INCOSE Heartland Chapter Meeting

1. INCOSE Heartland Chapter Meeting War as an efficient chaos generator Mr. Dave Muller Army Research and Development Lab March 31, 2005, 5:30-7:30 PM INCOSE Heartland Chapter Meeting Agenda 5:30-6:00 Social Gathering (Please Eat!!!) 6:00-6:15 Chapter Meeting (Thompson) • Opening Welcome • Chapter Award Announcement • Heartland Technical Working Group 6:15-7:30 Presentation 7:30 Q&A/Closure

2. Silver Circle Award !!!Congratulations Heartland!!! • Silver Circle Award recognizes chapters that meet and exceed INCOSE’s standards for local service and contributions. • Northwest North America Region I includes U.S. states of AK, IA, ID, KS, OR, MO, MN, MT, ND, NE, SD, WA, WY Canadian provinces of NW territories, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba • Heartland only chapter in Region I to have received award for TWO YEARS 7060points Three Levels Gold Circle 8,000 points Silver Circle 5,000 points Bronze Circle 2,500 points

3. Technical Activities • Education & Research - Advance the state of the art and practice of systems engineering by stimulating and evolving the practice of education and research. ABET | Education Development | Framework for SE Research | Guide to the SE Body of Knowledge |SE Certification | Systems and Supportability Interface Research • Modeling & Tools - Advance the state of the practice of systems engineering through the use of COTS tools and models. Model Driven System Design | Soft Systems Engineering | Tools Database | Tools Integration and Interoperability • Processes & Improvement - Create, coordinate, and disseminate technical processes and methods used in the definition, development, and support of systems. Human Systems | Measurement | Mission Analysis | SE and the Internet | SE Handbook | SE Improvement | SE Process Evaluation | Systems Architecture • SE Applications - Facilitate the formation and operation of working groups whose purpose is to examine systems engineering within specific application domains and across domains. Community Practices | Engineering Business Process Management | Environmental Systems | Health Care | Information Systems Security | Infrastructure Systems Engineering | Intelligent Enterprises | Intelligent Transportation Systems | Joint Air Transportation | Manufacturing | Motor Vehicles | Railway Transportation | Space Systems | Telecommunications • SE Initiatives - Create, coordinate, and disseminate technical processes and methods used in the definition, development, and support of systems. Anti-Terrorism International | IEEE Voting Systems Standards Liaison • SE Management - Create, coordinate, and disseminate engineering management methods that apply to the definition, development, and support of systems. Configuration Management | Requirements | Risk Management | Systems Engineering Management | Verification and Validation • Standards Technical Committee (STC) - Encourage, guide, and assess INCOSE's participation in standards activities; coordinate INCOSE's review of standards; and disseminate information on standards and standardization activities.

4. War as a Chaos Generator Abstract War is not only hell, its also a very efficient chaos generator. Systems that are well thought out and in place for many years begin to break down and fail to operate as expected and required. Come to the March INCOSE meeting and see Dave Muller, from the Army's Research and Development Lab, give a guided tour through an Army material processing point in Kuwait. Learn how it is that things just seem to go wrong no matter how much we think we have them under control. BiographyAfter serving in the Marine Corps Mr. Dave Muller entered the civil service as an employee of Rock Island Arsenal. For the last 28 years he has worked on many military systems and projects. During this period he earned an Associates in Technology Degree from Blackhawk College, in Moline, IL and was introduced to the Society of Manufacturing Engineers as a student. He then progressed through that organization until he was the local Chapter President in 1988 and is now a permanent member of the Senior Board of Directors. Dave is the resident expert on the arcane system of Configuration Management used by the Department of Defense. He is also the engineering product expert on several large mobile maintenance systems used by the field army. In 2004, Dave volunteered to go to Kuwait and work in the Army’s materiel processing facility at Camp Arafjan where he spent 4 months sorting through metal parts, weapons, vehicles, scorpions, spiders, snakes, etc. that had become lost in transit. He and the members of his team identified and rerouted millions of dollars worth of military equipment that would otherwise never have made it to the military units that needed it. When not burdened with his duties, he enjoys fishing and restoring his 1965 Oldsmobile convertible.