EA Development
The development of EAs has been driven by the need to manage the ever-increasing complexity of the modern enterprise. JCSys develop EAs to record the objective of the enterprise and support decision making as the enterprise evolves, thereby providing a roadmap for future capability deployment. Supporting all stages of the project lifecycle, the team can deliver EAs relating to all areas of the enterprise from capability requirements through to solution delivery and sustainment. Members of the EA team have supported projects for the UK MoD ACCS IPT, SE&IG (formally the IA), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and a variety of Major Defence Companies, such as; Raytheon, Thales etc.
The team has wide experience in developing EAs for Sweden’s Armed Forces who have adopted MODAF as their framework of choice.
Recent EAs have included;
- Swedish Armed Forces Coalition Interoperability
- Swedish International Security Assistance Force
- Swedish Navy Visby Class Corvette
- Nordic Battle Group ’11
- Swedish Close Air Support
Current EA development work;
- JAS 39 Gripen Reconnaissance EA: SWAF AF Recce capability with associated solutions, processes and functionality
- Swedish Helicopter Force EA: Identification of core capabilities through to planned solutions and acquisition programmes
In addition to capturing information from policy, standards, procedures, concepts & doctrine, the JCSys team has significant experience of developing EAs within a ‘live’ workshop environment. Interfacing with military SMEs from a wide variety of roles and backgrounds, our consultants are able to ellicit information and populate EA models with authoritative information set in the correct context. Both our EA team and our clients place valuable importance on the rich discussions and information gained from this type of approach.
JCsys Ltd Consultants have also developed a number of bespoke data capture mechanisms for situations when a ‘live’ workshop is not always practical, using standard office tools and Application Programming Interface (API) Add-Ins to achieve greater efficiencies for model development, maximising the re-use of information across programmes.
MODAF v1.2 Viewpoints (JCSys Ltd image)
The JCSys EA team is also adept at developing tailored EAs to support focussed investigations within a specific problem space, such as; Information Exchange Requirement (IER) capture and analysis and communications media specifications.
Working closely with the JCSys Communication & Tactical Data Link Services Business Unit we are ideally placed to support traceability and interoperability assurance from capability requirements through IERs to communication media specification.
JCSys Ltd employs a variety of toolsets including MooD Business Architect (The Salamander Organisation), Enterprise Architect (Sparx) and System Architect (IBM). However, our ethos is to utilise the most appropriate toolset, or combination of tools, for a particular project in order to most effectively meet our client's needs.