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| Federation Introduction |
A federated enterprise is one in which resources and applications
are united, while maintaining their individual autonomy and governance. In 2006,
the Department of Defense (DoD) released a strategy for federating Enterprise, Component
and Program architectures and business systems. The Business Mission Area (BMA)
Federation Strategy and Roadmap document embodies a set of guidelines for Enterprise
capabilities for registering, discovering and utilizing system and architecture
data to support key DoD decision processes and incorporating concepts from the DoD
net-centric data strategies to facilitate end-to-end business systems operation.
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| Federation Strategy & Roadmap |
The BMA Federation Strategy and Roadmap v2.4 describes the means
to achieve the Department of Defense (DoD) vision for business transformation –
capabilities that support interoperability, data sharing and discovery and delivery
of business services. It describes the authority and responsibility of the Chief
Technical Officer (CTO) and Chief Architect (CA) in the Office of the Deputy Chief
Management Officer (DCMO) to facilitate and guide the execution within existing
technical and business investment governance structures, in compliance with the
Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2005.
The BMA Federation Strategy and Roadmap v2.4 expands upon the DoD Global Information
Grid (GIG) Architecture Federation Strategy by describing the BMA strategy for linking
Component/Service/Agency (C/S/A) and Program architectures to the Business Enterprise
Architecture (BEA) to form the BMA portion of the GIG1. In addition, it describes
the infrastructure, products, services, capabilities and actions to implement architecture
federation and deliver business services across the BMA and from tier to tier within
the DoD.
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Federation Strategy and Roadmap
Federation Strategy
Update Memo
GIG Architecture Federation Strategy
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2008 ETP Appendix C: Enabling Business Transformation through Federation of the
Enterprise Architecture
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Appendix C of the 2008 Enterprise Transition Plan (ETP) provides
an update to the Federation Strategy and includes details on:
Business Mission Area (BMA) Architecture Federation Strategy,
Federation Roadmap Implementation, and
Component Enterprise Architecture Efforts
BTA ETP website: ETP
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The objectives of the Federation Strategy and Roadmap are driven
by many enabling initiatives. These initiatives are executed throughout the Department
within organizations such as Assistant Secretary of Defense (Networks & Information
Integration) DoD Chief Information Officer (ASD (NII)/CIO), the Services, and Defense
Information Systems Agency (DISA). Several of the initiatives are driven or supported
directly from the DCMO CTO/CA and are featured below.
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| Primitives/Lexicon |
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While architecture frameworks (e.g. DoDAF) guide the development
of consistent architectures, significant roadblocks still exist for effective architecture
development, adoption, integration, and federation. The BMA solution is to develop
a set of architectural primitives and corresponding design patterns. These primitives
will provide a core set of building block modeling elements founded in the well-defined
semantics of the DoDAF MetaModel.
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Primitives AV-2 Guidelines
Primitives AV-2 Template
Primitives Guidelines OV-6c for DoDAF Journal
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| DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Release 2.0 |
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DoDAF 2.0 is being released to be consistent with the Federation and SOA enabling initiatives. DoDAF 2.0 is currently hosted in the DoD Architecture Registry System (DARS).
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DARS (DoDAF 2.0) Website
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| BMA Common Vocabulary |
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The Business Transformation Infrastructure (BTI) which is part
of the Business Operating Environment (BOE) provides the SOA infrastructure to interconnect
enterprise level systems. In order to facilitate interoperability across the enterprise,
the BMA has established a process for building a Common Vocabulary (CV) and associated
standard messaging which is fundamental to the BTI. BMA CV supports the major ongoing
Enterprise Standards approach, enabling connectivity among Enterprise Systems and
promulgating use of standards. The BMA enterprise data Community of Interest (COI)
that is engaged in the effort of data standardization is comprised of stakeholders
that include the functional community and the BMA acquisition programs and systems,
including ERPs.
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DCMO Memo on Net Centric Data Strategy for Business Operations
Defense Business Systems Common Vocabulary – Common Core
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| GCMA |
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The Global Collaborative Manufacturing Architecture (GCMA) defines
a structured approach to achieving the greatest synergies and benefits of emerging
global manufacturing paradigms to improve defense manufacturing capability based
on industry-developed models for product development, production, and product life-cycle
support.
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GCMA Strategic Plan v0
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| BMA CTO/CA Outreach Industry Publications |
CrossTalk Article: DoD Business Mission Area Service-Oriented Architecture to Support Business Transformation, October 2008
The SOA Magazine: Principles and Patterns at the U.S. Department of Defense, January 2009
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BTA
DCMO
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