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The First Annual SERC Research Review

The First Annual SERC Research Review. Art Pyster Deputy Executive Director October 15, 2009 www.SERCuarc.org. Can You Spot the Systems Engineer?. Leading the Pack and Smiling. Why Is He Smiling?. Welcome.

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The First Annual SERC Research Review

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  1. The First Annual SERC Research Review Art Pyster Deputy Executive Director October 15, 2009 www.SERCuarc.org

  2. Can You Spot the Systems Engineer?

  3. Leading the Pack and Smiling

  4. Why Is He Smiling?

  5. Welcome • The SERC just celebrated its first birthday as the DoD University Affiliated Research Center devoted to systems engineering research. • Steady growth in research, sense of community, infrastructure, and visibility. FY10 will be the tipping point where SERC really takes off. • The SERC is a collaboration that brings together creative people working together to solve the systems engineering research challenges of DoD. • The ASRR is our first large-scale gathering of SERC researchers and our government customers. • Tremendous opportunity for us to get together, learn from each other and learn about each other

  6. Who We Are

  7. SERC Vision and Objectives DoD and IC systems achieving mission outcomes – enabled by research leading to transformational SE methods, processes, and tools. Vision Objectives • The SERC will be the primary engine for defense and intelligence community SE basic research. In doing so, the SERC will: • Transform SE practice throughout the DoD and IC communities by creating innovative methods, processes, and tools that address critical challenges to meeting mission outcomes (what), • Catalyze community growth among SE researchers by enabling collaboration among many SE research organizations (who), • Accelerate SE competency development through rapid transfer of its research to educators and practitioners (how).

  8. SERC Research Strategy Areas • Enterprise Responsiveness: Explore advancements in SE methods, processes, and tools that are responsive to enterprise strategic and program-level needs, enabling agility and responsiveness to change during program conceptualization and execution as well as strategic choice and assessment. • Systems Science and Complexity: Advance systems science and systems thinking for application to engineering and management of complex systems and capabilities. • Systems Engineering Workforce: Explore future SE workforce competencies and research approaches to cultivate, educate, and prepare for future SE practices and technologies. • Program Management and SE Integration: Research the alignment, promotion and integration of SE methods, processes, and tools with program execution activities. • Life Cycle Systems Engineering Processes: Advance systems engineering life cycle technical and management processes.

  9. SERC General Research Approach

  10. Example: Create SE Body of Knowledge and Graduate SE Reference Curriculum Support the development of an SE BoK and reference curriculum with professional societies and the broad international community Understand educational models, learning techniques, and the fundamental knowledge of the SE field that can be codified into a BoK There is no mature well-recognized SE BoK or reference curriculum, inhibiting the ability to create strong SE competency models and university programs SE Workforceareaarticulates on which MPTs to focus to address SE challenges and shortfalls

  11. SERC Organization DoD direction Dr. Dinesh Verma Executive Director Dr. Art Pyster Deputy Executive Director Doris Schultz Director of Operations Dr. Barry Boehm Director of Research Pool of more than 140 Senior Researchers and hundreds of research faculty and graduate students from collaborators Stevens Institute hosts the SERC at Stevens’ Hoboken, NJ and Washington, DC campuses. A fundamental tenet of the SERC is its virtual nature – each collaborator is a nexus of research activities. All research projects are staffed by the best available researchers and graduate students from across the collaboration.

  12. ASRR Objectives • Enable collaborators to highlight and learn from each others’ strengths in core competencies • Build a greater sense of community between the collaborators and between collaborators and government • Stimulate new ideas for research projects • Serve as a prototype for more outreach-oriented future ASRRs • Establish a baseline understanding of the overall SERC and its collaborators’ state of the art in systems engineering research

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