What is Federated Architecture?
Federated Architecture is an approach for enterprise architecture development that is composed of a set of coherent but distinct entity architectures; the architectures of separate members of the federation. The members of the federation participate to produce interoperable, effectively integrated enterprise architecture. The federation sets the overarching rules of the federated architecture, defining the policies, practices and legislation to be followed, as well as the inter-federate procedures and processes, data interchanges, and interface standards, to be observed by all members of the federation. Each federation member conforms to the enterprise view and overarching rules of the federation in developing its architecture. Internal to themselves, each focuses on their separate mission and the architecture supporting the mission.
