Why Case Studies?

To facilitate learning by emphasizing the long-term consequences of the systems engineering/programmatic decisions on cost, schedule, and operational effectiveness of our DOD Systems and Weapon Systems. They will be used to enhance SE curriculums at AFIT and other locations To provide lessons learned for our leaders and engineers

B-2 Systems Engineering Case Study	C-5A Galaxy Case Study
F-111 Case Study	GPS Systems Engineering Case Study
Hubble Space Telescope Case Study	Theatre Battle Management Core System Case Study

How Our Case Studies are Structured:

• Analysis Methodology
  • We used the Friedman-Sage framework which decomposes a case into contractor, government and shared responsibilities applied to the 9 concept areas:
    • Requirements Definition and Management
    • Systems Architecture Development
    • System/Subsystem Design
    • Validation/Verification
    • Risk Management
    • Systems Integration & Interfaces
    • Life Cycle Support
    • Deployment and Post Deployment
    • System and Program Management

Envisioned Usage of These Cases:

• Learning objectives in academic environment
• As a lessons learned resource for all SE Practicioners
  

Envisioned Users:

• AFIT, NPS, Service Academies, Universities, and SE practitioners in Government and Industry

Possible Future Case Studies:

• INSS, A-10, Peacekeeper and others...
  

Have a sponsoring Government Agency that has a program with good SE lessons learned?

• Contact us to discuss possible sponsorship