The primary purpose of this study is to develop a methodology or process for conducting functional analysis within the greater systems engineering family of processes. The first goal of this study is to develop a methodology that bridges the how-to-do gap between classical functional analysis and...
According to an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) survey, of all the challenges confronting the US Space Industrial Base, the time it takes to process an export control license is one of the most significant. (Dept of USAF 2007) Thus, this dissertation focuses on export licensing timelines and...
This investigative study demonstrated the benefits of addressing human considerations during the system development life cycle in order to have had long-term benefits to program managers and systems engineers. The approach was to use a retrospective content analysis of documents from weapon...
Maintenance personnel often lack the resources to determine which specific subassembly of a complex electronic system has failed but can only isolate the cause of failure to a subset of subassemblies. In these circumstances, the most efficient manner for replacing the suspect subassemblies is...
The Department of Defense (DoD) testing methodology for the evaluation and acceptance between existing and emerging automatic measurement systems are based on qualitative (PASS/FAIL) criteria of the automatic measurement systems responses when testing of a unit-under-test. Acceptance of a...
This dissertation will provide a detailed approach and analysis of a new collaborative requirements prioritization methodology that has been used successfully on four Coast Guard avionics acquisition and development programs valued at $400M+. A statistical representation of participant study...
This dissertation introduces a theory of information quality to explain macroscopic behavior observed in the systems engineering process. The theory extends principles of Shannon's mathematical theory of communication [1948] and statistical mechanics to information development processes concerned...
The decision process for technology projects often includes a financial return on investment (ROI) analysis. This is a well-known and established process that has been widely used in the private sector. A modified version is the cost benefit analysis, which is used in the public sector. Both of...