UPDM is an Object Management Group (OMG) initiative to develop a modeling standard that supports both the USA Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) and the UK Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF). The modeling standard is called the Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF (UPDM).

The UPDM Group was setup to:

• Significantly enhance the quality, productivity, and effectiveness associated with enterprise and system of systems architecture modeling
• Promote architecture model reuse and maintainability
• Improve tool interoperability and communications between stakeholders
• Reduce training impacts due to different tool implementations and semantics
• Improve the integration between system of systems modeling and system modeling to support post acquisition life cycle design modeling

The UPDM Group consists of many companies distributed around the world. You can see a list of these companies in the member section on this web site.