Ensure that OS OCIO application-supported services are expeditiously moved to cost saving and capability increasing cloud-based platforms.

This indicator describes a major service that ES provides to its customer base via the IT Tower -- that being full installation, maintenance (including print supplies), and repair services for a growing base of high performance printing resources located at the Department’s headquarters. The sources for these data are the Cartridges Technologies Incorporated (CTI) Systems, and the ES Tableau Data Environment.

This measure reflects the timeliness of the first office action as measured from the date of application filing (or notification date for 66(a) filings) to the first office action in months.

Due to the nature of this program, it is important to track long-term quality, cost, and delivery schedule goals. The Census Bureau has embarked on a multi-year research and testing program focused on major innovations to the design of the census and oriented around major cost drivers.

Perform IT Security Compliance Reviews of all OUs and assessments. Assessments include analyses, reviews, and assessments, including an RMF Continuous Monitoring.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) grades agencies implementation of key pieces of legislation: FITARA, Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, and Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) based on selected scoring methodologies for areas from a wide range of options, then the COR tasks the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to collect and score the information according to the COR's direction. The Agency data sets GAO uses are generally publicly available and regularly updated and from which the COR derives an overall Bi-annual letter grade/score of: A, B, C, D or F - (0.0=F) to (4.0=A).

Due to the cyclical nature of these programs, it is important to track annual key activities that support the programs. The internal activities that are tracked are those considered to be the most important in meeting the long-term goals of the cyclical census programs.

Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) was established by the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999 and provides for day-for-day adjustment of patent term (i.e., the period of time a patent is in force) for certain USPTO administrative delays (“the 14-4-4-4-36 timeframes”) for certain patent applications.  The specified timeframes are to:  issue an Office Action within 14 months after application filing, respond to a reply or appeal within four months, act on the application within four months after a decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) or from a Federal court, and issue the patent within four months after payment of the issue fee. Additionally, a 36-month timeframe applies if the USPTO does not issue a patent within three years of the filing date or national stage commencement, with certain exceptions.  Further, time consumed by interference or derivation proceedings, delays caused by placing the application under a secrecy order under 35 U.S.C. 181, or time consumed by a successful appellate review may result in positive patent term adjustment (PTA). Any positive PTA is offset by any period that an applicant failed to engage in reasonable efforts to conclude prosecution. This measure reports the PTA for all mailed actions.