USTRANSCOM receives E-Gov Institute award for Joint Deployment and Distribution Architecture
The award recognizes best practices in developing and implementing successful Enterprise Architectures. It was accepted by Steve Pierson, USTRANSCOM Command, Control, Computer and Communications Directorate, in a ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C.
According to Pierson, Federal agencies are required to build architectures to better plan for capabilities and technology investments while ensuring agency programs receive funding. Through OMBs Federal Enterprise Architecture and OSDs Business Enterprise Architecture, this supply chainbased framework known as the Joint Deployment and Distribution Architecture is designed to create greater efficiencies and streamline inter-agency collaboration and communication.
The latest challenge in expanding agency-based EAs is attempting to understand broader relationships and interdependencies among partnering agencies, Pierson said. USTRANSCOM has successfully pioneered an approach that has effectively aligned interdependent yet disparate EAs, enabling a holistic view of end-to-end scenarios, portfolios, and organizations.
By working with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), USTRANSCOM has been able to map the interconnections between agencies without drastically altering individual agency architectures, Pierson continued. Benefits gained through this federated approach were the use of a reference model allowing participants to describe their business using a common language resulting in an ability to view anddisplay broader end-to-end processes including their seams.
Of importance, the framework provides an outstanding foundation to support capability analysis, operational planning, program management and system development, and IT investment, Pierson added. It is estimated this effort conservatively resulted in a cost avoidance of more than $20 million.
Brig. Gen. Michael Basla, director of USTRANSCOMs Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems Directorate, expressed his appreciation for the award.
We are extremely pleased to have the efforts of so many people at USTRANSCOM, especially the enterprise architects, recognized by the E-Gov Institute with the distinguished Leadership in Government Transformation award, Basla said. Of course, the team didnt accomplish this alone. USTRANSCOM worked with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, DLA and OSD to map the interconnections between agencies, leveraging the great work done by individual agency architects.
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