Information Technology

Enterprise Architecture Use Across the Federal Government Can Be Improved Gao ID: GAO-02-6 February 19, 2002

An enterprise architecture includes descriptive models to help decisionmakers understand how an entity operates today and in the future. Although 52 percent of federal departments and agencies report that they have satisfied at least those management practices for developing, completing, and leveraging architectures, only four percent report that they have satisfied the management practices necessary for an effective enterprise architecture manager. As an advocate of enterprise architecture development and use, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has begun to address this area in its budget interactions with major departments and agencies. Nevertheless, OMB could improve its oversight by measuring agency progress in a more structured manner and advancing the state of enterprise architecture maturity, expanding the number of agencies subject to its oversight, and focusing on governmentwide actions to assist agencies in meeting common enterprise architecture challenges.

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