Introduction to The Unified Architecture Framework® (UAF) Specification at OMG
Section 1. Introduction to The Unified Architecture Framework Section 2. Value Proposition Section 3.Unified Architecture Framework Profile
{{#Section 1.}} Introduction to UAF
This is an introduction to The Unified Architecture Framework® (UAF®. The intent is to share this UAF specification to the Wikipedia users so they are aware of this architecture framework. It is a generic and commercially orientated architecture framework based on the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF™ (UPDM™). UAF defines ways of representing an enterprise architecture that enables stakeholders to focus on specific areas of interest in the enterprise while retaining sight of the big picture. UAF meets the specific business, operational and systems-of-systems integration needs of commercial and industrial enterprises as well as the Department of Defense (DoD), the UK Ministry of Defense (MOD), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and other defense organizations.
This UAF standard is based on the Object Management Group® (OMG®) Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) 2.0 and the Systems Modeling Language™ (SysML®) standards. The UAF was initially developed as UPDM 3.0 in response to a need from the UML®/SysML and military communities to develop standardized and consistent enterprise architectures based on the U.S. Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defensee Architecture Framework (MODAF). Initial requirements were derived from both military frameworks as well as the NAF (NATO Architecture Framework). When these requirements were combined with requirements from the business sector (because 90 percent of the concepts and themes captured in the military frameworks are equally applicable in the commercial domains), UAF, as a commercial framework that supports the needs of the commercial sector as well as the military, was born. Participants included a broad spectrum of interested parties, covering industry, tool vendors, and end users as well as representatives of the DoD and MOD.
{{#Section 2.}} Value Proposition
Because of increasing complexity and rising costs, it is important to ensure that systems that are being developed can talk to each other and meet the overarching capability that they were intended to achieve. UAF architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems and enable the analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the expectations of the user community.
UAF supports current DoDAF/MODAF/NAF requirements and can evolve to meet future needs:produce standard DoDAF/MODAF/NAF products as well as commerical extensionsleverage cross-industry, standards-based approaches (e.g., MDA®, UML, SysML) to enhance tool and architecture data interoperability MDA foundation enables UAF to evolve with DoDAF v2 and beyond (i.e. security, human factors)UAF is methodology-agnostic (structured, OO, etc.). UAF provides a set of rules to enable users to create consistent enterprise architectures (as models) based on generic enterprise and system concepts with rich semantics. These models then become the repositories from which various views can be extracted.
{{#Section 3.}} Unified Architecture Framework Profile
The OMG UAF standard took the principles of UPDM and extended 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. Because of this expansion in scope, it became necessary to change the way views were represented in UPDM. This resulted in the definition of a grid-based approach that separates the metamodel from the view specification and from a specific architecture framework representation. The UAF 1.0 specification is currently going through the finalization process at OMG. Implementations of it from a variety of tool vendors are expected soon. In the future, the OMG UAF Task Force intends to expand the application of the UAF to the Internet of Things.
[[File:The Framework.png|thumb|The grid genericizes the framework making it more appealing for use by industry while still supporting the needs of the DoD, MOD and NATOJolenep99 (talk) 17:39, 15 August 2019 (UTC) or see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Framework.png.
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