The Challenge

Federal agencies and programs have unique environments that must comply with the appropriate laws, regulations, policies and multi-dimensional layers of enterprise architectures and requirements.

The cost of complying is high and the cost of Non-Compliance is even higher.

Federal executives and program compliance managers often ask:

•   How do I effectively keep track of which requirements apply to my planned scope of analysis?
•   How do I make more informed asset investment decisions that I can support and defend?
•   How do I accurately pinpoint where corrective compliance action is needed and the nature of that action?

ACART Can Help.

The Solution

ACART is a net-centric, management decision support tool that helps key stakeholders to scope, assess and assert architecture and enterprise requirements compliance. ACART assesses, filters and federates a vast number of enterprise requirements and supports compliance managers by documenting and reporting relevant systems and architecture compliance information. ACART filters the enterprise architecture requirements to extract what is relevant to a user's defined scope of interest (e.g. system architecture compliance at the Federal Architecture level). It then provides an intuitive way to assess, document and store a system's or group's scope and state of compliancy, enabling the execution of informed decisions, strategies and tactical actions.

Although ACART is used to streamline compliance, it is a highly-customizable platform that is also used for comparing systems and requirements and enabling more effective IT investment decisions.