When Mission Expands and Budgets Shrink - Wolf Tombe (CBP)

When Mission Expands and BudgetsShrink

How Information Technology can help to meet thechallenge

August 2014

Wolf Tombe, Chief Technology Officer

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection

6,900 Land borders

95,000 Tidal shoreline

329 Ports of entry

13 Border Patrol stations

260,143 Private vehicles

66,615 Containers

640,459 Land Travelers

963,121 Passengers and Pedestrians

$2.38 trillionin import trade in 2012

CBP is the nation’s largest law enforcement organization

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White House Goals and Guidance

● Reduce overall costs of Government Services byeliminating duplication

WH Directive of 04/08/14 based on GAO Report

● Improving mission business processes via ITinnovation

White House Digital Government Strategy 05/23/14

● Raise productivity by improving situational awarenessand access to enterprise services through:➢ Expanding Cloud Computing➢ Moving to Enterprise Mobility➢ Deploying Sensor Networks➢ Replacing Costly and Outdated office PCs with secure tablet computers

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CBP Technology Innovation Opportunities

91%

own a

mobilephone

of U.S. adults

“The cell phone is the mostquickly adopted consumertechnology in the history of the world.”

Source: Pew Research,June 2013

Test-DrivenDevelopmentprojects average

1,607%ROI

By 2017, 70%of Java applicationswill be deployed toopen source Javaapplication servers.

Source: Gartner

CBP Missionoffices list

Mobilityas a top priority IT needfor FY14.

has the potential to save federal agencies

$500 billion

Big Data

Source: FCW, 12/10/13

$

$100 billion

Source: IDC 2014 Trends

In 2014,

spending on cloudservices and technology will increase 25% toover.

Number of

IT hourswill decrease

25% by

2015

MobilityBig Data

Agile CloudOpen

StandardsEnterpriseServices

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CBP OIT Cost Savings Initiatives ● Sequestration based renegotiations with key vendors● Transformed SDLC to Agile development across OIT

to reduce costs associated with “Waterfall” approaches.● Build services on Open Standards using Open Source

products (when possible) to reduce costs associatedwith proprietary capabilities● Supporting mobility and enabling telework to improve

productivity while replacing the multitude of deviceswith a mobile device to save on hardware, procurementand maintenance costs

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Agile delivers 63% more featuresover plan-driven approach, keeping

costs constant

Keeping scope constant, Agile projects cost 51% less on

average over standard approaches

Agile: Can we realize Industry Results?

– Roger Dunn, CEO, SourceIQ, Inc. Staying Agile in an uncertain economy.

$

$

Standard Agile

Standard Agile

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Estimated ROI of Open Source/OpenStandards

Open Standard/Open Source Estimated toROI (3Yr)

Other Benefits

Open Standards-BasedEnterprise Messaging

$18M – $47M Higher PerformanceIndustry interoperability

Open Source Application Servers(or eliminating App servers in architecture)

$5M – $12M More cloud-friendly

Responsive Design Web Applications(HTML5/ CSS /JQuery/ Javascript/Cordova)

$1M – $30M Write-once applications

Elastic, Multi-tenant CloudFor Development, Testing

$5M – $30M Better application portability

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Source: Multiple best practice case studies:Corporate Executive Board

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CBP Cloud Opportunities

Capital Expense Savings:

● Usage-based pricingminimizes waste associatedwith underutilized hardware

● Centralized cloud servicesenable concurrent user costmodels; customers savemoney by paying only for thelicenses used

Operational Expense Savings:

● Automated provisioningreduces manpower/labor

● Software upgrades areprovided, minimizing upgradecosts

● Bulk pricing based on overallCloud usage (vs. singlecustomer)

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Can Big Data Bring Savings?

● Big Data analytics can bring operational efficiency andcost savings with intelligence-driven risk/threat analysis:− Predicting and preventing illegal border crossings to

reduce the cost of handling apprehended individuals● Replacing proprietary platforms with far less expensive

open source software and commodity hardware.● Horizontal Scalability (MPP and commodity) help reduce

expansion costs associated with Vertically scalable(SMP/Mainframe) infrastructures.

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Summary● Sequestration Continues to impact Federal Agencies● Cloud Computing, Mobility, and Big Data hold the

promise of cost reductions for mission support and IToperations● Transition to Open Standards and Open Source can

play a significant role in long term reduction of IT costs●Overall, IT will remain a major driver and enabler in

reducing Government costs