To support NESDIS' goal to develop ground system capabilities to serve current and future geostationary and polar satellite missions through incremental upgrades and consolidation of functionality, the GOES-R system requirements have been developed to be compatible with in-development NESDIS architectural concepts and ‘to be' architectures. These requirements were based on a GOES-R architectural framework that looked to identify elements of mission management, product generation, product distribution, and enterprise management that were consistent with the NESDIS architecture. This presentation provides an overview of the GOES-R architectural framework and describes how the NESDIS architecture concepts were used.