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INFORMATION PAPER

TOTAL ARCHITECTURE, PLANS, AND EXECUTION SYSTEM

2 JUNE 1992

SUMMARY

One of the new members of the DSNO staff created, during his previous assignment, a new management concept and a working prototype application of that concept. It is called Total Architecture, Plans, and Execution System (TAPES).

A presentation on the concept and a demonstration of the prototype will be presented in the next few days, schedule to be announced.

FACTS/DISCUSSION

TAPES has been presented to the DISA Center for Information Management and the Army's DISC4 Architecture Division, PM SBIS, SBA Plans and Analysis, Deputy PM TAAMIS, and personnel from PM TACMIS. It has been recommended as an Army MISM and has been well received by all who have seen it.

An architecture in this sense is a unified structure implemented through local application and adaptation of standardized components. TAPES was intended as a repository-based Life Cycle Management system by which corporate transactions and analyses may be managed within a single unified structure and process.

TAPES models a generic enterprise in terms of seven managed "object classes" and the relationships between individual managed objects within these object classes. It can then display the context of that object in terms of its detailed composition, its distribution throughout the enterprise, and its parent and child objects. It serves as both a catalog of managed objects and a cross index between objects, as the objects proceed through their life cycle.

TAPES can be adapted as a Functional, Life-Cycle, Total Quality, and Management of Change management system for many of your operations, the Defense Network Systems Organization, and DISA or DoD as a whole.

RECOMMENDATION

None. For information purposes only.

Prepared by: Roy E. Roebuck

OD Specialist

746-8109

2 June 1992