Course 11770: DoDAF Training

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) defines a standard way to organize an enterprise architecture (EA) or systems architecture into complementary and consistent views.
DoDAF is the standard framework chosen by the United States Department of Defense to comply with the Clinger-Cohen Act and United States Office of Management and Budget Circulars A-11 and A-130. It is administered by the Office of the DoD Deputy CIO Enterprise Architecture & Standards Directorate. DoDAF was formerly named C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) AF. Other derivative frameworks based on DoDAF include the NATO Architecture Framework (NAF) and Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) Architecture Framework (MODAF).

DoDAF is organized around a shared repository to hold work products. The repository is defined by the Core Architecture Data Model 2.0 (CADM -- essentially a common database schema) and the DoD Architecture Repository System (DARS). A key feature of DoDAF is interoperability, which is organized as a series of levels, called Levels of Information System Interoperability (LISI). The developing system must not only meet its internal data needs but also those of the operational framework into which it is set.

TONEX DoDAF training the guidance and rules for developing, representing, and understanding architectures based on a common denominator across DoD, Joint, and multinational boundaries. It provides external stakeholders with insight into how the DoD develops architectures. It ensures that architecture descriptions can be compared and related across programs, mission areas, and ultimately, the enterprise, thus, establishing the foundation for analyses that supports decision-making processes throughout the DoD.

DoDAF training will cover all the  enterprise architectures view sets including:

• All View (AV) with two work products;
• Operational View (OV) with seven work products;
• Systems View (SV) with 11 work products;
• Technical Standards View (TV) with two work products.

 

Upon completion of this course, the attendees will be able to:

•  Understand the basic concepts related to Enterprise Architecture (EA)
• Identify  the added value of EA
• –Explore why and how to build an EA
• Understand challenges of implementing EA, including the technical and organizational issues
• –Identify the elements of an EA implementation plan
• Determine specific architectures requirements necessary for your organization
• Understand DoD Architecture Framework principles 
• Understand similarties and differences between DoDAF and  other EA frameworks and methodologies including: MODAF, NAF, AGATE, FEAF, TOGAF, Zachman, Spewak's EAP, RUP/EUP, and  IEEE 1471F  

Overview of DoDAF

• Business Enterprise Architecture
• Architecture Overview
• Overview of the Enterprise Architecture (EA)
• Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF)  Principles
• Policies and  Requirements for the DoD Architecture Framework
• The USA Defence, C4ISR Architecture Framework
• C4ISR or Command, Control, Computers, Communications (C4), Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR)
• Overview of C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance) Framework
• DIfferences between Systems Engineering (SE) and Enterprise Architecture (EA)
• Policies that Drive the Requirements for the DoD Architecture Framework
• DoDAF methodology,  metrics and comparison tools
  

All View (AV)

• AV-1
  AV-2  

 DoDAF Operational Views

• OV-1: Operational concept
• OV-2: Senders and receivers
• OV-3: Information exchanges
• OV-4: Who participates
• OV-5: Tasks
• OV-6: Mission performance
• OV-7: Logical data model

DoDAF Systems Views

• SV-1: System interfaces
• SV-2: Communications
• SV-3: Systems matrix
• SV-4: Functions
• SV-5: Performance
• SV-6: System exchanges
• SV-7: Performance parameters
• SV-8: System evolution
• SV-9: Technology forecast
• SV-10: System-level threads
• SV-11: Physical schema

DoDAF Technical Standards Views

• TV-1: Current protocols
• TV-2: Future protocols

 

Modeling Eenterprise Architecture (EA) with DoDAF

• DoDAF and UML 2
  • UML 2 as the architecture description language for DoDAF
• DoDAF with SysML
• DoDAF and SysML
• DoDAF with Enterprise Architect™