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Collaborative Engineering: Integrating Teams and Organizations Across All Boundaries

FR OM TO
Today, systems engineering processes are In 2025 and beyond, systems engineering will
often not well integrated with program man- be a key integrator role for collaborative enter-
agement and discipline-specific processes such prise engineering that span regions, cultures,
as hardware, software, test, manufacturing, organizations, disciplines, and life cycle phases.
operations, and logistics support. As an example, This will result in multi-disciplinary engineer-
program and product change processes require ing workflows and data being integrated to
time consuming and manual coordination support agile program planning, execution,
among development teams and supply chain and monitoring. The collaboration will extend
participants. across the supply chain so that customers,
primes, subcontractors, and suppliers are inte-
grated throughout all phases of development.

Automated workflow,
data integration, and
COLLABORATIVE networked communi-
ENGINEERING cations are critical to
PRACTICES agile program execu-
tion, such as when
implementing
a change process.

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