System Of Systems Engineering

Abstract

This project provides the Army's leadership and materiel developers with the necessary system of systems analysis defining engineering and architectural products to manage and shape the Army's materiel portfolio; to ensure Systems Engineering discipline across the Materiel developer community throughout the acquisition life cycle and grow the System Engineering capability within the Army through education, engineering policy, guidelines and adoption of best industry practices. Create an environment that empowers the Acquisition Community through an unsurpassed agile, collaborative, productive, lean and trusted information enterprise. This project establishes the capability to develop & deliver the architecture products that facilitate analysis & trades and provide timely relevant information to inform decision makers and guide the Army's efforts. This project provides for the development and implementation of a comprehensive set of system architectures & analysis results that can shape the Army's priorities and processes, and ensures that the analysis & architecture development capability across ASA (ALT) is cohesive within the Agile process. It provides for the overarching view of the Army's Reference System of Systems Architecture requirements and organizational responsibility, it provides for single authority within ASA (ALT) for Reference System Architecture oversight to manage governance and approvals of emerging designs, it also ensures the linkage of architecture products to events, processes, and customer requirements. It further establishes Reference Architectures for all Key components of the Network Architecture and all Army formations and installations, across time, that form the basis for representing and communicating the Army's programmed plan to Program Executive Officers / Program Managers (PEOs/PMs). It also enables trades and analyses that use these architecture data to support informed systems acquisition decisions across the life cycle. The data is organized in order to support views and analysis across organizational, portfolio, and budgeting bins. In early 2012 the U.S. Army ASA(ALT) formally unveiled its Common Operating Environment (COE) Implementation Plan designed to help industry partners and Army program managers by offering an approved set of network standards, processes and products, designed to enable them to quickly and efficiently develop and field interoperable software capabilities. The plan helps establishes and makes public Army Network technical standards, which any sized vendor can understand, internalize and build towards. This will help increase competition and help lower software and hardware integration burden and costs. The implementation plan is a living document that will remain flexible as the Army continues to evolve its network standards and fielding methods. The Army will continuously seek industry and service input as they transition to the COE. This project provides for technical support to oversee the execution of the COE Implementation plan, COE Orchestration, Verification and Validation (V&V), and Governance. It also provides for the development and execution of COE integration policies and procedures, the development and implementation of backwards capability testing, integration checklists and their verification, test hardware development and implementation support. Provides for COE architecture validation, design baseline validation, and the verification of COE reference architecture compliance. Provides for the accreditation, certification and refinement of test plans and events.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
• Source ID: DU9_0604798A_5_2040_PB_2015

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Software Engineering.