Government Domain Task Force (GovDTF)

Index

• Background
• Objectives
• Schedule
• References
• Reference Archive
• Activity History

Background:

The US President's Office of Management and Budget worked in the context of the OMG's GovDTF to produce a standard for the Federal Transition Framework (FTF), an adjunct to the Federal Enterprise Architecture. The standard was successfully issued. In the Orlando Technical Committee Meeting in September 2008, the FTF standard began its transition from Beta status to a formal V1.0 status through the initiation of a Domain Technology Committee vote.

In that same Orlando meeting, the GovDTF activated a new work item from its roadmap at the request of Kshemendra Paul, Chief Architect of the OMB; the Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture Request for Proposal (MFSA RFP).

The work is primarily based on the Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (http://www.fsam.gov) with specific focus on supporting the Enterprise Architecture Segment Report (http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/e-gov/fea/ ). The original versions of these were produced for the OMB by the Federal Segment Architecture Working Group (FSAWG) which was formed in January 2008 as a sub-team of the Federal CIO Council's Architecture and Infrastructure Committee (AIC). The FSAWG consisted of federal agency architects who volunteered to leverage existing enterprise architecture (EA) best practices to develop a standard methodology for creating and using segment architectures. [http://www.fsam.gov/about-federal-segment-architecture-methodology.php, referenced 2009.05.21]

Objectives:

The purpose is to define a Metamodel for Segment Architecture (MFSA) of sufficient scope to support the reporting requirements of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) Segment Report (EASR) as defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Agencies complete segment templates as part of ongoing assessments by the OMB. OMB has four main goals for this template, including;

• Ensure agencies are doing segment architecture well and generating results
• Identify opportunities for re-use and cross-agency collaboration based on agency segment architecture information
• Provide a platform for agency chief architects to engage with business owners
• Provide updated Segment information as part of the annual OMB EA Assessment

The MFSA scope also entails the integration of relevant concepts from the Federal Enterprise Architecture Methodology (MFSA), Consolidated Reference Model (Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Models), capital planning and investment control (CPIC), and the Federal Transition Framework (FTF). This is required to assure consistency of modeling at the intersection of segment architecture and these domains.

Schedule

Event or Activity	Date	Status/Notes
Work Item Start	20070430	20060926: Work Item Resumed (Editor assigned, 20061204) 20070627: Put On Hold 27-June-2006
First Draft of refocused RFI	20080811	In Process
Review RFI Drafts	20080822	20071211: Reviewed by GovDTF in Burlingame and refocused. 20070924: Reviewed by GovDTF in Jacksonville
RFP placed on OMG document server	20090525	RFP Posted
Review and Comment of RFP by Architecture Board	20090622	Completed Costa Rica TC Meeting
Approval of RFP by Government Domain Task Force	20090623	Completed GovDTF Plenary
Approval of RFP by Architecture Board	20090625	Approved
DTC votes to issue RFP	20090626	Issued
LOI to submit to RFP due	20090810
Initial Submissions due and placed on OMG document server (“Four week rule”)	20090817	prior to San Antonio TC Meeting
Initial Submission presentations, review and GovDTF vote (presuming a successful vote to vote).	20090915	GovDTF Plenary, San Antonio TC Meeting
Voter registration closes	20091015
Revised Submissions Posted to OMG Server	20100222	Four week rule for Jacksonville Meeting A revised submission was reviewed in the Long Beach Meeting. A new revised submission date was set.
Revised Submission presentations and GovDTF recommendation vote.	20100322	GovDTF Plenary, Jacksonville Meeting
Approval by Architecture Board	20100322
Begin DTC electronic vote (nominally a ten week process)	20100326
BoD votes to adopt specification	20100900	September 2010 Board Meeting. Will likely take place sooner through electronic vote.

References & Resources:

• FSAR Draft – Draft document originally supplied by the OMB to use as a basis of development of the standard specification.
• Current Enterprise Architecture Segment Report (EASR) Instruction Guide (Version 1.2) has been posted (2009.05.18)
• Candidate FSAR Objects – Excel spreadsheets of candidate FSAR objects. Companion to the FSAR Draft
• FEA Practice Guidance – Contains the definition of segment architecture as defined by the OMB
• FEA Homepage – Has links to Federal Enterprise Architecture documents.
• GovDTF FTF Project Page – Record of Federal Transition Framework specification development.

Reference Archive:

•  Appendix I of the Federal Segment Architecture Methodology V1.3: – FSAM Logical Data Model  Supporting EA Reporting Requirements. Describes the EA Segment Report as a logical data model. This was the initial technical basis for the analyses leading to the MFSA.
• FSAR Draft – Draft document originally supplied by the OMB to use as a basis for development of the metamodel specification.
• Candidate FSAR Objects – Companion to the FSAR Draft, an Excel spreadsheet of candidate FSAR objects.

Activity History:

7-December-2009, Long Beach Meeting – A revised submission was reviewed. At the request of the submission team a new revised submission date was established by the GovDTF. A revised submission is expected to be moved to adoption in the Jacksonville, FL meeting in March 2010

13-October-2009 – The "Resource" page linked to this page fell into disuse, so it has been removed.

17-September-2009, San Antonio Meeting – The sole submitters' team reports that they have changed the name of their submission to "Model for Performance-driven Government" to more correctly reflect the scope and purpose. Their submission was reviewed by the GovDTF in this meeting. A revised submission is expected to be moved to adoption in Long Beach, CA

26-June-2009, San José, Costa Rica Meeting – The Domain Technology Committee issued the MFSA RFP during its plenary in San José, Costa Rica.

25-May-2009 – The GovDTF in conjunction with the RFC submitters moved the work item to the RFP Process. The RFP was posted on this date, the four week rule for the San José, Costa Rica TC Meeting

23-March-2009 Washington DC Meeting – On open submitters' meeting was hosted by the GovDTF. See the Washington DC minutes at http://doc.omg.org/gov/2009-03-13. The name of the work item was changed to the Metamodel for Federal Segment Architecture, (MFSA).

8-December-2008 – A discussion of the approach for the RFC was discussed. See the Santa Clara minutes at http://doc.omg.org/gov/2008-12-01

24-November-2008 – After a series of teleconferences it was decided to use the RFC rather than the RFP process. (Minutes are in "Related Documents" list.

23-September-2008 – Orlando, FL. Activated the FSAR work item from the roadmap at the request of the US President's Office of Management and Budget.