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L E A R N I N G R E S O U R C E S

Web-enabling the
Integrated Framework Chart
Bill Hechmer (cid:129) Bill Bahnmaier

The Integrated Frame-

work Chart is familiar
to members of the ac-
quisition, technology,
and logistics commu-
nity as a job performance sup-
port, training, and reference aid
for Defense Acquisition Uni-
versity courses and defense ac-
quisition professionals. The IFC
is a subsystem of the AT&L
Knowledge Sharing System
(AKSS) and serves as a pictor-
ial roadmap of most key activ-
ities in the system’s acquisition
process defined by DoD Series
5000 regulations. About 20,000
copies are distributed annually
to acquisition professionals.

The Web-enabled Integrated
Defense Acquisition, Technol-
ogy, and Logistics Life Cycle
Management Framework Chart
(known by the short title “IFC”)
can be found at ). The Web-en-
abled version represents a new
gateway to policy, guides, and
other knowledge resources. By
selecting various parts or ele-
ments of the Web-enabled IFC,
the user can drill down to a par-
ticular activity block that is
linked to a template or knowl-
edge object containing pertinent acquisition information
about that activity.

Navigating the Web-enabled IFC
On the main IFC home page, users will encounter a linked
version of the framework chart. Navigational tabs are pro-
vided above the chart:

Integrated Framework Chart Home Page

(cid:129) IFC Home—links to the front page of the site.

(cid:129) Decision Support System View—provides a way to se-
lect enlarged views of the chart horizontally across each
systems view. Selecting this view highlights the linear
sequential processes and subtasks within those
processes so that the both the beginning and end state

Hechmer is the project manager for the AKSS, the Defense Acquisition Guidebook, and the IFC; and the knowledge project officer for the Program
Management Community of Practice. Bahnmaier is a retired Marine and a retired DAU professor of defense acquisition management. He currently
volunteers at DAU and is president of the DAU Alumni Association.

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of each subprocess can be de-
fined, delineated, and explained
in the content library.

(cid:129) Phase View—allows users view-
ers to bring up larger vertical
views of the IFC to more clearly
read elements from that per-
spective. Selecting this view al-
lows the user to specify a partic-
ular phase in the acquisition life
cycle process and view the sub-
processes that should be exe-
cuted in parallel for each acqui-
sition element. The user can
easily see the requirements that
must be coordinated across di-
verse elements at the beginning
and end of each phase of the ac-
quisition process.

The Web-enabled

version [of the

At the top of the screen, Contact,
FAQ, Help, and New User hotlinks
provide users with online support.

Integrated Framework

Chart] represents a

new gateway to policy,

guides, and other

knowledge resources.

Evolution of the Web-
enabled IFC
Version 5.1 of the IFC, deployed in
July 2005, was a usability test
model intended to allow acquisi-
tion workforce field users to use the
system and provide comments to
DAU regarding usability of the
graphics, linkages, and knowledge
provided. Certain minor changes
were made to both the JCIDS
process and the PPBE [Planning,
Programming, Budgeting, and Ex-
ecution] process after the release
of Version 5.1 . These changes were
incorporated in Version 5.2 of the IFC fielded by DAU in
late August 2005 and followed by an updated Web-en-
abled Version 5.2 model in October 2005.

In the Decision Support System and Phase views, users
can click within the view to further enlarge subsections
of elements on the chart. Once on the enlarged sections,
each element on the chart is linked to a template with re-
lated resources applicable to that particular element. Once
in any of the above partial views, there is a “you are here”
icon with red arrows that will allow a user to navigate to
adjoining views in order to see other areas.

(cid:129) Library View—provides an alphabetical listing of all el-
ement topics on the IFC, and each is hot-linked to the
template that is accessed from the corresponding graph-
ical view. Selecting this view allows the user to go di-
rectly to the information page for any specific term in
the IFC. This quick link is designed to allow easy access
to direct reference information while providing access
to the phases and processes. The user can then always
have access to the contextual relation of the term in
the IFC.

(cid:129) Back of Chart—takes users to a page-by-page view of
the information printed on the back of the IFC. This in-
formation includes a description of many of the
processes, references, and definitions involved in the
defense acquisition decision support systems depicted
on the front of the chart. The intent is to eventually
Web-enable (with appropriate links) the back in a man-
ner similar to the front of the chart.

(cid:129) Printable Version tab—launches the PDF files for either

the front or back of the IFC.

For those who are already familiar with the AT&L Inte-
grated Framework Chart, the various sections are also
hot-linked to the enlarged views directly from the image
on the home page of the site.

Templates
Selecting any element from the enlarged view will launch
a “template” (knowledge object) view inside the Acquisi-
tion Community Connection (ACC). Templates provide
users with applicable information on mandatory policy,
data from the Defense Acquisition Guidebook, related de-
finitions, links to other guides, available examples, avail-
able training materials, communities of practice, answers
to “Ask a Professor” questions, and more. One of the ad-
ditional items in each template is a link to a preset search
capability that leverages a concept-based search tool used
on the AKSS.

The template pages have been seeded with “Add my
Knowledge” links to knowledge resources, enabling mem-
bers of the ACC to suggest additional resources. Such con-
tributions, when approved, will show up on the bottom
of the appropriate template page. Detailed instructions
for suggesting contributions to the ACC can be found at
.

Bottom Line
The IFC is a knowledge tool for the DoD Acquisition Work-
force and defense industry acquisition managers. The
Web-enablement process is an attempt to make this
knowledge more comprehensible and accessible in an
easily maintained database. Users are invited to contribute
examples, best practices, references, presentations, re-
lated links, and other information on any IFC topic or
subtopic. Suggestions for enhancing the presentation or
corrections to any of the related knowledge objects should
be made to the Help Desk at issc@dau.mil or (703) 805-
3459.

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