The Services Viewpoint (SvcV) describes services and their interconnections that provide or support DoD functions. The viewpoint also supports the description of service taxonomies, service orchestrations, a mapping of services to operational activities and a description of service behavior.

The Service Models associate service resources to the operational and capability requirements. These resources support the operational activities and facilitate the exchange of information. The relationship between architectural data elements across the Services Viewpoint to the Operational Viewpoint and Capability Viewpoint can be exemplified as services are procured and fielded to support the operations and capabilities of organizations.

A service within the SvcV is understood in its broadest sense, to be a unit of work through which a provider provides a useful result to a consumer. Services are not limited to internal system functions and can include Human Computer Interface (HCI) and Graphical User Interface (GUI) functions or functions that consume or produce service data to or from service functions. The external service data providers and consumers can be used to represent the human that interacts with the service.