systems engineering research center (serc)
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Systems Engineering Research Center
(SERC)
Alan Shaffer Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Research and Engineering
04 December 2014
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The Defense Strategic Guidance
• Ensure that we can confront and deter or
defeat aggression from any adversary –
anytime, anywhere.
• Protect key investments in technology and
new capabilities.
• Invest in the future.
• We will be smaller and leaner, but more agile, flexible, ready and
technologically advanced.
• We are rebalancing our global posture and presence to emphasize the Asia-
Pacific region.
• We are building partnerships and strengthening existing alliances and
partnerships.
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DoD at Strategic Crossroads
Deputy Defense
Secretary Bob Work Council on Foreign Relations
Sep. 30, 2014
“Today, potential challengers are investing heavily in weapons to defeat our traditional ways of operating and our most advanced systems … Our technological dominance is no longer assured.” Compared to the closest competitors, DoD is under-investing in new weapon systems.
“What’s more, research and development funding is not a variable cost,” the deputy defense secretary said. “No matter how many weapons or systems of a particular type we intend to have in our inventory, one or one thousand, we still have to do the R&D.” DoD Research, Development Initiative, Nov. 21, 2014
DoD Technology Superiority Is At Risk
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Strategic Guidance
Available at www.DefenseInnovationMarketplace.mil
“Our technological superiority is not assured, and in fact it is being challenged very
effectively right now.” -Frank Kendall, USD(AT&L) 19 Sec 2014
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Defense R&E Strategy
1. Mitigate current and anticipated threat
capabilities
- Cyber - Electronic Warfare
- Counter Space - Counter-WMD
- Missile Defense
2. Affordably enable new or extended
capabilities in existing military systems
- Systems Engineering - Modeling and Simulation
- Capability Prototyping - Developmental Test & Evaluation
- Interoperability - Power & Energy
3. Develop technology surprise through
science and engineering
- Autonomy - Data Analytics
- Human Systems - Hypersonics
- Quantum Systems - Basic Sciences
Technology Needs
• Protection & Sustainment
• Advanced Machine Intelligence
• Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD)
Technology to offset manpower
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Eliminate Unproductive Processes and Bureaucracy
• Emphasize Acquisition Executive, Program Executive Office and Program Manager responsibility, authority, and accountability
• Reduce cycle times while ensuring sound investments
• Streamline documentation requirements and staff reviews
Promote Effective Competition
• Create and maintain competitive environments
• Improve technology search and outreach in global markets
Improve Tradecraft in Acquisition of Services
• Increase small business participation, including more effective use of market research
• Strengthen contract management outside the normal acquisition chain
• Improve requirements definition
• Improve the effectiveness and productivity of contracted engineering and technical services
Improve the Professionalism of the Total Acquisition Workforce
• Establish higher standards for key leadership positions
• Establish stronger professional qualification requirements for all acquisition specialties
• Strengthen organic engineering capabilities
• Ensure the DoD leadership for development programs is technically qualified to manage R&D activities
• Improve our leaders’ ability to understand and mitigate technical risk
• Increase DoD support for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education
Continue Strengthening Our Culture of Cost Consciousness, Professionalism, and Technical Excellence
Better Buying Power 3.0 (Draft)
Achieving Dominant Capabilities Through Technical Excellence and Innovation
Achieve Affordable Programs
• Continue to set and enforce affordability caps
Achieve Dominant Capabilities While Controlling Lifecycle Costs
• Strengthen and expand “should cost” based cost management
• Build stronger partnerships between the acquisition, requirements, and intelligence communities
• Anticipate and plan for responsive and emerging threats
• Institutionalize stronger DoD level Long Range R&D Planning
Incentivize Productivity in Industry and Government
• Align profitability more tightly with Department goals
• Employ appropriate contract types, but increase the use of incentive type contracts
• Expand the superior supplier incentive program across DoD
• Increase effective use of Performance-Based Logistics
• Remove barriers to commercial technology utilization
• Improve the return on investment in DoD laboratories
• Increase the productivity of IR&D and CR&D
Incentivize Innovation in Industry and Government
• Increase the use of prototyping and experimentation
• Emphasize technology insertion and refresh in program planning
• Use Modular Open Systems Architecture to stimulate innovation
• Increase the return on Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
• Provide draft technical requirements to industry early and engage industry in funded concept definition to support requirements definition
• Provide clear “best value” definitions so industry can propose and DoD can choose wisely
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Affordability
• Systems Engineering Impacts All Elements of
Affordability
• Engineered Resilient Systems – Model Based
Design
• Interoperability – Build Through Open Systems
• Prototyping
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Engineered Resilient Systems Timeline and Growth
“We need to continually move forward with designing an acquisition system that responds
more efficiently, effectively, and quickly to the needs of troops and commanders in the field.”
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel - 3 April 2013
2014-2015 ERS DoD Joint Development Team Expansion, Focus on Products & Tools and Systems Design ERS DoD Generalized Capability
ROTORCRAFT SHIPS
2010-2011 ERS Priority Steering Council (PSC) formed Theoretical Foundations & Experiments USAF AIRFRAME
ANALYSIS
TRADESPACE TECHNOLOGY SURVEY & STUDY
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
KNOWLEDGE HUB
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TRADESPACE ANALYTICS
2012-2013 PSC Transition to ERS Community of Interest Demonstrated Proofs of Concepts, Acquisition Application Architecture, Tools & Infrastructure Development
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Engineered Resilient Systems Application to Ships
Design Experiment
Point Design
Process
(spiral design)
Set-Based
Design Process
• Traditional AoA Process
• Few ship design points developed
• Difficulty answering complex cost vs. capability questions
• New AoA Process • Design space exploration approach
employed.
• 22,000 alternative designs
generated.
• Provided a robust design space exploration - used to perform cost vs. capability analysis
• Informed Navy’s decision on the next amphibious assault ship
• Design space exploration and set-
based design methods used to
perform a robust exploration of ship
and mission system alternatives
• Over 19 million ship designs
developed using ERS Cloud
Computing Environment
• Cost versus capability analysis used to
determine the affordable capability
space for a future surface combatant.
LX(R)
Surface Combatant
Demonstrated the ability to design a
ship through the application of
tradespace-informed set-based
design.
Point Design
Set-Based Design Traditional AoA New AoA
Set-based
design approach
for mission
systems
Design space
exploration
approach for
ship designs
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Use Modular Open Systems Architecture to Stimulate Innovation
• Challenges
– DoD is challenged to affordably address emerging threats, component
obsolescence, and loss of critical suppliers, and to conduct planned
technology insertion/upgrades into tightly coupled, highly integrated
systems
– DoD seeks to drive innovative technology into platforms at the subsystem
level through competition – enabling affordable capability refresh and
engaging the largest possible competitive base
– Standardized, documented modular interfaces enable “plug-and-play”
insertion of new/upgraded capabilities on existing platforms – but current
standards are of limited utility in supporting definition of modular interfaces
in complex military systems
• BBP 3.0 Opportunity
– Support incorporation of modular design features in new DoD designs
– Develop common technical standards to support specification and interface
control of modular interfaces
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Modular Open Systems
Considerations in Development
Leverage and Exercise Data Rights
• Assess current and needed data rights
• Be a better customer: confirm that data
rights restrictions are correct and assert
data rights
• Use government purpose rights (GPR) for
next competition
• Create alternatives
• Inject MOSA through technical insertions
• Consider alternative integrations concepts
• Ensure incentives align with desired behaviors
• Reward reuse
Explore Business Architectures and Sound
Competition Approaches
Establish an Environment for Change
• Be clear about intent to compete/recompete
• Establish a flexible contracting approach
• Incentivize good behavior among contributing
contractors
Focus Systems Engineering for Openness
• Develop common architectures across a
product line or across related product families
• Functionally decompose legacy capabilities
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Summary
• Systems Engineering Is Taking An Increasingly Significant
Role In DoD Acquisition
• Spans Life Cycle From Concept Definition To Sustainment
• Systems Engineering Should Focus On Cost – Capability
Trade
– How Much Is Enough?