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AbstractThe estimated Environmental Management cost for the Department of Energy (DOE) complex, “the cold war mortgage”, exceeds the projected DOE budget. DOE awarded the Lockheed Martin Corporation the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) Management and Operations (M&O) Contract, and Lockheed Martin emphasizes Systems Engineering (SE) as a method to operate a DOE National Laboratory more cost effectively. Lockheed Martin (SE) methods and experience were mainly developed as an aerospace, space, and defense contractor. This paper describes how Lockheed Martin Idaho Technologies (LMIT) applied SE principles to the INEL Environmental Management program within six months of taking over the INEL contract. LMIT transferred and applied SE methods and experience from an industry driven by laws of physics and hardware, to an industry driven by environmental regulations, risk and shrinking budg

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01975.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractSystems engineering has been formally implemented as a management strategy in the National Spent Nuclear Fuel Program. DOE Headquarters, DOE Operations Offices, contractors at each site that have spent nuclear fuel, and other stakeholders are working together in applying systems engineering to develop Program functions, requirements, schedules, priorities, and solutions for managing spent nuclear fuel. The systems engineering process has successfully unified and integrated high level activities at each of the major sites. Examples of implementing the systems engineering process and the resulting paths forward are presented.

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01976.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIntegrating the Environmental Management activities across the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) has involved a number of technical experts evaluating the existing system and plans with the facilitation, methodology, and tools of the INEL Systems Engineering organization. The use of the systems engineering methodology in the design and facilitatation the INEL EM integration activities is discussed. Additionally, the lessons learned in applying systems engineering to well‐entrenched organizations with many years of operations is relayed as was found in the INEL experience. The INEL EM Engineered Baseline definition and the process that will be used to mature the baseline at the INEL is discusse

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01977.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractA Concept of Operations was developed for the disposal of high‐level radioactive waste in the potential geologic repository at Yucca Mountain, located 90 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada. The Concept of Operations documents a common understanding of how the repository is envisioned to be operated. Based on the repository functional analysis and the repository architecture as identified in theInitial Summary Report for Repository/Waste Package Advanced Conceptual Design, the Concept of Operations describes the operation of the repository from the initial receipt of waste through repository closure. The development of a Concept of Operations has enabled project participants involved in development activities to have a common understanding of how the total system is envisioned to operat

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01978.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper explores some of the similarities between the approaches that civil engineers take to design highways and that systems engineers take to solve complex system development problems. The process of developing a highway design can be directly correlated to the system development life cycle used in systems engineering. The progression of highway design is demonstrated to be an evolution of technologies, inventions, organizational creations, and legislative acts supporting the development of a national interstate transportation system. Until now, highway design has been the domain of civil engineers concerned with highway structures, materials loading, traffic patterns, and supporting facilities. However, the growing need for intelligent vehicle‐highway systems (IVHSs) requires that traditional civil engineering disciplines be integrated with computers, communications, and eventually fully automated vehicles. This paper's thesis suggests that the complex highway transportation of the late 20th century and the 21st century can benefit from the collaboration of systems engineers and civil engineer

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01979.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper describes the introduction of formal systems engineering including the introduction of a requirements management and modelling tool to a particular mass transit railway renewal project. The paper begins by explaining the nature of railway projects and the need, yet current scarcity, of application of formal systems engineering. It describes the specific project and the events leading up to the introduction of a systems engineering team into a project which would otherwise have not adopted formal systems engineering techniques. These are specifically the development of a code of practice and an initial feasibility study. It also describes the issues that have had to be resolved in this emerging application which include selection of a systems engineering tool, training, architecture and processes.

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01980.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in the process of developing significant new capabilities in the Oceanic Air Traffic Management (ATM) System in response to the increasing demand on the system and the needs of the users of the oceanic air traffic management system. The FAA has planned for an evolutionary approach to the oceanic system development with a series of successive “Builds” adding new operational capabilities. The Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) at The MITRE Corporation is providing the system engineering support to the FAA in this effort. One of the major components of the R&D system engineering process is the generation/validation of operational concepts and requirements for the successive Builds. A second, equally important, element is the requirements tracking/traceability process to ensure that the system evolution does indeed provide the operational capability to the users/operators/maintainers of the system. This paper describes some innovative measures (including the use of CASE tools) for the life cycle of the evolution of the Oceanic ATM Sys

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01981.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe International Space Station (ISS) has much in common with past major programs. However, it does exhibit one fundamental difference, the ultimate configuration is assembled on‐orbit in a series of stages. Each stage must be a viable spacecraft, capable of meeting stage mission requirements and capable of survival until the next assembly stage. The Design Analysis Cycle (DAC) is a process to integrate the ongoing program design/analyses tasks to ensure through analysis, that each stage of the current design of the ISS vehicle can perform the intended mission objectives. The intent of the DACs, is to integrate stage oriented, “horizontal” assessments in support of each program Incremental Design Review

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01982.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe Hanford Area is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reservation in Southeastern Washington, where the primary mission for nearly fifty years was production of nuclear weapons materials. It is now the nation's largest superfund site and its sole mission is environmental remediation of the mixed wastes generated during plutonium production. A large fraction of these wastes are stored in 177 underground tanks and are the subject of the DOE's Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) Program. Since its inception the TWRS Program has been managed by a Maintenance and Operations (M&O) contractor.The DOE is now considering the privatization of a portion of this program and has recently issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking new, qualified, private vendors. Successful bidders will be expected to build waste processing facilities with their own financial resources and to recover their costs by charging fixed prices for the various products delivered to the DOE. Because the TWRS Program is such a large, complex, and expensive undertaking, the privatization initiative will be conducted in two phases: a small proof‐of‐concept phase, followed by full‐scale production. A primary objective of the proof‐of‐concept phase is to test this new contracting approach by determining the interest of private companies and demonstrating their technical capabilities.The key to a successful demonstration is establishing the right set of requirements to be satisfied by the private vendors. These requirements must be consistent with the existing requirements set developed over the past three years by the M&O contractor. This paper presents the results of a systems engineering effort that was conducted in support of the RFP preparation and had to be coordinated with an ongoing program. Much of the effort was focused on the specification of new proof‐of‐concept requirements that are directly traceable to corresponding requirements in the M&O's RDD‐100® database. A new functions and requirements database was created for this first privatization phase using CORE®, a systems engineering support tool, produced by V

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01983.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThis paper describes a successfully functioning, commercial, off‐the‐shelf (COTS)‐based ground support system called the Integrated Monitoring, Analysis, and Control COTS System (IMACCS). IMACCS was implemented as a prototype by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Mission Operations and Data Systems Directorate (MO&DSD) to operate NASA's Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX). IMACCS was conceived specifically to build on previous experience in testbed evaluation of COTS products. The purpose of the IMACCS project was to integrate a typical set of such tools, connect them to live tracking and telemetry data from a real, on‐orbit satellite, and perform shadow mission operations. The objective of the IMACCS project was to assess the completeness, robustness, and performance of a COTS‐based ground system. As a constraint, IMACCS was to be implemented within 90 days of project approval. This paper discusses the challenges that led to the IMACCS project; the processes used for implementing IMACCS; how these processes fit within MO&DSD's reengineered ground systems development processes; and the results obtained by comparing IMACCS' requirements, operations, costs, and implementation process against the currently operating grou

ISSN:2334-5837    

DOI:10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01984.x

年代:1996

数据来源: WILEY