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APPLICATION OF A SYSTEMS ENGINEERING APPROACH TO OPTIMIZE THE DOD PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROCESSES
Author(s) -
Brewer Harold R.,
Martin Patricia T.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1992.tb01509.x
Subject(s) - concurrent engineering , process (computing) , systems engineering , system of systems engineering , missile , engineering , weapon system , engineering management , computer science , software engineering , systems design , operations management , physics , astronomy , scheduling (production processes) , aerospace engineering , operating system
The U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM) has utilized a traditional, functional systems engineering approach for weapon system development. However, the advent of the concurrent engineering philosophy highlighted that the success of a defense program could be enhanced by applying a systems engineering approach to managing or determining programmatic requirements. A Process Action Team was established at MICOM to develop an optimized systems engineering process for weapon systems development, which includes the philosophy of concurrent engineering. This paper presents a case study of the team's findings.