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  • Investment Summary Information
  • Investment Detail
  • Investment and Contracts
  • Historic CIO Rating
  • Investment Spending
  • Projects and Activities Detail
Section A: Investment Summary Information
Investment Name
DOI - Geospatial Platform and Shared Services
Unique Investment Identifier
010-999993100

Investment Description

The Geospatial Platform is a Web-based capability that provides shared, trusted geospatial data, applications, and services. It is coordinated across Federal state and local governments to create efficiencies and promote informed decision-making. The Geospatial Platform is a strategic national resource that supports the Administration's Open Government, Open Data and Digital Government strategies to enhance transparency, collaboration and participation. The GeoPlatform provides a suite of well-managed, highly available, and trusted geospatial data, services, and applications for use by Federal agencies and their State, local, Tribal, and regional partners to meet their mission needs and the broader needs of the Nation. This investment is managed in Core Science System Mission Area, FGDC, and does leverage geospatial services. In 2020, GeoPlatform.gov, operating under the authority of the Geospatial Data Act of 2018,was initiated.
Agency Department of the Interior
Point of Contact Paul McInerny - CIO
Investment Type Major IT Investments
Bureau Department of the Interior
Mission Support Not Applicable
Shared Service Category E-Gov/LoB initiatives
Shared Service Identifier 3100
TMF Initiatives
  • Not Applicable
FY 2025 IT Spending $3.31 M
Current CIO Rating 4
Data As Of: 03/16/2026

Total Projects

6

Cost Variance

  • 6Low
  • 0Medium
  • 0High

Schedule Variance

  • 6Low
  • 0Medium
  • 0High

Cost Variance

  • Low: Projects that have <10% Cost Variance
  • Medium: Projects that have ≥10% and <30% Cost Variance
  • High: Projects that have ≥30% Cost Variance
Cost Variance: ((Planned Total Costs - Projected or Actual Total Costs) / Planned Total Cost) x 100

Schedule Variance

  • Low: Projects that have <10% Schedule Variance
  • Medium: Projects that have ≥10% and <30% Schedule Variance
  • High: Projects that have ≥30% Schedule Variance
Schedule Variance: ((Planned Completion Date - Projected or Actual Completion Date) / Project Duration) x 100
Download: Project and Variance Source Data (CSV)
Date Investment First Submitted
09/20/2021
Date of Last Investment Detail Update
03/16/2026
Section B: Investment Detail
  1. Briefly describe the investment's return on investment, including benefits internal and external to the government and outcomes achieved or planned.
Section C: Investment and Contracts

Public URLs

  • www.geoplatform.gov
  • www.fgdc.gov
  • https://www.data.gov
  • https://www.itdashboard.gov

Contracts

Section D: Historic CIO Rating
Data Last Updated On: 09/24/2021
Section E: Investment Spending

Table 1: Distribution by Spending Type

Spending Type PY 2024 CY 2025 BY 2026
DME Costs 0.5 0.5 0
O&M Costs 2.81 2.81 0
Total 3.31 3.31 0

Table 2: Distribution by Cost Pools

Cost Pools PY 2024 CY 2025 BY 2026
External Labor 2.22 2.534 0
Facilities & Power 0 0 0
Hardware 0 0 0
Internal Labor 0.6 0.6 0
Internal Services 0 0 0
Other 0.315 0 0
Outside Services 0.175 0.175 0
Software 0 0 0
Telecom 0 0 0
Total 3.31 3.309 0
Cost PoolsCost in millions (M)

Table 3: Distribution by IT Towers

IT Tower PY 2024 CY 2025 BY 2026
Application 2.615 2.615 0
Compute 0 0 0
Data 0 0 0
Data Center 0 0 0
Delivery 0 0 0
End User 0 0 0
IT Management 0.52 0.52 0
Network 0 0 0
Output 0 0 0
Platform 0 0 0
Security & Compliance 0.175 0.175 0
Storage 0 0 0
Total 3.31 3.31 0
IT TowersCost in millions (M)
Data Last Updated On: 03/16/2026
Section F: Project Detail

Table 1: Project Details

Project Name Project UID Status Planned Total Cost ($M) Cost Variance (%) Planned Start Date Planned End Date Schedule Variance (%) Schedule Variance (Days) TMF Initiative
Develop V4.0 Geospatial Platform PLAT-0004 Complete 0 0 0 0 Not Applicable
Develop V4.2 Geospatial Platform PLAT-0006 Completed 0.5 0 2021-10-01 2022-09-30 0 0 Not Applicable
Develop V4.3 Geospatial Platform PLAT-0007 Completed 0.5 0 2022-10-01 2023-09-30 0 0 Not Applicable
Develop V4.4 Geospatial Platform PLAT-0008 Completed 0.5 0 2023-10-01 2024-09-30 0 0 Not Applicable
Develop V4.5 Geospatial Platform PLAT-0009 Completed 0.5 0 2024-10-01 2025-09-30 0 0 Not Applicable
Develop V4.6 Geospatial Platform PLAT-0010 In Progress 0.5 0 2025-10-01 2026-09-30 0 0 Not Applicable
LowMediumHigh

Table 2: Project Related Details

Develop V4.0 Geospatial Platform
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
    Yes
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
    Weeks
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
    Agile
Develop V4.2 Geospatial Platform
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
    Yes
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
    Weeks
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
    Agile
Develop V4.3 Geospatial Platform
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
    Yes
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
    Weeks
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
    Agile
Develop V4.4 Geospatial Platform
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
    Yes
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
    Weeks
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
    Agile
Develop V4.5 Geospatial Platform
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
Develop V4.6 Geospatial Platform
  1. Are information technology investments adequately implementing incremental development methodology? (Y/N)
  2. What is the frequency of incremental development iterations? (ex. 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or greater)
  3. Please describe the iterative development methodology being employed. (500 characters or less)
Section G: Performance Metrics
Metric Description Performance Measurement Category Unit of Measure Reporting Frequency Agency Baseline Capability Measurement Condition Target 2025 CY Latest Actual Result Date of Latest Actual Result Met Target
Quality Assurance - Degree to which the development environment (for developing, staging and testing code releases) mirrors the production environment to ensure that applications and services work to specifications when made available to users. Strategic and Business Results Percent Monthly 0 Over target 99 99 2025-06-30 MET
Number of service level agreements for hosting agency data on the platform Strategic and Business Results Number Semi-Annual Over target 35 2022-09-30 MET
Technical - Percent of time platform is available per month Customer Satisfaction Percent Monthly 0 Over target 99 99.99 2025-06-30 MET
Number of Federal Agencies who identify in their budget process a recurring funding for NGDA datasets' lifecycle cost Strategic and Business Results Number Annual 0 Over target 16 16 2024-10-14 MET
Number of Federal Agencies that have workflow processes in place for creating ISO metadata for NGDA in accordance with Federal Geographic Data Committee guidelines prior to publishing on data.gov Customer Satisfaction Number Semi-Annual 0 Over target 16 16 2025-04-29 MET
Percentage of Agencies that report in the CA Annual reporting using defined data standards in collecting, processing and/or dissemination of the data being addressed Strategic and Business Results percent Annual 0 Over target 60 60 2024-09-30 MET
Percent of Federal Agencies that report their Geospatial Strategies are complete and approved in accordance with GDA USC 43 2808 requirement and complement the FGDC NSDI Strategic Plan Strategic and Business Results percent Semi-Annual 0 Over target 100 100 2025-04-15 MET
Results Specific. Percentage of NGDAs Implementation of Data and Metadata Content Standards to maximize data quality and use in accordance with FGDC standards/guidelines.. Strategic and Business Results Percentage Annual 0 Over target 90 100 2024-09-30 MET
Percentage of Federal Agencies that report maintenance processes in place for their geospatial data to ensure authoritative geospatial data. Customer Satisfaction Percent Semi-Annual 0 Over target 100 100 2025-04-29 MET
Results Specific. Percentage of compliant NGDA theme data assets with standards compliant metadata and web services endpoints Strategic and Business Results Percentage Annual 0 Over target 90 90 2024-10-14 MET
Percent of Agencies that report having searched the GeoPlatform for existing sources of data prior to making planned geospatial data investments Financial Performance Percent Annual 0 Over target 60 60 2024-09-30 MET