Systems Engineering for the Digital Age

Dinesh Verma is the Executive Director of the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), the first University Affiliated Research Center established by the DoD for Systems Engineering Research. He is also a Professor in Systems Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology as well as the Scientific Advisor to the Director of the Embedded Systems Institute in Eindhoven, Holland. He is a Fellow of INCOSE and Senior Member of SOLE.

List of Contributors xxv

Preface xxix

Acknowledgment xxxi

Acronyms xxxiii

About the Companion Website xlv

Part I Transforming Engineering Through Digital and Model-Based Methods 1
Mark Blackburn

1 Fundamentals of Digital Engineering 3
Mark R. Blackburn and Timothy D. West

2 Mission and Systems Engineering Methods 25
Benjamin Kruse, Brian Chell, Timothy D. West, and Mark R. Blackburn

3 Transforming Systems Engineering Through Integrating Modeling and Simulation and the Digital Thread 47
Daniel Dunbar, Tom Hagedorn, Timothy D. West, Brian Chell, John Dzielski, and Mark R. Blackburn

4 Digital Engineering Visualization Technologies and Techniques 69
Brian Chell, Tom Hagedorn, Roger Jones, and Mark R. Blackburn

5 Interactive Model-Centric Systems Engineering 91
Donna H. Rhodes and Adam M. Ross

Part II Executing Digital Engineering 111
Jon Wade

6 Systems Engineering Transformation Through Digital Engineering 113
Jon Wade

7 Measuring Systems Engineering Progress Using Digital Engineering 137
Tom McDermott, Kaitlin Henderson, Eileen Van Aken, Alejandro Salado, and Joseph Bradley

8 Digital Engineering Implications on Decision-Making Processes 149
Samuel Kovacic, Mustafa Canan, Jiang Li, and Andres Sousa-Poza

9 Expedited Systems Engineering for Rapid Capability 175
John M. Colombi

10 Scaling Agile Principles to an Enterprise 201
Michael Orosz, Brian Duffy, Craig Charlton, Hector Saunders, and Michael Shih

11 System Behavior Specification Verification and Validation (V&V) 219
Kristin Giammarco

12 Digital Engineering Transformation: A Case Study 241
Cesare Guariniello, Waterloo Tsutsui, Dalia Bekdache, and Dan DeLaurenits

Part III Tradespace Analysis in a Digital Engineering Ecosystem -- Context and Implications 267
Val Sitterle

13 A Landscape of Trades: The Importance of Process, Ilities, and Practice 269
Valerie B. Sitterle and Gary Witus

14 Architecting a Tradespace Analysis Framework in a Digital Engineering Environment 293
Daniel Browne, Santiago Balestrini-Robinson, and David Fullmer

15 Set-Based Design: Foundations for Practice 317
Shawn Dullen and Dinesh Verma

16 Exploiting Formal Modeling in Resilient System Design: Key Concepts, Current Practice, and Innovative Approach 339
Azad M. Madni and Michael Sievers

17 Augmented Intelligence: A Human Productivity and Performance Amplifier in Systems Engineering and Engineered Human--Machine Systems 375
Azad M. Madni

Part IV Evaluating and Improving System Risk 393
Nicole Hutchison

18 Complexity and Risk in Systems Engineering 395
Roshanak R. Nilchiani

19 Technical Debt in the Engineering of Complex Systems 419
Ye Yang and Dinesh Verma

20 Risk and System Maturity: TRLs and SRLs in Risk Management 435
Brian Sauser

21 Managing Risk 463
Michael Orosz

Part V Model-Based Design of Safety, Security, and Resilience Systems 471
Tom McDermott

22 Concepts of Trust and Resilience in Cyber-Physical Systems 473
Thomas McDermott, Megan M. Clifford, and Valerie B. Sitterle

23 Introduction to STPA-Sec 489
Cody Fleming

24 The "Mission Aware" Concept for Design of Cyber-Resilience 507
Peter A. Beling, Megan M. Clifford, Tim Sherburne, Tom McDermott, and Barry M. Horowitz

25 The "FOREST" Concept and Meta-Model for Lifecycle Evaluation of Resilience 523
Tim Sherburne, Megan M. Clifford, Barry M. Horowitiz, Tom McDermott, and Peter A. Beling

26 The Cyber Security Requirements Methodology and Meta-Model for Design of Cyber-Resilience 539
Tim Sherburne, Megan M. Clifford, Barry M. Horowitz, and Peter A. Beling

27 Implementation Example: Silverfish 555
Tim Sherburne, Megan M. Clifford, and Peter A. Beling

Part VI Analytic Methods for Design and Analysis of Missions and Systems-of-Systems 581
Dan DeLaurenits

28 Unique Challenges in System of Systems Analysis, Architecting, and Engineering 583
Judith Dahmann and Dan DeLaurenits

29 System of Systems Analytic Workbench 601
Cesare Guariniello, Payuna Uday, Waterloo Tsutsui, and Karen Marais

30 Computational Intelligence Approach to SoS Architecting and Analysis 637
Cihan Dagli, Richard Threlkeld, and Lirim Ashiku

31 Unique Challenges in Mission Engineering and Technology Integration 665
Michael Orosz, Brian Duffy, Craig Charlton, Hector Saunders, and Ellins Thomas

32 Reference Architecture: An Integration and Interoperability-Driven Framework 683
Joel S. Patton and James D. Moreland

33 Mission Engineering Competency Framework 697
Gregg Vesonder and Nicole Hutchison

Part VII Applying Systems Engineering to Enterprise Systems and Portfolio Management 713
Dan DeLaurenits

34 Central Challenges in Modeling and Analyzing Enterprises as Systems 715
William B. Rouse

35 Methods for Integrating Dynamic Requirements and Emerging Technologies 729
William B. Rouse and Dinesh Verma

36 Portfolio Management and Optimization for System of Systems 747
Frank Patterson, David Fullmer, Daniel Browne, and Santiago Balestrini-Robinson

37 Assessing Benefits of Modularity in Missions and System of Systems 775
Navindran Davendralingam, Cesare Guariniello, and Lu Xiao

Part VIII Systems Education and Competencies in the Age of Digital Engineering, Convergence, and AI 789
Nicole Hutchison

38 Using the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) 791
Nicole Hutchison, Art Pyster, and Rob Cloutier

39 Understanding Critical Skills for Systems Engineers 805
Nicole Hutchison

40 Evolving University Programs on Systems Engineering 817
Paul T. Grogan

41 Evolving University Programs for the Other 95% of Engineers: A Capstone Marketplace 827
William Shepherd

Index 843