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Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA)

The Office of Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) annually delivers the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) for the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area (BMA) to help defense business system owners and program managers make informed decisions. The DCMO published the latest official BEA 10.0 release, February 14, 2013.

Overview

The BEA is the enterprise architecture for the DoD BMA and reflects the DoD business transformation priorities; the business capabilities required to support those priorities; and the combinations of enterprise systems and initiatives that enable those capabilities. It also supports use of this information within an End-to-End (E2E) framework.
The purpose of the BEA is to provide a blueprint for DoD business transformation that helps ensure the right capabilities, resources and materiel are rapidly delivered to our warfighters – what they need, where they need it, when they need it, anywhere in the world. The BEA guides and constrains implementation of interoperable defense business system solutions as required by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It also guides information technology (IT) investment management to align with strategic business capabilities as required by the Clinger-Cohen Act, and supporting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Government Accountability Office (GAO) policies.
The BEA 10.0 aligns with DoD Architecture Framework (DoDAF) 2.0 naming conventions and comprises a set of integrated viewpoint products. The viewpoints display capabilities, activities, processes, data, information exchanges, business rules, system functions, services, system data exchanges, technical standards, terms, and linkages to Laws, Regulations and Policies (LRP).
The Strategic Management Plan (SMP), Functional Strategies as developed by the appropriate DOD Principal Staff Assistants and the Organizational Execution Plans (OEP) as developed by DoD Components are the drivers of BEA release content. The SMP sets the strategic direction for the Department's business operations. The transformation effort guiding BEA development continues to focus on SMP alignment, providing tangible outcomes for a limited set of priorities, and developing architecture that is integrated, understandable and actionable.
Per the FY2012 – FY 2013 Strategic Management Plan (SMP), the Department will focus its efforts to improve overall management of its business system investments in seven areas.

  • Strengthen and right-size the DoD total workforce
  • Strengthen DoD financial management
  • Build agile and secure information technology capabilities
  • Increase the buying power of the DoD
  • Increase operational and installation energy efficiency
  • Re-engineer/use end-to-end business processes
  • Create agile business operations that support contingency missions

Background

In addition to the BEA, the NDAA of 2005 established requirements for a DoD Enterprise Transition Plan (ETP), an annual Congressional Report, and a senior governance body. The governance body comprises an Investment Review Board (IRB) for the BMA and the Defense Business Council (DBC) .Section 901 of the FY2012 NDAA continues to emphasize Business Process Reengineering (BPR), strengthens the integration of the Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) and the Enterprise Transition Plan (ETP), and redefines governance roles and responsibilities within the investment management process. Specifically, Section 901 enables a single IRB, chaired by the DCMO, to have a cross-functional, enterprise-wide view for evaluating DBS investments for certification and periodic review.

The IRB and DBC provide effective business capability oversight and decision-making by certifying and approving business system modernizations more than $1 million as BEA compliant. Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS) and Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAP) also require BEA compliance before they can issue milestone approval decisions.

The foundation for the new IRB process and the context for portfolio review are the Functional Strategies, which define business outcomes, priorities, measures, and standards for DoD Functional Areas. The Functional Strategies will be used to inform the BEA and be represented in the BEA when implemented.

BEA Content

Content updates are described in the BEA 10.0 Summary located on the BEA website.

Official Releases

The following links are the published official releases:

Informational Releases

In July 2009, the ODCMO started introducing informational releases which reflect content updates made through the BEA 7.0 release cycle. Informational releases are published for informational purposes only and will not be used to assert compliance or update the DoD Information Technology Portfolio Repository (DITPR).
The following links are the published informational releases:

  • Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA 8.1) Informational Release – July. 29, 2011
  • Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA 7.2) Informational Release – Dec. 29, 2010
  • Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA 7.1) Informational Release – Aug. 27, 2010
  • Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA 6.2) Informational Release - October 28, 2009
  • Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA 6.1) Informational Release – July 29, 2009


Help/Contact Information:

For questions related to the BEA, contact AskBEA@osd.mil
   
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