Transcript SERC Overview - Georgia Institute of Technology

Note by R Peak 12/7/2010: This presentation ppt file is based on excerpts from the original
full presentation available here:
http://serc1.gpointech.com/news-events/annual-serc-research-review/asrr-2010/agenda/
Update on SERC Status Since 1st ASRR and 2011 Plans
Art Pyster, Deputy Executive Director, SERC (Stevens)
(this version also has ** added on slides 7-9 to indicate SERC projects involving my lab)
SERC Achievements and
Program Direction
Art Pyster
Deputy Executive Director
November, 2010
www.SERCuarc.org
What is a UARC?
University Affiliated Research Center
1. Research organization within a university or college
2. Provides or maintains DoD essential engineering,
research, and/or development capabilities defined as
core
3. Receive sole source contract funding from DoD. May also
receive other funding
4. UARCs perform research in specific mission areas. By
design, no two UARCs have the same mission
5. Maintain long-term, strategic relationships with
sponsoring DoD components in specific core areas and
operate in the public interest
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Who We Are
Any U.S. university can be added to the SERC to provide
capabilities needed
to support
the SERC mission
For Internal
SERC Use Only
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SERC Mission
The mission of the SERC is
to enhance and enable the
DoD's capability in Systems
Engineering for the
successful development,
integration, testing and
sustainability of complex
defense systems, services
and enterprises
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SERC Vision
DoD and Intelligence Community
systems achieving mission outcomes
– enabled by research leading to
transformational SE methods,
processes, and tools.
The SERC will be the primary
engine for defense and intelligence
community SE basic research
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DoD Mission Themes Drive
SERC Research Themes
1. Respond more quickly, flexibly, agilely – Systems
Engineering Transformation
2. Acquire, operate, and evolve large complex systems that
have distributed and diffuse governance, architecture, and
mission – Systems of Systems and Enterprise Systems
3. Increase the pool and capabilities of systems engineers, and
instill systems engineering into all engineers – Human
Capital Development
4. Address security challenges in a systemic fashion rather
than piecemeal – Trusted Systems
With an increasing focus on design for affordability
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Research Projects
Topic
Description
SE Body of Knowledge and
Graduate Reference Curriculum
Create mature SE BoK and graduate reference curriculum with
broad community involvement
Modular Reconfigurable
Architecture for Tailored and Rapid
SE Knowledge Dissemination
Create way to rapidly publish and maintain currency of SE artifacts
and other documents, extensively tailoring them to audience
Rapid CONOPS Development
Environment for Agile SE
Develop approach to quickly construct a CONOPS that strongly
informs all key stakeholders and can evolve quickly and easily
Develop SE Technical Leaders
Create way to educate SE technical leaders rapidly and effectively
using innovative educational technologies
Evolutionary SE
Create MPT for evolutionary SE for acquisition in context of new
5000.02 and emphasis on early SE prior to Milestone B
Data Quality and Estimation
Research In Support of Future
Defense Cost Analysis
Create improved ways to cost complex software-intensive systems,
especially systems of systems
Agile Methods, Processes, and Tools
Explore agile MPTs with focus on those applicable to NSA
Systems Engineering
Transformation
Create a roadmap of research to transform SE into a much faster,
more responsive discipline
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More Research Projects
Topic
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Description
Security Systems Engineering
Create a roadmap of research on security SE and begin executing
that roadmap
System Readiness Level
Explore the equivalent of technology readiness levels, but for
systems integration and other facets of engineering maturity
Verification, Validation and
Accreditation using Modeling and
Simulation
Explore ways to perform “built-in” VV&A when creating system
models and running system level simulations
Early Identification of SE-Related
Program Risks Extension
Continue work begun under FY09 project to explore early
identification of SE-related program risks
SE Development Experience
Accelerator
Significantly reduce the amount of time it takes for an SE to
become proficient
Valuing Flexible Systems
Develop architectural and other approaches to enable flexible
systems
SE Capabilities within Universities
(STEM)
Develop teaching capabilities within universities to build
tomorrow’s workforce
DoD Systems 2020
Future SE capabilities that enable more efficient platform
development, derivatives (flexibility), and adaptive systems
** Project involving R Peak lab at GIT
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And Still More Research Projects
Topic
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Description
Communications Effects Server
Establish systems architecture modeling and assessment
environment with Army’s communications effects server
Integration of Modeling and
Simulation, Software Design, and
DoDAF
Integrate activities and artifacts of modeling and simulation,
software design, and architecture
Requirements Definition for NetCentric Enterprises
Prototype method and tooling to support emerging requirements
for net-centric enterprises
Vehicle Systems Engineering and
Integration Activities
Determine competencies and capabilities needed for vehicle
systems engineering
** Project involving R Peak lab at GIT
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SERC Objectives
TRANSFORM systems engineering practice throughout
the DoD and IC by creating innovative methods,
processes, and tools that address critical challenges to
meeting mission outcomes (what we do),
CATALYZE community growth among systems
engineering researchers by enabling collaboration
among many research organizations (who does it),
ACCELERATE systems engineering competency
development through rapid transfer of research to
educators and practitioners (how we impact others).
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SERC Core Competencies
Ability to conduct long-term, comprehensive SE research focused on DoD acquisition, including
• Enable integrated development and management
• New ways to link requirements to design
• Leverage modeling and simulation
• Link technical baselines to architectures
• Apply SE to acquisition of services
Ability to leverage developments in systems architecting, complex systems theory, systems thinking,
systems science, knowledge management and SwE to perform research to advance the design and
development of complex systems across all DoD domains, including
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System and open systems architecture/analysis
SE in complex SoS and FoS environments
Enterprise SE
SW-unique extensions and modern SW-development
technology
• Flexible SE environment
• Knowledge management
• Undergraduate/Graduate SE education
needs
Ability to leverage developments in open systems standards, organizational theory, program
management, SE management, and IT to provide needed integration of program/technical
management MPTs, including
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Integrate TPMs with EVM
Maturity reviews
SE team structures, etc. for improvement
Improved SE information sharing
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Rationale and way ahead for standards
Toolsets throughout the life cycle
Analyzing SE costs, accounts, and ROI
SE metrics and leading indicators
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Reference
The full original presentation is available here:
http://serc1.gpointech.com/news-events/annual-serc-research-review/asrr-2010/agenda/
Update on SERC Status Since 1st ASRR and 2011 Plans
Art Pyster, Deputy Executive Director, SERC (Stevens)