Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF, formerly C4ISR)

Agencies and suppliers of integrated defense systems require a common way of representing operational and systems architectures. The scale, complexity, and expense of defense systems mean that poor specification and design can significantly increase project cost.

To overcome these challenges, defense procurement agencies have increasingly adopted standard frameworks to help evaluate the effectiveness of designs. With the U.S. Department of Defense mandating the use of its Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF, formerly C4ISR), and variants now being adopted around the world, suppliers of defense solutions must describe their offering in terms of an architectural framework.

Telelogic is the leading provider of products and services for DoDAF. Telelogic currently offers:

  • DoDAF: The DoDAF option offers complete support for operational, systems, and technology modeling to produce required DoDAF (formerly C4ISR) work products at both the enterprise or project level. The DoDAF framework is at the heart of C4ISR (command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), which itself is used by the US military to support the planning, decision making, and execution of integrated battle scenarios.
  • DoDAF with ABM: Telelogic provides DoDAF support for the Activity Based Methodology (ABM) utilizing Telelogic System Architect® for DoDAF (ABM). System Architect's support includes all necessary modeling artifacts, and automation for certain aspects of ABM, to produce significant time savings and efficiencies during the building of DoDAF work products.
  • DoDAF for Business Operations: Telelogic provides integrated Model-Driven DoDAF support for complex IT and technical systems utilitizing Telelogic Tau/DoDAF--a systems engineering solution for defining and constructing DoDAF-compliant system architectures. Powerful UML 2.1 and SysML based modeling capabilities ensure consistency of DoDAF views and products by automatically propagating diagram changes across the enterprise architecture.
  • DoDAF with MDD: Telelogic offers DoDAF support for embedded and real time Model Driven Development ™  (MDD™), utilizing Telelogic Rhapsody®'s DoDAF pack. The Rhapsody DoDAF Pack offers industry standard notation and allows users to define and construct DoDAF-compliant enterprise architectures in a single environment to improve communications between the DoD, contractor, and the supplier.