Using Architectures for Research, Development, and Acquisition

Abstract

The goal of this book is to show how architectures can be used to enable a capabilities-based approach to the research, development, and acquisition of DoD families of systems that must interoperate with each other in the conduct of military operations. Much has been written about architectures and about capabilities-based acquisition. This book is about the pilot projects that have actually been used to explore the utility of the architecture methodology for both U.S. Navy fleet experimentation and the recent building of the Fiscal Year 2004 Program Objective Memorandum (POM 04) acquisition plan. At the time of this book's publication, the architecture methodology has been used successfully to describe and assess components of two Fleet Battle Experiments. It was also used to develop organizing exhibits at the early stages of planning for POM 04, although the exhibits were not used in the final decision-making process. The Assistant Secretary for the Navy (ASN) Research, Development, and Acquisition (RDA) Chief Engineer did use the Multi-Attribute Utility Analysis to advise ASN(RDA). Additionally, the architecture methodology has been used to influence decision-making with U.S. Coalition partners.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 07, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427961

Entities

People

  • C. E. Dickerson
  • M. R. Sabins
  • P. H. Charles
  • S. M. Soules

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Application Protocols
  • Business Administration
  • Combat Areas
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Systems Engineering
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.