Overview/Description
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has developed the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), a business-based framework for government-wide improvement. The aim of the FEA is to facilitate efforts to transform the federal government to one that is citizen-centered, results-oriented, and market-based. The FEA is being constructed through a collection of interrelated "reference models" designed to facilitate cross-agency analysis and the identification of duplicate investments, gaps, and opportunities for collaboration within and across federal Agencies. The major elements developed to date as part of the FEA are: a series of reference models providing a common framework (available at www.egov.gov); a policy requiring agencies to link IT investments with the reference models to help identify commonality; an Enterprise Architecture assessment model and process to help agencies improve the quality of their Enterprise Architectures. SkillSoft's Legal Compliance course on Federal Enterprise Architecture is developed and maintained with subject matter support provided by Christopher Yukins, Associate Professor of Government Contract Law, The George Washington University Law School, and Peter McKeen, a member of the adjunct faculty, University of Virginia Procurement and Contracts Management Program.
Target Audience
Federal government employees; employees of federal agencies; supervisors of federal employees; managers of federal employees; employees who buy goods and services from the private sector for the federal government; employees who deal with members of the public looking to obtain permits, licenses, and address other regulatory needs.