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NWFEA Overview
National Wildland Fire Enterprise Architecture

What is the objective of the NWFEA Program?

The objective of the NWFEA Project is to establish the capability to facilitate cross-agency collaboration in meeting the common goals of the national (federal, state, county, and local) wildland fire community.

Wildland fire’s enterprise architecture (EA) capability will provide a single authoritative source for managing and tracking wildland fire plans, organizations, activities, standards, products, and services, throughout the wildland fire community, thus increasing efficiency and eliminating redundancy.

What is Enterprise Architecture?

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is directing the implementation of a Federal Enterprise Architecture which is intended to identify opportunities to simplify processes and unify work across the agencies of the Federal government. OMB has directed every department and agency to establish an enterprise architecture program. Rather than creating disparate and stand-alone wildland fire architectures within each agency, DOI, USDA, and DHS have agreed to work together to develop and implement a single national wildland fire enterprise architecture program.

An example of applying the enterprise architecture discipline.Enterprise Architecture is a framework that identifies the interconnections of the various components of the organization:

  • Business – the strategy, governance, organizations, processes, products, and standards by which the enterprise operates on a day-to-day basis
  • Data/information - the definitions and classifications of the data that the enterprise requires in order to efficiently operate
  • Applications - the interactions among the processes and standards used by the enterprise
  • Technology - the hardware, operating systems, programming, and networking solutions used by the organization

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