Membership on the CAB demonstrates an organization's commitment to ensuring that the state of the practice of systems engineering is enhanced to meet the needs of future generations engineering complex systems. CAB membership provide companies a leadership role in INCOSE. The CAB describes the primary benefits of CAB membership as follows:

• The ability to steer INCOSE along the lines of the CAB charter and stated CAB needs;
• The ability to ensure that INCOSE is providing the needed value to our employees;
• Corporate access to the INCOSE Product Area, a portal providing all of the latest INCOSE technical materials
• Free electronic access to any INCOSE products for use on our own intranets available to all our employees (Systems Engineering Handbook, Measurement Primer, etc.); and
• Various "advertisement" opportunities noted below which allow us to show our organization's commitment to systems engineering.

As part of CAB membership, INCOSE provides CAB member organizations with:

• A voting position on the Corporate Advisory Board
• CAB meetings at both Winter Workshop and Annual Symposium
• CAB dinners with BOD and officers
• Publicity as a systems-oriented organization at INCOSE Symposium including display of organization banner/logo
• Recognition of sponsorship in each issue of INSIGHT
• A one-half page advertisement in INSIGHT once per year at no charge
• Recognition of sponsorship in Systems Engineering: The Journal of the INCOSE
• Recognition of sponsorship in the Symposium Brochure and Proceedings
• One complimentary executive registration at INCOSE Symposium
• 12 month membership
• Access to the on-line INCOSE membership directory and CAB membership list
• Notification of INCOSE meetings
• Benchmarking with other industry leaders (informally through working groups; formal brokering available through Virginia Tech)
• When produced, an electronic copy, for internal use, of all INCOSE publications, symposium proceedings and regional conference proceedings
• As requested by the CAB, "information copies" of working group interim reports

Recognizing that many of our member organizations are merging, fueled in part by the consolidation of the defense industry and other business trends, the CAB encourages flexible approaches to membership of "merged" organizations based on the following guidelines:

• INCOSE will continue to charge a single organization initiation fee ($ 10,000)
• INCOSE will allow a single organization to have multiple memberships where a distinct interest and/or need exists (as determined by the organization and approved by the CAB)
• Renewal fees ($ 3,000 annually) will be paid by each distinct organizational unit (resulting in possible multiple annual renewal fees for organizations which elect multiple memberships)

For information on joining the CAB, please contact the INCOSE Office .