NDIA SE Division – Annual Planning MeetingDecember 12-13, 2012

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NDIA Meetings

• SEI (SW Engineering Institute) SoS Architecture Patterns- SEI is developing a white paper describing how SW

development patterns can assist with SoS architecture development

• NDIA SoS / M&S Joint Committee Meeting- Judith Dahman (SoS Committee Chair) briefed the M&S

committee on the SoS “pain points” and how M&S can help address the issues

• NDIA SE Committee Meeting- Bi-monthly SE meeting

• NDIA DT&E Committee Meeting

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SEI SoS Architecture Patterns

Attending Orgs: SEI, Boeing, Army, Purdue, Dynamic Animation Systems, LM, Mitre

• Patterns are a common way to develop SW architectures• Currently there is no SoS level of patterns• Benefit would be a less risky starting point for

development of SW that is part of a SoS solution and to reduce variants needed to be studied to start code development

• SEI approach was to start with current SW patterns and to extrapolate up- This caused communications / semantics difficulties with

SE / SoS community- Recommendation was to start with SoS context and show

how patterns could evolve and applied to the SE / SoS development

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Joint SoS / M&S Committee Meeting

M&S identified opportunities to assist in SoS issues:

• Exploration of SoS conops space to evaluate alternative mission scenarios

• Exploration of requirements set and evaluation of implications of setting SoS requirements

• Exploration of architecture alternatives and the impacts of emergent behavior (i.e., what happens, often unintended) when systems are inserted into a SoS

• End-to-end operating environment to model mission threads

• Supplement or replace testing• “Future proofing” of systems; identification of

requirements to be able to operate in “next year’s” environment

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NDIA SE Committee Meeting

• Jim Thompson (OSD) discussed “Should Cost Memo” and 2013 “Performance of the Defense Acquisition System” report

• Dr. Steve Hutchison (Acting Deputy Assistant Sec’y T&E) discussed his “Shift Left” initiative to put out guidance on how to start test efforts prior to Milestone C

• Jim Thompson discussed need to update Risk Management Guide

• Affordability Handbook (joint MORS, NDIA, INCOSE) out for review 26 Aug to 12 Sept• Send Steve Henry email if want to review it

• Gary Roedler discussed the new SE Standard• IEEE addendum to 15288 standard

• New NDIA SE Agile working group established• SEI writing a white paper• Working group helping to write language for RFP sections L&M

NOTE: I had a side conversation with Steve Henry and he promised to post our deliverable with the NDIA products, and to send the paper and cover letter to Dr. Welby.

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NDIA SE Conference

16th Annual Systems Engineering Conference*** Hyatt Regency Crystal City Arlington, VA October 28-31, 2013 Event #4870 www.ndia.org/meetings/4870

Register before September 28, 2013 to lock in the early, discounted rate!

Architecture Track info:• Track 6 on Wednesday – 13 papers• Track 6 on Thursday – Joint track with SoS, 3 papers

If you have a paper that was not accepted, but want it to be on the alternate list, let Steve Henry know

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Upcoming Architecture Subcommittee Tasks

• Review Mission Analysis whitepaper on use of architecture in early development

• Review SEI report on SoS Architecture Patterns• Participate in SE standard development if desired

- Contact Gary Roedler• Attend SE Conference• Meet with M&S Committee to discuss MBSE• Meet with T&E Committee to help them identify T&E

perspective of architecture products• Invite J6 to brief joint mission threads