Attach 2 - EA Industry Day Feedback.xlsx

PEO STRI Enterprise Architecture RFI (None)

ACC Orlando

summary of feedback and recommendations gathered during an EA Industry Day event. It covers various key areas such as challenges, best practices, collaboration, culture, tools (DevSecOps), security, training/professional development, processes (governance), empowerment, leadership buy-in, standards, contracting, and more. The feedback emphasizes the importance of improving communication to break down cultural barriers, leveraging existing capabilities and solutions, enhancing information sharing on both legacy and new programs, streamlining sharing of artifacts and models, empowering people through culture change, and providing government DevSecOps tools to reduce barriers to entry. Additionally, it highlights the need for common enterprise architecture to centralize processes and protocols, promoting diversity in contract vehicles, incentivizing stakeholders, protecting data rights and proprietary solutions, and facilitating technology transition.

The document stresses the significance of collaboration among stakeholders including industry partners and DoD entities to develop open, accessible transparent approaches. It advocates for agile contracting practices, improvement-oriented processes, development of enterprise architecture inclusive of contractor technical approaches, documentation of processes, incorporation of agile processes into business and governance structures, and providing value propositions enabling industry transition to modern tools and processes. The feedback also underscores the importance of establishing standards working groups, enforcing data controls, improving integration efficiency through synchronization efforts, facilitating technology transition to avoid delays/roadblocks, and focusing on interoperability standards early in the process.