The Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Architecture
Framework, Version 2.0, developed by the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD) C4ISR Architecture Working Group, provides
guidance for describing architectures. It is intended to ensure
that architectures developed by the Commands, Services, and
defense Agencies are interrelatable between and among the
organizations' operational, systems, and technical architecture
views, and are comparable and integratable across Joint and
multi-national organizational boundaries. The Framework is
intended to ensure that a clear audit trail exists from mission
operations and effectiveness measures to the characteristics of
current and postulated C4ISR systems and their contributions
(performance and interoperability metrics) to mission operations.
This paper describes the four main components of the
Framework, i.e., Architecture Views (Operational, Systems, and
Technical) and Linkages, Common Product Templates and
Common Data, Universal Guidance, and Common Building Block
References.
Relationships to other popular and emerging architecture
frameworks are described, along with current plans for further
evolution of the Framework.
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