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DoD Architecture Education & Training

DoD CIO Architecture Standards & Interoperability Directorate August 12, 2010

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DoD Architecture Education & Training

The DoD Architecture Education & Training program promotes the development of the current and future DoD architecture workforce against a set of standards through career development, education, training, and certification as appropriate to enable DoD architects and systems engineers to support net-centric Enterprise Architecture.

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DoD Architecture Education & Training

DoD Architecture Education & Training Strategic Plan

DoD DKO Architecture Education & Training Web Site

The Architect Competencies Framework

EA Education & Training Initiatives

Community Outreach

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DoD Architecture Education & Training Strategic Plan

• Establish EA workforce tier levels

• Identify core competencies and KSAs

• Create standardized educational and training curricula and requirements

• Create a collaborative, knowledge sharing process

• Develop delivery and implementation plan

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DKO Architecture Education

& Training Web Site

• Venue to provide collaborative, knowledge sharing process

• Contents include white papers, training opportunities, conferences

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The Architect Competencies Framework

• Collaborative effort to map competencies, KSAs, and activities/outcomes to each other

• Beneficiaries

• Employees

• Supervisors

• Hiring Managers/HR Specialists

• Program Managers

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DoD Architecture Education & Training

• DoD must identify Architect’s opportunities for Education & Training

• Identifies core KSAs Architects must have to be able to design, develop, and deliver DoD architectures that enable senior leader decision making and engineering design

• Analyze and define the types of architecture training at different levels of architecture

• DoD – IT Architects Career Path–Architects Series• Define a certification requirement and process

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IRMC/NDU EA Foundational Course

• Multiple sessions offered each year

• Two full weeks of in class training + project work

• Promotes consistent education and training of the EA workforce

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Community Outreach

• Community outreach and collaboration is a vital commitment of the DoD

• The knowledge, experience, and passion of the EA Community is an extraordinary resource

The overall goal of the IT

Enterprise Architecture

Education & Training Program is

the enhanced education and

training for improved

development of the architecture

workforce.