DoDAF: Blueprint for Joint Agencies and Contractors

The purpose of DoDAF (Department of Defense?Architecture Framework) is to define concepts and models usable in DoD's core processes:

Those core processes include:

• Joint Capabilities and Integration Development (JCIDS)
• Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE)
• Defense Acquisition System (DAS)
• Systems Engineering (SE)
• Operational Planning (OPLAN)
• Capability Portfolio Management (CPM)

DoDAF models have broad applicability across the private, public and voluntary sectors around the world. In addition, DoDAF architecture can easily be integrated with other architecture frameworks.

All major U.S. DoD weapons and information technology system acquisitions are required to develop and document an enterprise architecture (EA) using the prescribed DoDAF viewpoints. All DoD projects are required to provide EA documentation aimed at two goals: conformance and reuse of information and artifacts.?

DoDAF was created to support many facets of the DOD, and was intended to be useful even when just the parts of the framework that pertain to a given purpose or project are implemented.

One of the first steps in building an integrated architecture under many frameworks is to determine the scope of the effort, which helps determine which parts of the framework are needed to succeed. An integrated architecture that contains the details of an organization, system, or enterprise serves as a normalized model that can be analyzed to show the linkages or connections between elements in the real world.

These linkages can be many degrees deep, showing second-order and tertiary connections in a repeatable and reusable way.

While it is aimed at military systems, DoDAF has broad applicability across the private, public and voluntary sectors around the world, and represents one of a large number of systems architecture frameworks.

Want to learn more? Tonex offers Introduction to DoDAF Training, a 3-day course that ?provides comprehensive information about the concepts, background, principals, and techniques of DoDAF. Introduction to DoDAF training will discuss the viewpoints, models, and DM2.?

Introduction to DoDAF training course teaches you about architecting processes, methods, and thought patterns at a practical level. This hands-on training also will provide you an overview of the models of DoDAF 2.

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