NAF is composed of a set of deliverables, called views, which address different parts of an enterprise architecture. These views are grouped into subviews. Subviews that focus on the same perspective are placed in the same view.

NAF organizes architectures into seven different views.

Each view portrays certain architecture features. Some features span several views and provide integrity, coherence, and consistency to architecture descriptions.

Here are the definitions of these views as outlined in the NATO Architecture Framework volume 3 document.

There are some overarching aspects of architecture that relate to all seven views.

These overarching aspects are captured in the All-Views (NAV) subviews. The NAV

subviews provide information pertinent to the entire architecture, but do not represent a distinct view of the architecture. NAV subviews set the scope and context of the architecture. The scope includes the subject area and time-frame for the architecture.

The setting in which the architecture exists comprises the interrelated conditions that compose the context for the architecture. These conditions include:

The NATO Capability View (NCV) supports the process of analyzing and optimizing the delivery of military capabilities in line with NATO's strategic intent. The NCV achieves this by capturing essential elements of NATO's strategic vision and concepts and NATO's capability planning process, and decomposing this data into a

capability taxonomy. The taxonomy is augmented with schedule data and measures

of effectiveness to enable the analysis of capability gaps and overlaps. The NCV further details the dependencies between military capabilities, enabling capability options to be built in a more coherent manner and effective trade-offs to be conducted across NATO common funded programs.

The NATO Operational View (NOV) is a description of the tasks and activities, operational elements, and information exchanges required to accomplish NATO missions. NATO missions include both war-fighting missions and business processes. The NOV contains graphical and textual content that comprise an identification of the operational nodes and elements, assigned tasks and activities, and information flows required between nodes. It defines the types of information exchanged, the frequency of exchange, which tasks and activities are supported by the information exchanges, and the nature of information exchanges.

The NATO Service-Oriented View (NSOV) supports building architectures based on the concept of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), which is fundamental to the NNEC paradigm. The NSOV is a description of services needed to directly support the operational domain as described in the NATO Operational View. A service, within the NSOV, is understood in its broadest sense, as a unit of work through which a

provider provides a useful result to a consumer. NSOV focuses strictly on identifying

and describing services. The view also supports the description of service taxonomies, service orchestrations, a mapping of services to operational activities,

and a description of service behavior.

The NATO Systems View (NSV) is a set of graphical and textual subviews that describes systems and system interconnections providing for, or supporting, NATO functions. NATO functions include both war-fighting and business functions. The NSV associates system resources to the NOV. These system resources support the operational activities and facilitate the exchange of information among operational nodes. Note that systems providing services can be pure technical systems as documented in the systems view only or a combination of technical and operational elements that is documented with a combination of an operational node and one or several associated system nodes. A logical system providing services is documented in the service-oriented view only.

The NATO Technical View (NTV) is the minimal set of rules governing the arrangement, interaction, and interdependence of system parts or elements. Its purpose is to ensure that a system satisfies a specified set of operational requirements. The NTV provides the technical systems implementation guidelines upon which engineering specifications are based, common building blocks are established, and product lines are developed. The NTV includes a collection of the technical standards, implementation conventions, standards options, rules, and criteria organized into profile(s) that govern systems and system elements for a given architecture.

Programme Views (NPV) describe the relationships between NATO capability requirements and the various programs and projects being implemented. They provide programmatic details and highlight the dependencies between capability management and the NATO acquisition process.

This information can be further leveraged to show the impact of acquisition decisions on the architecture.