SYSTEMS ENGINEERING NEWS

AIRC research presentations included:

• Assessments of the Process for Developing Capability Requirements for DoD Acquisition Programs

• Interoperable and Integrated Capabilities for Mission Effects

• Emerging AIRC Innovation Efforts

• Defense Data Grand Prix

• Thoughts on Agility Through Appropriations

• Defense Acquisitions Research Collaboration & Innovation Environment (DARCIE)

• Test and Evaluation Strategic Efforts

• Incentivizing Innovation and Culture: Systemic Factors Influencing Risk Aversion

• Factors and Decision-Making for Additive Manufacturing in Sustainment

• Cognitive Assistant for Training Cost Estimators

• Gamified Learning for Defense Acquisition

• Procurement Reform: AIRC Reports on Defense Department Bid Protests & Mandatory Debarment

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Learning-Enhanced Autonomous Navigation for GPS-Denied Vehicles

This research focuses on the ability for coordinated operation of autonomous (underwater, ground, aerial) vehicles in complex and unknown, e.g., GPS-denied, environments. Technologies of interest include:

• LIDAR-based mapping

• Autonomous multi-robot exploration

• Machine learning

• Graph networks

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Measurable Requirements for Operational Resilience

Better resilience metrics and design tools are needed to increase the resilience of defense systems. The FOREST framework, described above, is being piloted on a DoD acquisition program to provide real-world feedback on how to measure resiliency and to generate testable resilience requirements.

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INCOSE Q4 Highlights

The 4Q2022 edition of the INCOSE Members Newsletter included highlights from a variety of initiatives and activity reports for chapters around the world. INCOSE membership has risen to over 21,000 with the potential for even larger global impact to be realized through 65 chapters, 130 corporate partners and 52 working groups. A summary of significant activities follows below.

FuSE Initiative Paves the Way to Reach Goals of SE Vision 2035

Progress associated with the INCOSE Future of Systems Engineering initiative (FuSE) has accelerated since its start in 2018 and will be center stage at the INCOSE 2023 International Workshop (IW2023). FuSE team research was instrumental in the SE Principles document that was published in 2022. See SyEN Edition 119 (December 2022) for PPI reflections on this document