Systems Engineering
Abstract
Project P142 activities include the following functions: • Support acceleration of USD(R&E)’s modernization initiatives and Assistant Directors’ Science and Technology (S&T) roadmap investments; support mission based prototype projects to guide resource investments. • Develop government reference architectures; establish enduring mission engineering analytic capability. • Review the systems engineering plans (SEPs) and activities for major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs) under OSD purview and alternate pathway programs to ensure they are adequate to support fielding and the achievement of cost, schedule and performance goals to include readiness, i.e. producibility, reliability, maintainability, sustainment, and other considerations. • Conceive plans and lead independent technical risk assessments and command directed technical assessments of MDAP under OSD purview and alternate pathway programs to shape technical planning and management to ensure program success. • Provide risk assessments to support the development of cost, schedule, and performance targets required by U.S.C. 10 Sec 2448a. • Conduct other technical reviews as requested, such as Nunn-McCurdy certification reviews, Non-Advocate Reviews, focused technical assessments, and software readiness reviews to identify and mitigate program risk. • Participate in mission engineering activities by providing functional and program specific engineering expertise to support joint mission level analysis. • Develop and establish DoD-level policy, guidance, and workforce development efforts ensuring systems engineering rigor in acquisition to drive the development of fully capable and supportable weapons systems. • Oversee Service and other Component organizations implementation of engineering initiatives and approve or conduct independent assessments. Advance the principles of interoperability, integration, modularity, and open systems to improve requirements, architecture, design, development and overall acquisition and sustainment of weapon systems. • Develop education and training materials for instructing, maintaining, and enhancing the defense acquisition workforce. Activities include: (1) developing guidance to enhance Engineering (ENG), Production Quality and Manufacturing (PQM) and Test and Evaluation (T&E) acquisition career planning and progression; and (2) monitoring, and facilitating Defense Acquisition University (DAU) updates to the systems engineering, quality and specialty engineering courses, to ensure the curriculum represents the education and training requirements necessary to be a viable team member in the acquisition process. • Improve the DoD’s capabilities in specialty engineering and software engineering through policy, program oversight, fostering practice and technology improvements, initiating long-term strategic improvements, and collaborating with industry. • Advance DoD engineering practices through the development and use of methods, processes, and tools, such as digital engineering, modeling and simulation, and model-based systems engineering, for engineering on weapon systems. • Serve as the Defense Standardization Executive and oversee the Defense Standardization Program. • Guide Service and other component organizations in the development planning process to ensure proposed MDAP programs are executable within acceptable levels of risk. • Resolve long-term major systems engineering challenges such as systems of systems (SoS) systems engineering, systems engineering of complex systems, and pre-program formulation systems engineering tradeoff analysis. • Integrates high fidelity, physics-based modeling with advanced analytic tools to enable rapid design and analysis of current and future weapon systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 142_0605142D8Z_6_0400_PB_2021
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