Army Systems Engineering, Architecture & Analysis

Abstract

This project provides the Army's leadership and materiel developers with the necessary system of systems engineering (SOSE) analysis and architectural products to manage and shape the Army's materiel portfolio (5 and 30 year plans); to shape future tactical capability sets and corresponding NIEs; to ensure Systems Engineering discipline across the Materiel developer community throughout the acquisition life, engineering policy and system standards, guidelines. It creates an environment that empowers the Acquisition Community through an unsurpassed agile, collaborative, productive, lean and trusted information enterprise. This project includes support to other DOD and international agencies for joint programs and collaboration efforts with NIE and Tactical Capability Package portfolio integration. The Government effort includes costs for salaries, travel, overtime, training, supplies, facilities, and IT support. This project establishes the capability to develop and deliver the system of system engineering, analysis and architecture products that facilitate analysis & trades and provide timely relevant information to inform decision makers and guide the Army's efforts. This project provides for the development and implementation of a comprehensive set of system architectures and analysis results that can shape the Army's priorities and processes, and ensures that the analysis and architecture development capability across Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) (ASA (ALT)) is cohesive within the agile process. It provides for the overarching view of the Army's System of Systems (SOS) Reference Architecture requirements; it provides for single authority within ASA(ALT) for System of Systems Implementation Architecture oversight to manage governance and approvals of emerging designs, it also ensures the linkage of architecture products to events (NIE, TCS, and Program Objective Memorandum (POM)), processes, and customer requirements. It establishes SOS Reference Architectures for all Key components of the Network Architecture and all Army formations, across time, that form the basis for representing and communicating the Army's programmed plan to Program Executive Officers/Program Managers (PEOs/PMs). It enables trades and analyses that use the reference architecture design data to inform implementation architectures and support informed systems acquisition decisions across the life cycle. The data is organized in order to support views and analysis across organizational, portfolio, and budgeting bins. One of the first products/processes developed from the SOSE was the Common Operation Environment (COE) vision for the Army. In 2012, ASA(ALT) formally unveiled its COE Implementation Plan designed to help industry partners and Army program managers by offering an approved set of network standards, processes and products, designed to enable them to quickly and efficiently develop and field interoperable software capabilities. The plan establishes and makes public the Army's Network technical standards, which any sized vendor can understand, internalize and build towards. This efficiency helps increase competition and helps lower software and hardware integration burden and costs. The implementation plan is a living document that will remain flexible as the Army continues to evolve its network standards and fielding methods. The Implementation Plan calls for the Army to continuously seek industry and service's input throughout the COE life cycle. This project provides for technical support to oversee the execution of the COE Implementation plan, COE Orchestration, Verification and Validation (V&V), and Governance. It also provides for the development and execution of COE integration policies and procedures, the development and implementation of backwards capability testing, integration checklists and their verification, test hardware development and implementation support. It provides for COE architecture validation, design baseline validation, and the verification of COE reference architecture compliance. Finally, it provides for the accreditation, certification and refinement of test plans and events.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: DY7_0604798A_5_2040_PB_2014

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Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Software Engineering.