"Enabling the Mission" A Practical Guide to Federal Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Authors
Gunderson, Chris
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Date of Issue
2008-06-30
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Abstract
The world is changing at an accelerating rate and the federal government needs to keep pace.
Broad-based change is always difficult, but the federal government is plagued by a variety of
inhibitors to change, including enterprise verses mission organizational orientation; bureaucratic
culture; program aligned funding processes; budgetary cycles and processes that do not facilitate
agility or reuse; and a very large and diverse embedded technology base. Service Oriented
Architecture (SOA) promises to help agencies rapidly reconfigure their business and more easily
position IT resources to serve it. Improved business agility – through the sharing and reuse of
infrastructure, services, information, and solutions - is a key component of any Federal Enterprise
Architecture whose need will become increasingly critical in the future.
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Evolving Open Enterprise Information Systems
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Open Enterprise Information Systems (OEIS)
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Sponsors
The American Council for Technology / Industry Advisory Council's Enterprise Architecture Shared Interest Group (EA-SIG)
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
This project sponsored by the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and executed in the Northern Virginia
Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
This project sponsored by the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and executed in the Northern Virginia