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.
