Unified Architecture Framework (UAF), Matthew Hause

Abstract:

For Enterprise and Systems of Systems modeling, UAF provides enterprise architects with an ideal set of tools for capturing the essential aspects of the context, motivation, capabilities, and solutions. They need to interpret, evaluate, and analyze the architecture from many different viewpoints and levels of abstraction over multiple timelines to a variety of stakeholders. The UAF provides strategic, operational, services, system, personnel, project, standards, information, and security views at multiple levels of abstraction over time to support multiple diverse stakeholders and their needs. The cross-domain viewpoints also provide a means to cut across the different viewpoints, aspects, and concerns. UAF architecture models provide a means to develop an understanding of the complex relationships that exist between organizations, systems, and systems-of-systems and enable the analysis of these systems to ensure that they meet the expectations of the user community. The UAF has its roots in military frameworks such as DoDAF and MODAF, but it is equally applicable to commercial organizations. In fact, the DoD is planning on replacing DoDAF with UAF. This presentation will provide an overview of UAF, where it comes from, future developments, examples of its use, and how it results in tangible engineered systems.

Speaker Bio:

Matthew Hause is an SSI Principal and MBSE Technical Specialist, a former PTC Fellow, a co-chair of the OMG UAF group, a member of the OMG SysML specification team, a co-chair of the OMG Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) team, and a thought leader in the use of MBSE. He has been developing multi-national complex systems for over 45 years as a systems and software engineer. He started out working in the power systems industry and has been involved in military command and control systems, process control, manufacturing, factory automation, communications, SCADA, distributed control, office automation and many other areas of technical and real-time systems. His roles have varied from project manager to developer. His role at SSI includes mentoring, sales presentations, standards development, presentations at conferences, specification of the UAF profile and developing and presenting training courses. He has authored over 100 technical papers on architectural modeling, project management, systems engineering, model-based engineering, human factors, safety critical systems development, mission engineering, virtual team management, product line engineering, systems of systems, systems and software development with UML, SysML and Architectural Frameworks such as UAF, DoDAF and MODAF. He has been a regular presenter at INCOSE, NDIA, the IEEE, BCS, the IET, the OMG, AIAA, DoD Enterprise Architecture, Embedded Systems Conference, the Dassault MBSE Cyber Systems Symposium, and many other conferences. He is also a proud recipient of the INCOSE MBSE Propeller Hat Award.