DoDAF-based system architecture modeling of air-defense UAV swarm operations

Abstract

Air-defense UAV swarm operations represent a key direction in the development of future aerial warfare, characterized by numerous operational nodes, complex interactions, and highly coupled mission processes. To address the lack of a unified architectural description method in existing studies, this paper introduces the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and proposes a system architecture modeling approach for air-defense UAV swarm operations. Based on a typical operational scenario, an operational system consisting of a command-and-control center and reconnaissance, strike, and support UAV formations is constructed, along with a target system comprising airdefense positions, reconnaissance and sensing facilities, mobile reconnaissance and countermeasure units, and mobile air-defense units. Operational and capability views are then employed to develop models of operational concepts, resource flows, operational activities, event tracing, state transitions, and capability classification, thereby enabling a unified representation of system architecture, mission processes, and information interactions. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively characterize the organizational structure and operational mechanism of airdefense UAV swarm operations, providing a basis for subsequent system analysis and architecture optimization.