Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework
Rob Carlson, June 15, 2023
Representative Stephen Horn of California introduced the morning session of a congressional hearing in 1997 by describing the major factors which had influenced the U.S. Congress to pass the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996: the federal government was spending $27 billion per year on information technology without being able to articulate successes, so "efficient private sector techniques" coupled with accountability to the Office of Management and Budget would be used to create "results-oriented information technology practice" throughout the federal government (Oversight of the Implementation of the Clinger-Cohen Act, 1997).
While the act spelled out the necessities of practice, it did not dictate methods of accomplishing the objectives, leading to the creation and release of the Federal Enterprise Architecture ("FEA") framework by the Chief Information Officers three years later (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services