History

2002

• Established Office of the Chief IT Architect (OCITA)

2003

• Established Architecture Review Board (ARB)
• Developed NIH Enterprise Architecture Framework
• Established Principles
• Domain Teams - Round 1:
  • Applications
  • Data
  • Collaboration
    • Messaging
    • Directories
  • Security
  • Networks
• Implemented NIH Login

 
2004

• Domain Teams - Round 2:
  • Enterprise Systems Monitoring
  • Integration Technology
  • Collaboration II and Collaboration III (e.g. content management, document management, workflow, search engines, reporting, etc.)
• Released first version of http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov
• Began formal research and analysis of NIH Enterprise Architecture stakeholders and users
• Established liaison with Health and Human Services (HHS) Enterprise Architecture team
• Established NIH Enterprise Architecture role in the Capital Planning and Investment Control (CPIC) process

 
2005

• Established formal Architecture Standards Process (including NIH Requests for Comments series)
• Domain Teams - Round 3:
  • Collaboration IV (e.g. Web collaboration, instant messaging, and resource scheduling)
  • Security II
  • Networks II
• Implemented program communications strategy based on stakeholder and user research and analysis
• Launched redesigned http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov
• Implemented new Request for Information (RFI) Process in support of Architecture Standards Process
• Developed high-level to-be architecture for identity management
• Kicked-off Grants Business Architecture and Information Architecture initiatives
• Developed baseline current state information for Grants Information architecture including mapping of existing systems to Grants business processes and identification of key data elements managed within the Grants process  

2006

• Domain Teams - Round 4
  • Integration Technology II
  • NIH External Directory
• Released new functionality for http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov (e.g. automatic email updates and revise workflow and content management capabilities)
• Procured and implemented enterprise integration broker and stood up Integration Competency Center (ICC)
• Wiki Working Group and proofs-of-concept
• Kicked-off project to implement an NIH Enterprise Repository

 2007

• Completed and validated current state grants business process models
• Drafted Business Architecture straw "To-Be" models
• Migrated application database from Microsoft Access into the Enterprise Architecture Repository
• Released all Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) "To-Be" business process models
• Revised National Institutes of Health Request for Comment (NIHRFC) 0001 "Enterprise Architecture Standards Process"
• Achieved stakeholder signoff on all post-sponsorship HSPD-12 business models
• Published Person Name NIHRFC
• Issued NIH Budget Entities NIHRFC
• Published NIH Enterprise Conceptual Data Model NIHRFC
• Developed and published a draft NIH Grants Conceptual Data model
• Began refining the existing data governance structure to allocate responsibility for decision making for information management across NIH
• Completed domain teams to investigate workflow/business process modeling (BPM) and document management technologies
• Published domain team process information and templates to encourage the development of rnterprise architecture compliant technology standards by NIH groups
• Launched the Integration Service Center (ISC) and Integration Oversight Committee (IOC)
• Developed new web services:
  • Interoperability between applications
  • Standard based, authenticated access to National Institutes of Health Enterprise Directory (NED), Commons, nVision, etc.
  • Web service interface to National Institutes of Health Business Systems (NBS)
• Continued NED operations and maintenance activities
• Began development to meet HSPD-12 requirements for NED
• Signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) for interfederation with InCommon, providing non-NIH, external user authentication and authorization
• Provisioned Constellation in five institutes and centers (ICs)
• Completed seven training courses for 197 attendees and conducted seven Enterprise Architecture Topic Series (EATS) for 174 attendees in order to increase awareness and understanding of Enterprise Architecture initiatives
• Implemented Enterprise Architecture Program Monitoring within OCITA
• Conducted Enterprise Architecture Alignment Pilot to implement draft processes