ARMY SYS ENGINEERING & WARFIGHTING TECH SUP
Abstract
This project has been re-aligned to better support the mission of Army Chief of Staff (CSA) sanctioned Army Architecture Integration Center (AAIC) for developing, implementing and maintaining the Army Enterprise Architecture for Information Technology based Command, Control, Computers & Communications (C4/IT) systems. AAIC mission is to develop standards-based architecture products that are inter-operable within the Army as well as the with Joint, Interagency, and Multinational systems. This project funded the Army Systems Engineering Office (ASEO) by providing technical research and development and modeling and simulation with the primary mission of developing technical architecture standards without compromising DoD-mandated standards but ensuring Army C4/IT systems under development are interoperable with legacy systems still utilized by the Army warfighter, which extend from tactical levels up through operational and strategic components of the Army Battle Command Architecture (ABCA), as well as, the institutional portions of the Enterprise to include the Army's Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA). The ASEO supports the Army CIO/G6 Architecture Integration Center (AAIC) in establishing an integrated AEA framework that complements, and is a natural extension of, the GIG-Enterprise Services (GIG-ES). In addition, the ASEO is an essential contributor in the development of the JBMC2 integrated architecture, the Battle Command Architecture, and emerging Cross-Service Integrated Architecture efforts. Each of these architecture definition and integration efforts is elemental to achieving the Army's goal of a NetCentric Future Force. Previously, the Joint Technical Architecture (JTA) and JTA-Army (JTA-A) (now the Army Technical Architecture/Teechnical Reference Model (TA/TRM) have provided the foundation for designing, building, fielding and supporting Joint interoperable Army systems in an expedient and cost-effective manner. With the revision to the standardization process as implemented by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), technical architecture standards are encompassed in the new Defense Information Systems Repository (DISR) program. The Army must participate in DISR to ensure Army requirements are adequately captured and reflected in any new baseline developed by DISA. The ASEO identifies emerging standards in support of the integration of new technologies into existing Army systems and Advanced Technology Demonstrations/Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations (ATD/ACTDs), enabling the Army transformation to the Future Force. The ASEO's work efforts in the development and maintenance of Army IT standards within the context of DISR guidelines are critical path elements to achieve transformation, increase joint interoperability and to provide the future Army with the ability to fight and win on tomorrow's battlefields. However, the Technical Architecture (TA) alone only provides the foundation for interoperability. Integrated Army Enterprise Architectures (e.g., ABCA, BEA, etc.) fuse Operational, Systems and Technical views of the Army Enterprise into cohesive and manageable information sets that allow the Army to make consequent decisions regarding the Army's inventory of present and future systems and their associated funding. In this area the ASEO specializes in defining and exploiting (through analysis) the relationships between architectural views to provide quantitative answers to complex questions regarding the Army's future capabilities and the roadmap the Army will pursue in realizing them. The allocated resources fund two support efforts for CIO/G6. First, subsequent to the development of the AKEA (Army Knowledge Enterprise Architecture) Guidance Document, the effort has shifted to development of the Army Technical Reference Model (TRM) for information broker/mediation services, and mapping the Army's architecture requirements to DOD Information Enterprise Architecture, including NCES (Net-Centric Enterprise Services). Second, support of the design and development of the AAIC (Army Architecture Integration Center) Web-based Knowledge Center continues with increased development requirements and functionality, including the consolidation of architectural repositories.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 589_0604805A_5_2040_PB_2013
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