Interoperability Clearinghouse

As a part of the ICH charter providing Honest Broker services, the ICH has numerous working groups which are forums for Federal Agencies to do peer review of their various Enterprise Architecture components. These forums are run by ICH and ICH facilitates the discussion and adds outside input where appropriate. In addition the results may be aggregated for dissemination to other federal constituents. Participants must be members of an ICH service to contribute.

The need for these working groups expands almost as quickly as the usage and compliance requirements from OMB, GAO, and agency heads, as a result ICH is going to organize these events according to the ICH Enterprise Architecture Reference Model pictured below.

The subject areas of these working groups will be in the following areas and limited to a maximum of 20 participants. Each meeting will be convened bi- monthly at a member's site and last for a half day:

1. Understanding key EA methods and tools; C4ISR, FEAF, IEEE 1471, OMG MDA, OSI RM-ODP,

2. Enterprise Architecture Planning; Developing and roadmap: Choosing the right resources

3. Enterprise Architecture and Asset Portfolio Management

4. Assuring Interoperability in the Architecture

5. Federal Business Reference Model

6. Developing the Technical Reference Model and the Role of Standards (A119)

7. Security Architectures and GISRA Compliance

8. Critical Information Infrastructure Frameworks

9. E Gov Frameworks and Component Architectures

10. Web Services Frameworks

11. Differentiating Knowledge Management, Data Warehousing and Portals frameworks

12. Capital IT Planning: How to drive A11-300 from EA outputs

13. Making your EA Actionable: Metrics, specifics, and acquisition factors

14. ICH EA Assessment Framework