A Central Architecture Repository for C4ISR Systems Interoperability
Abstract
For the past few years, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) has been developing a Naval Architecture Database (NAD) designed to integrate the Navy's C4ISR operational, systems, and technical architectures in order to support users represented by the program managers, systems engineers, and their equivalents at other CINCs/Services/Agencies. Several systems related applications, models, and tools use this architectural information to support C4ISR decision making. Each of these applications addresses a different and specialized aspect of the systems engineering process. Addressed from an architectural level, it appears that most if not all of these applications may be supported by the same set of C4ISR systems related data. Process and business efficiencies can be realized if a centralized information repository is populated in order to distribute accurate and timely information to support all systems engineering applications. Metadata and production datafills could and should be shared. Once the central repository is established, various different systems applications may be added to a modular structure, easing change management. A fully populated central architecture repository could also be used to provide decision support systems with the capability to query across systems application boundaries to provide management with forecasting, trend analysis, and knowledge-based capabilities combining topics such as fleet deployment, systems capabilities, budget modeling, and systems architecture. This paper describes the C4ISR systems engineering requirements that we have gathered and the methodologies that we have applied in building a central architecture repository to provide C4ISR systems interoperability information.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA365035
Entities
People
- Giao Nguyen
- John Walsh Iii