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CLINGER-COHEN ACT – PREFACE
Section 5125(d) of the Clinger-Cohen Act defines an information technology architecture as an integrated framework for evolving or maintaining existing IT and acquiring new IT to achieve the agency's strategic and information resources management goals. A complete IT architecture should consist of both logical and technical components.
The logical architecture provides the high-level description of the agency's mission, functional requirements, information requirements, system components, and information flows among the components. The technical architecture defines the specific IT standards and rules that will be used to implement the logical architecture.

From The United States General Accounting Office
Implementing Best Practices – Assessing Risks and Returns: A Guide for Evaluating Federal Agencies' IT Investment Decision-making. (PDF - 400 KB)

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Clinger-Cohen Act – Executive Order 13011
The Chief Information Officers Council - Executive Order 13011 Of July 16, 1996
(Please note: This is NOT an official copy of Executive Order 13011. It is a COPY which was made by rekeying from the hard copy of Federal Register (vol. 61, no. 140, pages 37657-37662) dated July 17, 1996.
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DoD Extends Clinger-Cohen to Weapons Systems
by NAVAIR Office of the CIO
Recently issued DoD policy now requires all information technology to comply with the Clinger-Cohen Act, including those in weapons and weapons system programs.
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Clinger-Cohen Act – PDF FILE
The Office of Information Technology has posted the complete Clinger-Cohen Act as a PDF file.
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Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) - Center for Information Technology
The Center for Information Technology offers valuable information, including:
Background - which provides access to transition documents, related laws and regulations.
Executive Summary - which has summaries of key ITMRA documents.
Legislation - which provides access to the Act and Executive Order 13011.
Organizations - which provides guidance on implementing CCA/ITMRA:
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Clinger-Cohen Act – Resource Page
The National Science Foundation - Office of Information and Resource Management.
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What is the Clinger-Cohen Act, and how does it affect people with disabilities?
National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education.
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Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA)
The E-Gov Enterprise Architecture Guidance (Common Reference Model). This document describes a Federal-wide E-Gov target conceptual architecture. The architecture is based on the business requirements derived from the initiatives as well as system engineering design best practices. It provides a workable description of the components needed by E-Gov Initiatives and business activities to move rapidly into the web service-enabled business transaction environment.
The E-Gov Enterprise Architecture Guidance - PDF VERSION 1.1mb
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A Framework to Define a Generic Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology
The Generic Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology is about those methods, models and tools which are needed to build the integrated enterprise. The architecture is generic because it applies to most, potentially all types of enterprise.
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