Tailoring DODAF For Service-Oriented Architectures
April 2007
Huei-Wan Ang, The MITRE Corporation
Fatma Dandashi, The MITRE Corporation
Michael McFarren, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
This paper contains a brief overview of Service-Oriented
Architecture (SOA) and an explanation of how the
Department of Defense Architecture Framework
(DoDAF) can be used to describe a SOA. DoDAF uses
IEEE 1472 definition of an architecture description to
define a standard approach to describing, presenting, and
integrating a DoD architecture that can be used with 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. SOA is an architectural
approach to application integration that enables flexible
connectivity of applications or resources implemented as
services. Such services have well-defined, platformindependent
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 capability based and service oriented
supports globalization and the integration of
geographically dispersed organizations (Net-centricity).
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