Purpose
The Architecture Review Board (ARB), chartered by the ITWG, is the primary oversight body for the NIH Enterprise Architecture (EA) program.
Responsibilities
The ARB is an executive-level committee whose primary responsibilities are:
- Establishing an initial agreement on:
- Why and how an architecture will benefit the enterprise
- The level of effort involved
- Commitment to comply with the guidelines.
- Monitoring the state of the architecture program, the degree of compliance and whether projected benefits are achieved
- Approving or rejecting domain teams’ architecture recommendations
- Approving or denying major project exception requests
- Forwarding any unresolvable enterprise architecture process-related issues to the ITWG for adjudication
- Adjudicating architecture related conflicts as necessary
- Establishing working groups as necessary
Membership
The current ARB membership includes:
- Jack Jones, OD-OCIO
- Helen Schmitz, OD-OCITA
- John Bartrum, OD-OB
- Adriane Burton, CIT-DCSS
- Richard Davey, NIAID
- Jeff Domanski, NINDS
- Paulette Gray, NCI
- Etienne Lamoreaux, NIAAA
- Jon McKeeby, CC
- Christopher Olaes, NHLBI
- Sally Rockey, OD-OER
- James Seach, OD-OER
- Mary Smith, OD-OAMP
- Dave Whitmer, NEI
Meetings
The ARB meets on the fourth Wednesday of every month most months. See the meeting schedule.
