DoD Architecture Framework Implementation

**Participants in this course are advised to review the DoD Architecture Framework, version 2.0, Vol 1, prior to attending the course.

The course is undergoing a major revision to prepare participants in developing architectures conformant to DODAF 2.0.

The design of architectures has become a fundamental component of the architecture-based systems engineering approach required by DoD and other government agencies. The architectures should be presented in accordance with the current version (2.0) of the DoD Architecture Framework. The course consists of lectures, interactive sessions, and work sessions in which participants, organized in small teams, work through an example problem contained in a workbook and produce an architecture from which the products described in DODAF are generated. This course discusses architectures, the Framework and then presents a systems engineering approach based (a) on object orientation, and (b) service orientation for designing architectures that conform to the DoDAF. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used as the architecture description language. In addition to the design of an architecture, executable models will be discussed and their derivation for the architecture data and their role in architecture evaluation will be presented.

OBJECTIVES
(a) To address the process, tools and techniques for designing and describing architecture consistent with the guidelines of the current DoD Architecture Framework (2.0). (b) To provide a hands-on experience to the attendees in developing an end-to-end architecture using object orientation. (c) To introduce Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and highlight their role in addressing net-centricity. The course is focused on developing an understanding of the architecture views and their linkages, explaining how the various products describe the architecture views, and addressing the practical aspects of generating the architecture data. Special emphasis is placed on the relationships among the various models and the need for concordance. Finally, executable models from the DoDAF compliant designs are described as a foundation for architecture evaluation. Measures of Performance and Measures of effectiveness are discussed and their computation from the executable model analyzed.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
The course is designed for professionals who are or will be involved in developing architectures consistent with the DoD Architecture Framework for or in support of DOD organizations. It is also for professionals responsible for such architectures because, through the interactive and work sessions, it helps them gain an appreciation of the time and resources needed to bring an architecture effort to a successful conclusion. AFCEA 503 is a "hands-on" course; all participants are expected to join one of the teams.

COURSE TOPICS: DoD Architecture Framework Implementation

(A detailed syllabus will appear in September)

The DoD Architectures Roadmap

Technical Foundation I: UML and Object Orientation

Technical Foundations II: Service Oriented Architectures

The Architecture Design Process Via Object Orientation

• A Six Stage Architecture Development Process
• The Architecture Design Process
• Mapping of UML Diagrams to DODAF Products
• Relationships Among Products
• Concordance

Case Study Workshop

Technical Foundation: Executable Models

Architecture Evaluation using Executable Models

Closure and Open Forum

Lecturers

Dr. Alexander H. Levis
Course Coordinator and Lecturer

Dr. Alexander H. Levis is University Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering at George Mason University where he heads the System Architectures Laboratory. He was educated at MIT where he received the BS, MS, ME, and Sc.D. degrees. He has thirty years experience in conducting research on Command and Control with focus during the last fifteen years on architectures for C2. He has co-edited the three volume set on the "Science of Command and Control" published by AFCEA and has published more than 250 papers and book chapters. From 2001 to 2004 he served as Chief Scientist of the US Air Force.
http://sysarch.gmu.edu/bios/alevis.htm

Dr. Lee W. Wagenhals
Lecturer

Dr. Lee W. Wagenhals is Research Associate Professor at the Systems Architectures Laboratory, George Mason University where he received his Ph.D. in Information Technology. Dr. Wagenhals has over 20 years of experience with the United States Air Force where he served on several assignments in both operations and research and development of C3 Systems.
http://viking.gmu.edu/bios/lwagenhals.htm