NOV-3 Operational Information Requirements
NOV-3:
• details information exchanges
• identifies who exchanges information,
• what information is exchanged,
• why the information is necessary,
• how the information exchange must occur.
There is no one-to-one mapping of NOV-3 information exchanges to NOV-2 needlines/interactions; rather, many individual information exchanges may be associated with one needline.
Information exchanges express the relationship across the three basic architecture data elements of an NOV subview (operational activities, operational nodes, and information flow) with a focus on the specific aspects of the information flow and the information content.
Certain aspects of the information exchange can be crucial to the operational mission and should be tracked as attributes in NOV-3.
For example, if the subject architecture concerns tactical battlefield targeting, the timeliness of the enemy target information is a significant attribute of the information exchange.
Object Types used in the NOV-3
The NOV-3 is about contents.
A content designates the content of a message flow or message, independently of its structure. A content may be used by several message flows or messages, since it is not associated with a sender or with a recipient.You may create contents in the NOV-3 folder before creating the structure diagram.
For more information about the usage of contents in a structure diagram, see Creating Operational Node Structure Diagrams.