Dr. Fatma Dandashi
MITRE Corporation
and Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration
DoD CIO

Dr. Fatma Dandashi has been working on the DoD Architecture Framework, as a member of the MITRE development team supporting OSD, since she joined MITRE in 1999. Her major contributions to previous revisions consisted of providing a description and representation of the Framework products (and their associated architecture information) in UML notation. Since Oct. 2002, Dr. Dandashi has also been the task lead for the MITRE development team responsible for revising and publishing the current draft DoD Architecture Framework V 1.0, dated August 30, 2003 (Volumes I and II). This is a coordination draft that has been reviewed by the Architecture Framework Working Group, and is currently in the process of being approved for use across DoD. An official release of a final DoD Architecture Framework V 1.0 by OSD is scheduled for late Oct. 2003.

Dr. Dandashi holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from GMU, a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana (Lafayette), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computers / Business Administration from the Lebanese American University.