The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to complete an initial inventory of its entire IT infrastructure by June -- a critical step toward the ultimate creation of a nationwide architecture for homeland security, said Steve Cooper, the department's CIO. . . .
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to complete an initial inventory of its entire IT infrastructure by June -- a critical step toward the ultimate creation of a nationwide architecture for homeland security, said Steve Cooper, the department's CIO.

The new department has already identified more than 2,500 "mission-critical applications or automated solution sets" and more than 50,000 "items" that make up its IT infrastructure, said Cooper, speaking yesterday at the Secure E-Business Executive Summit in Arlington, Va. However, the process of taking an initial inventory is only 40% to 50% complete, he said.

The DHS includes 22 formerly independent federal agencies, and the Office of Management and Budget began working on the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework in February 2002. The goal is to leverage IT to simplify processes and unify work across agencies and throughout federal business processes.

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