Enterprise Architecture Executive Handbook - U.S. Coast Guard

Measurement Indicator: The specific measures,
(e.g., number and/or percentage of customers
satisfied) tailored for a specific Business
Reference Model (BRM) LOB or subfunction,
agency, program, or IT initiative
(OMB, 2007). An example of a measurement
indicator for the USCG mission area of
“Safety” is the “Percent of all mariners in
imminent danger rescued.”
Model: Mid-level information products that
graphically map the connections between
elements in the CGEA to show relationships
between processes, entities, and the
information they exchange.
Operational Controls: The security controls
(i.e., safeguards or countermeasures) for an
information system that primarily are
implemented and executed by people (as
opposed to systems) (NIST, 2006).
Performance Perspective: Provides information
about the measurement of USCG strategic
and business outcomes. This includes
information from the U.S. USCG Posture
Statement (2009 Budget in Brief) and the
OMB Performance Assessment Rating Tool
(PART).
Performance Targets: Performance measures
with targets and time frames. For example, in
FY 2007 the performance target for the
“Ports, waterways, and coastal security”
mission area was to reduce maritime
terrorism risk by 15 percent.
Product Manager (PM): The Product Manager
is responsible for updating the CGEA with
revisions resulting from DRs.
Product: Includes hardware, the physical part of
a computer system, and software, the
programs or other instructions that computer
needs to perform specific tasks (Harvard
University, 2002).
Profile: High-level, strategic view of CGEA
information for the executive decisionmaker.
As the satellite view of CGEA,
profiles use graphic visualization to show
complex information in a condensed format.
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PSB: The PSB supports the EAB by reviewing
DRs for C4&IT products and standards.
After reviewing each DR for potential
impact on Coast Guard mission execution
and the CGEA, the PSB provides their
findings and recommendations to the EAB.
Program: An organizational unit within an
agency with responsibility for delivering on
a clearly defined mission or service area.
Scope of a program may be determined by
legislation, executive order, or by
organizational structure of the agency to
achieve its mission (OMB, 2005). Major
programs at the USCG include Rescue 21,
Command 21, Deepwater and NAIS.
Security Perspective: Describes how the USCG
assures the confidentiality, integrity,
availability, and privacy of USCG
information. NIST standards are an example
of the type of information managed in this
perspective.
Segment Architecture: Focuses on business
outcomes of an individual LOB and defines a
simple roadmap for a core mission area,
business service, or enterprise service.
Sensors: Systems that sense, detect, and collect
data.
Service Access and Delivery: The collection of
Access and Delivery Channels used to
leverage the Service Component, and the
legislative requirements governing its use
and interaction.
Service Interface and Integration: The
discovery, interaction, and communication
technologies joining disparate systems and
information providers. SOAs leverage and
incorporate Service Interface and Integration
standards to provide interoperability and
scalability.
Service Oriented Architecture: A paradigm
for organizing and utilizing distributed
capabilities that may be under the control of
different ownership domains. It provides a
uniform means to offer, discover, interact
with and use capabilities to produce desired
effects consistent with measurable
preconditions and expectations (OASIS,
2005).