Executive Summary
EA Policy
MoD DG Info published a document on Enterprise Architecture Policy on 23rd Nov 2006, stating that the MOD architectural approach is underpinned by the following policy statements:
- The delivery of architectural products is to conform to MODAF.
- MODAF will be extended incrementally to support all formal architecting activities.
- Ownership and management of MODAF and its enablers (views, meta-model, controlled terminology and model exchange standards) resides with DG Info.
- DG Info will establish and manage a governance regime that includes representation from the user communities.
- MOD architecting will take a federalist and tool-agnostic approach.
- Defence Process Owners (DPO) have responsibility for definition of boundaries, scope and baseline of their process and ensuring interfaces with other processes are managed appropriately.
- This policy also supports the delivery of MoD’s NEC CIS Interoperability Assurance policy ; DEC CCII , supported by the IA, will define across acquisition the operational and system of system boundaries so that the coherence of both requirement and solution can be assured.
- The IA is the lead for the Interoperability and Compliance Assurance (IOCA) process and will specify architectural information required to support CIS interoperability assurance .
- DG Info will publish and maintain a view of architecting activities across Defence.
This document was endorsed by the DIRGE on January 2007 as policy, and in due course will be promulgated through the MoD DIN process.
The EA policy document can be downloaded here.
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