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.

Overview

Lesley Painchaud and John Schatz designed and created a CORE model using DLA systems data and managed the development effort to create output required to support this analysis. This output identified the cascading effects and reverse cascading impacts from the loss of one system, providing input into multiple dependent systems.  In addition, this analysis supports the identification of propagation of cyber impacts from the introduction of cyber vulnerabilities to the SoS model.  The output was delivered in a format suitable for geospatial visualization or logical network visualization.  Lesley and John developed a system of mission impact analysis  that includes ranking of systems by degree of “reach” across 3 dependency dimensions – organization, cyber, and location.

For further information about the award, please visit the NSPE Awards and Scholarships.

Systems and Proposal Engineering Company (SPEC Innovations) announced that it has been awarded a continued contract by the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC), Dahlgren Division to continue providing support through 2010. Work will be performed primarily in Dalgren, VA and Northern Virginia.

NSWC, Dahlgren Division is a premier research and development center that serves as a specialty site for weapon system integration. SPEC Innovations has supported NSWC, Dahlgren Division since December 01, 2008.

We are excited to announce that Dr. Steven H. Dam has been elected as the President of the INCOSE WMA Chapter, and Christopher Ritter has been elected as the Chairperson of the Communications Committee of the INCOSE WMA Chapter.

Dr. Dam is the President and Founder of Systems and Proposal Engineering Company (SPEC Innovations). He has been involved with structure analysis, software development, and systems engineering for over 30 years. He has also been a long term member of INCOSE and was formerly the President of the San Diego Chapter before relocating to the Washington Metropolitan Area.

Chris, a new team member, recently graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in Computer Science and is currently employed as a Software Engineer. He joined INCOSE in 2009.

Their position was confirmed on December 22, 2009. Their session will begin in 2010.

Below are the details of the abstract.

Presentation Title

Generating Visual and Interactive Output from System Engineering Tools

Author’s Name

John Schatz, Steven H. Dam, PhD, Christopher Ritter

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe methods for generating user friendly output from system engineering tools. System engineering tools contain detailed descriptions of the system architecture. Frequently, this information is accessed only through standard reports. Methods exist to extract and repackage this information in ways that a wider audience of end users can make use of it. Scripting can be used to generate RTF, HTML, and XML output. This output can then be rendered in other tools and applications. Layered scripting, where scripts generate scripts, can provide for high levels of interactive content. Examples will include the generation of risk matrices as RTF tables, collapsible/expandable tree structures in HTML/JavaScript, and XML output to feed Google Earth.

For more information on 2010 SE Conference, please access the conference website: www.ndia.org/meetings/0870.

While the company name is still officially Systems and Proposal Engineering Company, the brand name is now SPEC Innovations (instead of SPEC).

We look forward to sharing this journey with you.

Travel Involved: Limited Travel.

Job Type: Full-Time Contract Position.

Clearance Level Needed: All individuals performing technical support under this Task Order are required to have, as a minimum, a Secret security clearance. Interim clearances are acceptable. Several individuals, including the Program Manager are required to have a final Top Secret clearance with SCI access.

Years of Experience: Five years experience in 3 of the first 4 areas. (See Position Summary)

Degrees: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

Position Summary

A Journeyman Risk Analyst must demonstrate 5 years experience in 3 of the first 4 areas in the following areas:

Area 1

Applied risk management as well as proven risk methodology and algorithm development, cost benefit analyses, and probability assessment expertise.

Area 2

Evaluation and recommendation of COTS risk tools for executing automated risk management.

Area 3

Definition of risk requirements and providing requirements for modification of COTS risk tools.

Area 4

Experience with risk analysis tasking in support of any of the military services or other federal agencies such as FEMA, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of State, or Department of Homeland Security.

Area 5

At least one of the initially-proposed Risk Analysts shall be cleared at the TS/SCI level. This requirement applies at time of award and throughout performance.

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Travel Involved: Limited Travel.

Job Type: Full-Time Contract Position.

Clearance Level Needed: All individuals performing technical support under this Task Order are required to have, as a minimum, a Secret security clearance. Interim clearances are acceptable. Several individuals, including the Program Manager are required to have a final Top Secret clearance with SCI access.

Years of Experience: Eight years experience in 3 of the first 4 areas. (See Position Summary)

Degrees: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent

Position Summary

A Senior Risk Analyst must demonstrate 8 years experience in 3 of the first 4 areas in the following areas:

Area 1

Applied risk management as well as proven risk methodology and algorithm development, cost benefit analyses, and probability assessment expertise.

Area 2

Evaluation and recommendation of COTS risk tools for executing automated risk management.

Area 3

Definition of risk requirements and providing requirements for modification of COTS risk tools.

Area 4

Experience with risk analysis tasking in support of any of the military services or other federal agencies such as FEMA, Department of Transportation, Department of Energy, Department of State, or Department of Homeland Security.

Area 5

At least one of the initially-proposed Risk Analysts shall be cleared at the TS/SCI level. This requirement applies at time of award and throughout performance.

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