The Federal Enterprise Architecture and Agencies Enterprise Architectures Are Still Maturing

By Hite, Randolph C.

Book Id: WPLBN0000180782
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Federal Enterprise Architecture and Agencies Enterprise Architectures Are Still Maturing
Author:	Hite, Randolph C.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: OMB has made progress on the FEA, but it remains very much a work in process and is still maturing. Its stated purposes include facilitating (1) the development of agencies? enterprise architectures, (2) the reuse of common IT components across agencies, and (3) the identification of opportunities for interagency collaboration in developing common IT solutions. Currently, the FEA is made up of five parts known as reference models, four of which have been issued in at least initial form (see table). OMB reports that the FEA has been used to help identify potentially redundant agency IT investments, choose five lines of business (e.g., grants management) in which to pursue opportunities for agency collaboration, and begin to develop the architectural foundation for some of these business lines. GAO supports the FEA as a framework for achieving these ends, but raises questions whose answers are important to the its future. For example: Should the FEA be described as an enterprise architecture? GAO?s reading of its content suggests that it is more akin to a classification scheme for government operations than a true enterprise architecture. Further, OMB requires agencies to ?map? and ?align? their architectures with the FEA. However, since these terms are not well-defined, GAO asks if the expected relationship between the FEA and agencies? architectures is clear enough.