Systems Architecture Working Group

This paper is a progress report to the NCOSE membership at large from the NCOSE Systems Architecture Working Group. The paper is intended to serve as the primary mechanism for informing the NCOSE membership of the activities completed and underway by the working group. The paper: 1) discusses motivations for establishing the group, 2) presents the group's charter, 3) provides the current definitions being used for systems architecture and some of the terms relating to systems architecture, 3) presents the working group's current view of what a systems architecture is, and the relationship of a systems architecture to the overall system and the system elements that comprise the system, 4) discusses the future plans of the working group, and 6) presents a bibliography of works that provide significant contributions to the subject of systems architecting and systems architectures.