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Term
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Definition
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Activity
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Work, not specific to a single organization, weapon system or individual that transforms inputs (Resources) into outputs (Resources) or changes their state.
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Adaptability Measure
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A measure of the ease with which Performers satisfy differing Constraints and Capability and Service needs.
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Address
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The name of a location along with the location-finding scheme that allows a location to be found from the name. Examples include postal address, email address, URL, datalink address.
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Agreement
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A consent among parties regarding the terms and conditions of activities that said parties participate in.
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Capability
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The ability to achieve a Desired Effect under specified [performance] standards and conditions through combinations of ways and means [activities and resources] to perform a set of activities.
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Condition
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The state of an environment or situation in which a Performer performs.
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Constraint
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The range of permissible states for an object.
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Country
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A political state or nation or its territory.
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Data
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Representation of information in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by humans or by automatic means. Examples could be whole models, packages, entities, attributes, classes, domain values, enumeration values, records, tables, rows, columns, and fields.
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Desired Effect
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The result, outcome, or consequence of an action [activity].
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Domain Information
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Types of information within the scope or domain of the architecture.
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Effects Measure
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Category of measures on Effect Objects
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Facility
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A real property entity consisting of underlying land and one or more of the following: a building, a structure (including linear structures), a utility system, or pavement.
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Functional Standard
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Functional standards set forth rules, conditions, guidelines, and characteristics.
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GeoFeature
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An object that encompasses meteorological, geographic, and control features mission significance
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GeoPolitical Extent
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A geospatial extent whose boundaries are by declaration or agreement by political parties.
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Guidance
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An authoritative statement intended to lead or steer the execution of actions.
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Information
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Information is the state of a something of interest that is materialized -- in any medium or form -- and communicated or received.
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Installation
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A base, camp, post, station, yard, center, or other activity, including leased facilities, without regard to the duration of operational control. An installation may include one or more sites.
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Location
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A point or extent in space that may be referred to physically or logically.
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Maintainability Measure
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A category of measures of the amount of time a Performer is able to conduct Activities over some time interval.
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Materiel
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Equipment, apparatus or supplies that are of interest, without distinction as to its application for administrative or combat purposes.
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Measure
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The magnitude of some attribute of an individual.
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Measure Type
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A category of Measures
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Needs Satisfaction Measure
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A category of quality measures that address how well a system meets the user's needs and requirements.
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Organization
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A specific real-world assemblage of people and other resources organized for an on-going purpose.
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Organizational Measure
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A category of quality measures that address how costly a Performer is to operate and maintain.
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Performance Measure
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A category of quality measures that address how well a Performer meets Capability needs.
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Performer
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Any entity - human, automated, or any aggregation of human and/or automated - that performs an activity and provides a capability.
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Person Type
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A category of persons defined by the role or roles they share that are relevant to an architecture.
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Physical Measure
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A category of measures of spatio-temporal extent of an Individual such as length, mass, energy, velocity
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Port
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An interface (logical or physical) provided by a System.
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Project
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A temporary endeavor undertaken to create Resources or Desired Effects.
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Real Property
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Land and improvements to land (i.e., facilities).
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Region Of Country
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A large, usually continuous segment of a political state or nation or its territory.
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Region Of World
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A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space; area.
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Resource
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Data, Information, Performers, Materiel, or Personnel Types that are produced or consumed.
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Rule
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A principle or condition that governs behavior; a prescribed guide for conduct or action
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Service
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A mechanism to enable access to a set of one or more capabilities , where the access is provided using a prescribed interface and is exercised consistent with constraints and policies as specified by the service description. The mechanism is a Performer. The “capabilities” accessed are Resources -- Information, Data, Materiel, Performers, and Geo-political Extents.
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Service Channel
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A logical or physical communication path between requisitions and services.
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Service Description
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Information necessary to interact with the service in such terms as the service inputs, outputs, and associated semantics. The service description also conveys what is accomplished when the service is invoked and the conditions for using the service.
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Service Level
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A measurement of the performance of a system or service.
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Service Port
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A part of a Performer that specifics a distinct interaction point through which the Performer interacts with other Performers. This isolates dependencies between performers to particular interaction points rather than to the performer as a whole.
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Site
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Physical (geographic) location that is or was owned by, leased to, or otherwise possessed. Each site is assigned to a single installation. A site may exist in one of three forms: (1) Land only, where there are no facilities present and where the land consists of either a single land parcel or two or more contiguous land parcels. (2) Facility or facilities only, where the underlying land is neither owned nor controlled by the government. A stand-alone facility can be a site. If a facility is not a stand-alone facility, it must be assigned to a site. (3). Land and all the facilities thereon, where the land consists of either a single land parcel or two or more contiguous land parcels.
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Skill
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The ability, coming from one's knowledge, practice, aptitude, etc., to do something well.
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Spatial Measure
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A category of measures of the spatio-temporal location of an Individual.
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Standard
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A formal agreement documenting generally accepted specifications or criteria for products, processes, procedures, policies, systems, and/or personnel.
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System
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A functionally, physically, and/or behaviorally related group of regularly interacting or interdependent elements.
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Technical Standard
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Technical standards document specific technical methodologies and practices to design and implement.
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Temporal Measure
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A type of measure of time
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Vision
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An end that describes the future state of the enterprise, without regard to how it is to be achieved; a mental image of what the future will or could be like
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