10.4.0 Panel 10.4.0: U.S. OSD Systems of Systems Engineering Guide: Status Report & INCOSE Support

Abstract

AbstractIn May 2006, a task was issued by the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology (DUSD (A&T)) to develop a Systems of Systems Engineering Guidebook. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) convened a small group of Government, Industry and Academia, and selected the Stevens Institute of Technology to lead the project. During the summer and autumn of 2006, the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) was honored to be invited to provide a global representation of the systems engineering community in support of the OSD writing of a Systems of Systems, Systems Engineering (SoS SE) Guide.On 22 December 2006 the draft SoS SE Guide, version 0.9, was released for review and use by the systems engineering community. Industry and academia have been asked to submit their comments as part of the effort to pilot the recommendations in the Guide. In 2007, OSD has been actively engaging a sample of DoD SoS programs to pilot the Guide, especially with respect to the 16 OSD SE processes. The responses will become part of the first update to the Guide.At this panel, OSD will present the background and motivation for writing the Guide, along with an update on the pilot. Both OSD and INCOSE will discuss their insights. As part of the broad SE community review, the Guide will also be viewed from the UK perspective of Capabilities Based Acquisition. Looking to the future, the concepts and practices of Net Centricity, Network Enablement of Capabilities, and Semantic Web will be considered and how they might be more deeply integrated into future versions of the Guide. This panel will provide opportunities for INCOSE to continue to work with OSD and collaborate on SoS SE.