IBM solutions for Aerospace and Defense

In order to demonstrate compliance to requirements and regulations, today engineers in the aerospace and defense industry must ensure complete accountability. For systems under development, projects are obligated to provide verification of requirements conformance while continuing to meet milestones. Challenges that aerospace and defense developers must overcome include:

• Ensuring interoperable and cost-effective systems are delivered on schedule
• Managing prime and sub-contractor relationships or consortia while minimizing costly integration
• Tendering in obscure, costly and time-consuming competitive bidding processes

To successfully define, design, develop and deliver a complex system requires an integrated solution, one that offers the power and flexibility needed by systems engineers, requirements analysts, software developers, testers, and project managers.

This integrated solution should improve communication and collaboration by increasing information sharing and visibility. It would:

• Help with initial planning and assessment
• Place requirements management at the heart of the project because requirements express and capture the project's objectives
• Support comprehensive modeling of large and complex systems-of-systems, resulting in precise, easy-to-understand, and unambiguous specifications
• Enable the specification of not only the structure but also the behavior of the system under development
• Offer a configurable task-based approach to controlling change
• Validate the system throughout development against the requirements, ensuring that what you're building is what you agreed to deliver

Requirements Management

Quality is conformance to requirements - delivering what the customer needs. Requirements Management promotes quality through a number of key features, one of which is traceability - the linking of related information. Through traceability, Requirements Management simplifies the impact assessment of changes to customer needs. It also validates the implementation of low-level technical specifications by demonstrating how they satisfy higher-level requirements.

Requirements Management ensures deliverables arrive on time and meet agreed specifications, simplifying integrations and improving the quality of the final, delivered system.

DoDAF and MODAF Architecture Frameworks

IBM provides comprehensive support for architecture frameworks that help assure compliance, such as the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), formerly known as C4ISR AF, and other DOD architecture frameworks based on it, such as the Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF) and the NATO C3 and NAF.

Systems Engineering and Software Development

Successful systems engineering and software development using the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML™) version 2.1, the latest industry standard visual modeling language, and the derived Systems Modeling Language (SysML) version 1.0 for systems engineers, can increase productivity, minimize development costs, and shorten time to market.

Telelogic® Rhapsody® provides industry leading Model Driven Development (MDD) for real-time, embedded or technical systems and software.

Telelogic® Tau® provides industry leading Model Driven Development for enterprise IT systems and software including those utilizing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA).