[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 154 (Tuesday, August 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42901-42902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-21425]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


Statement of Organization, Functions and Delegations of Authority

    This statement amends Part S of the Statement of the Organization, 
Functions and Delegations of Authority which covers the Social Security 
Administration (SSA). Chapter S4 covers the Deputy Commissioner for 
Systems. Notice is given that Subchapter S4G, the Office of Systems 
Design and Development (OSDD), is being amended to reflect the 
establishment of eight new divisions and one new staff. The revised 
chapter reads as follows:

Section S4G.10  The Office of Systems Design and Development--
(Organization):

    Establish:
    D. The Software Technology and Engineering Center Staff (S4GE).
    E. The Division of Data Gathering and Architecture Software (S4GG).
    F. The Division of Title II Processing (S4GH).
    G. The Division of Notices (S4GJ).
    H. The Division of Transaction Systems (S4GK).
    I. The Division of Data Systems (S4GL).
    J. The Division of Earnings/Enumeration Systems (S4GM).
    K. The Division of SSI Systems (S4GN).
    L. The Division of Data Base Systems (S4GP).

Section S4G.20  The Office of Systems Design and Development--
(Functions):

    C. The Immediate Office of the Associate Commissioner for Systems 
Design and Development (S4G).
    Delete 1-3 in their entirety.
    Establish:
    D. The Software Technology and Engineering Center Staff (S4GE).
    1. Manages the Software Engineering Facility (SEF) mainframe and 
OSDD LAN/workstation configurations to provide an integrated set of 
automated tools, techniques and services in support of SSA's 
application development and validation community.
    2. Provides support for both programmatic and management 
information applications throughout each phase of the systems 
development life cycle including analysis, design, development, 
validation, testing, production and maintenance.
    3. Plans, designs, develops, selects and implements automation 
methods and standards for the design and development stages of the 
Software Engineering Technology.
    4. Provides automated software configuration management, quality 
control and library migration.
    5. Provides technical assistance to SEF users with specific 
emphasis on software tools used by the programming community.
    6. Serves as liaison between the SEF user community and the 
computer center to ensure that user needs are being met.
    7. Monitors SEF performance to ensure that appropriate service 
levels are continuously maintained.
    8. Performs impact analyses and validation of proposed software 
development tools before they are installed on the SEF.
    9. Manages the SEF Direct Access Storage Device pool.
    10. Manages a security program for the SEF which includes 
administration of SSA's security software, control of system access, 
and coordination of OSDD component security officer activities.
    11. Manages the Distributed Software Engineering Laboratory (DSEL) 
which provides a wide range of IWS/LAN based hardware and software for 
developers and validators of client/server applications. DSEL provides 
a test site for client/server ideas, concepts and code without 
interfering with production client/server systems.
    E. The Division of Data Gathering and Architecture Software (S4GG).
    1. Designs, develops, coordinates and implements new or redesigned 
software to meet SSA's automated data processing needs by exploiting 
the use of Client/Server and Internet technology.
    2. Designs specific business applications to enhance the 
productivity of the field user and provide electronic access for SSA's 
public customers.
    3. Designs software integral to SSA's Client/Server infrastructure.
    4. Designs systems such as the Customer Help and Information 
Program, the Reengineered Disability System, the Field Office Notice 
System, various Internet applications, etc.
    5. Defines specific systems needs through functional specifications 
provided by the Office of Systems Requirements.
    F. The Division of Title II Processing (S4GH).
    1. Designs, develops, coordinates and implements new or redesigned 
software to meet SSA's automated data processing needs in the broad 
area of Title II (Retirement, Survivors, Disability) programmatic 
processes for such areas as earnings eligibility/ entitlement, pay/
computations and debt management.

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    2. Defines specific systems needs through functional specifications 
provided by the Office of Systems Requirements.
    G. The Division of Notices (S4GJ).
    1. Designs, develops, coordinates and implements new or redesigned 
software to meet SSA's automated data processing needs in the broad 
area of specialized support for Notices.
    2. Provides support for notice language development and 
maintenance, notice generation and formatting, manual notice processing 
and notice storage and retrieval.
    3. Defines specific systems needs through functional specifications 
provided by the Office of Systems Requirements.
    H. The Division of Transaction Systems (S4GK).
    1. Designs, develops, coordinates and implements new or redesigned 
software to meet SSA's automated data processing needs in the broad 
area of RSDI processing including batch transaction processing, PSC 
Action Control and data exchange for other SSA and non-SSA systems.
    2. Designs software to edit incoming new records and transactions; 
control in-process transactions including PSC Action Control and OHA 
Case Control.
    3. Develops queries and extracts software to retrieve and display 
transactions and Master Beneficiary Record-related data both in on-line 
and off-line environments.
    4. Develops software to suspend benefits and produce alerts and 
notices for prisoners and pay bounties to prisons.
    5. Develops software to update and maintain a variety of records 
which provide management, statistical and actuarial study data 
including epidemiological information.
    6. Conducts liaison with other SSA components and Federal and State 
agencies to determine the feasibility and to plan the development of 
RSDI data base establishment and maintenance systems applications.
    7. Defines specific systems needs through functional specifications 
provided by the Office of Systems Requirements.
    I. The Division of Data Systems (S4GL).
    1. Designs, develops, coordinates and implements new or redesigned 
software to meet SSA's automated data processing needs in the broad 
areas of data gathering, data base establishment and maintenance for 
programmatic processes for initial claims, postentitlement, debt 
management, representative payee, audit, integrity review and Treasury 
operations.
    2. Designs software to edit incoming transactions, control in-
process and stored transactions; produce monthly benefit payment 
information and yearly benefit payment statements; provide audit, 
continuing disability review, integrity review and Treasury data.
    3. Conducts liaison with other SSA components and Federal agencies 
to determine feasibility and to plan development/implementation 
activities.
    4. Defines specific systems needs through functional specifications 
provided by the Office of Systems Requirements.
    J. The Division of Earnings/Enumeration Systems (S4GM).
    1. Designs, develops, coordinates and implements new or redesigned 
software to meet SSA's automated data processing needs in the broad 
areas of enumeration, entitlement and earnings.
    2. Designs systems to establish, correct and maintain social 
security number records; update and maintain records of new and 
duplicate social security cards; establish and maintain master earnings 
records; process earnings and adjustments; investigate incorrectly 
reported earnings items and identify the proper account; provide 
earnings record information to employers, employees and self-employed 
individuals; and establish, correct and maintain vested pension rights 
and notification records.
    3. Defines specific systems needs through functional specifications 
provided by the Office of Systems Requirements.
    K. The Division of SSI Systems (S4GN).
    1. Designs, develops, coordinates and implements new or redesigned 
software to meet SSA's automated data processing needs to support the 
Title XVI Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Program.
    2. Designs systems to edit new records and transactions; maintain 
and revise the SSI master file to reflect changes, compute both the 
Federal SSI benefit and State supplementary payments and produce 
payment information for the Treasury Department; account for 
disbursement of Federal and State funds; prepare recipient notices of 
claims decisions and changes in status and payment; identify and 
control overpayment activity; select and control cases requiring 
redetermination; exchange data with government record systems to verify 
recipient income; generate data for State use in determining 
supplementation amounts and Medicaid eligibility provide record query 
and response capability control folder location and movement; produce 
statistical, management and actuarial data; and control exception 
processing and diary control mechanisms.
    3. Defines specific systems needs through functional specifications 
provided by the Office of Systems Requirements.
    L. The Division of Data Base Systems (S4GP).
    1. Responsible for data base administration and data base related 
design and development activities for all of SSA's systems.
    2. Responsible for SSA's major programmatic and administrative 
master files.
    3. Develops Data Base Architecture to modernize the way SSA 
performs its data processing functions for SSA's major programmatic and 
administrative master files.
    4. Develops and maintains Data Resource Management System which is 
the official repository of data and metadata for SSA.
    5. Develops and maintains Master Data Access Method (MADAM) 
software to maintain the major programmatic master files on direct 
access storage devices.
    6. Provides overall management and development of access to SSA's 
major master files.
    7. Performs data base administration of the major master files and 
data base design and technical support for auxiliary programmatic 
applications files and data bases using IDMS, DB2 and ORACLE.

    Dated: July 23, 1998.
Paul D. Barnes,
Deputy Commissioner for Human Resources.
[FR Doc. 98-21425 Filed 8-10-98; 8:45 am]
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