Engineering firms continue to adopt the practice of utilizing virtual teams, which faces unique challenges and requires additional management considerations compared with co-located teams. While virtual teams offer incentives in terms of flexibility and cost savings, engineering firms should be...
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...
This study is inspired by the current tendencies of technological changes. The main purpose of this study is to analyze the factors that impact the generation of change requirements, methods of measuring those changes and the impact of those changes on the evolution of a system. Although many...
Team collaboration and decision making have a significant role in the overall performance of complex System of Systems (SoS). Inefficient decisions can result in significant extra cost and reduction in the overall team performance within the organizations. Therefore, the early and effective...
During the system-elements’ requirement-based test approach (RBT&E;), it is difficult for both Systems Engineering (SE) and Test and Evaluation (T&E;) communities to objectively identify the corresponding system-of-interest (SOI) capability (or ability to achieve requirements throughout its...
Studies demonstrate that differences in how product development organizations and product realization organizations interpret requirements can lead to poor quality outcomes. Other research shows that, in comparison to communicating requirements inside an organization, communicating requirements...
Spare parts models have typically focused on the number of spares physically required to maintain system availability and optimize replacement policies, such as block or age replacement and variants thereof. In an era where additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, as it is popularly known,...
Software vulnerabilities that enable well-known exploit techniques for committing computer crimes are preventable, but they continue to be present in releases. When Blackhats (i.e., malicious researchers) discover these vulnerabilities they oftentimes release corresponding exploit software and...
The lack of comprehensive software obsolescence risk forecasting and assessment methodologies presents a challenge to managing overall system obsolescence risk. This is especially the case for systems with a high utilization of commercial electronic components or software applications with a long...
Insider threats are one of the most damaging threats to modern systems. The ubiquity of cybersecurity problems related to insider threats promoted various solutions over the years. However, effective solutions are undermined by mathematical algorithms and host-based event driven techniques that...