FEMA mission requires a comprehensive and pervasive collaboration and information sharing environment within FEMA, across the Federal Government, with FEMA’s public and private sector partners, and with the public. A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) will provide FEMA the ability to:
• Facilitate Quick Response to Changing Requirements
• Leverage Shared Infrastructure, Services, Information, and Solutions

• Ability to Share Interfaces with External Organizations

Learn how the Budget Line of Business used shared technology services to improve agency performance and build communities of practice engaging over 20,000 Federal users.

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• PHILIP WENGER, Deputy Policy Lead for Budget Formulation and Execution LoB, OMB

The notion that Enterprise Architecture is strictly an IT function has been one of the biggest barriers enterprise architects face in getting buy-in from business stakeholders. Actively engaging the business side of an agency/department is crucial to an enterprise architect’s ultimate goal of providing valuable services to its clients. This session will present a case study of what the Chief Architect’s office at Customs and Border Protection has done to overcome this challenge, and how CBP business leaders have made EA an integral part of the overall business strategy.

This session is designed to provide executives, program and project managers, and business owners an overview of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and its governing infrastructure. This course will discuss NIEM’s value proposition and organizational benefits as well as highlight NIEM implementation success stories. NIEM adoption strategies will be discussed, providing participants best practice techniques to incorporate NIEM into their organizations.

On June 19, 2009, the Secretary and Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) implemented the Program Management Accountability System (PMAS), a new mechanism by which all VA IT projects would be managed. In conjunction with this announcement, the CIO halted over 40 programs to focus on re-planning, each of which would require the approval of the CIO in order to restart.

In astrophysics Dark Matter is responsible for the universe not flying apart, thus encouraging the growth and stability of the universe’s cohesiveness & structure. In the Business Driven Enterprise Architecture, the Dark Matter of the BDEA is what is ultimately responsible to ensure complete integrity and cohesiveness of a true overall Integrated Enterprise Architecture that is completely known. The Dark Matter of the BDEA comprises proper identification & clarification of Value Chains and Value Streams.

• Kshemendra Paul, Chief Enterprise Architect, Department of Justice
• Suzanne Acar, Senior Information Architect, Department of Interior

• Kshemendra Paul, Chief Enterprise Architect, Department of Justice
• George Thomas, Chief Enterprise Architect, General Services Administration
• John Sullivan, Chief Enterprise Architect and Associate Director, Environmental Protection Agency