C13.5.1. The EA provides a strategic information asset base that defines the mission, the information necessary to perform the mission, the technologies required to perform the mission, and the transitional processes for implementing new technologies in response to changing mission needs. It includes the baseline architecture, target architecture, and a migration plan. This EA is designed to achieve five primary strategic information technology (IT) objectives:

C13.5.1.1. Alignment. Ensuring the reality of the implemented enterprise architecture is aligned with management’s intent.

C13.5.1.2. Integration. Realizing that the business rules are consistent across the organization and that the data and its use are immutable, interfaces and information flow are standardized, and the connectivity and interoperability are managed across the enterprise.

C13.5.1.3. Change. Facilitating and managing change in any aspect of the enterprise.

C13.5.1.4. Time-to-market. Reducing systems development applications generation and modernization timeframes, while reducing resource requirements.

C13.5.1.5. Convergence. Striving toward a standard IT product portfolio.

C13.5.2. The EA will establish a blueprint for systematically defining the security cooperation (SC) “as-is” (baseline) and “to-be” (target) environment which will be essential to managing and developing the IT systems that support the security cooperation programs. Ultimately, the EA architecture will be the foundation for a Migration Plan (i.e., Migration Plan from Baseline to the Target Architecture) to achieve DSCA’s mission through optimizing performance of its core business processes supported by an efficient IT environment.