IDEAS Group

Working group for military enterprise architectures The International Defence Enterprise Architecture Specification for exchange Group (IDEAS Group) is a project involving four nations (plus NATO as observers) and covering MODAF (UK), DoDAF (US), DNDAF (Canada) and the Australian Defence Architecture Framework (AUSDAF). The deliverable of the project is a data exchange format for military Enterprise Architectures. The initial scope for exchange is the architectural data required to support coalition operations planning, including: Systems – communications systems, networks, software applications, etc. Communications links between systems Information specifications – the types of information (and their security classifications) that the comms architecture will handle Platforms and facilities System and operational functions (activities) People and organizations Architecture meta-data – who owns it, who was the architect, name, version, description, etc. The work has begun with the development of a formal ontology to specify the data exchange semantics. The W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) will be the format used for data exchange. A demo