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This paper describes how to use a positive deviance-inspired process for improving the practice of systems engineering, and how positive deviance fits into an evolutionary improvement strategy. It illustrates the process with examples from both systems engineering and cases studies outside of systems engineering. In particular we cite the experience of the team that authored the DoD systems engineering...
The systems engineering research center university affiliated research center (SERC-UARC) at Stevens Institute has been tasked to evaluate the effectiveness of the systems and software engineering processes, methods and tools (MPTs) used in US department of defense acquisition and development programs. This paper presents the selection and evaluation process, describes its evolution based on changing...
As private industry and the department of defense (DoD) move toward enterprise architectures (EA), CIOs have been lauding service oriented architecture (SOA) as the approach to meet enterprise needs. It is clear that SOA addresses many challenges that face the DoD from information sharing to the fiscal issues of maintaining an IT infrastructure (networks, routers, desktops, peripherals, technology...
The US Department of Defense is facing challenges in the successful acquisition of major defense systems. Systems engineering applied early in the acquisition process has been recognized as a key enabler of acquisition success. This paper presents recent experience with applying a systems approach to the defense acquisition system through the application of business process modeling, with a focus...
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is pursuing a systems philosophy known as net-centricity in an effort to address the rapidly changing nature of military actions across the globe. This philosophy leads to an enterprise consisting of increasingly complex interrelated systems. Numerous failures as well as dramatic cost and schedule overruns on these programs may be symptomatic of the failure...
System of Systems Engineering (SoSE) and Family of Systems Engineering (FoSE) continue to be two of the least well-understood SE disciplines. Knowledge of the SE standards, the V-Model, and particularly the 3-dimensional dual-V model, significantly aid this understanding, including the relationship between SE, SoSE, and FoSE. The goals of this paper are to: 1) define SoS, SoSE, and FoSE from an SE...
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