Federation Strategy and Roadmap

The purpose of this document is to expand upon the DoD GIG Architecture Federation Strategy and the concepts of net centricity, while providing detail on how various aspects of architecture federation will be applied to the Business Mission Area (BMA).  This revised guidance should be used together with the DoD GIG Federation Strategy dated August 2007, and the suite of transformation tools posted on this site, specifically: Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) Compliance Guidance dated April 2006, the Business Transformation Guidance (BTG) dated July 2007 and the BEA CONOPS dated September 2007. 

The BMA’s concept of federation represents the BMA’s strategy for linking BMA architectures to the BEA to form the BMA portion of the GIG. This document details products, services, capabilities and actions to implement architecture federation and deliver business services across the BMA and from tier to tier within the DoD.  Specific areas covered include:

• BMA Architecture Federation and Compliance Mechanisms – How tools and procedures enable the DoD to identify gaps in capability delivery and manage architecture compliance to specific business rules, policies and procedures contained within the BEA;

• BMA Business Operating Environment (BOE) – How to drive and stay on the path to rapidly assemble and catalog reusable business services, decompose monolithic applications into business services, and re-compose these services into new business processes and services in support of changing business priorities;

• Governance of Service Delivery across the Business Enterprise Service Lifecycle – How to  govern the transition from the current state enterprise to a Business Operating Environment that manages the service lifecycle and allows for the directed and self-promoted identification of services as candidates for enterprise-wide business services;

• Consistent Approach to SOA through Communications and Outreach – How to create a durable, coherent transition to a transformational infrastructure by identifying, leveraging and nurturing appropriate stakeholder communities; and

• BMA Federation Roadmap – How to implement near term business services under the evolving DoD Enterprise Service capabilities provided by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
  

Federation Strategy Release Memo (October 29, 2007)

BMA - Federation Strategy and Roadmap with the inclusion of an Executive Summary (January 29, 2008)