Dr. Dam at INCOSE CVA on 24th Northern Virginia, August 11, 2010

INCOSE Central Virginia Chapter
Building Your Concept of Operations (CONOPS)

Dinner Meeting; August 24, 2010; 6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Lone Star Restaurant, 2051 Plank Road, Fredericksburg, VA

INCOSE Members: $12.00            Non-Members: $16.00          Students: $8.00

One of the lost arts in Systems Engineering is the development and use of the Concept of Operations (CONOPS). Dr. Steven Dam along with Dr. Dinesh Verma authored a chapter on this subject in a recent Joint DoD/NASA-sponsored book entitled “Applied Space Systems Engineering.” Dr. Dam will use this text and recent experience in developing CONOPS for the Department of Defense to discuss how to develop a CONOPS using architectures and scenarios.

This tutorial will discuss how to:
• Validate the mission scope and the system boundary;
• Describe the operational environment, and primary constraints and drivers;
• Develop key operational scenarios, and associated timelines;
• Synthesize, analyze, and assess key implementation concepts;
• Validate and baseline the operational architecture for the system of interest;
• Document and iterate through Architecture and the DoD Architecture Framework. Come participate in this dynamic and interesting tutorial.