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The Future State

of Systems Engineering

By 2025, Systems Engineering will have made significant strides in meeting the challenges and
needs described in the Global Context for Systems Engineering. Its relevance and influence will
go beyond traditional aerospace and defense systems and extend into the broader realm of engi-
neered, natural and social systems.

Systems engineering will grow and thrive because it brings a multi-disciplinary perspective that is
critical to system product innovation, defect reduction and customer satisfaction. Systems engineer-

ing will be recognized broadly by governments and industry as a discipline of high value to a wide
spectrum of application domains because the above contributions, combined with assessment and
management of risk and complexity, are key to competitiveness in many industries.

Section 1 Broadening Systems Engineering
System Trends and Work
Environment Trends Application Domains

Section 2 Methods and Tools
Current Systems Engineering
Practice, Gaps
and Challenges

Education Theoretical
Foundations

The
Path
Forward

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