Universal Architecture Description Framework

The history of system engineering and software modeling for the purpose of understanding unprecedented new system problem space and communicating the results of an analysis of that problem space in the form of specifications is about to come full circle. Starting in the 1950's with a fairly universal application of flow charts, we have evolved a series of models including MSA/PSARE, and UML/SysML to form three universal modeling approaches. There do seem to be a few pieces missing to completely cover the problem space associated with all possible systems, however. This talk will offer three views of a universal modeling capability to support the requirements analysis work for any system while providing the individual or enterprise with a template they can use to build their own comprehensive universal model. DoDAF is treated as a modeling component that is expected to be drawn into UML through the efforts of DoD and OMG that are working toward a Version 2.0 that will be implemented using UML artifacts.