Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2013
Publication Title
Journal of Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability in Systems Engineering
Volume
13
Pages
13-19
Abstract
!e Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for the development, procurement, introduction, integration, maintenance, upgrading, and retirement of all defense and related support systems. To facilitate this task, enterprise-level system architectures are used to describe capability, operational capability requirements and lower level system architectures are used to describe the functionality of system solutions which are necessary to satisfy those operational capability requirements. To ensure the attainment of the required capability solution on time and under budget, systemengineering processes are mandated to ensure consistency and rigor across all participating organizations. However, even though architecting is necessary to insure that all understand user requirements in the same way (providing logical rigor, structure, semantic and syntax), the practice of architecture is sometimes set aside as being unimportant, and programs sometimes fail for lack of good requirements. Defense engineering leadership understands this problem, and the DoD now has the challenge to determine how best to harmonize enterprise/systems architecting practices with systems engineering practices.
ORCID
0000-0002-4201-8757 (Tolk)
Original Publication Citation
Hughes, T., & Tolk, A. (2013). Orchestrating systems engineering processes and system architectures within DOD: A discussion of the potentials of DoDAF. Journal of Reliability, Maintainability, & Supportability in Systems Engineering, 13, 13-19.
Repository Citation
Hughes, Taylor and Tolk, Andreas, "Orchestrating Systems Engineering Processes and System Architectures within DoD: A Discussion of the Potentials of DoDAF" (2013). Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Faculty Publications. 169.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/emse_fac_pubs/169