2009 Issue 1 - Raytheon

RayMAP Elements
Raytheon Enterprise Architecture Process
(REAP): REAP is the companywide, standards-based
architecting process that
includes the technical and non-technical
aspects of addressing a customer’s needs.
The first stages of REAP are focused on context,
need, mission, operations, and other
fundamental elements impacting architecture
choice. The entire REAP capability has
been available internally to Raytheon via the
Integrated Product Development System
since 2002. This “road map” includes 60
subprocesses to guide our architects from
“enterprise understanding” through “architecture
validation.”
Raytheon Certified Architect Program
(RCAP): RCAP is a companywide certification
program to grow a renewable supply of
outstanding systems and enterprise architects.
Many senior engineers are currently
enrolled in this rigorous program, which
began in January 2004 and is
sponsored by Engineering, Technology and
Mission Assurance. RCAP has been compared
to seeking an advanced academic
degree, and completing the program
bestows prestige and other rewards.
Reference Architectures (RAs): These partially
populated architecture “templates” have
been developed across Raytheon during the
past several years. The RAs are tailorable
ARCHITECTURE & SYSTEMS INTEGRATION
and provide basic but important information
to help users create consistent,
domain-specific architectures more quickly.
Several RAs — such as Command and
Control and Hard Real Time Sensing and
Effecting — exist at both the business
and corporate levels.
Architecture Review Board (ARB): The corporate
ARB was established in 2003 and is
Raytheon's cross-business governing body
responsible for architecture initiatives. This
group of senior architects from across the
company conducts independent architecture
reviews for critical pursuits.
Architecture Collaboration Tool: On July 22,
2008, the RayMAP team set up an internal
Raytheon collaboration environment that
includes a repository of architectures, a
national architecture tool server and an
architecture social-networking capability.
This portal gives architects, systems engineers
and other users access to a common
framework of information for developing
architectures, new capabilities and systems.
Architecture Standards Collaboration:
Raytheon is actively engaged with government
and industry architecture standards
bodies. As a contributing participant and, in
some cases, as a leader within these various
groups, Raytheon provides state-of-the-art
architectural guidance and direction. We
fold any improvements from these groups
back into our REAP architecting process.
These groups include:
Department of Defense Architecture
Framework (DoDAF) 2.0 Working Group
Zachman Institute for Framework
Advancement
The Open Group Architecture Forum
Carnegie Mellon University Software
Engineering Institute
Object Management Group
International Council on Systems
Engineering
Stevens Institute and Embedded Systems
Institute: System Architecture Forum
RayMAP is an integrated One Company
approach to architecting. Our processes,
training, certification, reference repository,
review boards and corporate governance
provide methods that contribute to the
NoDoubt assurance we provide to every
customer and user of our systems.
Raytheon personnel wanting more
information on RayMAP can visit
http://home.ray.com/rayeng/architecture.
Bert Schneider
hgschneider@raytheon.com
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