TAFIM

It identifies the services, standards, concepts, components, and configurations that can be used to guide the development of technical architectures that meet specific mission requirements.

[3] TAFIM subsumes the widely accepted Open-system environment reference model within the network services and communications area.

[4] The TAFIM project has resulted in an eight-volume Information Technology Architecture "how-to" manual, see image.

Before being officially published in 1996 by the Department of Defense, the approach was successfully piloted at both the U.S. Marine Corps and the DoD Health Affairs by teams led by Hollyman, Kerr, Keane.

The original development of TOGAF Version 1 in 1995 was based on the Technical Architecture Framework for Information Management.

The US Department of Defense gave The Open Group explicit permission and encouragement to create TOGAF by building on the TAFIM, which itself was the result of many years of development effort and many millions of dollars of US Government investment.

[2] In 2000 the whole TAFIM concept and its regulations have been re-evaluated and found inconsistent with the newly developed DoDAF architecture direction.

Defense’s technical and data standards are designed to enable systems to easily interoperate and transfer information.

The Information Systems Architecture concept, as pictured by the TAFIM in 1996. [ 1 ]
The eight-volume TAFIM documentation with the further architecture implementation concept. [ 1 ]
DoD Standards-Based Architecture Planning Process [ 9 ]
Integrated Model of Four Architectural Views. [ 9 ]