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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