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Transforming Systems
Engineering

Value Driven Practices for Developing Systems in 2025 and Beyond

Systems engineering practices will continue
AD APT ABLE AND SC AL ABLE ME THODS
to evolve from current practice to meet the
demands of complex systems and work environ-
Systems engineering methods will be scalable to sys- ments of the 21st century. Leveraging informa-
tem and organizational complexity and size. The meth- tion technology and establishing the theoretical
ods will also be tailored to the application domain. foundations for value driven systems engineering
Method selection will be value driven to optimize practices will pave the way for meeting these
project schedule, cost, and technical risk. Methods and demands to enhance competitiveness, manage
tools will scale from small and medium sized enter- complexity, and satisfy continuously evolving
prises to multi-billion dollar projects.
stakeholder needs.
TAILORED TO THE DOMAIN
The methods will be tailored to the domain and
scalable to project and system size and complex-
ity. Collaborative engineering across national
boundaries, enterprises, and disciplines will be the
norm. Systems engineering practice will deal with
systems in a dynamically changing and fully inter-
SCALED TO PROJECT SIZE connected system of systems context. Architecture
design and analysis practices will enable integra-
tion of diverse stakeholder viewpoints to create
more evolvable systems. Design drivers such as
cyber-security considerations and resilience will
be built into the solution from the beginning.
Composable design methods will leverage reuse
SCALED TO SYSTEM COMPLEXITY and validated patterns to configure and integrate
components into system solutions. Decision sup-
port methods will support more rapid analysis of a
large number of alternative designs, and optimiza-
tion of complex systems with multiple variables
and uncertainty. A virtual engineering environ-
ment will incorporate modeling, simulation, and
visualization to support all aspects of systems
engineering by enabling improved prediction and
analysis of complex emergent behaviors.

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