DoDAF-Compliant Architecture Modeling in MBSE

Apply DoDAF to Structure System Architectures

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework, or DoDAF, “defines a way of representing an enterprise architecture that enables stakeholders to focus on specific areas of interest in the enterprise while retaining sight of the big picture.” (DoDAF Viewpoints and Models.) Whether or not you need to use DoDAF in your work, it’s reassuring to know that you can, if you have to. GENESYS expertly handles all DoDAF viewpoints as natural byproducts and extensions of good systems engineering. And with GENESYS methodology, you’re guided to build intelligent architectures through a strategic application of good MBSE.

Use GENESYS within a DoDAF Environment

Benefit from native support for DoDAF viewpoints.

Too often, documentation comes at the expense of engineering. This is true for many architecture initiatives as teams pause their engineering efforts, produce the required framework artifacts, and then resume the engineering. The result is disjoint views sitting on a shelf (or a digital repository) with little correlation to the real engineering effort—a high expense, low value way of applying architecture frameworks. GENESYS leverages DoDAF as a native complement to good systems engineering, each viewpoint another integrated perspective on your system of interest. Focus on good systems architecting, and leverage the power of the tool to autogenerate the views you need when you need them.

Seamlessly integrate DoDAF viewpoints with requirements, analysis, and V&V.

GENESYS is built on a fully integrated systems metamodel, ensuring that any DoDAF views are derived from a consistent and connected architecture. This eliminates fragmented representations and enables teams to move beyond disconnected views while remaining fully aligned with DoDAF standards.

Core system concepts such as requirements, behavior, and structure are consistently reflected across both system and operational architectures. This alignment preserves a coherent mental model while adapting to DoDAF terminology, reducing the learning curve and enabling teams to apply the framework with greater efficiency and engineering relevance.

Perform beneficial trade studies.

Exploit new opportunities by performing beneficial trade studies between business strategies, system architecture design strategies, and implementation strategies in a single integrated executable model. Move as far upstream as you wish, choosing to address system, mission, or portfolio. Expand your trade-space effectively with full executability and complete traceability, bringing the appropriate degree of rigor to your exploration of engineering, architecture, and business alternatives.

Generate views and work products on demand.

With GENESYS expand your perspective to leverage many architectural framework viewpoints with no additional effort. Your systems engineering environment automatically produces any of the 50+ DoDAF views. Formal specifications, test plans, diagrams, internal metrics, on-demand queries, design integrity checks—all are autogenerated from your project repository, reflecting the latest engineering with guaranteed consistency. Flexible in their implementation, these views evolve as your architecture matures, seamlessly supporting your efforts throughout the lifecycle. And, you can customize diagram formatting to create just the emphasis you need for a given audience.

Validate your architecture with ease.

Use GENESYS to validate your architecture through the integrated execution of operational system models. Directly execute your models with push-button ease, obtaining dynamic analyses of architecture performance. Rapidly verify dynamic integrity and evaluate candidate solutions to minimize cost and maximize insight.