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  1. OMG Issue

UAF14 — ForceDesignation literals are unusuable without customization in UAF v1.3

  • Key: UAF14-225
  • Status: open   Implementation work Blocked
  • Source: RTX ( Mr. Sam Biller)
  • Summary:

    OpposableElement.designation is typed by DesignationKind (an Enumeration) instead of allowing selection of ForceDesignation literals, rendering the force-affiliation use case unusable in descriptive architectures.

    Problem
    Because the type of the designation property is DesignationKind (i.e., the enumeration type), a conforming tool (e.g., Cameo 2026x) correctly treats the legal values as instances of DesignationKind (enumerations such as ForceDesignation), not the enumeration literals of ForceDesignation.
    Consequently:

    Modelers cannot select RedForce / BlueForce / etc. via the normative tag.
    Assigning the enumeration ForceDesignation itself conveys no force-affiliation information useful for descriptive architecture, analysis, color-coding, filtering, or querying.
    The primary practical use case for force designation on Operational Performers (and other OpposableElements) is therefore unsupported by the normative profile.

    This creates a significant usability and semantic gap for Mission Engineering and operational architecture models that rely on force affiliation (Blue/Red/White/etc.) as a first-class descriptive property.

  • Reported: UAF 1.3 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:27 GMT
  • Updated: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:25 GMT