Here is some information on what is going on within the US federal
government as a whole in regards to
SOA:
The following recent article[1]
from US Federal Computer Week (FCW) refers to an initiative within the US
federal government (under the Federal CIO Council) called "Service Component
Based Architectures (SCBA)", which involves the integration of SOA into the US
Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA). It is an evolution of earlier papers
written on the subject of component-based architectures, and it addresses how
SOA can be implemented within the US federal government. Booz Allen is
supporting this initiative.
The SCBA specification is envisioned to be highly
comprehensive, with 9 chapters dealing with various aspects such as
governance, strategy, component-based development, and more. The first chapter
has been written and delivered to the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB),
Executive Office of the President, where it is currently in review prior to
public release. Though the subject of the article is not SCBA, the
fourth paragraph refers to SCBA and contains a link to a presentation that was
recently given at a federal forum. Slide 9 of the presentation lists the
currently planned chapters for the SCBA
specification.
Please let me know if you have
any questions on this - some I may have to answer in an offline e-mail rather
than a publicly archived e-mail, as I cannot "officially" speak for the
initiative.