Enhancing DoDAF with a DEVS-based system lifecycle development process

A recent DoD mandate requires that the DoD architectural framework (DoDAF) be adopted to express high level system and operational requirements and architectures. DoDAF is the basis for integrated architectures and provides broad levels of specification related to operational, system, and technical views. The combination of DoDAF operational views, which capture the requirements of the architecture, and system views which provide its technical attributes, forms the basis for semi-automated construction of the needed simulation models. In this paper, we describe an approach to support specification of DoDAF architectures within a development environment based on DEVS (discrete event system specification). The result is an enhanced system lifecycle development process that includes both development and testing in an integral manner. This paper discusses the motivation to carve out a methodology to develop DEVS models for any DoDAF-UML architecture specifications and empower DoDAF with integrated M&S.