Full Day Seminar: Friday, April 17, 2009, 8:30am - 5:00pm at General Dynamics C4 in the Research Park

Tutorial Description - Human Systems Integration (HSI)

Human Systems Integration (HSI) in the DoD System Acquisition Process
Within the DoD acquisition process - the days of building a "neat widget" without the participation of its intended user are, hopefully, behind us. Increasingly a system's successful operation depends upon its interaction with, and the performance of, its users or operators. This dependency upon the integration of humans (e.g. operators or users) and systems to operate effectively establishes a need for engineers to deal with it rigorously. Across DoD acquisition programs there is an increased emphasis to ensuring that the "human" is fully and continuously considered early and throughout the development process. Including the user feedback in the design is imperative, but when and how you integrate this feedback, and what impact on the design this user feedback will ultimately have is the challenge.
Human Systems Integration (HSI): Per MIL-HDBK-46855A, HSI is a comprehensive management and technical strategy to ensure that human performance, the burden design imposes on manpower, personnel, and training (MPT), and safety and health aspects are considered throughout system design /development. HSI assists with the total system approach by focusing attention on the human part of the total system equation and by ensuring that human-related considerations are integrated into the system acquisition process. DoD Regulation 5000.2-R mandates a strong HSI strategy early in the acquisition process.
The composition of a DoD HSI program may encompass as many as nine technical domains, depending on the specific acquisition program and the sponsoring service. The HSI domains may include the following elements or constituencies: human factors engineering, manpower, personnel, training, safety, health hazards or occupational health, human survivability, habitability, and environmental safety. The objective of any HSI program is to integrate and facilitate the acquisition program’s trade-offs among the different HSI domains. The trade-offs may be primarily driven by the program’s engineering scope/complexity, overall goals, schedule, and, of course, available funding.
This workshop examines the use of engineering methods for early phases of the acquisition, such as concept definition, for systems that require significant human-systems integration for successful operations. The use of modeling languages, such as SysML, to provide the engineer with a means to quantitatively examine different allocations of functionality between humans, hardware or software is examined. Additionally new validation strategies, which are required because the response of individual humans will be different for the same set of circumstances, are introduced.

To Register:
Registration by COB April 10, 2009:
Registration Fee = $125 per person
For Non-Member

INCOSE Members = $75
For Member

All INCOSE Members who register and do not attend, will be invoiced additional $75 for holding a seat.

Course materials, parking, refreshments and lunch are included with your registration.
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