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DoD Communications Programs and Initiatives-Information Sharing
This paper describes how the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) can be used for describing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). DoDAF uses IEEE 1472 definition of an architecture description to define a standard approach for describing, presenting, and integrating DoD architectures that can be used for a service oriented approach to capability based planning. The principal objective of the Framework is to ensure that architecture descriptions can be compared and related across organizational boundaries, including Joint and multi-national boundaries. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is an architectural approach to application integration that enables flexible connectivity of applications or resources implemented as services. Such services have well-defined, platform-independent interfaces that hide the underlying technical complexity of the environment (encapsulation), are self-contained (loosely coupled), and reusable. Capability based planning involves identifying required capabilities, their desired effects, and the ways (operational activities) and means (human functions or system services), as well as the conditions ands standards under which the capability is required. Creating DoDAF architecture descriptions that are service oriented supports globalization and the integration of geographically dispersed organizations (Net-centricity) through this capability based planning approach. |
| Dr. Fatma Dandashi is currently supporting SAF/XC (Warfighting Integration and CIO-Architecture) and OSD’s Open Systems Joint Task Force Office (OSJTF) to facilitate model-based engineering and architecture-based analysis using UML by leading an OMG activity to define a UML profile for DODAF/MODAF (MODAF is the UK’s Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework).
Previously, Dr. Dandashi collaborated on defining the structure, the constituent elements, and their relationships for the Air Force Enterprise Architecture (EA) architecture meta-model (2003-2005). Dr. Dandashi was task lead on the Mitre team supporting OSD/NII that published DoD Architecture Framework V 1.0 on February 9, 2004.
Prior to coming to Mitre Dr. Dandashi worked in academia and industry on a variety of domains and application areas, utilizing her technical skills and knowledge of software engineering, and software quality measurements.
Dr. Dandashi holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from GMU, a Master of Science Degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana (Lafayette), and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computers/Business Administration from the Lebanese American University.
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