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 Mark
Alan Forman
Associate Director of Information Technology and E-government,
Office of Management and Budget
In June 2001, Mr. Forman was appointed to oversee implementation
of 21st Century information technology throughout the federal government.
In this role, Mr. Forman is charged with fulfilling the President’s vision
of using the Internet to create a citizen-centric government. As the leading
federal e-government executive, he is responsible for ensuring that the
federal government takes maximum advantage of digital technology and best
practices to improve quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. He also leads
the development and implementation of federal information technology policy,
and is responsible for a variety of oversight functions statutorily assigned
to OMB. He also is responsible for the e-government fund, established
in the President’s Budget to generate interagency e-government innovation.
Mr. Forman also directs the activities of the CIO Council, which consists
of federal agency chief information officers; advises on the appointments
of agency CIOs; and monitors and consults on agency technology efforts.
Prior to joining OMB, Mr. Forman was a Vice President of
e-business in Unisys Global Industries, where he was responsible for global
public sector e-business and e-government initiatives. In particular,
he guided the strategy, definition, and deployment of e-government solutions
for U.S. Federal and Unisys Global Public Sector clients. Prior to joining
Unisys, Mr. Forman was a Principal in IBM Global Services where he was
responsible for definition and deployment of the global public sector
e-business strategy. He was responsible for defining strategic e-government
offerings and providing business development at strategic accounts. Prior
to assuming this position, Mr. Forman created and led IBM’s Americas Public
Sector e-business Consulting Services. Mr. Forman’s consulting practice
assisted government clients in understanding how to leverage e-business
and web-based technologies to achieve order of magnitude performance improvements.
His areas of expertise include: Web-based service delivery approaches,
e-commerce, computer security policy, government operations, and knowledge
management, clients’ performance improvement, related business transformation
services, I/T investment planning, major systems acquisition programs,
and strategic use of e-business technologies. He has over 18 years of
experience in government and industry developing improvements in government
effectiveness and efficiency.
Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Forman was the Senior Professional
Staff Member on the Majority Staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee, where he played pivotal roles in drafting and enactment of
major Federal laws, including the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act,
the Information Technology Management Reform Act, the Federal Acquisition
Reform Act, the Paperwork Reduction Act, and various other DOD and government-wide
reform bills. He was the senior advisor to the U.S. Senate on federal
acquisition and procurement issues, information technology issues (including
use if IT in government restructuring, telecommunications, computer security,
and Year 2000 conversion), specific defense and civilian agency programs,
business process re-engineering concepts applied to government management,
outsourcing approaches, and other government program management issues.
In support of the past two chairmen (Senator Roth of Delaware and Senator
Stevens of Alaska), he conducted oversight on numerous major systems acquisitions,
including: Tax Systems Modernization; FAA, Energy Department Major Acquisitions;
civilian and Defense Department telecommunications buys; and numerous
weapons programs. He was also responsible for monitoring agency compliance
with the Computer Security Act of 1997.
Before working for the Congress, Mr. Forman was employed
in management positions with Defense Group Incorporated and The Analytic
Sciences Corporation (TASC). Mr. Forman supervised and provided technical
direction for a group of applied operations research analysts studying
emerging technologies, defense acquisition, and defense program planning.
These efforts included Defense Investment Strategy, Cost-effectiveness
Analysis, and Logistics Planning. He also developed the Defense Acquisition
Decision Model to identify and prioritize cost-effective weapons investments.
He also supervised quantitative studies and development of decision support
systems, using operations research and management science techniques to
assess affordability of requirements, alternative system concepts, and
R&D investments. In the early 1980s, Mr. Forman worked for the U.S. General
Accounting Office in Washington, D.C., where he was an Evaluator in the
National Security and International Affairs Division and a Presidential
Management Intern (completed August 1985). At the GAO, Mr. Forman’s areas
of focus were the Defense Department Programming, Planning, and Budgeting
System (PPBS); defense acquisition planning and management; and U.S. Defense
policy. Mr. Forman also was an Economist for the U.S. Army, Corps of Engineers
Office of Resource Management where he applied operations research and
statistical techniques to determine manpower requirements and allocation
options.
Mr. Forman has written numerous papers and reports on procurement
reform, acquisition management, and defense economics issues. He is a
Senior Fellow of the John C. Stennis Institute for Public Service. He
is an alumnus of the Presidential Management Intern Program. He holds
an M.A. in Quantitative Methods and Applied Microeconomics from the Harris
Graduate School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago
and a B.A. in Economics from the Ohio State University.
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