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'''NIST Enterprise Architecture Model''' ('''NIST EA Model''') is a [[Enterprise Architecture framework|reference model]] for [[Enterprise Architecture]], that illustrates the interrelationship of enterprise business, information, and technology environments.<ref name="CIOC99"/>

This model developed by the [[National Institute of Standards and Technology]] (NIST) in 1989, became in the 1990s widely accepted and promoted within the [[Federal government of the United States|U.S. federal government]] as aan Enterprise Architecture management tool.<ref name="CIOC99"/>

This NIST Enterprise Architecture Model is the foundation of several U.S. federal Enterprise Architecture frameworks, for examlpe the [[Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework]].<ref name="CIOC99"/>

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== History ==

The origin from the NIST Enterprise Architecture Model was a NIST research project in 1989, published as the NIST Special Publication 500-167, ''Information Management Directions: The Integration Challenge''.<ref name="FG89"> Elizabeth N. Fong and Alan H. Goldfine (1989) ''Information Management Directions: The Integration Challenge''. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 500-167, September 1989.</ref> In this project two Frameworks were proposed: a [[Zachman Framework]] adressingaddressing [[enterprise engineering]] and a single dimensional classification of subject areas supporting Information Strategy, what latter became known as the NIST Framework. The NIST Framework was picked up by several U.S. federal agencies and used as the basis for their information strategy.<ref name="Zac06">[http://www.objectwatch.com/whitepapers/IASANewsletterApril2007.pdf "Exclusive Interview with John Zachman"] by Roger Session. In: ''Perspectives of the International Association of Software Architects''. April 2006.</ref>

== NIST Enterprise Architecture topics ==