Exploring the Architecture of Combat Air Operations: Insights into Flexibility in Enterprise Architectures and Implications for System Architecture and Acquisition

Abstract

• Question: – How do we design enterprises and large-scale systems for flexibility? • Hypothesis: – Enterprise and technical system architectures with more lateral vs. vertical connections will perform better in dynamic and uncertain environments, both operational and acquisition • Goals: – Architectural analysis at enterprise level to see whether a shift from an architecture dominated by vertical connections to one dominated by lateral connections enables an enterprise to achieve greater flexibility. – Associate this shift to performance – “First Order” modeling and analysis