AgileTectureT: A Methodology and Toolkit for Agile Design and Dynamic Reconfiguration of C4ISR Architectures

C4ISR systems continue to increase in architectural complexity with concomitant increase in development costs. Today, C4ISR architecture development is a labor-intensive predominantly manual process that is supported with limited automation. Commercial tools on the market today fall short of meeting DoD Architecture Framework guidelines for scalability and a fully integrated system that captures and reconciles operational, systems, and technical perspectives. Today, there is a crucial requirement for DoDAF-compliant C4ISR architecture design tools that also enable "on-the-fly" adaptation of the C4ISR architecture to reflect new task organization structures. The proposed effort is intended to develop a toolkit that supports both C4ISR architecture design as well as dynamic architecture reconfiguration in response to new task organizations created during tactical mission planning. Phase I of this effort will establish the feasibility of such a tool that can run in a standalone or client-server mode over a secure Internet.