A Component Business Model-Based Approach for Business Architecture Integration of C4ISR System

Abstract

Synthesis integration of C4ISR system is being well studied in the field of military operational research. As current methodologies for integrating C4ISR system mostly focus on application integration and physical integration, while researches on business architecture integration mostly ignore important features of C4ISR system, e.g., Command and Control (C2) organizations and operational resources. In this paper, we propose a new approach for business architecture integration of C4ISR systems using Component Business Model (CBM). First, we discuss the mapping criterion for transforming the business component to its corresponding DoDAF models. Then a new framework for business architecture integration is introduced, consisting of two phases, i.e., the business component identification and the business component integration. After that, we describe the main processes and techniques of these two phases in detail, and a case study is carried out by using our approach.