The Trouble with FAFSA
A vocal critic of current FSA leadership, this former COO and current candidate for Congress recently accused the Education Department of “malicious negligence” over the FAFSA roll-out.
Who is Wayne Johnson?
These workstreams support acquisition planning for NGPO projects.
What are TIVOD and DCC Recompete?
This workstream developed a process for estimating contract funding needs in the early days of the Summit-GH contract.
What is the IGCE workstream?
This Executive Office of the President organization requires bi-weekly check-ins on the status of the FSA Organizational Assessment project.
What is the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)?
The 5 Teams on our project.
What is 1) Risk, Audit, and Schedule, 2) Program Coordination, 3) Agile and Product Management, 4) Project Management, and 5) Communications?
This vendor won the AED Modernization contract in 2022 and has been working to roll-out the new FAFSA Processing System (FPS).
Who is GDIT?
While our work will likely continue, this initiative is expected to sunset in 2024 as its projects are folded into SEAD or other offices within FSA.
What is SABER?
The Summit-GH team began working on this FSA modernization acquisition project in 2020.
What is AED?
The FSA Organizational Assessment project is separated into these two assessments.
What is the 1) IT and Digital Services Analysis and the 2) FSA Organizational Management and Structure Analysis?
The Director of NGPO.
Who is Christian Odom?
This elite group of IT professionals is housed within the Executive Office of the President and was formed after the chaotic healthcare.gov release. They have been working on the FAFSA roll-out since 2023.
What is the U.S. Digital Service?
The Lead for the Communications Team which includes the training and MCP workstreams.
Who is Kyndra?
The Summit-GH team developed this critical artifact after conducting an assessment of the maturity of each NGPO functional element in the first months of the contract.
What is the NGPO Project Management Plan?
The Executive Office of the President wants a new 10-person team from this organization embedded into FSA.
What is the U.S. Digital Service?
The number of Summit-GH staff on our contract as of today.
What is 34 staff?
Department of Education market research found that development of this system would take between 18-24 months once the development contract was awarded on March 31, 2022.
What is the FAFSA Processing System (FPS)?
The Summit-GH team members leading the following workstreams: Risk, Scheduling, FSA Org Assessment, AED, Product Design Group, Training, and MCP.
Who are Raffi, Buruk, Jessica, Derek, Kenya, Jeannie, and Danielle?
Before SABER, members of the Summit-GH Team supported this effort separate from NGPO until the enactment of the FAFSA Simplification Act.
What is the Future Act?
The FSA Organizational Assessment Team is using this model to develop an understanding of the current state of FSA.
What is the Enterprise Performance Model (EPM)?
The five questions you should ask your customer to confirm expectations for a work product according to the Summit-GH Quality Management Process.
What are 1) Goals, 2) Timing, 3) Audience, 4) Content, and 5) Review Process?
The percentage of students who have completed a FAFSA application this cycle compared to prior years by this time.
What is 34% of students?
According to a June 2023 GAO Report, this workstream's project had fully implemented four of the five selected planning best practices, but had gaps in the implementation of the remaining practice related to budget and schedule.
What is AED?
The task order, set to be awarded next week, is the BLANK of program management support services task orders issued by FSA.
What is 3rd?
Previously within the Office of the COO, this office now resides within the Enterprise Technology Directorate. However, its specific placement is unconfirmed.
What is the Next Gen Program Office (NGPO)?
GAO has consistently found that NGPO and SABER schedules failed to do this.
What is document schedule assumptions and constraints ?