1. International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification (IDEAS)
June 2007
Michael L. Wayson
DoD CIO (Architecture & Interoperability)

2. IDEAS Working Group Objectives
To develop a planning capability to support the nations involved in coalition operations
The objective is to automate the exchange and generation of planning information from participating national military architecture repository systems

3. Coalition
Australia, Canada, UK, and USA have a history of military coalition
Each nation is pursuing its own version of net-centric warfare
Need for some degree of international net-centricity
Shared situational picture
Collaborative Engagement Capability
etc.
Each nation is developing its own architectural framework
Requirement to share architectural information between nations to enable interoperability at the operational and system levels

4. Governance Structure IDEAS consists of Active nations (Voting)
Observer Organizations (Non-voting)
IDEAS organization structure:
An Executive body that serves as a high level steering group that define program objective and resourcing
A Working Group that undertakes the technical activities

5. Working Group Participation
Active Nations:
Australia
Canada
United Kingdom
United States
Observer Organizations:
NATO
Object Management Group (by UK MOD Rep)
Swedish Armed Forces/FMV Architecture Team

6. Continuing Program of Activities
Develop the IDEAS Model
To specify the minimum set of data elements, attributes and relationships needed to support coalition force planning and other coalition operational activities
Develop the models for sample planning/coalition activities scenarios
Develop the Data exchange specification
Specifies the interchange standard for participating IDEAS members and forms the main body of documentation used for configuration management of the data exchange mechanism
Develop the Data exchange mechanism
Specifies the data exchange format for IDEAS (based on XML technologies (using RDF/RDFS at present))
Co-exists as part of each nations architecture repository solution
Develop the repository data exchange mechanism

7. IDEAS Core Model Concept
Exchanges are
via a commonly-agreed
IDEAS Core Model,
not translations
from point-to-point

8. Methodology and Approach
Participants continued the use of Business Objects Reference Ontology (BORO) methodology to clarify concepts
Participants continued to:
use UML as modeling language, profiled to IDEAS
derive model from agreed operational constructs
provide complete semantics
Participants will fully document all aspects of the model and methodology for the IDEAS capability
Participants will experiment with data exchange as they progress – test a little, design some more – so we don’t end up with an unimplementable model
Eventually, participate in an exercise

9. high-level patterns (upper ontology) common objects (agreed taxonomy)
Structure
Layered approach
Starting from first principles to ensure common understanding at the most fundamental level
Reaching down to country-specific definitions whose meaning may need to be understood by other nations
fundamental concepts:
classes, instances, properties
foundation
high-level patterns (upper ontology)
commonly used relationships:
whole-part, sequence, etc.
common objects (agreed taxonomy)
internationally accepted terms:
person, organization, materiel, etc.
national
extension
national
extension
national
extension
national
extension
terminology specific to nations that
which may be useful to other nations
- e.g. Bowman, Bradley FV, etc.

10. IDEAS Model Status Foundation well defined
Namespace pattern at initial definition
Still need to finalise patterns for Overlap/Event, Time and Tuple Type
Data being defined/incorporated/clarified
Common Objects well defined
Mapping of national terms to IDEAS terms has progressed facilitated by the namespace pattern
Need to define who owns the namespace for each organisation/nation
Top level IDEAS context diagram created and described
Identified that a common upper level taxonomy will need to be defined for a number of areas of operational data likely to be exchanged via the IDEAS model

11. Program of Work Schedule
10 to 14 September 2007
London, UK
February 2008
Location TBD (US or Sweden)
April 2008 (Finalize Model)
Before US DoD Enterprise Architecture Summit
(14-18 April 2008)
Between formal meetings – bi-weekly telecons, blogs/wiki, share site, and as-needed s and phone calls to arrange and conduct experiments
Brief Final IDEAS Model at DoD EA Summit

12. National Updates UK US MODAF 1.1 released at beginning April
More capability oriented
Metamodel aligned with UML 2.1
NATO adopting metamodel – some changes to support them
J6 staff working on modeling of casualty tracking and have a pilot in mind – more detail once officially released
Info management people (ICAD) have an ontology pilot using the IDEAS model also work in the logistics area using ontology to align taxonomies
Establishing governance for MODAF and M3
SOA related activities getting greater focus, including developing an EA/SOA/IDEAS demonstrator. Looking at a logical open SOA services construct US
CADM v1.5 and DODAF v1.5 released in April
DODAF v2.0 input being sought now – expect about a year effort from here – IDEAS members invited to the workshops
US DoD EA Conference was held in April– briefings on the web at KzoWebcasting.com/DoDEA

13. National Updates (Cont.)CA
Stakeholder review of DNDAF v1.0 complete
DNDAF official v1.0 to pilot due to happen in next few months.
RFP out for EA toolset, expected to have evaluation finished very soon
AUS
Meetings with J6 – pace of operations, and TS07 planning, is limiting the available time for them to meet and be involved
Repository development continuing (Rochade, fed by System Architect) test environment now in place – review about to happen of approach to repository development
Mapping SA metamodel and Rochade model for CADM to support XML data exchange between them – ongoing work
DSMS upgrade project just starting – v1.5 due out late this year
Training course revisions complete, new materials and enhanced facilitator guides now in use. Pilot of Diploma course about to occur
DAF review planned for Q3/4 07 SW
Still keen to be involved in IDEAS as interoperability is key
NAF V3 seems to be on schedule
New temp frame work/directions for EA in SWAF

14. MODAF Update
MODAF v1.1 and M3 v1.1 was released in April 07 with web based documentation.
Has incorporated a lot of the NATO requirements – NAF v3 due in December will be an updated version of M3 with SOA related changes.
New version is available on
Version 2 is due for development and release by mid 2008
Recent work showing human functions in SVs
Have a draft Spectrum Management View (for NATO purposes)

15. AUSDAF Update
Intent to start a user community forum including industry partners – still planned, little progress due to resource issues
With DODAF/MODAF/NAF updates mostly released now planning is in process for a full review and update starting Q3 07 for intended new release in Q1 08
Review will include changes to documentation structure to better align with DODAF/MODAF/NAF chapter structure

16. DNDAF Update Stakeholder review complete and v1.0 formally released.
RFP to choose and acquire EA tools at evaluation stage with result expected by end May 07
Have developed an online tutorial and quick reference guide – about to be published
Planning to develop training courses – reusing some of the AUS developed course material

17. DODAF and CADM Update DODAF v1.5 is released
DODAF v2 will be a larger shift towards a net centric framework
DODAF v2 development workshops starting soon and will continue over the next 6 months
DODAF v2 due for release approximately March/April 2008
All volumes available on
CADM v1.5 is released

18. Model Experimentation
First experiment, exchange architecture data regarding the processes, agents, information flows, and sequences of activities involved in Battlefield Human Casualty Management.
Using Canadian document as “test data”

19. Exchange Across Coalition Tools and Frameworks
SA XML Import
(Update logic)
EE XML Export (ALL)
Telelogic System Architect®
SQL Query
RDFS Database
IDEAS Data Exchange Format (RDFS)
IDEAS RDFS
Generate
Parse

20. Exercise Concept
Identify a scenario where exchange of architecture planning data across the Coalition aids:
Planning for interoperability, e.g., processes, organizations, and/or systems
Identification of interoperability issues before they happen in a real operation
Better synchronization of forces in real operations