USA12: Why a Defense Contractor Substituted System Compliance for Enterprise Architecture💲

Overview:

Across US defense programs, we often find compliance documentation standing in for architecture.

Checklists expanded, audits passed, toolchains updated — and the output was labeled “EA.”

The structure that coordinates sensors, platforms, and mission workflows was never defined.

P1–P6 Insight Preview:  Compliance hardened local processes (P2) and component attestations (P4), but left strategy-to-mission translation (P1) and cross-system behavior (P3) unclear. Implementation churn (P5) rose; business + tech ops (P6) remained brittle during joint operations.

Want to read more?

Subscribe to architecturerating.com to keep reading this exclusive post.

Subscribe Now