Transforming System Engineering through Model-Centric Engineering

Abstract

The vision held by NAVAIR's leadership is to assess technical feasibility of radical transformation through a more holistic model-centric engineering approach. The expected capability of such an approach would enable mission-based analysis and engineering that reduces the typical time by at least 25 percent from what is achieved today for large-scale air vehicle systems. Research tasks were: surveying industry, government and academia to understand the state-of the-art of a holistic, model-centric engineering, develop a common lexicon model-centric engineering, model the Airworthiness processes, and integrate a risk management framework. While research suggests that it is technically feasible to create a holistic approach for conceiving innovative concepts and solutions enabled through model-centricity. Operational transformation is needed to coordinate efforts across multiple disciplines and multiple stakeholders. Findings explored with NAVAIR are: growth, complexity, and development of software; interoperability, consistency, and limitations of transforming model semantics; and validation of models.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 2015
Accession Number
ADA619736

Entities

People

  • Mark Blackburn

Organizations

  • Stevens Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Engineers
  • Information Science
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design