WALT OKON, Senior Architect Engineer, Enterprise Architecture & Standards, DEFENSE
With new infrastructure models, increased threats & attacks, and calls for more proactive security measures to protect it’s highly sensitive information & networks, the DoD must always be on the bleeding edge of security strategies and technologies to properly protect itself, our warfighters and our country. In this session, the DoD OCIO will discuss its strategies on its high priority security initiatives including Identity and Authentication Management, Advanced Persistent Threats, Cloud Computing Security and Proactive/Continuous Monitoring
Learning Objectives:
• Learn best practices and lessons learned on developing and executing a holistic cyber security strategy
• Key Topics in this Session include: Risk Management, Cyber Security, ICAM (Identity, Credential and Access Management), Advanced Persistent Threats, Cloud Computing Security and Proactive/Continuous Monitoring
Customer Driven EA for Cyber Security - What EAs and Security Professionals Need to Know
DR. PAUL TIBBITS, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Office of Enterprise Development, Veterans Affairs
While it is no secret that delivering value to customers is the ultimate goal of all IT investments, realizing this goal is often not as simple as it sounds. In this session, attendees will learn about the Department of Veterans Affairs Enterprise Architecture Strategy which is focused not merely on compliance, artifacts and exhibits, but is built using a “Customer Driven” approach aimed at providing the maximum value to users and the best ROI possible. As Cyber Security is a foundational element to VA’s overall IT strategy, the session will focus on the strategies, process, and execution of VA’s Security Infrastructure.
Learning Objectives
• Learn how to put the Customer at the center of your Enterprise Architecture program deliver value-added services, and ultimately help transform your IT department into a strategic asset for your agency.
• Key Topics in this Session include: Enterprise Architecture Strategy, Security Infrastructures, Business/IT Collaboration, EA/Security Collaboration, 25-Point IT Reform
Using Business Intelligence Tools for Reporting and Trend Analysis
COLLEEN COGGINS, CIO, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Transportation
This presentation will focus on how an organization can leverage business intelligence (Bl) tools to improve program reporting, execution and trend analysis. The presenter will relay these concepts by utilizing an actual case study of how BI tools were utilized in the popular "Cash for Clunkers" Presidential Initiative. Examples will be provided of BI capabilities and the benefits derived from using BI tools during the Cash for Clunkers Program. Finally, lessons learned will be relayed on the implementation of a data warehouse and execution of BI tools.
Overview of Business Intelligence Tools and Underlying Capabilities:
• Identification of Business benefits from using BI Tools
• Lessons learned for implementing a data warehouse (DW) using BI capabilities
• Identification of BI capabilities integrated with DW data aggregation and integration capabilities
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Realizing Efficiency & Interoperability
DENNIS WISNOSKY, Chief Architect, Chief Technical Officer, Business Mission Area, Office of the Deputy Chief Management Officer, DoD
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is leading the transformation of architecture-driven business systems/services development and deployment. Key principles to achieving DoD business transformation are: capabilities delivered as services within a SOA, enterprise architecture standards, domain ontologies, and the utilization of semantic technology to support data interoperability and business intelligence. Mr. Wisnosky discuss the strategy and give a high-level overview of the work being done towards realizing efficiency and interoperability within the DoD BMA.
Bringing Value to the Organization Through Enterprise Architecture
DR. BRETT BRUNK, Chief Enterprise Architect, GSA
DOREEN COX, Director, Enterprise Architecture Branch Chief Architect, Office of Information Technology, Customs & Border Protection
The August 2010, GAO Organization Transformation - A Framework for Assessing and Improving Enterprise Architecture Management (Version 2.0) states the following:
Effective use of an enterprise architecture (EA) is a hallmark of successful organizations and an essential means to achieving a desired end: having operations and technology environments that maximize institutional mission performance and outcomes. Among other things, this includes realizing cost savings through consolidation and reuse of shared services and elimination of antiquated and redundant mission operations, enhancing information sharing through data standardization and system integration, and optimizing service delivery through streamlining and normalization of business processes and mission operations. Not using an EA can result in organizational operations and supporting technology infrastructures and systems that are duplicative, poorly integrated, unnecessarily costly to maintain and interface, and unable to respond quickly to shifting environmental factors.
Many organizations are struggling to achieve these goals and even more are struggling to show executives the value behind enterprise architecture products and services. Frankly, in many organizations the executives are correct in that EA is really nothing more than a few models and documents sitting on the shelf or in a repository serving no purpose at all. We are in the era of shrinking government budgets, efficiencies and expanded capabilities. It is time for the practice of EA to show value or simply go away entirely. Some organizations have been able to integrate EA practices into key executive management areas. How in the world did they do this?
Learning Objectives:
• Learn practical techniques for improving executive decision making by using EA tools and techniques
• Learn about the key services that EA should be promoting and advertising
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BRIAN WILCZYNSKI, Director, Architecture & Infrastructure, Office of the DoD CIO, DoD
Architecture development within the DoD has traditionally focused on Solution Architectures at the Program-level. At the same time, there has been a gap in the area of enterprise-level requirements for common architectural patterns and standards implementation. As a result, program managers have been challenged with defining infrastructure architecture at the Solution-level without higher level guidance and compliance requirements.
The DoD CIO is implementing an overarching framework for defining enterprise-wide Reference Architectures that guide and constrain lower-level architectures and Solutions.
Learning Objectives
Attendees will understand how the DoD CIO defines Reference Architecture. They will also discover how RAs are being managed to ensure coverage of the IT infrastructure.
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