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DoDAF Viewpoints and Models

Services Viewpoint

The DoDAF-described Models within the Services Viewpoint describes services and their interconnections providing or supporting, DoD functions. DoD functions include both warfighting and business functions. The Service Models associate service resources to the operational and capability requirements. These resources support the operational activities and facilitate the exchange of information. The relationship between architectural data elements across the Services Viewpoint to the Operational Viewpoint and Capability Viewpoint can be exemplified as services are procured and fielded to support the operations and capabilities of organizations. The structural and behavioral models in the OVs and SvcVs allow architects and stakeholders to quickly ascertain which functions are carried out by humans and which by Services for each alternative specification and so carry out trade analysis based on risk, cost, reliability, etc.

Services are not limited to internal system functions and can include Human Computer Interface (HCI) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) functions or functions that consume or produce service data to or from service functions. The external service data providers and consumers can be used to represent the human that interacts with the service.

Service Model Descriptions

Model Description
SvcV-1 Services Context Description The identification of services, service items, and their interconnections.
SvcV-2 Services Resource Flow Description A description of Resource Flows exchanged between services.
SvcV-3a Systems-Services Matrix The relationships among or between systems and services in a given Architectural Description.
SvcV-3b Services-Services Matrix The relationships among services in a given Architectural Description. It can be designed to show relationships of interest, (e.g., service-type interfaces, planned vs. existing interfaces).
SvcV-4 Services Functionality Description The functions performed by services and the service data flows among service functions (activities).
SvcV-5 Operational Activity to Services Traceability Matrix A mapping of services (activities) back to operational activities (activities).
SvcV-6 Services Resource Flow Matrix It provides details of service Resource Flow elements being exchanged between services and the attributes of that exchange.
SvcV-7 Services Measures Matrix The measures (metrics) of Services Model elements for the appropriate timeframe(s).
SvcV-8 Services Evolution Description The planned incremental steps toward migrating a suite of services to a more efficient suite or toward evolving current services to a future implementation.
SvcV-9 Services Technology & Skills Forecast The emerging technologies, software/hardware products, and skills that are expected to be available in a given set of time frames and that will affect future service development.
SvcV-10a Services Rules Model One of three models used to describe service functionality. It identifies constraints that are imposed on systems functionality due to some aspect of system design or implementation.
SvcV-10b Services State Transition Description One of three models used to describe service functionality. It identifies responses of services to events.
SvcV-10c Services Event-Trace Description One of three models used to describe service functionality. It identifies service-specific refinements of critical sequences of events described in the Operational Viewpoint.

 

Mappings of the Services Viewpoint DoDAF-described Models to the DM2 Concepts, Associations, and Attributes are in  DM2 Concepts, Associations, and Attributes Mapping to DoDAF-described Models. The DM2 Concepts, Associations, and Attributes are described in the DoDAF Meta-model Data Dictionary.

Uses of Services Viewpoint DoDAF-described Models. Within the development process, the service models describe the design for service-based solutions to support operational requirements from the development processes (JCIDS) and Defense Acquisition System or capability development within the JCAs.