A Systems Engineering Process Supporting the Development of Operational Requirements Driven Federations

Abstract

This paper proposes a systems engineering process utilizing the conceptual artifacts of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) describing platform independent views of models to capture operational requirements, to derive essential tasks, and to combine these tasks into scenarios and vignettes with attributed metrics. This model-independent mission description is then used to identify supporting simulation services that implement the identified military means and capabilities to perform the tasks in the given context. Once the services are identified, the necessary simulation middleware to federate the services is identified and the interfaces are configured using the technical artifacts of the MDA describing platform specific views of systems. This systems engineering process provided support for simulation development for the US Army's Program Executive Office-Soldier.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA573236

Entities

People

  • Andreas Tolk
  • Robert H. Kewley
  • Thomas G. Litwin

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artifacts
  • Command And Control
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Middleware
  • Military Operations
  • Platforms
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering.