COMDTINST 5230.68
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The Coast Guard's EA Program is intended to address Federal mandates and establish a
basis for continuously evolving Coast Guard C4&IT systems so that they provide effective
operational capabilities in response to changing operational requirements and priorities.
The Coast Guard's EA will reflect the Coast Guard's current and unique environment and
set of circumstances, while also addressing the most effective and efficient way to respond
to its long term needs.
(4) In response to Federal mandates, all Coast Guard C4&IT investments must comply with the
Coast Guard's EA, unless non-compliance is justified and the investment is granted a
documented waiver. This linkage between the EA and C4&IT investment portfolio will
maximize systems' interoperability while avoiding unwarranted overlap across investments.
(5) Compliance with this policy that would result in unanticipated cost overrun, negative
schedule impact, or performance impairment to acquisition contracts previously approved
by CG-6 will be waived. The Program Sponsor will submit a plan of action with a timeline,
when directed by CG-6, for bringing the system into EA alignment to the EA Configuration
Control Board (CCB) for approval.
c. Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). The FEA is a tool that enables the Federal government
to identify opportunities to leverage technology and alleviate redundancy, or to highlight where
agency IT overlap limits the value of investments. The FEA facilitates horizontal (Cross-
Federal) and vertical (Federal, State, and Local) integration of IT resources, promotes the
application of architecture practices to help drive business process improvement across the
Federal government, and establishes the "line of sight" contribution of IT to mission and
program performance. FEA constructs shall be implemented to incorporate and house other
architecture products, as mandated by CG-6, in order to ensure interagency operability.
Currently, the prescribed standardized Coast Guard EA product set is the Department of Defense
(DoD) Architecture Framework. The FEA includes guidance and direction for developing
Federal agency EAs, including the following reference models:
(1) Performance Reference Model (PRM). The PRM is a "reference model," or standardized
framework, to measure the performance of major IT investments and their contribution to
program performance. The PRM has three main purposes:
Help produce enhanced performance information to improve strategic and daily
decision-making.
Improve the alignment and better articulate the contribution of inputs to outputs and
outcomes, thereby creating a clear "line of sight" to desired results.
Identify performance improvement opportunities that span traditional organizational
structures and boundaries.
The PRM attempts to leverage the best of existing approaches to performance measurement
in the public and private sectors, including the balanced scorecard, Baldrige criteria, value
measurement methodology, program logic models, the value chain, the theory of
constraints, Program Assessment Rating Tool assessments, Government Performance
Results Act, and Capital Planning and Investment Control. Agencies' use of the PRM will
populate the model over time.
(2) Business Reference Model (BRM). The BRM provides an organized, hierarchical construct
for describing the day-to-day business operations of the Federal government. While many
models exist for describing organizations organization charts, location maps, etc. this
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