Acquisition Management for Systems-of-Systems: Risk Dynamics and Exploratory Model Experimentation

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) has placed a growing emphasis on the pursuit of agile capabilities via net-centric operations. The breadth of technological advancements in communication and sensing has generated exciting opportunities for battlefield systems to exploit collaboration to multiple effects. In this setting, systems able to interoperate along several dimensions increase the efficiency of the overall system-of-systems (SoS) manifold. However, the manner in which these system-of-systems are acquired (designed, developed, tested and fielded) hasn t completely kept pace with the shift in operational doctrine. In our current project, we have attempted to unravel the layers of complexities in an SoS acquisition program, outline an acquisition strategy better suited for such programs and develop an exploratory analysis tool to provide insights into the acquisition process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 03, 2011
Accession Number
ADA559970

Entities

People

  • Daniel Delaurentis

Organizations

  • Purdue University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Transportation
  • Aircrafts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Military Acquisition
  • Network Science
  • Probability
  • Public Administration
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Theoretical Analysis.