FEAF

• FEAF stands for federal enterprise architecture framework
• It is the enterprise architecture for a federal government
• It provides a methodology for IT acquisition, use, and disposal in a federal government
• The FEA is built using an number of reference models, they are:

1. performance reference model,
2. business reference model,
3. service component reference model,
4. data reference model
5. technical reference model.

• It is designed to ease sharing of information and resources across federal agencies, reduce costs, and improve citizen services.
• Eight components taken into consideration to design and maintain FEAF:

1. architecture drivers
2. strategic direction
3. current architecture
4. target architecture
5. transitional processes
6. architectural segments
7. architectural models
8. standards

• FEA Architecture levels:

1. Enterprise architecture,
2. Segment architecture,
3. Solution architecture.

Resources: wikipedia, whitehouse.gov

For more info: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/fea_docs/FEA_Practice_Guidance_Nov_2007.pdf