Association for Enterprise Integration.

The Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI) is an affiliate of NDIA with a focus on enterprise integration and net-centric operations. AFEI builds government and industry relationships that cut across organizational and national boundaries.

The Value of Information

Information is a valuable enterprise asset. But when information is shared, it creates great power and even greater benefit. The Internet's reach and speed has transformed business. Today, this technology is transforming government. The "Information Age" has radically altered information economics, created new opportunities for innovation and empowered non-traditional enemies. Industry leads in the development and exploitation of information technology.

Enterprise Integration

Enterprise integration is, at its core, the use of information across any activity to enhance the knowledge and decisions of that activity, to streamline operations and create more effective actions. Enterprise integration must deal with culture and process, concepts of operations, the development of common information languages, enterprise architectures and the application of technology to achieve results. It is the application of technology that allows AFEI to break down stovepipes, share information, improve decision processes and create opportunity.

Vision

To become the premier association for net-centric operations and enterprise integration.

The AFEI mission is to:

* Provide collaboration opportunities between AFEI members and government.

* Address information sharing in net-centric enterprises through working committees.

* Create shared industry positions and support on critical information sharing issues.

Goals

* To promote the integration of an enterprise through:

People--manage culture and change.

Process--streamline and transform.

Technology--connect systems of systems.

Information--establish a common language.

* To engage government and industry in collaborations that educate and enable change.

Strategy

* Build communities of interest within government and industry.

*...