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Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) Fundamentals Training

Without question, the Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) has a significant impact on systems.

For example, UAF defines ways of representing an enterprise architecture (EA) that enables stakeholders to focus on specific areas of interest in the enterprise while retaining sight of the big picture.

UAF has also been particularly useful in enterprise architecture because it helps a multiple of departments in a business understand the broader business model and articulate challenges and business risks. Because of this, UAF has an important role in EA’s unifying and coordinating departmental processes across an organization.

UAF provides a set of rules to enable users to create consistent enterprise architectures (as models) based on generic enterprise and system concepts with rich semantics. These models then become the repositories from which various views can be extracted.

UAF meets the specific business, operational and systems-of-systems integration needs of commercial and industrial enterprises as well as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other defense organizations.

People are often surprised to learn that there are numerous applications of UAF. The defense industry is most commonly thought of, however, there are UAF applications in other industries as well.

Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems and enable the analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the expectations of the user community.

UAF’s surge in popularity has come about because of increasing complexity and rising costs, which necessitates that systems that are being developed can talk to each other and meet the overarching capabilities that they were intended to achieve.

What it comes down to is this: Human beings are integral to today’s complex systems of systems. This is the overriding reason the Object Management Group (OMG) released the Unified Architecture Framework, a model-based system engineering (MBSE) approach that moves the architecture modeling effort to one that is an integral part of systems engineering.

Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) Fundamentals Training by Tonex

Unified Architecture Framework (UAF) Fundamentals training covers the fundamentals of UAF which is based on the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF™ (UPDM™).

The UAF standard is based on the Object Management Group® (OMG®) Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) 2.0 and the Systems Modeling Language™ (SysML®) standards.

The Unified Architecture Framework offers a structured and organized Model of Models (MoM) approach for managing the complexity of systems of systems engineering (SoSE) within the organization in different levels of abstraction.

UAF is based on UPDM 3.0 and the UML®/SysML® in military communities. Value propositions are to develop standardized and consistent enterprise architectures based on the U.S. Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF).

UAF requirements are derived from DoDAF 2.02 and MoDAF military frameworks as well as the NAF (NATO Architecture Framework).

UAF architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex systems and the relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems and enable the analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the expectations of the user community.

UAF supports current DoDAF/MODAF/NAF requirements and can evolve to meet future needs:

  • produce standard DoDAF/MODAF/NAF products as well as commercial extensions
    leverage cross-industry, standards-based approaches (e.g., MDA, UML, SysML) to enhance tool and architecture data interoperability
  • MDA foundation enables UAF to evolve with DoDAF v2 and beyond (i.e,. security, human factors)
  • UAF is methodology-agnostic (structured, OO, etc.)
  • UAF provides a set of rules to enable users to create consistent enterprise architectures (as models) based on generic enterprise and system concepts with rich semantics. These models then become the repositories from which various views can be extracted.
    Source: OMG

Unified Architecture Framework

Participants will:

  • Learn the basics of Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)
  • Learn how UAF provides an infrastructure to ensure complete and correct specification of systems integration using various techniques such as engineering analysis, traceability, and metrics.
  • Learn how to use UAF and ways of representing an enterprise architecture enabling stakeholders to focus on specific areas of interest in the enterprise while retaining sight of the big picture
  • Get familiar with UAF and the specific business, operational and systems-of-systems integration needs of commercial and industrial enterprises as well as the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other defense organizations.
  • Basics of UAFP 1.0 – Unified Architecture Framework Profile (UAFP).

Who Should Attend

  • Enterprise Architects
  • Software Engineers
  • Project Managers
  • Program Managers
  • Data and Information Modelers

Course Topics

Overview of Architecture Frameworks

  • Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) 2.02
  • Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF)
  • Security Views from Canada’s Department of National Defense Architecture Framework (DNDAF)
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Architecture Framework (NAF) v 3.1
  • Best practices derived from historical support of DoDAF, MODAF and UPDM
  • Well-formed models with clear separation of stakeholder concerns
  • Grid Approach for NATO Architecture Framework (NAF 4)
  • Why the Grid ?

Overview of Object Management Group® (OMG®) Standardization

  • Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) 2.0 Standard
  • Systems Modeling Language™ (SysML®) Standard
  • SysML v1.4 profile
  • Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM) 2.1
  • Basics of Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

Introduction to Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

  • What is the UAF?
  • Value proposition of UAF
  • UAF and representation of an enterprise architecture
  • UAF and specific business, operational and systems-of-systems integration needs
  • Developing models
  • Systems Engineering (SE) technical processes
  • Associated UAF metamodel
  • Architecture data exchange between related tools

Working with Unified Architecture Framework (UAF)

  • Operational capabilities
  • Services and interactions between complex systems
  • Tracing systems to strategies, and organizations
  • Models to verify architectural completeness
  • Support for Additional Viewpoints beyond those defined in DoDAF, MODAF/ MODEM,
    NAF, and the Security Viewpoint from DNDAF

Introduction to Unified Architecture Framework Profile (UAFP)

  • UAFP 1.0 supporting capabilities
  • Model architectures for a broad range of complex systems
  • Representation of hardware, software, data, personnel, and facility elements
  • Model consistent architectures for system-of-systems (SoS)
  • Analysis, specification, design, and verification of complex systems
  • Ability to exchange architecture information among related tools
  • Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) 2.02
  • The Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF)
  • Security Views from Canada’s Department of National Defense Architecture Framework (DNDAF)
  • The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Architecture Framework (NAF) v 3.1
  • Core concepts in the UAF domain metamodel
  • DoDAF 2.02 Domain Metamodel (DM2)
  • MODAF ontological data exchange mechanism (MODEM)

Scope UAFP 1.0 – Unified Architecture Framework Profile (UAFP)

  • Language extensions supporting integrated architecture description (AD)
  • Creating models describing a system or a System of Systems (SoS)
  • Set of stakeholders’ concerns such as security or information
  • Set of predefined viewpoints and associated views

Developing Models with UAF and UAFP

  • Complete workflow of systems of systems engineering using the UAF Framework.
  • Activities of defining capability requirements
  • Specifying operational scenarios
  • Solutions for operational scenarios,
  • Managing project portfolios required to implement the selected solutions
  • Tool vendors
  • IBM, No Magic, PTC, and Sparx Systems

 

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