The problem of forecasting emerging technologies (FET) has attracted the attention of researchers in the patent-analysis community because it provides a starting point for organizations to introduce radical technology change or a new product or engage in a merger and acquisition. Many FET methods...
If you were to ask any software development manager if quality is an essential attribute for delivering a project on time and within budget, they would emphatically answer "yes". If you were to ask these same managers if they incorporated existing quality metrics into their baselining and...
Many federal government agencies and commercial industries are utilizing multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods such as Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), Analytic Network Process (ANP), and The Technique for Order Performance by Similarity to Ideal...
Cybersecurity is the foundation of technology that determines the resilience and protections of operations throughout the world. With the increase of innovation, the requirements for cybersecurity authorization and governance increases to mitigate the potential threats for malicious activities....
Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (E&P;) projects routinely experience cost overruns and delays, with about 64% of new projects exceeding their budgets and almost 75% completed behind schedule partly as a result of non-optimal project designs1. Owing to the highly complex and heterogeneous...
Ambulance response time is a paramount factor contributing to patient outcomes of critical medical emergencies, particularly cardiac emergencies. In Ventura County, California, we established that over an 11-year period there was no significant difference in ambulance response time between...
Until 2018, there were no guidelines for the sequencing of operations in common heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. In that year, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) published Guideline 36, which provides a uniform set of...
This praxis develops a comprehensive performance measuring model to help government policy makers in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries identify and evaluate their performance in online outsourcing (OO). After assessing different efficiency measurement methods, data envelopment analysis (DEA)...
The last thirty years have seen multiple DoD acquisition programs with significant cost and schedule overruns. This paper posits that the primary driver of schedule overruns is the difficulty of “inventing on a schedule” by undertaking risky technology development efforts within a Major Defense...
Electronic waste (e-waste) is a growing economic opportunity for informal recycling operations in developing countries, while it is a major health and environmental concern for the developed world. Currently, only 25% of gold in e- waste is recovered successfully through informal recycling...
The federal government currently collects information for the Information Technology (IT) Projects in which it invests, but it does not apply this information to more accurately predict the performance of these projects. As a result, project managers within the federal government are not...
Contract chemical manufacturers spend resources on development trials that have errors due to incomplete knowledge transfer from the customer. These errors waste engineering resources and can result in lost business. A technology transfer program was proposed as a solution to reduce the number of...
Many commercial and defense product development programs are large-scale, complex, and contain significant innovation. Such programs often suffer cost and schedule over-runs. The goal of this work is to increase the production rate of well-ordered precedence networks for complex, large-scale...
Valve Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in the United States are facing increasing pressure to offer products capable of competing with other local and low-cost country industry players, forcing them to continuously lower prices and shorten delivery dates. At the same time, operations and...
Electricity has become an invaluable commodity for the rest of humanity such that nations irrespective of their classification in the world economy will find it difficult to function without it’s reliable supply. For nations such as the United States and the rest of the developed world,...
Although the traditional intrusion detection problem has been well studied with the release of the KDD’99 and NSL-KDD datasets, recent intrusion detection has expanded to include wireless 802.11 networks and Industrial Control Systems & Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (ICS/SCADA)...
This praxis studies the effects on organizations of replacing US knowledge workers with artificial intelligence software (automation) and enhancing US knowledge workers with artificial intelligence software (augmentation). The effects on organizational innovation, resistance, and return on...
Typical defense acquisition programs take nearly eight years to go from program start to an initial operating capability. Such long schedule durations risk having a future situation where operational forces are composed largely of aged or obsolete systems when not enough new operational systems...
Resilience theory plays a vital role in the practical design of modern engineered resilient systems composed of cyber-physical systems and components having interdependencies intended to make the entire system robust. In this paper, the percolation-based metric is applied to measure the...
Given the increasing complexity of systems and the cost associated with test and evaluation of aerospace systems, more efficient methods are sought. Randomized test designs for aviation developmental test activities and other complex systems may not enable safe test conduct and may be...
During exploratory research, solution concept approaches are considered with the intention of closing capability gaps between stakeholder business or mission needs and the available solutions portfolio. Increasingly, solution concept alternatives and capability requirements are advanced for...
The growth of battery powered devices, starting with laptops and cell phones in the 1990s,to tablet PCs and electrical vehicles in the 21st century, has given rise to the ever presentneed of charging infrastructure. This infrastructure, relying on the same conducted powertransfer technology which...
Renewable energy generation, including solar photovoltaics, will be an increasing part of the power supply to the utility grid. Due to the intermittent and variable nature of the power supply from photovoltaics, energy storage systems will need to be applied to the utility service grid to allow...
Over the last decade, healthcare supply chain (SC) costs have increased by 40 percent in the United States. A typical hospital’s SC costs account for 38 percent of the total, compared to less than 10 percent for most industries. Supply chain costs are the healthcare organizations’ second biggest...
An Industrial Automation and Control System design function is to provide a level of autonomy that allows manufacturers the capability to produce goods at a lower overhead cost, provide real-time data capability for KPI’s and provide the capability for monitoring and controlling critical...
Systems engineering rigor has been used successfully in the aerospace and defense industries where the development cycles tend to be rather long. However, the practice of using a traditional waterfall, spiral or V-model systems engineering life cycle framework, in other industries brings into...
Applying Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods to the Department of Defense Cloud Service Offering Security Authorization Process Cloud computing offers the potential for the Department of Defense (DoD) to lower its computing costs while making information resources more widely available....
Abstract of PraxisA Predictive Analytical Model for Predicting Munitions Surface Clearance Decontamination Activities Unexploded ordnance contamination in the United States and its Territories has emerged as one of the nation's most significant environmental problems in 2001 and remains a serious...
Capital funding models for start-ups are rare, yet they are needed to enable engineers to calculate their capital funding amount needed to complete their equity crowdfunding forms, loan application, or pursue other sources of funding. Funding decisions are frequently performed on an ad-hoc basis...
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program was established in 1982 in response to a decline in United States (U.S.) research and development (R&D;) productivity. The SBIR program aims to provide small businesses an avenue to commercialize products and services. The SBIR program is...
Current building standards for protective design focus on a “fortress” approach that does not effectively protect against contemporary attack vectors such as active shooters. Furthermore, these standards provide little guidance to private building owners whose facilities are increasingly targeted...
Project Managers in the Department of Defense and private industry are interested in utilizing effective and accurate methods to monitor and track projects with useful Earned Value Management project indicators. This praxis research addresses the problem of non-effective means of detecting a...
Healthcare costs are at an all-time high and there is no sign of ever relinquishing its upward trend or being controlled at the current level. The high cost of healthcare is partly attributed to the high cost of medicine. Research and development (R&D;) costs have been identified as a contributor...
The island of Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States of America, has a population of 3,725,789 according to the 2010 census, and generates 11,100 tons daily of waste. In the Island, landfilling is the dominant form of waste disposal. Most municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLF) in...
Too long have engineering and construction managers overestimated their costs and durations to create a contingency buffer that ensures construction projects meet a tight plus-or-minus 10% target range for both cost and schedule performance –a range intended to assess estimating accuracy, not...
In an effort to control cost and schedule growth, the US Department of Defense mandates that defense acquisition programs perform Technology Readiness Acquisitions (TRAs) during the acquisition cycle. Technology maturity is widely believed to correlate with cost and schedule risk in complex...
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) is a transportation enterprise servicing Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland. Commuting challenges and overall population growth has increased the overcrowding on the Metrorail, especially in the downtown...
Despite the efforts in developing frameworks to analyze and measure resilience, there is lack of consensus on the development and definition of metrics and limited quantitative analysis approaches. The resilience of buildings’ critical systems has not been assessed quantitatively, thus impacting...
The intention of a products distribution business enterprise is to invest in products or inventory, create value through service (or product availability), and in return capture revenue. This activity is naturally accompanied by varying levels of investment risk due to product demand uncertainty....
The following research was performed to establish an engineering knowledge management strategy for improving knowledge sharing concerning risk prediction models for hospital readmissions. The health care industry has been met with numerous approaches toward reducing preventable hospital...
Launches of satellites require years of advance planning leading to lower national and economic security posture. A new construct is required for rapidly enabling access to space for global urgent mission needs. A new construct is required for effectively enabling a launch of a satellite to orbit...
The United States economic and national security sectors remain vulnerable to shortages of critical materials due to the risks posed by disruptions in globally-dispersed supply networks. Numerous methods over the past 10 years have been proposed to identify, assess, and evaluate risks in critical...
This praxis demonstrates through case study, the utility of a multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) technique that exploits the features of the one-sided tolerance interval (OSTI) for the analysis of response data resulting from design of experiments (DOE) planned testing. Information distilled...
The resource mix for the U.S. electrical power grid is undergoing rapid change with increased levels of solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind turbine electricity generating capacity. There are potential negative impacts to grid resilience resulting from hurricane damage to wind and solar power...
The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index (VIX) is widely used to gauge investor fear and measures the “insurance premiums” of the stock market. Traditionally, VIX prediction was done using time-series analysis models (e.g., GARCH), and some attempt was made to predict it using...
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) continue to provide engineering managers challenges in meeting cost, schedule and performance targets. To better identify acquisition programs that are at risk of failure, numerous studies have called for an expanded...
Engineering managers involved in product development and manufacturing are responsible for proposing and developing ideas and concepts that will benefit new or existing products and processes. Improved methods are required to identify, prioritize, and integrate the opinions, ideas, and concepts...
In the pharmaceutical industry, estimating the probability of occurrence for use errors and use-error-causes (here forth referred to as use error probabilities) when developing drug delivery devices is hindered by a lack of data, ultimately limiting the ability to conduct robust usability risk...
The engineering workforce in the US Federal Government is increasingly reaching retirement eligibility. As these engineers leave the workforce they take with them knowledge they accumulated throughout their career, threatening the ability of their agency to continue its mission. This study...
The United States Coast Guard does not adequately perform a Level of Repair Analysis and Business Case Analysis to align vessel maintenance requirements with available resources during the development of an Integrated Logistics Life Cycle Plan (ILSP) which leads to increased vessel sustainment...