EM HQ Integrated Planning, Accountability, and Budgeting System-Information System (IPABS-IS)

Return on Investment (ROI) was completely established when departmental data required to be reported to Congress, EM Senior Management, and the public was collected and stored in a secure database. Before IPABS, data was collected by the sites through an excel spreadsheet and sent in to HQ to be combined and reported. IPABS provides a single hub where data can be securely collected and managed before disposition to external stakeholders. Through configuration control and database audits, EM has had a clean IT audit for the past 8+ years mandated by the Federal Government and has passed the KPMG environmental liability audit since the inception of the Cost and Environmental Liability modules. As business requirements came to fruition such as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Capital/Operations split, IPABS's customizable application has been able to evolve with the collection and reporting standards to meet federal mandates. Although IPABS currently exists at steady state, the investment plans on major updates to the system to evolve to new federal mandates after the Presidential election. Until then, it is pertinent that IPABS remains agile and meets the standards of the security of the database as well as evolving database and web coding standards.

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