An overview of UPDM – A Unified Profile for DoDAF/MODAF
Nov 04, 2008 - 08:28 AM
A veritable Tower of Babel of military architectural frameworks, such as DoDAF, MODAF, NAF, DNDAF, and ADOAF, is emerging. Each one adds to, redefines and/or clarifies the concepts, views, viewpoints and concerns contained within Military Architectural Frameworks, with the intention of improving procurement, planning, and implementation of military systems. However, supporting multiple and sometimes divergent frameworks leads to problems for industry, military organizations and tool vendors alike. In this age of globalization, mil-aero companies provide systems across the world to multiple governments. Often they must be specified in the local Architectural Framework creating extra overheads. Incompatible frameworks cause interoperability problems between governments because models cannot be exchanged. Interchange, even between modeling tools supporting the same framework, is difficult, if not impossible due to the different underlying implementations. Finally, having to support several constantly changing framework formats means that modeling tool vendors have a support nightmare.
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