Themes Of The 11th Annual Ndia Se Conference [Van Zandt, October 2008]

Themes and Observations of the

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18 November 2008 NDIA SE Themes--VanZandt--Predictable Response 2

 Welcome to your Colorado INCOSE Chapter
Meeting
 Your Speaker tonight:
 Lonnie VanZandt, Colorado INCOSE Technical Program
Director, 20 years Software and Systems Engineering,
Consulting Systems Engineer,
Predictable Response Consulting, LLC
 Our topic tonight:
 Themes and Observations from the NDIA’s 11th Annual
SE Conference

 San Diego, CA (Hyatt Regency, Mission Bay)
 Founded 1769
 17th largest US Metro Region (3,146,274)
 Economies of Defense, Manufacturing, Tourism
 World’s Largest Naval Fleet
 World’s Top Bio-Tech Cluster
 Major Defense Contractors
 Mediterranean Climate
(~17⁰ C Daily)

 National Defense Industrial Association
 Non-profit
 1470 Corporate Members
 62000 Individual Members
 70-80 Events per Year
 Divisions
 Armaments; Ballistics; Bomb & Warhead; Chemical Biological Defense;
Combat Survivability; Combat Vehicles; Command, Control,
Communications, Computers; Surveillance; Intelligence and Reconnaissance;
Environment and Energy; Expeditionary Warfare; Government Policy
Advisory; Health Affairs; Homeland Security; International; Legislative
Information; Logistics; Manufacturing; Missile Defense; Munitions;
Procurement; Robotics; Science and Engineering Technology; Small
Business; Space; Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict; STEM Workforce;
Strike, Land Attack, and Air Defense; Systems Engineering; Tactical Wheeled
Vehicles; Targets, UAVs, & Range Operations; Technical Information; Test and
Evaluation; Undersea Warfare


 Committees
 Automatic Test Committee; Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Project; CMMI Working
Group; Developmental Test & Evaluation Committee; Education & Training Committee; Engineering in
Manufacturing; Enterprise Health Management Committee; Government Steering Committee;
Interoperability Committee; Life Cycle Support Committee; Modeling & Simulation Committee; Quality
Assurance Committee; Software Experts Panel; Steering Committee; Systems Assurance Committee;
Systems Engineering Effectiveness Committee; Systems Safety Committee
 Mission
 To promote the widespread use of Systems Engineering in the DoD acquisition process in order to
achieve affordable and supportable weapon systems that meet the needs of the military users
 and to provide a forum for the open exchange between government and industry to trade ideas and
concepts
 and develop a new understanding of a streamlined process.
 Affiliates
 Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)
 American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics (AIAA)
 International Council of Systems Engineering (INCOSE)
 Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
 National Training Systems Association (NTSA)
 SAE International


bdd [Package] Conference Structure [Composition of the Conference]
400..500 «block»
«block»
«block» 3 Attendee
«block» NDIA SE Conference attendees
Sponsor
Theme sponsors
«block»
14
Vendor
1..* exhibitors
abstracted themes

8 tutorials 14 tracks 2 keynotes 1 plenaries 1 panels 4 luncheons
«block» «block» «block» «block» «block» «block»
Tutorial Track Keynote Plenary Panel Lunch

related topics * * 1..3 * * * * *
1..* 1..* topics 0..1 events
1..* 4..16 sessions
«block» 1..* * «block»
topics Topic «block» Lunch Event
topics Session
luminaries
1..* topics 1..* topics 1 3 panelists
luminaries 2 * *
1 «block»
speakers 0..2 Speaker 1..4
speakers
1 instructors

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 ~450
 ~150 in Tutorials
 Organizations
516 Aeronautical Systems Group of Southern California JOG Systems Engineering Paul L. Howard Enterprises University of Alabama
Advanced Automation Corporation Computer Sciences Corporation Johns Hopkins University PEO C4I University of Idaho
Advanced Automation Corporation Daimler AG Joint Mission Environment Test Capability PEO CUI Front Office University of Missouri
Advantage Development, Inc. DCMA L-3 Communications PEO LMW US Army Aberdeen Test Center
Aegis Technologies Group, Inc. Decisive Analytics Corporation Lean Solutions Institute, Inc. Performance Based Earned Value US Army Armament Research and
AFIT/SAY Defense Acquisition University Lockheed Martin Predictable Response Consulting, LLC Development Engineering Center
AFRL/XP Defense Contract Management Agency M2 Technologies, Inc. Project Performance International US Army Element, Assembled Chemical
Air Armament Center Defense Group, Inc. ManTech Corporation QinetiQ Weapons Alternatives
Air Force Center for Systems Engineering Defense Threat Reduction Agency MHS Rand Corporation US Army PEO Aviation
Air Force Human Systems Integration Office DRS Technologies, Inc. Missile Defense Agency Raytheon Corporation US Army PEO STRI
Air Force Institute of Technology Dynamics Research Corporation Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. RJS Consulting US Army RDECOM-TARDEC
Air Force Research Laboratory Embassy of Korea MSE Technology Applications, Inc. Rockwell Collins US Army Topographic Engineering Center
Alion Science and Technology Ensco NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory SAF/AQ US General Accounting Office
American Systems Corporation Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense NASA Johnson Space Center SAF/AQRE VisiTech, Ltd.
Army Research Lab Forbes Analytic Software, Inc. National Reconnaissance Office Sandia National Laboratories Vitech Corporation
ASC Engineering Directorate Fraunhofer Center National Security Agency Science Applications International
ASC/AQ Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental NAVAIR Corporation
ASC/EN Software Naval EOD Technology Division SCRA
ASELSAN, Inc. General Dynamics Naval Facilities Engineering Command Silver Bullet Solutions, Inc.
ASSETT, Inc. Georgia Tech Research Institute Southwest Software Engineering Institute
ATA Hamilton Sundstrand Naval Ordnance Safety and Security SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston - Naval
Avista, Inc. Harris Corporation Naval Postgraduate School Weapons Station
BAE Systems High Performance Technologies, Inc. Naval Sea Systems Command SRS Technologies
Boeing HQ AFMC/A4UE Naval Surface Warfare Center Stevens Institute of Technology
Booz Allen Hamilton HQ AFMC/ENS Naval Undersea Warfare Center - Newport Surface Combat Systems Center
Boss Logic Inc. HQ USAF, Planning Division Naval Weapons Center SURVICE Engineering Company
Bucknell University IBM NEC Systems and Proposal Engineering Company
C3I Systems Corporation ILuMinA Solutions, Inc. Northrop Grumman Tactronics
California Institute of Technology INCOSE Novonics Corporation Technical Software Services, Inc.
California State University Institute for Defense Analyses NUWC Div Newport THALES Raytheon Systems
Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering Integrated Systems Diagnostics, Inc. Office of the Secretary of Defense The Aerospace Corporation
Center for Naval Analyses IS International Oracle Corporation The Force, Inc.
Center for Software Engineering - University Jacobs Sverdrup Parsons Unified Cryptologic Architecture


 Plenary
 Kristen Baldwin, Deputy Director, Software Engineering & System
Assurance, Office of the Secretary of Defense
 Keynotes
 Hon Charles McQueary, Director Operational Test and Evaluation
 Gen Lester Lyles, USAF (retired)
 Panel
 Carl Seil, Chief Engineer, Research, Development, and Acquisition,
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
 Terry Jaggers, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Science, Technology, and
Engineering, USAF
 Ross Guckert, Assistant Deputy, Acquisition & Systems Integration
Assistant Secretary of the Army (ASA) Acquisition, Logistics, and
Technology (ALT)


 Effects Management Tool (EMT)
 Department of the Army
 Raytheon
 MH-60R/S Link 16 Full Scale Integration
 Department of the Navy
 Lockheed Martin Systems Integration Owego
 Mortar Fire Control System Dismounted (MFCS-D)
 Department of the Army
 ARDEC
 Honeywell, Inc.


 Systems Engineering Effectiveness
 Test & Evaluation in Systems Engineering
 Program Management
 System Safety – ESOH and HSI
 Modeling and Simulation
 Net-centric Operations
 Requirements and Development Management
 Software
 Best Practices and Standardization
 Logistics, Supportability, and Sustainment
 Practical Systems Engineering Experience
 Education and Training
 Enterprise Health Management
 Architecture


 Introduction to SysML™ and OOSEM™
 Dr. Abe Meilich, Lockheed Martin
 Unified Life Cycle Modeling
 Dr. Peter Hantos, Aerospace Corporation
 Development and Configuration Management of Requirements
 Mr. Al Florence, MITRE
 Introduction to the Capability Test Methodology
 Lt. Col. Jay Gendron, OSD/JTEM
 Joint Mission Environment Test Capability
 Mr. Ryan Norman, JMETC
 Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures
 Mr. Donald Firesmith, Software Engineering Institute
 Gap Analysis and Its Conceptual Foundations
 Mr. Gary Langford, Naval Postgraduate School
 Early Verification
 Mr. Stephen Scukanec, Northrop Grumman


 Artisan Software Tools
 Defense Acquisition University
 Lean Solutions Institute
 Naval Air Warfare Center
 Project Performance International
 Stevens Institute of Technology
 Systems Technology Institute
 Vitech

 Concept of Operations
 Crises in Systems Engineering
 Methodologies
 Requirements Engineering Best Practices


Consultants

Military Services
Mandator

Systems
Engineers

Solution Providers

Big Honkin’ Binder Processes
Academia [DoD 5000.2]

 Need to Return to Abandoned Early Engineering
 Case Studies on Lack of Adequate SE
 Human Capital Shortages
 Need to Replace Greybeards
 Need to Teach SE Concepts
 Human System Integration
 MANPRINT Mandate
 Consequences of Forgetting the Human


 DoD Systems Engineering University Affiliated
Research Center (UARC)
 Hundreds of Millions USD to public and military
Academic institutions to recruit, train, and retain SE
Experts
 Defense Acquisition Transformation Report 804
to Congress
 Finley et al, March 2008.
 http://www.acq.osd.mil/at/docs/804_defense_acquisitio
n_transformation_report_mar_2008.pdf


 DoD 5000 (Defense Acquisition)
 Early SE Pre-Milestone B
 Architecture Frameworks
 Various Non-standard Proposals


 Benefits of Architectures versus Pure Solutions
 See numerous…
 Operational Concepts
 See Van Gaas Beek presentations
 Information Interchange Formats, Frequency, and
Fineness
 See numerous…
 DoDAF and UPDM Status Updates
 See Okon presentation


 Operational Concepts
 See Van Gaas Beek presentations
 Applicable Standards
 See Van Gaas Beek presentation
 Good, Lean Requirements
 See Olson presentations
 Verification Requirements
 See Scukanec tutorial
 Systems Engineering Case Studies
 See Garland presentation
 Consequences of Poor Requirements
 See Robert Parrish presentation


 Both Peers in the Promotion of Systems Engineering
 NDIA has ~80 years more History
 NDIA has ~10 times more Members
 NDIA has a clear and intentional US bias
 NDIA has a clear and intentional DoD agenda
 INCOSE strives to be International
 INCOSE strives to relate to multiple Domains
 INCOSE interacts more with the local and individual
engineer


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