Federal Systems Solutions

In response to the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, which mandated that Federal Agencies develop and maintain an enterprise IT architecture, the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework (FEAF) was established in 1999 by the Chief Information Officers (CIO). The purpose of the FEAF is to facilitate shared development of common processes and information and to:

Help Federal organizations develop their architectures
Promote information sharing among Federal organizations
Organize Federal information on a Federal-wide scale

DEA’s expertise with enterprise architectures, our familiarity with frameworks, as well as with the System Architect modeling tool, positions us to help Federal organizations effectively develop their enterprise architectures. DEA employs a collaborative, web-based, integrated tool suite to enable top-down traceable requirements, architectures, and executable models for Federal Systems. The tool suite consists of:

System Architect from Popkin Software.
EnterpriseLINK™ and RequirementsLINK™ web-based publishing frameworks from Doreen Evans Associates. The LINK tools extract information from the architecture and requirements models built in System Architect, including the models themselves and all the requirements that are implied in the models; organize them into textual statements, and track all the relationships. These relationships include those that are implicit in the models as well as those that are explicit.

System Architect is part of our Federal Systems Solution because it provides comprehensive support for the FEAF as well as for the US Department of Defense's Architecture Framework (DoDAF, formerly C4ISR Framework). The DoDAF framework is at the heart of C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), which itself is used by the US military to support the planning, decision making, and execution of integrated battle scenarios. System Architect's latest offering for DoDAF is its support for the Activity Based Methodology (ABM) for DoDAF. System Architect's support includes all necessary modeling artifacts, and automation for certain aspects of ABM, to produce significant time savings and efficiencies during the building of DoDAF work products. The C4ISR option to System Architect offers complete support for operational, systems, and technology modeling to produce required C4ISR applications at both the enterprise or project level.