to
collaborate and accelerate the
pace of IT innovation.
Partner Engagement
Vendor Management focuses
on strategic vendor and
industry engagements to
identify optimal solutions to
fulfill DOE needs.
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III. DELIVER
Strategic Programs
Lead cross-cutting initiatives that deliver enterprise
capabilities to enable DOEs strategic vision.
Identity, Credential, and Access Management
(ICAM)
The ICAM program aims to oversee and
implement strong enterprise Authentication,
Authorization and Audit capabilities to secure
DOE’s logical and physical assets.
Spectrum
Spectrum Management ensures that DOE radio
frequency authorizations and spectrumdependent system certifications fulfill DOE/OCIO
program missions.
Data
The Data effort is focused on streamlining and
defining a unified way forward on Open Data
initiatives and begin planning for the DOE data
strategy.
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DOE Technology Roadmap
Purpose
The Technology Roadmap
will outline the future state of
IT that will advance DOE’s
missions over the next threefive years
Benefits
 Builds the foundation of enterprise technology strategies
 Provides a single view of the future of IT at the DOE to identify opportunities
for:
 Common solutions and services to reduce acquisition cost
 Improved coordination among the DOE’s IT Service Providers
 Interoperability and common standards
 Leveraging innovative IT solutions already in use at DOE
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Technology Advisory Board (TAB)
Purpose
An information sharing platform for identifying innovative IT solutions that could be
leveraged across DOE
Objectives
Objective 1: Capture innovative lab and program office IT in the DOE Technology Roadmap
Objective 2: Deploy pilots and proofs-of-concepts to advance DOE IT capabilities
Objective 3: Advise on next-generation technologies to senior officials
Guides the periodic
refresh of the Technology
Roadmap
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The Technology Roadmap informs
the DOE’s IT vision
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Peter Tseronis
Chief Technology Officer
Peter.Tseronis@hq.doe.gov
U.S. Department of Energy
301-903-8262
@tseronis
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