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	Enterprise Information Board (EIB)

The core of VA Enterprise Architecture governance is the information technology planning process established by the Secretary. The information technology planning process aligns information technology with the program/business needs and strategic goals of VA. The information technology planning process strives for a total collaboration of program/business with information technology.

The information technology planning process supports the review of information technology investment proposals for compliance with VA’s Enterprise Architecture. The Enterprise Information Board (EIB) oversees this process. The Assistant Secretary for Information and Technology (who is also VA's Chief Information Officer), as the process owner of VA’s information technology planning process, is the steward responsible and accountable for creating, leveraging, coordinating, and implementing VA's Enterprise Architecture. The Enterprise Information Board is Chaired by VA’s Chief Information Officer, and VA’s Deputy Chief Information Officer serves as the Vice-Chair. Board members include Administration-level Deputy Chief Information Officers, staff offices’ IT representatives, and senior program/business executives from each administration and staff office. This board is accountable to VA’s Strategic Management Council and ultimately to the VA Executive Board, chaired by the Secretary.

Administration-specific committees that report to their Under Secretaries also link into the Enterprise Information Board and thereby participate in VA's technology governance processes. The objectives and responsibilities of the Enterprise Information Board are as follows:


	Objectives:
		Ensure the VA Enterprise Architecture alignment and integration between information technology and program/business goals and processes. Ensure adequate funding and commitment to initiatives and the enterprise information technology infrastructures.
	Responsibilities Include:
		Developing and recommending to the Strategic Management Council the direction for VA's Enterprise Architecture. Establishing and communicating the executive direction for the use of information technology. Ensuring the interests of program/business and information technology representatives from all major VA entities are considered in VA’s Enterprise Architecture. Ensuring a viable integrated VA Enterprise Architecture is in place covering a rolling multi-year period. Ensuring that the Enterprise Architecture is current and provides complete and accurate descriptions of the baseline environment, the target vision, and the sequencing plan to take VA from the baseline (sometimes called “as-is”) to the target (sometimes called “to-be”) environments. Ensuring the suitability and consistency of technology investments with VA’s Enterprise Architecture and strategic objectives. Ensuring that the information technology planning process addresses sociological change management, cyber and information security, project management, and capital investment as well as VA Enterprise Architecture concerns.

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