The International Council on Systems Engineering Standards Technical Committee (STC) is one of the most active communities within INCOSE. Its members are working to advance and harmonize systems engineering standards used worldwide.

Current SE Standards

ANSI/GEIA EIA-632, Processes for Engineering a System, 01 Sept 2003

Available for purchase from the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA)

Under revision by GEIA G-47 to align with ISO/IEC 15288; early stage of development (next meeting January 2005).

EIA/IS 731.1, Systems Engineering Capability Model, Electronic Industries Alliance (Interim Standard), 01 Aug 2002

Available for purchase from the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA)

IEEE 1220-1998, IEEE Standard for Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01 May 1998

Available for purchase from the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA)

Revision to align IEEE 1220 with ISO/IEC 15288 and provide a lower level of detail than 15288 is underway and due out December 2004. After that it will be fast tracked as an ISO standard.

ECSS-E-10 Space Engineering
Systems Engineering Part 1B: Requirements and process, 18 Nov 2004
Systems Engineering Part 6A: Functional and technical specifications, 09 Jan 2004
Systems Engineering Part 7A: Product data exchange, 25 August 2004

Available for download from European Cooperation for Space Standardization

ISO/IEC 15288: 2002 - System Life Cycle Processes

Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

JTC1/SC7/WG7

Harmonization of ISO/IEC 15288 and ISO/IEC 12207:1995 & 2 Addendum 2002, 2004 (software life cycle processes) is under development. This is nearing WD.1 (working draft 1) stage.

ISO/IEC 19760:2003 - A Guide for the Application of ISO/IEC 15288

Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

ISO/IEC 15504: 2004 - Information Technology - Process Assessment

JTC1/SC7/WG10

Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

Part 1: Concepts and vocabulary (2004)

Part 2: Performing an assessment (2003)

Part 3: Guidance on performing an assessment (2004)

Part 4: Guidance on use for process improvement and process capability determination (2004)

Part 5: An assessment model and indicator guidance (1999)

ISO 10303-AP233, Industrial automation systems and integration -- Part 233: Systems engineering data representation

TC184/SC4/WG3/T8

Additional information available on the AP-233 website

Currently in working draft form

Other Standards

ANSI/AIAA G-043-1992, Guide for the Preparation of Operational Concept Documents

Being upgraded now by INCOSE and AIAA partnership

IEEE 1471, 2000: IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems

Available for purchase from IEEE

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

All you need to know is available from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's CMMI website

Merger of SW-CMM (from SEI) and SECM (EIA/IS 731)

Released in July 2000 (Combined SE/SW model)

Later release with IPD elements (version 1.01), Nov 2000

Might be developed into full standard by EIA

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Available for download from the Object Modeling Group (OMG)

To be issued as ISO standard

Version 1.5 is released; version 2.0 is in finalization

Systems Modeling Language (SysML)

Latest draft is available for download from the SysML Partners website

The INCOSE Modeling & Tools Technical Committee is working with the OMG and SysML Partners to create an extension to UML version 2.0 to support systems engineering