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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has adopted the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)/Electronic Industries Association (EIA) 12207 as the standard to be followed for the CMS System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The CMS Integrated IT Investment & System Life Cycle Framework is largely based on the IEEE/EIA 12207 standard, but has been tailored or customized to meet the specific needs of CMS.

Software products (whether COTS, GOTS, or custom-developed software applications) must also be compliant with Section 508 accessibility standards to ensure that all Federal employees and individuals of the public who are disabled are provided comparable access to and use of information and data as that which is provided to Federal employees and individuals of the public who are not disabled.  See the related link inside CMS that is provided below for detailed information regarding CMS' requirements for ensuring Section 508 compliance of software applications and other electronic and information technology (EIT) products procured or developed by CMS.

Detailed information regarding CMS' security standards are also available from the related link inside CMS that is provided below.  Information regarding standards, guidelines, and guidance issued by the Department of Health and Human Services is available from the related link outside CMS that is also provided below.

The CMS Technical Reference Architecture (TRA), and its associated Supplements, documents the standard architecture for all of the CMS Production environments.  The Supplements document specific technical solutions in support of the TRA. The current TRA and published Supplements are listed below:

  • Enterprise Storage Architecture and Storage Services version 1.0; May, 2010
  • Access Control and Identity Management version 1.0; May, 2010
  • Shared Services version 1.0; May, 2010
  • Data Archiving Services version 1.0; May, 2010
  • Virtualization version 1.0; May, 2010
  • Customer Relationship Management version 1.0; May, 2010
  • Enterprise Content Management version 1.0; April, 2010
  • JavaEE Application Development Guidelines, version 1.01; January 2010
  • CMS Technical Reference Architecture, version 2.0; November 2009
  • WAN Services, version 1.0; November 2009
  • Security Services, version 1.0; November 2009
  • .NET Application Development Guidelines, version 1.0; October 2009
  • CMS Enterprise Messaging Infrastructure; December 2003
  • MicroStrategy 8 Guidelines, version 1.1; March 2006
  • Cognos ReportNet Guidelines, version 1.1; March 2006

The TRA and Supplements can be found on CMS' internal website.  If you require these documents but do not have access to CMS' internal website, please contact your Project Officer or Government Task Leader (GTL).

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