You can use the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) feature to describe the architecture of a complex system. The DoDAF feature provides an open architecture to build DoDAF work products based upon structured analysis and design techniques.

See also DoDAF 1.5 Activity Based Methodology (ABM).

The Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) feature provides an open architecture to build DoDAF workproducts based upon structured analysis and design techniques. You can use the DoDAF feature to describe the architecture of a complex system.

For more information, see DoDAF feature overview.

You can launch DoDAF reports from the Reports menu. Reports assist you with the analysis and communication of DoDAF products at various stages in their development.

For more information, see Word reports for DoDAF.

To support the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) modeling, you must customize a new or existing project encyclopedia by configuring the encyclopedia properties.

For more information, see Configuring encyclopedias for DoDAF modeling.

System Architect offers many optional drawing and tool behavior features. You can set preferences to optimize how the software reacts to your drawing commands when you create frameworks products.

For more information, see Setting preferences for frameworks modeling.

The All Views (AV) products provide information that relates to each of the other views of the architecture but do not present a distinct view of the architecture. AV products describe the scope and context, or vocabulary, of the architecture.

For more information, see Creating All Views products for DoDAF.

The operational architecture view describes the tasks, activities, operational elements, and information flows that are required for a military operation to take place. It describes what types and how often information can be exchanged, which tasks and activities are supported by the information exchanges, and the nature of information exchanges in order to establish specific interoperability requirements.

For more information, see Creating operational view products.

You can create diagrams to describe the systems view (SV) of a complex system. The systems architecture view describes and depicts systems and interconnections that provide for, or support, warfare functions.

For more information, see Creating systems view products.

The technical component of an architecture is the set of rules that governs the implementation and operation of the system.

For more information, see Creating technical architecture view products.

To building net-centric architectures, as prescribed by DoDAF 1.5, you capture the capabilities and services provided and used by the operational and systems architecture.

For more information, see Modeling net-centric architectures with capabilities and services.

You can run utilities for DoDAF models that generate diagrams, run reports, or import matrix data from Microsoft Excel reports into the encyclopedia.

For more information, see Running DoDAF utilities.

The Recursive Dependency Relationship Check searches for invalid relationships and warns you when any of these types are found.

For more information, see Generating Recursive Capability Dependency Relationship Check reports.

The Recursive Capability Parent/Child Relationship Check searches for invalid relationships and warns you when any of these types are found.

For more information, see Generating Recursive Capability Parent/Child Relationship Check reports.