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concept of operations

Abbreviations / Acronyms / Synonyms:

CONOP
CONOPS
operational concept
security concept of operations

Definitions:

  See security concept of operations.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015

  Verbal and graphic statement, in broad outline, of an organization’s assumptions or intent in regard to an operation or series of operations of new, modified, or existing organizational systems.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-160v1r1 from ANSI/AIAA G-043B-2018

  Verbal and graphic statement of an organization’s assumptions or intent in regard to an operation or series of operations of a specific system or a related set of specific new, existing, or modified systems.
Sources:
NIST SP 800-160v1r1 under operational concept from ANSI/AIAA G-043B-2018