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LEVERAGING
ANALYTICS
to Develop Defence enterprise
systems for Mission assurance
BY ALAIN MARTEL AND SoPhIE MARTEL
S
trong, Secure, Engaged, the new Canadian defence policy,
clearly specifies that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are
required to "achieve excellence" across a wide spectrum of
military duties, from protecting Canada and North America,
to engaging in peacekeeping, peacemaking, counter-terrorism,
cyber, and humanitarian assistance operations, in an increasingly complex
and unpredictable world. To achieve this mission, the CAF rely on carefully
designed and continually improved Defence Enterprise Systems (DESs).
DESs can be seen as capability-driven services, and their generic architec-
ture is illustrated in Fig. 1. Independent of a DES level or size, the human,
material and information resources it embeds, the processes it performs and
the IM/IT systems it exploits must be developed to achieve operational
excellence on theaters of operation.
