Project

Objectives: To create an initial prototype to demonstrate a cohesive and easy to use collaborative concept engineering system applicable within the Department of Defense(DoD) acquisition domain.

Approach: This work was performed in two stages:

• The first stage was the development of standalone applications, to validate the conceptual and architectural approach of each interface separately.
• The second was to merge the various standalones into one umbrella executable.

This is a proof-of-concept research task – that implies that the software must perform within a relatively flexible set of criteria; it is not a production system. Of necessity, major error-handling is not a factor in our evaluation of preparedness, but reasonable error-handling and performance issues are addressed.
This research pursued the a proof of concept prototype dubbed the “CONOPS Navigator”. This prototype provides a 3D virtual guide intended to assist one assigned to CONOPS development, through the setup of individual analysis tools. Further exploration would be toward an integrated set of data modeling tools, able to seamlessly transfer data from one application to another via the CONOPS Navigator main lobby. This task focused solely on the initial stages of data exchange and manipulations between various standalone applications, including Excel, @Risk, and MATLAB. OneSAF was evaluated but not implemented in this task.

• SERC-2009-TR-003-1-Investigation of a Graphical CONOPS Development Environment for Agile Systems Engineering
• SERC-2010-TR-007-1-Investigation of a Graphical CONOPS Development Environment for Agile Systems Engineering – Phase II
• SERC-2012-TR-030-1-Prototype of a Graphical CONOPS (Concept of Operations) Development Environment for Agile Systems Engineering
• SERC-2013-TR-030-2-Prototype of a Graphical CONOPS (Concept of Operations) Development Environment for Agile Systems Engineering
• SERC-2012-TR-031-1-Graphical CONOPS Prototype to Demonstrate Emerging Methods, Processes, and Tools at ARDEC
• SERC-2013-TR-031-2-Graphical CONOPS Prototype to Demonstrate Emerging Methods, Processes, and Tools at ARDEC