Operational Concepts and Architectures
JHNA develops operational or warfighting Concept of Operations (CONOPS). Our CONOPS facilitate communications that lead to better understanding between operational users, technical developers, and engineers. These CONOPS take the form of Whitepapers, Vignettes or Scenarios that are depicted through pictures, graphics and text. We develop CONOPS for many purposes, the primary of which is shaping requirements analyses. Our CONOPS place an existing system or engineering concept into a context or environment that provides clarity for its operational use, tactical behaviors, and performance expectations. We have the user community vet these depictions which then become a beacon of user expectations for material developers, system engineers and experimenters. They often feed future Test & Evaluation plans. JHNA extends the CONOPS by conducting Operational Analyses that assess concepts using tactical decomposition phases, MAPEXs, experiments, simulations, and demonstrations. Our associates are particularly adept at conducting operational analysis quick-looks to operationally assess a particular technology, operational effectiveness gap, organization, or tactic, technique and procedure.
JHNA has worked on concept teams for the Army's Future Combat System (FCS), teams investigating FCS's role in Urban Operations, and teams investigating concepts for advanced robotics applications. We have developed concepts documents for the Autonomous Navigation System (ANS), the Future Force Warrior Advanced Technology Demonstration, the Objective Air Vehicle (OAV), Unmanned Autonomous Collaborative Operations (UACO) for UASs, as well as concepts for Armed Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) Assault and RSTA, and other small unmanned ground systems.
JHNA also has extensive experience in developing Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) operational products. DoD requires these architectures for justification and approval of new systems and any subsequent changes as the system undergoes normal product improvement. Our team's primary focus is on developing the operational architecture and supporting the development of the system's architecture. Our integrated approach of relating concepts and requirements to architecture development promotes decomposition of complex problems into understandable subsets. Our architecture products detail the activities, relationships, standards, systems, information exchanges, and centers of activity necessary for the development of an interoperable system of systems. Click here to view a sample OV product.
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