Defense Architecture Support

Abstract

Defense Architecture Support includes development, analysis, testing and evaluation of DoD IT Enterprise and solution architecture products. This work includes improvements to processes that support the Department’s enterprise architecture (EA) registry, catalog and navigation map called the DoD Architecture Registry System (DARS). DARS serves as the Department’s primary catalog of architecture data holdings and provides users the ability to register holdings metadata and search, retrieve, and use DoD architecture data in federated architecture data repositories across DoD. It provides a key component of the Department’s net-centric data management capability by federating EA data across the Department. It also enables alignment of program architecture components with the Federal Enterprise Architecture Business Reference Model - consistent with OMB directives for exhibit 300s - via the DoD Business Reference Model. DARS implements a federated search capability and metadata catalog that will interoperate with the Department’s Net-Centric Enterprise Discovery Service and enterprise content metadata catalog. Architecture metadata is searchable using the DARS federated discovery web service. The discovery search results provide links to architecture data that is retrievable based on user roles and access permissions. Implementations are accessible on both the NIPRNET (unclassified) and SIPRNET (Collateral Classified). Key features of the DARS program focus on: (1) Making architecture data visible, accessible, trusted, understandable, and interoperable (2) enabling reuse of validated architecture data to build “composite” integrated architectures; (3) enabling architecture analysis; and, (4) integrating architecture data into the DoD mainstream decision-making processes. The Department of the Air Force, Army, and Navy CIO’s are collaborating in the development of DARS federation web services via the Federated Joint Architecture Working Group under the auspices of the DoD Enterprise Architecture Summit to ensure DoD-wide access to and usability of all components of the composite DoD enterprise architecture model.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2016
• Source ID: 002_0605170D8Z_6_0400_PB_2016

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Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
• Software Engineering.