Application of Systems Engineering Processes to DoD Science and Technology Research and Development Projects

System Engineering concepts have been successfully applied within the US Department of Defense (DoD) to manufacturing engineering development and management support programs for over four decades. For more than a decade Systems Engineering has been advocated within the DoD as a means to guide the early stages of development of advanced technologies to improve the transition from the laboratory to manufacturing. The concept is that, by improving the quality of decisions during the advanced development stages, subsequent insertion of new technologies into DoD projects is much more likely to meet project requirements while better managing overall cost and schedule performance. The objective of this research was to gain greater understanding of the perceived benefit of Systems Engineering in general, and of 43 specific Systems Engineering methods, processes, and tools described in DoD training and in the literature, as applied to the management of DoD 6.2, applied research and 6.3, advanced technology development, R&D; projects. Data for the analysis were collected by a survey of government and government contractor professionals involved in DoD acquisition. The findings show support for and recognition of the use of Systems Engineering in R&D; projects and provide a ranking of the 43 methods.

Author

• Lemaster, George

Language

• en

Keyword

• R&D
• Systems Engineering

Date created

• 2009

Type of Work

• Dissertation

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Engineering Mgt and Systems Engineering

Degree

• Ph.D.

Advisor

• Eisner, Howard

Committee Member(s)

• Waters, Robert C
• Duffey, Michael R
• Stankosky, Michael A

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/1j92g761x