MCO 5230.20 governs Marine Corps enterprise architecture policy, governance, development, maintenance, and use across the enterprise.
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It establishes an integrated Marine Corps enterprise architecture and defines architecture governance bodies and their relationships. It requires commands, organizations, and activities to develop, maintain, and use architectures in accordance with the Order.
Applies to: This Order applies to any Marine Corps entity developing the EA, segment architectures, solution architectures, mission thread architectures, or re-engineering processes/value streams.
To develop the integrated Marine Corps EA, all Marine Corps commands, organizations, and activities will develop, maintain, and use architectures in accordance with this Order. (paragraph 2)
The Marine Corps EA is a single, integrated architecture that encompasses all activities of the Marine Corps and supports key decisionmaking processes within the Marine Corps. (paragraph 3)
The Marine Corps EA governance bodies set the direction for development, compliance, and maintenance of the Marine Corps EA to fulfill its mission. (paragraph 4)
Certify that segment, solution, and mission thread architectures are aligned with and conform to the Marine Corps EA and to the Department of the Navy (DON) Enterprise Architecture (EA). (paragraph 2)
Prescribe Information Technology (IT) and National Security Systems (NSS) data exchange and information standards per reference (0) . (paragraph 5)