AbstractThe Aerospace Corporation sponsors in‐house research to enhance and extend the corporation's core competencies. The objective of one Aerospace Sponsored Research (ASR) was to develop new concepts for systems engineering, consistent with Integrated Weapon System Management (IWSM)/ Integrated Product Development (IPD) environments, by addressing methodology, guidance and training, and computer‐aided tools. The ASR had five primary objectives including defining an Systems engineering/ Configuration Management (SE/CM) methodology, developing guidance and training, investigating computer‐aided SE/CM tools, maintaining Aerospace role introducing SE/CM concepts to the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), and ensuring cross‐information flow of lessons learned between SMC System Program Offices (SPOs) and external customers. Significant accomplishments were made toward satisfying each of the stated objectives, especially achieving the opening of an operational SMC IPD