Fast growing COTS support of converging Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Modeling (BPM) standards provide the DOD with an excellent opportunity to improve its process to develop integrated operational and system architectures for net centric warfare capabilities. Mission threads, widely identified as a desirable method to capture DOD acquisition requirements, modeled in a machine-executable form, can validate and verify (V&V) operational performance early in the acquisition process. Available cost effective COTS solutions automate the integration of executable mission models providing agility and speed to that V&V process. This enables mission thread collaborative development, successive simultaneous refinements (by various stakeholders), and early simulation based verifications of innovative information flow strategies, which are now implementable via Global Information Grid (GIG) capabilities.