The Department of the Defense (DOD) has transitioned smart devices onto the battlefield as a portable, handheld unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ground control station (GCS) without adequate cybersecurity protections, which places critical missions and their data at risk. Industry has developed...
The requirement engineering phase is widely considered an essential part of the system engineering process. As system complexity increases, system engineers will require tools dealing with the challenges complexity introduces. The ability to recognize, capture, and analyze these system...
Human error remains the highest symptomatic cause of system failure across multiple domains. Technology failure has seen a significant rate decrease through analyses and design changes, but human error causal factors have not experienced the same level of improvement. Designers and developers...
Immature systems can be plagued by high costs, high risks, and schedule delays. System maturity models are utilized to quantitatively analyze a system’s readiness to indicate whether the system is prepared to proceed to the next acquisition phase during development. Most system maturity models...
A System Dynamics Approach to Implementing Consumer Experience in Technology Adoption ModelsThe ethanol-fuel ecosystem presents a common narrative seen in many systems whose components include durable goods with high switching costs to the consumer: Market growth does not match policy...
The cost of Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems acquisitions has risen at an alarming rate of 46% since the 1960s, according to third-party investigations. Despite considerable DoD efforts to reduce cost growth, historical review demonstrates a pattern of underestimation of weapon systems...
As a result of the reuse of legacy systems by the Department of Defense (DoD), DoD programs often experience overruns and technical difficulties. With the constriction of DoD budgets, reuse of legacy systems is frequently touted as the solution to cost, efficiency, and time to delivery problems;...
Quality by Design (QbD) has been recognized as a superior manufacturing approach versus attempting to test in quality. Without designing for quality, the level of quality attainment (defect-free product) has been observed to plateau well short of six sigma, and efforts to further improve quality...
Department of Defense (DOD) weapon acquisition programs often suffer from schedule slips and cost overruns associated with unanticipated performance failures found in the latter part of the programs. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) claims that cost and schedule estimates based on...
Risk identification during the design and development phases of complex systems is commonly implemented but often fails to result in the identification of events and circumstances that truly challenge project performance. Inefficiencies in cost and schedule estimation are usually held accountable...