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Proposed

ISREW, Space and Cyber Stream designed first

An example Stream design aNribute would be that of OSA. It would be pointless to specify
an approach for OSA for just one Program; it surely makes sense to apply such an approach
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across all relevant Programs and in turn their component Projects.
What could CAF’s “town plan” look like in this case? A real world town plan can consist of
mul=ple layers as discussed previously. If you build a “street”, you need to comply with the
design requirements for these layers.

A Defence Capability town plan could comprise six layers as illustrated on the next page.
Taking into account the plethora of Defence Strategic guidance, the integrated design
func=on takes place in the six Capability Streams first. The IAMD Program, in this case, acts
as the lens that focusses the design aNributes from the relevant Streams onto the IAMD
Projects and maps out the IAMD Program Roadmap. The Projects then ensure that the
design aNributes are incorporated in the Project requirements and if they cannot, the
Defence Investment CommiNee is advised so that the appropriate risk assessment can be
made and the Project directed accordingly.

22 One of the issues is that the US has two different, concurrent, paths of development for OSA: FACE and
OMS. To an extent, Defence needs to make a value judgement on which direc=on to focus whilst keeping its
op=ons open to change direc=on. A Centre of Excellence could be an op=on to progress organic
understanding of OSA core to future systems development.

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