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Description:: Over the last two decades, assessments of major defense acquisition systems consistently cite program management office (PMO) effectiveness as a key factor for successfully producing weapon systems. Studies conducted across government, industry, and academia attribute PMO effectiveness to ideal...
Author:: Farmer, Charalotte Mitcham
Keyword:: Megaproject Structure Empirical Study, Program Management Office Organizational Structure, Program Management Performance, Organization Performance Factors, Major Defense Acquisition Program, and Systems Integration
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Etemadi, Amirhossein and Malalla, Ebrahim
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: The most common traditional non-functional requirement analysis is reliability. With systems becoming more complex, networked, and adaptive to environmental uncertainties, system resiliency has recently become the non-functional requirement analysis of choice. Analysis of system resiliency has...
Author:: Knox, Lenora A.
Keyword:: Unmmanned Aerial Vehicles, Variability Modeling, Distributed Architecture, Mission Analysis, Model-Based Systems Engineering, and Resilience Analysis
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Hodges, Vincent
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Integration Readiness Level (IRL) can be an effective systems engineering tool to facilitate integration of System of Systems (SoS). Further research in systems integration, analysis of major SoS integration data, and analysis of expert survey inputs to SoS integration can enhance the current IRL...
Author:: Eder, Clarence
Keyword:: System of Systems (SoS), Integration Readiness Level (IRL), Technology Readiness Level (TRL), DoD Space Systems, Systems Integration, and Department of Defense
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, Blessner, Paul, Olson, Bill, and Murphree, E. Lile
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Software intensive space systems can harbor defects and vulnerabilities that may enable external adversaries or malicious insiders to disrupt or disable system functions, risking mission compromise or loss. Mitigating this risk demands a sustained focus on the security and resiliency of the...
Author:: Phillips, Dewanne Marie
Keyword:: systems engineering, cybersecurity, life cycle, architecture, software, and resiliency
GW Unit:: Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Guillaume-Joseph, Gina, Gideon, Alan, and Etemadi, Amir
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Each year, the Department of Defense (DoD) is provided with an appropriation and authorization act from Congress known as the Military Construction (MILCON) program. The DoD delegates this financial authority to subordinate units for the purpose of funding the design and execution of new...
Author:: Sands, Clifford Samuel
Keyword:: MCDA, Rank Order Centroid, Project Portfolio, TOPSIS, and Multi-Criteria Decision Making
GW Unit:: Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Sarkani, Shahram, Earhardt, Gabriella, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, and Bischoff, John
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: Business process optimization allows businesses to remain competitive by allowing management to observe, analyze, and improve the operations of the organization. Using data and related business insights developed through applied analytic disciplines to drive business process optimization allows...
Author:: Worrell, Sallamar Krystal Adonna
Keyword:: Process Improvement, Performance Analysis, Optimization, and Simulation
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, and Harrington, Afi D
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

Description:: High Reliability Organizations are organizations that have fewer than the average number of high-consequence accidents. “Heinrich’s Law” states that the industrial average of the ratio of high-consequence accidents to total recordable accidents is 1:330. This represents an average of one...
Author:: Newton, Dorian Gregory
Keyword:: Error-free operations, Facilities management, Conduct of Operations, Operations research, Best practices, and Engineering managemen
GW Unit:: Engineering Management
Degree:: D.Engr.
Advisor:: Sarkani, Shahram and Mazzuchi, Thomas A
Committee Member(s):: Sarkani, Shahram, Mazzuchi, Thomas A, and Morgan, Glenn J
Resource Type:: Thesis or Dissertation

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