Rational aerospace and defense software solutions

The IBM® Rational® defense software solutions can help organizations evolve from platform-centric to capabilities-based design and development commensurate with today's distributed environment.

Integrated approach to build, comply, and improve DoDAF work products
The Rational approach to the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) helps you align mission drivers with development, so you can manage key decisions throughout the system life cycle more effectively. The key benefits include:

• Prioritizing joint capabilities, identifying gaps, and making investment decisions based on integrated architectures

• Leveraging software and systems engineering best practices, process guidance, and solutions based on open standards, such as UML 2.0, SysML, and Eclipse

• Identifying, classifying, and harvesting DoDAF content in the form of reusable assets

• Ensuring model consistency and integrated configuration and change management

• Automated Matrix Creation to ensure consistency

• Reporting of all DoDAF views

• Importing custom graphics (OV-1)

• DoDAF Model Framework for work products/views