The Department of Defense Architecture Framework, known as DoDAF, is an architecture framework for the United States Department of Defense. It gives stakeholders a way to visualize and describe the architecture of large systems through viewpoints, each organized into views that present the same architecture in tabular, structural, behavioral, graphical and other forms. The framework is described as especially suited to large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges, and it is notable for its use of operational views. Its lineage runs back to the C4ISR Architecture Framework, whose first version was released on 7 June 1996 and whose second followed in December 1997; DoDAF version 1.0 was released in August 2003, and the current release is DoDAF 2.02. Major defense weapons and information technology acquisitions are required to document an enterprise architecture using the views it prescribes, and although aimed at military systems it has been applied well beyond them.
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The first C4ISR Architecture Framework v1.0, released 7 June 1996
In Field: Systems Engineering, Lead, second paragraph
This Architecture Framework is especially suited to large systems with complex integration and interoperability challenges
Associated With: Enterprise architecture, Lead, fourth paragraph
required to develop and document an enterprise architecture (EA) using the views prescribed in the DoDAF
In Group: Software Requirements and Architecture Practices, Lead paragraph
The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) is an architecture framework for the United States Department of Defense (DoD) that provides visualization infrastructure for specific stakeholders concerns through viewpoints organized by various views.
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