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. If you do not have access tio this volume, please contact the course Registrar.

The course has undergone a major revision to prepare participants in developing and evaluating architectures that are 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 described 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 and produce an architecture from which selected models and viewpoints described in DODAF 2.0 compliant form are generated. This course focuses on architecture design using a systems engineering approach based on object orientation with particular emphasis on service orientation. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used as the architecture description language. In addition to the development of a DoDAF compliant architecture description that is Fit-for-Purpose, the derivation of executable models from the architecture data will be discussed and their role in architecture evaluation will be presented. The approach will then be applied to the evaluation of system-of-systems architecture and federated SOA architectures.

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 present Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and highlight their role in addressing net-centricity. (c) To provide a hands-on experience to the attendees in developing key models and views of a Service based architecture using object orientation. The course is focused on developing an understanding of the architecture models and viewpoints and their linkages, explaining how the various models describe the architecture viewpointss, and addressing the practical aspects of generating the architecture data. Finally, the derivation of executable models from the DoDAF compliant designs is 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

PART I:  ARCHITECTURE BASED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

• The Evolution of Systems Engineering in DoD                                             
• Architecture Frameworks, DODAF, MODAF, NAF                                         
• The Architecture Design and Description Problems                                     
• Architecture Design Approaches                                                                 

PART II: BASICS

• Capabilities and Acquisition                                                                         
• Concept of Operations and Use Cases                                                        
• Conceptual, Logical and Physical Data Models and Data Modeling Languages     

PART III:  OBJECT ORIENTATION AND UML

• Object Orientation and UML: Basic Principles                                              
• UML 2 Views and Diagrams. Part 1: Structure Diagrams                             
• UML 2 Views and Diagrams. Part 2: Behavior Diagrams                              
• Rule Modeling                                                                                              

PART IV:  SERVICE ORIENTATION

• Loosely Coupled Systems and Service Oriented Architectures                    
• Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and DoDAF                                       

PART V:  DoDAF IMPLEMENTATION

• Object Oriented Architecture Design (Basics)                                              
• Object Oriented Architecture Design (DODAF)                                            

PART VI:  ARCHITECTURE EVALUATION

• Discrete Event System Modeling and Executable Models of Architectures   
• Architecture Evaluation Concepts                                                        
• Architecture Evaluation: Systems of Systems
• Architecture Evaluation: Federated SOAs

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://sysarch.gmu.edu/bios/lwagenhals.htm

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COURSE LOCATION:    4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax, VA 22033.   Directions to AFCEA Headquarters

HOURS OF COURSE:            8:30 AM-5:00 PM  Days 1-4

                                                   8:30 AM-2:30 PM   Day 5

DRESS CODE:  Business Casual

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