Presented to Business Transformation Agency

The Business Transformation Agency (BTA) received one of the first annual Enterprise Architecture Awards for Best Implementation of a Published Framework or Methodology. The BTA’s award submission provided information on Business Mission Area (BMA) Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) implementation and provided the unique and innovative features of its BEA evolution. The submission emphasized the BTA’s mission to transform business operations to achieve improved warfighter support, while enabling financial accountability across the Department of Defense, and described the origins of the BTA and its size, organizational hierarchy, core mission, and primary roles and responsibilities. Most importantly, how the BEA is being used to guide and constrain millions of dollars of information technology investment and is driving business process re-engineering across six Business Enterprise Priorities.

In addition, other Department of Defense and U.S. Government organizations are interested in leveraging the BTA’s success to achieve their own transformational objectives. BEA implementation also is helping the department achieve several business transformation objectives, including support for the joint warfighting capability, enabling rapid access to information for strategic decision makers, reducing the cost of business operations, and improving financial stewardship for the American people. In its submission, the BTA noted its adoption of multiple concepts that are transforming Department of Defense business operations.  These concepts include a Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Architecture Development, Operational View Architecture Federation and Tiered Accountability.