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SAND 2004-0768
Unlimited Release
Printed March 2004
A Development Environment for Operational Concepts and
Systems Engineering Analysis
Michael Senglaub
Network Systems Survivability & Assurance
mesengl@sandia.gov
Elaine M. Raybourn
Computational Initiatives
emraybo@sandia.gov
Sandia National Laboratories
P.O. Box 5800, MS 1188
Albuquerque, NM USA 87185
Abstract
The work reported in this document involves a development effort to provide combat
commanders and systems engineers with a capability to explore and optimize system concepts
that include operational concepts as part of the design effort. An infrastructure and analytic
framework has been designed and partially developed that meets a gap in systems engineering
design for combat related complex systems. The system consists of three major components:
The first component consists of a design environment that permits the combat commander to
perform "what-if' types of analyses in which parts of a course of action (COA) can be automated
by generic system constructs. The second component consists of suites of optimization tools
designed to integrate into the analytical architecture to explore the massive design space of an
integrated design and operational space. These optimization tools have been selected for their
utility in requirements development and operational concept development. The third component
involves the design of a modeling paradigm for the complex system that takes advantage of
functional definitions and the coupled state space representations, generic measures of
effectiveness and performance, and a number of modeling constructs to maximize the efficiency
of computer simulations. The system architecture has been developed to allow for a future
extension in which the operational concept development aspects can be performed in a co-
evolutionary process to ensure the most robust designs may be gleaned from the design space(s).3
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Raybourn, Elaine Marie & Senglaub, Michael E. A development environment for operational concepts and systems engineering analysis., report, March 1, 2004; United States. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc886961/m1/3/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.