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 Techstreet

Under revision by GEIA G-47 to align with ISO/IEC 15288; early stage of development (expected publication in early 2006). After publication will be fast tracked as an ISO standard.

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

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IEEE 1220-2005, IEEE Standard for Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 09 Sept 2005

Available for purchase from Techstreet
Revision from 1998 version to align IEEE 1220 with ISO/IEC 15288 and to provide a lower level of detail than 15288. In process of being fast-tracked to become an ISO Technical Report.

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 IPPD elements (version 1.1), Jan 2002

Unified Modeling Language (UML)

Available for download from the Object Management Group (OMG)

To be issued as ISO standard

UML 2.0 Superstructure Specification (formal/05-07-04) is available

OMG Systems Modeling Language (OMG SysML™)

Adopted by the OMG and formally announced in July 2006
Latest information is available at the official OMG SysML site at http://www.omgsysml.org

UML Profile for DoDAF/MODAF (UPDM)

Expected adoption in June 2007
Latest information is available at the UPDM site at http://syseng.omg.org/UPDM.htm