Roadmap & Planning Workbook - US Office of Government Ethics

Agencies eFiling FDRs (July 2011)
Agency Name: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Contact:
• For information about the eFiling system or to schedule a demo, contact Daniel Mangieri,
Program Specialist at the NASA Shared Services Center, at (228) 813-6008 or
daniel.w.mangieri@nasa.gov.
• For information from an attorney’s perspective, contact the Adam Greenstone, NASA’s
Alternate Designated Agency Ethics Official at (202) 358-1775 or adam.f.greenstone@nasa.gov .
Description: The Ethics Program Tracking System (EPTS) is a secure, web-based management
system for NASA’s financial disclosure process and for tracking completion of annual ethics
training. The EPTS system provides secure electronic notification, tracking, filing, signature,
review, and storage of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Confidential Financial Disclosure
Report (OGE-450 and 450-A) and the Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF 278).
Used since: January 2007
Functions/features:
X Electronically linked into human resources system
X Master list of Filers
X Notices and reminders to Filers (The EPTS system keeps an archive of the date/time notices
were sent to the filers.)
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Tracks receipt of report
Tracks date of initial review
Tracks extensions
Tracks certification date.
Prepopulates in subsequent years following initial filing
Allows reviewer to make corrections on form
System displays comparison view of filers last two reports
Archives reviewer notes and comments
Notifies Filer of report certification
System displays oversight/management views of report processing
Other (describe): EPTS also supports other capabilities and features such as:
• Employees can file their forms at work or at home, on PCs or Macs, because the system is webbased
and secure.
• Filers and reviewers can electronically sign the forms.
• Reviewers can annotate corrections on forms and make comments.
• Forms can be set up for supervisory review and for initial review by a paralegal and can be
easily reassigned from one reviewer to another if the need arises.
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