RT2 Modular Documents: A/Stevens/Modular Reconfigurable Architecture for Tailored Rapid SE Artifact ...

Abstract

As projects become increasingly complex, the need for good systems engineering is paramount. Part of systems engineering is documentation of past events, current activities, and future plans of software, hardware, and technical management. Documentation of the program s technical plans can require significant effort to keep current and to keep the content synchronized in an environment where change is constant. Add to this issue the fact that many documents have overlapping information and you have additional complications. This often results in the documents becoming obsolete relative to fast moving development activities and can create inconsistencies across the project. The objective of this research was to investigate the ability to align systems engineering (SE) documents such that the program documents track and complement one another, are easier to produce and update, support agile environments, and move towards a data centric rather than document centric focus. The documents that were evaluated for this task were the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP), Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), and the Information Support Plan (ISP). The tool utilized to assist in this research work was the Systems Engineering Toolkit (SET) developed by the Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center (RSESC) at the University of Alabama Huntsville.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA549227

Entities

People

  • Dawn Sabados
  • Julie Fortune
  • Lance Warden
  • Phillip Alldredge
  • Stas Tarchalski
  • Sue O'brien

Organizations

  • Systems Engineering Research Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artifacts
  • Commonality
  • Complex Systems
  • Configuration Management
  • Consistency
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Guidance
  • Military Acquisition
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.