The document discusses the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) and its reference models which provide a framework to enable information sharing across government agencies in a standardized way. It describes the current lack of data integration and sharing between "stove-piped" agencies. The solution proposed is the Data Reference Model (DRM) which defines common ways to describe data that can facilitate discovery and exchange of data between agencies through metadata and exchange packages. Examples of information sharing use cases between hypothetical agencies X and Y are provided to illustrate how the DRM enables this.