AFIT Instructor Steve Glazewski, AFIT/LSS, presents the
latest on Net-Ready Performance Attribute and its relationship with the DOD Architecture Framework (DODAF). In the 2018 revision to the JCIDS manual, the number of KPPs went from 6 (in the 2015 Manual) to 4 (in the 2018 Manual). Net-Ready is no longer a KPP; it can be
a Key System Attribute if approved by the project’s Milestone Decision
Authority and the Joint Staff. So, it didn’t replace the old
NR-KPP – it just got renamed and “downgraded.”
The NRPA ensures interoperability between individually developed and fielded capability solutions. It determines criteria for interoperability and operationally effective end-to-end information exchanges, which are traceable to their
associated operational context, and are technically achievable, quantifiable, measurable, testable, unambiguous, supported by documented trade-off analysis, and defined in a manner that supports efficient and effective test and
evaluation (T&E).
The DOD Architecture Framework (DODAF) provides
the structure for organizing architecture concepts, principles, assumptions, and terminology about operations and solutions into meaningful patterns to satisfy specific DOD purposes. It enables the sharing and reuse of architectural data.