Electronic Commerce at the U.S. Department of the Interior Charles Nethaway Electronic Commerce for the 21st Century wasc.usgs.gov/ec21

National Business Center* Mission Statement We provide our customers with innovative solutions through quality administrative systems, operations, and professional support services. *The National Business Center (NBC) is a self-contained business unit of the Department of the Interior, acting as a “small business,” providing services to Government Agencies.

Selected Customers 4 U.S. Department of the Interior 4 U.S. House of Representatives 4 Drug Enforcement Agency 4 U.S. Department of Commerce 4 General Services Administration

Electronic Commerce 4 Procurement: Web “ Requests for Quotes ” 4 Vendor Quotes via Web 4 Vendor Inquiries via Web (INQUIRE21) 4 Vendor Bill Submittal via Web (INVOICE21) 4 Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT) 4 Analysis on Web (ANALYSIS-21)

Sample EC Impact

EC21 Environment 4 HW - Sun 4500, NT and UNIX desktops 4 SW - Solaris, Netscape Web Server, Netscape and MSIE 4.0x browsers, java, Oracle (ODBC/JDBC), digital certificates 4 Browser : java, frames, digital certificates, 128- bit encryption 4 EC Format : X12 EDI & Web (interactive)

EC21 Challenges 4 Performance: applet screen painting, database retrievals (ODBC and DB optimizations) 4 Scalability: serving from “few” to a million hits per day; growth strategies 4 Tool kits: java visual tools; web design speed; quality assurance; version control; geographically distributed staff

We Need Developers (!) 4 Have Government and Contractor Staff 4 Need University Students (and Faculty)  Flexible Hiring Practices, including Student and Faculty appointments, and co-op appointments Short-term Module Development Solve Performance Issues Crack “Nitty-Gritty” Production Issues

Department of the Interior Electronic Commerce Contact Charles Nethaway wasc.usgs.gov/ec21

Screen-Scrapes Demonstration Slides The following Power-Point slides are “screen scrapes” from actual Web pages from the EC21 applications.