The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) of 2006: Proposed Technical Environment
SOA Foundation (provided by DISA)
Content Discovery
FFATA
XML
Federal Spending Community of Interest Environment
MAX Code
FFATA
XML
Community agreed data stored as an XML schema and exposed via a Federated Search Web Service
FPDS-NG
FFATA
XML
Grants
FFATA
XML
Loans
SubContracts
FFATA
XML
Fed Search Web Service is implemented at the data sources exposing data in a community defined vocabulary (XML schemas)
USA.gov portal entry point run by GSA
FeSRS
FFATA XML Schema
The registry will store the FFATA defined vocabulary (XML) so data producers and consumers can search and reuse the schemas.
Metadata Registry
Federated Search Aggregator
FFATA Portlet
FedSpenging. Org Portal
Optional
Service Discovery
FFATA Portlet
USA.Gov
Federated Search provides services to find and aggregate information across federal data sources.
The Service Discovery Service allows users to find enterprise services registered and categorized in an enterprise registry.
US Citizen
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The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) of 2006: Proposed Technical Way Ahead
• Establish two Working Groups:
– Data schema Working Group
• Review mandated set of data to be shared • Review existing schemas from participating agencies • Develop common FFATA XML schema for the data to be exposed and exchanged
– Technical architecture Working Group
• • • • Identify databases and technical POCs for all data sources Determine any existing web service re-usability Work with GSA on utilizing USA.gov portal Conduct an Industry Partners Day to share direction and intent
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