Amsterdam 2008 S O A 3 Difficult Pieces For Publication
1. The 3 Main Pillars of the
DoD Go Forward Strategy
Three Difficult Pieces
October 8, 2008
Dennis E. Wisnosky, DoD BMA CTO &
Chief Architect
2. Background
Reach of the Business Mission Area
"The Secretary of Defense is responsible for a half-
trillion dollar enterprise that is roughly an order of
magnitude larger than any commercial corporation that
has ever existed. DoD estimates that business support
activities—the Defense Agencies and the business
support operations within the Military Departments—
comprise 53% of the DoD enterprise.”
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4. Transformation through SOA
“The DoD and IC [Intelligence Community] share a vision for a services-based
environment that leverages technologies to provide access to information and
business processes, and interoperable infrastructure and standards to enable
discovery, availability and trust.” DoD Memorandum, 2007 DWiz DoD BMA CTO/CA 4
5. BMA CTO & CA FY09 Objectives
1. Build a top down DoD Enterprise
Architecture embracing tiered
accountability and federation.
2. Stop using Architecture for administering
things, and start using Architecture for
delivering capabilities.
3. Lead Government and Industry from
costly dependence upon heroic
Architecture building, to building
Architectures based upon standards.
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6. 1. Build a top down DoD Enterprise
Architecture Embracing Tiered
Accountability and Federation.
8. 1. Build a top down DoD Enterprise Architecture embracing tiered accountability
and federation.
Current Architecture Federation Map
Prioritized,
Functions Delivered
Warfighter
Operational
Capabilities
Programming Acquisition Policy Requirements
Planning
Warfighter High-Level Architecture
Force Application
Command & Control
Global C2 Architecture
Battlespace Awareness Intel Enterprise Architecture
Capabilities
Enterprise-Level Rules and
Constraints
Influence
Architecture (Notional)
includes Defense
Information Enterprise
Protection Architecture
Net-Centric NII Comms and Transport Architecture
Global Collaborative Manufacturing Architecture
Corporate Management & Support
Expeditionary Business
Systems Architecture
Logistics Business Enterprise Architecture
Force Support
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9. 1. Build a top down DoD Enterprise Architecture embracing tiered accountability
and federation.
Building Common Vocabularies
Step 1: Start at the bottom
-Extract vocabularies from existing physical systems.
-Software finds and displays matching data elements.
Step 2: Collaborate
-The community documents, reviews, discusses and agrees;
Step 5. Deploy Enterprise vocabulary definitions.
resulting in human-readable documentation and formal Services
People users access the vocabularies and Services through web browsers to
Step 3: Share anddocumentation, to navigate formal relationships and
view natural language Reuse
to determine the availability of services becomes the repository for the
-The Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA)
Common Business Vocabularies.
Machine users download vocabularies and services from the Metadata &
Services Registries
Step 4: Federate with the DoD Metadata &
Service Registries
-Automate entry of metadata into the DoD Metadata Registry (MDR) and DoD
Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI) by federation with the
BEA.
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10. 2. Stop using Architecture for
administering things, and start
using Architecture for delivering
capabilities.
11. 2. Stop using Architecture for administering things, and start using Architecture
for delivering value.
Current State and Future Vision: Its Happening Now
Systems will be Deployed as Services within a
common Business Operating Environment
(BOE)
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12. 3. Lead Government and Industry
from costly dependence upon
heroic Architecture building, to
building Architectures based upon
standards.
13. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
We can build a standards-based Business Operating
Environment , But developing for it is much harder
-As we build and use Architectures, we lack the
standards so that we can go from planning and
design tools, to development tools, to
deployment and execution tools, and back
again
-We need to be able to represent the same
things the same way across all of our
Architectures using any of our tools.
Are standards and a discipline important for communicating?
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14. In Electrical Engineering, Consider ........
Resistor symbol
It’s Resistance is in Ohms, Ω
It’s Power is in Watts, W
A value of resistance may be Ω = .01, with an
example tolerance from ± 0.1% → ± 20%
Capacitor symbol
Capacitance is in farads, F
Voltage is in volts, V
A range for capacitance may be from pico
farads, pF, to mega farads, MF
This agreed upon representation
of electrical engineering allows a
common understanding…
And!
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15. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
In Music, Consider ........
Music Scale symbols
Notes symbols
This agreed upon representation
of music allows a common
understanding…
But in Architecture!
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16. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
Architecture Standards – State of Practice
– Architecture is constructed through different views
– DoDAF, ARIS, Zachman et al. provide collections of Views without
regard to conflicting requirements
– Graphical Modeling Languages such as the IDEFs, BPMN, Class
Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams fill these views without regard to a
methodology
– Models and the data that represents the models are stored for re-use
in the format du jour
There must be standard formats for diagrams, and for data
that represents the diagrams, and for data that moves within
and between the reality that diagrams represent.
The Goal: Round-Tripping
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17. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
Round-Tripping: Model to Execution
Tool A Tool B Tool C
Process Modeling (BPMN) Process Modeling (EPC)
Process Simulation
Load Model in Process Modeling Tool for further refinement
Store Model w/ Sim Data
Store Model
Process Model Repository
Standard Standard Standard Standard Standard
Process Process Process Process Process
Model Model Model Model Model
Tool B, Ext Attr. Tool B, Ext Attr. Tool B, Ext Attr. Tool B, Ext Attr.
Tool D Ext. Attr. Tool D Ext. Attr. Tool D Ext. Attr.
Load Model
Tool C Ext.Attr. Tool C Ext.Attr.
Store w/ SOA Details
Tool D
Extended Attributes allow SOA Design
Executable Model
Any-to-Any Round Trip: Repository
(Tool-Specific, extended
1. From Tool to Tool XPDL, BPEL or similar)
2. From Tool to Execution
Engine Process Execution – Web Service Calls
At the very least!
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18. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
Shared Vocabulary
Architecting complex systems requires the use
of multiple views
Each view may be rendered in a different
technique
Yet the underlying concepts refer to the same
subject matter!
Goal: Capture terms and definitions at the
beginning of the architecture process and
There must be standard formats for reuse content data
use them to integrate and diagrams, and for
thatacross views
represents the diagrams, and for data that moves within
and between the reality that diagrams represent.
Value Proposition: An Unambiguous
Definitions of Architecture Concepts for
Developers and Users Engineered Architecting
The Goal: An
Framework – A Discipline!
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19. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
We must make sense out of this!
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20. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
Primitives
Standard
Standards
Symbols
Architecture Primitives
Best Practices
Music Language and
Symbols:
influences
informed
Engineering Language
by
and Symbols:
Architecture Primitives PriMo
Modeling Guide
foundation
for
PrOnto
Ontology (Lexicon)
• DoDAF 2.0 serves as the
foundation for architecture
input for
primitives
• Use Cases being developed and Standard
used to drive pilots
Different Language (terms
Frameworks We need a discipline?
and defini,ons)
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21. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
An Engineered Architecting Framework – A Discipline!
‣ Architecture = Collection of Views
‣ View = Perspective of Reality as a Model
‣ Model = Representation of Concept in Language
‣ Language = Combination of Vocabulary and
Grammar
‣ Vocabulary = Collection of Terms
‣ Grammar = Rules for combination of Terms
Where will this take us?
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22. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
Agile, Adaptive, Net-Centric Organizations
Stove Pipes Tiered Global Collaboration
Accountability
Service
providers Contractors
In DoD
Allies
Was IS
Primitives Enable
the “To Be”
How will we get there?
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23. 3. Provide Industry and DoD Leadership for Standards-based Architecture
Global Collaboration
Object Management Group (OMG), Windows
Workflow Foundation, Organization for the
Advancement of Structured Information Standards
(OASIS), Workflow Management Coalition (WFMC),
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) WS-C …WS-X
Where are we now?
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24. Status of 3 Difficult Pieces
1. Build a top down DoD Enterprise Architecture embracing tiered
accountability and federation.
BEA 3.0 was the first DoD Capabilities based Architecture. BEA 5.0 was the
first version to consider common vocabularies. This work is progressing
through the use of COTS to map data between existing systems for insertion
into the BEA and use of the new AV-2 for new capabilities. A memorandum is
being staffed through DEPSECDEF to formalize this process.
2. Stop using Architecture for administering things, and start using
Architecture for delivering value.
The Business Operating Environment (BOE) which was first exposed in the
BMA Enterprise Architecture Federation Strategy and Roadmap Based Upon
SOA 2 years ago has evolved to inform the DKO and the NCES SOA
Foundation Services and more as Services are deployed. Our challenge now
is governance of this phenomenon.
3. Lead Government and Industry from costly dependence upon heroic
Architecture building to building Architectures based upon standards
and discipline.
Our Primitives work has more acceptance and traction than we dared to hope.
Externally results are being vetted to software vendors. Internally we are
using primitives for the Global Collaborative Manufacturing Architecture
(GCMA) and gearing up for BEA 7.0.
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25. Thank You for Your Time!
Any Questions?
Dennis.Wisnosky@osd.mil
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