Use of commercial products for configuration management of military networks

There is a need for an automated architecture engineering tool to support advanced communication networking efforts. Agencies, such as the US Army's Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) and Program Executive Office Command, Control, and Communications Systems (PEO-C3S) have the requirement for a suite of applications to provide detailed diagramming, definition and analysis. Many COTS and GOTS products are available to perform some of the tasks required in analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing a network. Many tools which are graphically oriented for use in designing a network, do not provide the capability of automated analysis. While many other network analysis tools are not graphical or user-friendly, they lack the ability to store relevant "user" data. Some of the information to populate the network architectures exists in inventory databases but the data is not easily accessible and does not contain all the information required.