Enhancing Program Oversight and Integrity through Agile Systems Development and Advanced Analytics requires the application of advanced algorithms and technologies for proactive oversight. The Recovery Operations Center (ROC) deployed advanced analytics and data analytics staff to help identity and prevent waste, fraud and abuse in the $840 billion ARRA 2009 program.

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Gaurav Pal,
Director, Strategic Programs
Enhancing Program Oversight and
Integrity through Agile Systems
Development and Advanced Analytics
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2. • Nearly 90 [DC] city employees suspended for receiving unemployment benefits worth over
$800,000 while holding city jobs…Washington Post, Feb 6, 2012
• Federal Office of Personnel Management pays out $601 million in benefits to the
dead…GovExec, Sep 21, 2011
• Federal agencies have had estimated improper payments at levels of
more than a $100 billion dollars annually during the past few years.
These payments come from over 70 programs at more than 20
agencies…Sen. Tom Carper, House Hearing Testimony, Feb 07, 2012
• The government spent at least $1 billion last year to conduct more than 2 million
background checks of federal job applicants, the report said. Costs have grown in recent
years in part because at least seven agencies are spending tens of millions of dollars on
separate databases to track personnel records…GAO Report, Feb 28, 2012
Ensuring Program Integrity and Reducing Financial Losses are
urgent problems for Public Sector Agencies
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Program losses are in the news every day…

3. Smartronix is the leader in innovative transparency, accountability and
oversight solutions
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Deployed Geospatially-enabled
Federal Transparency System in
less than 11 weeks.
Sep 2009
Migrated first Federal Enterprise
System to Public Cloud saving
over $2 million
Apr 2010
First Community Cloud for
Cabinet-level Agency reducing
operating costs by 20%.
Dec 2010
First Geospatially enabled
mobile application for Fraud,
Waste and Abuse reporting
Mar 2011
Advanced Data Analysis
platform for the Public using
Cloud and BI technologies.
Jun 2011
First Real-time Large Data Processing
solution for preventing waste, fraud
and abuse in Federal Awards
Feb 2012

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Relatively low levels of losses in Recovery (ARRA) programs prove that
Agile Business Analytics is an effective tool in preventing and detecting
potential waste and program integrity issues.
Proven Program Integrity Template – Smart Data Hub
Cloud
Computing
Big Data
Analytics

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There are too many systems and data sources that need to be
checked which limit the ability to perform real-time verification to
prevent waste
Public sector organizations struggle with high costs and complexity associated
with traditional BI approaches

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Centralized Data
Hub
Decision Tables
Decision Trees
Business Rules
Scorecard Models
7-8% Program
Losses
<2% Program
Losses
Advanced Analytics
Framework
Improve Program Integrity
and Reduce Losses
Advanced Analytics Driven Decision Support Model

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Recovery Act shows how Advanced Analytics enables decision support
for detecting risk associated with CGL Awards.

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Accountability Portal
• FederalAccountability.gov is
a portal that supports the
Recovery Board’s mission of
fraud risk estimation.
• It offers agencies a one-
stop-shop to quickly review
government and commercial
data sources for risk
indications prior to any form
of award.
• It also offers continued
oversight throughout the
awards lifecycle.
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Security: FIPS-140-2
Infrastructure: Secured Private Cloud
Mobile Workers: VDI capable / various devices

9. Deployed Production-ready System
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10. Risk Profiling and Scorecarding
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11. Cloud-enabled Business Intelligence
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• Delivered
Agile BI
solution for
“Self-service”
Data Analysis
in 4 weeks
• Integrated
with Microsoft
SharePoint
2010
• Mobile
enabled for
iPhone and
iPad access

12. Integrated Geospatial Analysis
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COPS Program Spending versus Crime Rates

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Recovery.gov Utilization Chart
• Cloud-enabled Solutions Save Money
Cloud Dividend
• Pay only for what you use when you need it:
-Bandwidth
-Compute
-Storage
• Delivered nearly 30% in cost savings due to elasticity of cloud offering
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14. Entity Relationship Analysis
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Link Analysis of Business Partners

15. Deployed Recovery.gov Transparency Platform from scratch in 11 weeks with nearly 20% in
cost savings over traditional hosting model
Developed FederalAccountability.gov platform for Federal Awards program integrity and
loss prevention in 6 weeks
Decision makers need the ability to quickly access the information they need to make
decisions. Our prospective customers consist of:
− Budget and Program Office(s)
− Acquisitions Management
− Financial Management Executives
But existing solutions cost too much and take too long to
deploy…use cloud-enabled Shared Services
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16. Real-time User Analysis and Results
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1. Select the number that
you want to measure or
analyze
2. Select the filter(s) you
want to apply to the data
3. Filter Dashboard for
keeping track
4. Customize
Visualization type
5. Quick select numbers
and dimension/slice

17. Advanced BI and Visualization – Data Explorer - Demo
• Rapid ability to drill and customize analysis without need for manual query
generation
DOD ARRA Spending in 2009 by Product Service Code
• Completely customizable solution with fully developed solution delivered in
weeks (not months)
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18. Trending Analysis
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DOD ARRA Spending on Construction of Structures by Year

19. Powerful Analysis Through Simple Data As a Service Capability
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DOD ARRA Spending on Construction of Structures Distribution by Agency

20. Additional Capabilities
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 Ability to plug-and-play new
datasets
Add unlimited data for
historical analysis
 “Mashup” datasets for data
anomaly detection,
inconsistencies etc.
 Fully customizable solution
within days and weeks
 Next generation large data
processing architecture

21. Team Smartronix
• Smartronix engages a broad range of partners and vendors as part of its
best of breed delivery ecosystem.
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Thank you
Gaurav “GP” Pal, MBA
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