Dr. Brian Sauser will present a seminar, “A Review of Frameworks and Models from Maturity to Collaboration in Systems and System of Systems Engineering,” Monday (June 29) at 11 a.m. in Room 233 of the Zachry Engineering Center.

Sauser is with the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J.

Sauser says there is a rising demand and necessity for military defense systems and more recently system of systems (SoS) to address ever‐increasing complex problems in a global theater. In his seminar, he will review some of the research and developments of two laboratories at Stevens Institute of Technology seeking to find solutions to these emerging challenges.

Systems Development and Maturity Laboratory
The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) scale is a measure of maturity of an individual technology, with a view towards operational use in a system context. A comprehensive set of concerns becomes relevant when this metric is abstracted from an individual technology to a system context, which may involve interplay among multiple technologies that are integrated through an acquisition life cycle. This research has been pursuing the development of a system‐focused approach for managing system development and making effective and efficient decisions during the acquisition life cycle. This has included: development of system maturity indices in order to assess developmental and earned systems maturity; and the formulation of optimization models that allow for effective trade‐offs in functionality, capability, cost, schedule and maturity.

Systomics Laboratory
Future military systems will be distributed SoS of heterogeneous systems relying on network‐centric, decentralized control that is flexible in its autonomy and ability toexchange information at the right time to the those that need it. Equivalently, faced with asymmetric threats, uncertain and conceivably unknowable hostilities and continuous improvisation in anti‐counter‐insurgency measures, a SoS in a military context must have an agility in both form and function that exceeds enemy action. Accordingly, the ability to force this dynamism in SoS form and function, whilst maintaining SoS control and resilience, minimizing vulnerability and increasing SoS agility is paramount. This research is embarking on a discovery of the essence of togetherness through the study and modeling of cooperation and collaboration as it relates to SoS. This is being done through a SoS construct of distinguishing characteristics that have been understood to define a fundamental architecture (i.e. behavior) of a SoS. These elements are being used to model and better understand the essence of collaboration in a cooperative SoS, so we may better understand their health, maintenance, replication, and evolution.

Submitted by Katherine Edwards, kedwards@tamu.edu

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