By the end of the year, all programs will have been PARTed.

As we move forward, we will evaluate possibilities for further collaboration as appropriate, … Investments within the federal government make up an important segment of the national health IT infrastructure.

There’s a lot of questions out there that we still need to answer.

The vision of this, when the president signed off on this, was that when you are granted an ID card at one agency, then that same ID card would work at another agency — that...

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Project management is still a major category of weakness for the agencies. It is still one of the weaknesses [for the government as a whole].

The current way we do business is not getting the results that we need.

I’m excited a little bit scared but ah that’s what we are here for.

Do we have all of this worked out? The answer is no.

This just seemed like the next step to go, glad to be able to do it. Serve my country and serve our fellow people in Louisiana.

If it’s useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

We want to look at whether these functions such as financial management are core to the agencies’ mission, or should they spend money to get data from a shared service provider. We really want people...

What are the results and how much money have we saved? … What are we getting for the $65 billion the taxpayers have entrusted us with?

We are considering making the service provider that is not meeting the agency’s needs bear the cost. We need clear language in the service-level agreements, so providers and agency customers know what is expected of...

The leaders are holding people to these results,

The floor plan won’t change.

We have to achieve results.