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 a common way to describe data using elements like subject areas, data objects and properties to facilitate discovery and exchange of data. Examples are given of how the DRM allows two agencies to share incident reports and threat information by building standardized exchange packages.