All research within the SERC is conducted with an objective of having a significant positive impact on the national security of the United States. Thus, it is critical that SERC research is transitioned into practice. The impact of the SERC continues to grow through our collaboration with a number of FFRDCs, National Laboratories, and DoD Industry. To further support this process of transitioning research into practice, this report highlights completed or on-going research tasks that are at a point of maturity necessary to support such a transition. SERC research faculty have published over 300 technical papers and reports over the past eight years and transitioned the research into numerous courses across the SERC universities and beyond. This is the first edition of the Transition Report, with the objective to make it a yearly initiative. We encourage organizations to review the research tasks highlighted, and to contact us if we can assist in the necessary discussion and engagement to support the transition of relevant research into practice.
Archives for January 2018
INCOSE “Insight” September Edition, Highlighting SERC, Available for Limited Time
INCOSE and publisher John Wiley & Sons are offering the online issue free of charge to all until March 31, 2018: INCOSE INSIGHT 20(3), September 2017. This issue will continue to be available to INCOSE members beyond this date.
The special feature brings together six articles from INCOSE symposia papers, two SERC-based articles first published by INSIGHT in 2016, a fellows column, book review, and an op-ed. The articles offer a range of perspectives on systems engineering research and innovation from many of our very own SERC researchers and research council members:
- A Complete Set of Systems Thinking Skills, Ross D. Arnold and Jon P. Wade
- An Initial Ontology for System Qualities, Barry Boehm and Nupul Kukreja
- Semantically Enabled Model-Based Systems: Engineering of Safety-Critical Network of Systems, Leonard Petnga, Mark Austin, and Mark Blackburn
- A Vision for Human-Model Interaction in Interactive Model-Centric Systems Engineering, Donna H. Rhodes and Adam M. Ross
- Bringing Operational Perspectives into the Analysis of Engineered Resilient Systems, Valerie B. Sitterle, Erika L. Brimhall,Dane F. Freeman, Santiago Balestrini-Robinson, Tommer R. Ender, and Simon R. Goerger
- Systems Engineering Simulation Experience Design: Infrastructure, Process, and Application, Richard Turner, Douglas Bodner, Duncan Kemp, Yvette Rodriguez, Jon Wade, and Peizhu Zhang
- System-Aware Cyber Security: A Systems Engineering Approach for Enhancing Cyber Security, Barry M. Horowitz and D. Scott Lucero
- An SoS Analytical Workbench Approach to Architectural Analysis and Evolution, Daniel DeLaurentis, Navindran Davendralingam, Karen Marais, Cesare Guariniello, Zhemei Fang, and Payuna Uday
- Irrationality in Decision Making: A Systems Engineering Perspective, Scott Jackson
- On Defining Agile Systems Engineering, Rick Dove
Special thank you again to INCOSE, Insight Editor-in-Chief, William Miller, and Wiley for providing free access through March 31, 2018: INCOSE INSIGHT 20(3), September 2017.
SoSECIE 2018 Schedule Released
The System of Systems Engineering Collaborators Information Exchange (SoSECIE) schedule for 2018 is now available. SoSECIE is a web-based seminar series organized by the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (SE) and the National Defense Industrial Association’s SoS Engineering Committee. The goal of this series is to provide guidance, education and training for System-of-Systems and dissemination of engineering best practices.
- January 9, 2018 – Dr. Judith Dahmann
System of Systems Engineering (SoS) Technical Approaches As Applied to Mission Engineering - January 30, 2018 – Mr. Garry Roedler, Lockheed Martin and Dr. Judith Dahmann
Developing Standards for Systems of Systems (SoS) Engineering - February 6, 2018 – Dr. Mohamad Gharib
A Conceptual Model for Analyzing Information Quality in Systems of Systems - February 27, 2018 – Mr. Andrew Battigaglia, Ms. Erika Brimhall, and Mr. Terry Ogle
Conceptual Data Modeling for the Functional Decomposition of Mission Capabilities - March 6, 2018 – Dr. Stephen J. Clement
The Internet of Simulation: Enabling Agile Model Based Systems Engineering for Cyber-Physical Systems - March 20, 2018 – Dr. Kristin Giammarco
Practical Modeling Concepts for Engineering Emergence in Systems of Systems (SoS) - April 3, 2018 – Mr. Matthew Hause
Using MBSE to Evaluate and Protect the Electrical Grid as a System of Systems(SoS) - May 1, 2018 -Mr. Reggie Cole
Data Dependency Network Analysis in Systems of Systems - May 15, 2018 – Dr. Léonard Petnga
Semantically Enabled Model-Based Systems Engineering of Safety-Critical Network of Systems - June 26, 2018 – Mr. Tom McDermott and Ms. Molly Nadolski
Emergence as Innovation in Systems of Systems: A Three Systems Model - July 31, 2018 – Dr. Tod M. Schuck and Dr. James C. Kilian
Trends in Large Scale Systems-of-Systems for Multi-National Missile Defense - August 21, 2018 –Mr. John Quartuccio
Identifying Decision Patterns Using Monterey Phoenix - October 16, 2018 -MAJ Stephen Gillespie
System of Systems Architecture Feasibility Analysis to Support Tradespace Exploration - November 6, 2018 -Mr. Francis McCafferty
Model-Based Systems of Systems Engineering
All webinars are held via Defense Collaboration Services (DCS) on Tuesdays from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time. To receive log-in information, send an e-mail to osd.atl.asd-re.se@mail.mil and ask to be added to the SoSECIE mailing list. For more information and to view the webinar archive, visit: https://www.acq.osd.mil/se/outreach/sosecollab.html. Contact the SoSECIE Webinar Coordinator if you wish to suggest a topic or speaker for a future webinar.