Using Architectures to Support Experimentation

To facilitate the transformation of its capabilities, the Department of Defense has mandated and directed the use of architectures to support the acquisition of systems that are interoperable in a net centric world and the use of experimentation to refine the concepts and the technology that will result in that transformation. This paper uses a real world Air Force Research Laboratory Critical Experiment (Dynamic Air and Space Execution and Assessment) to describe a model driven experimentation process that uses executable models of DoD Architecture Framework compliant architectures to support the development of a new system when the basic concept of operation is ill defined.