Engineering mega-systems : the challenge of systems engineering in the information age /: the challenge of systems engineering in the information age. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Renee Stevens.
• Other Names: Stevens, Renee
• Contents: SETTING THE STAGE; List of Acronyms Introduction; The Trend Toward Large-Scale, Richly Interconnected Systems; Why This Book?; Organization of the Book Context and Trends; Changing the Strategic Environment in the U.S. Department of Defense; The Imperative to Share Information across Agencies; Enabling Conditions; Institutional Trends: Enterprisewide, Top-Down Perspective; Implications for Systems and Programs; A Look Ahead CONCEPTS AND FRAMEWORKS Mega-System Concepts; What Is a System?; Mega-Systems; Summary A Framework for Exploring Mega-Systems; Basis for the Framework; Elements of the Basic Framework; Tame versus Wicked Problems Engineering and Acquiring Mega -Systems; What Is Systems Engineering?; Mega-System Challenges for Systems Engineers; Troubled Large-Scale Systems; Levels of Systems Engineering; Enterprise Systems Engineering Profiler CASE STUDIES IN ENGINEERING MEGA-SYSTEMS Introduction to Mega-System Case Studies; A Note about Case Studies; Approach to Mega-System Case Studies; ; Single Integrated Air Picture; Motivation: Moving from Independent Systems to a Theater-Wide Integrated Capability; Standing up a System Engineering Organization; SIAP System Engineering Process; Building the IABM; Formalizing the SIAP; Summary; SIAP Mapping to the Systems Engineering Profiler; Insights for Engineering Mega-Systems Developing the Electronic Product Code Network; Background; The Auto-ID Center; The Vision: An Internet of Things; Concept and Technologies; RFID Design Process and Implementation; Transition from Research to Commercialization; EPC Adoption; Summary; EPCglobal Network Mapping to the Extended Framework; Insights for Engineering Mega-Systems Observations from the Case Studies; Case Study Recap; Observations THE WAY AHEAD The Way Ahead; Emerging Tenets; Matching Practice to Circumstances; An Emerging View of Systems Engineering as a Continuum of Practice; Refining the Engineering Tenets: A Way Ahead; An Emerging View of Next-Generation Practice; Concluding Thoughts POSTSCRIPT: PROFILING A COMPLEX ACQUISITION PROGRAM; Multiple Purposes of the Study; Approach; Findings; The Profile as an "Uncertainty Map"; Recommended Practices for Dealing with Uncertainty; Conclusion
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvii, 226 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 620.001/171; Systems engineering; Large scale systems; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference; Large scale systems; Systems engineering; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420076677; 1420076671
• Related ISBNs: 9781420076660; 1420076663
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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