Meet the CIOs: Justice

Justice: Stephen Colgate

STEPHEN COLGATE
Justice Department
10th & Constitution Avenue N.W. #1111
Washington, D.C. 20530
Phone: 202-514-3101
Fax: 202-616-6695
E-mail: colgate@justice.usdoj.gov

Career Highlights:

1992-Present: Assistant attorney general for administration
1990-92: Deputy assistant attorney general for personnel and administration
1987-90: Deputy assistant attorney general for information and administrative services

IT Budget (fiscal years):
1996: $1.0 billion
1997: $1.1 billion
1998: $1.3 billion (estimated)

Priority Projects:

• Clinger-Cohen Implementation - piloting a capital-investment process during the fiscal 1999 budget cycle. Agency is defining policies and standards that will guide the acquisition, use and retirement of systems within a strategic architecture framework.
• Justice Consolidated Network - consolidating multiple telecommunications networks in order to reduce costs, simplify security implementation and improve interoperability.
• Joint Automated Booking System - providing electronic collection, storage and transmittal of photographic, fingerprint and biographical information about arrestees.

Biggest Challenge:

"Establishing department-wide standards that will increase our ability to exchange information with law enforcement officials and attorneys over secure communications facilities."

Management Approach:

"We are completing a business-process reengineering project to redesign our IT investment process. The new capital planning process, including an information technology review board composed of senior executive staff, will be piloted this spring on selected new major information systems during the fiscal 1999 budget review process."

On CIOs:

"CIOs in all agencies must manage the financing and budgeting of IT resources to achieve business goals in an environment of rapidly changing technology costs and capabilities."

Hottest Technologies:

"Automated network management helps control costs and increase efficiency in multi-vendor IT environments, and data mining technologies permit multidimensional analysis of crime data."