This second episode covers user environments that provide architecture framework specific concepts, artifacts, new project templates, samples, and architecture framework specific usability features.
Through increasing complexity and rising costs, it is important to ensure that systems being developed can talk to each and meet the overarching capability they were intended to achieve. UPDM architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems, enabling analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the community’s expectations.
UPDM supports current DoDAF/MODAF/NAF requirements and can evolve to meet future needs, produce standard DoDAF/MODAF/NAF products as well as extensions– leverage cross-industry, standards-based approaches to enhance tool and architecture data interoperability. UPDM provides a set of rules to enable users to create consistent enterprise architecture based on DoDAF/MODAF and NAF semantics. These models then become the repositories from which various views can be extracted.
UAF is the next stage in the development of UPDM; it takes the principles of UPDM and extends it to reach a wider audience. As well as encompassing DoDAF, MODAF, and NAF. UAF also includes views that can capture human machine interface and human factors concerns, security analysis and systems-of-systems lifecycle concepts. The expansion in scope required a change from the way views were represented in UPDM to the definition of a grid-based approach.
