A Systems Approach to Delivering Superior Mission Outcomes

Course Description:

Developing and fielding new capabilities or system upgrades requires an intimate understanding mission outcomes in an operational context. The number of contributors to mission outcomes is nearly infinite and new capabilities rely on existing legacy systems to produce integrated outcomes. The mission engineering methodology guides the discovery of meaningful relationships and measurable tradeoffs to support conclusions based on measures of merit that matter. This 2 or 3 day course in Mission Engineering (ME) examines the deliberate planning, analysis, organization, and integration of current and emerging operational and system capabilities to achieve desired mission effects. The course takes a top-down, systems engineering approach to enhance current capabilities, integrate new technologies, facilitate system interdependencies, and define architectures to guide the development of prototypes, experiments, and systems of systems to for specific reference missions and to close overall mission capability gaps. ME explores systems and systems of systems in an operational mission context to inform stakeholders about building the right things, not just building things right, by guiding capability maturation to address mission needs. Digital engineering and MBSE design principles are highlighted through threaded examples organized around DoDAF/UPDM and other frameworks. Course exercises challenge participants to apply ME to real-world problems and illustrate practical application of ME tools and techniques. This course is designed for project managers, systems engineers, technologists, subsystem engineers or modeling and simulation analysts who are participating in or responsible for designing and analyzing new systems and capabilities.