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Space Systems Working Group
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Background
At the INCOSE Workshop, held in Scottsdale, Arizona, in January 2000, an interest group was formed devoted to demonstrating the activities of systems engineering in the space industry, recognizing that many of the INCOSE members had careers in the space industry. This led to the initial creation of the Space Systems Interest Group on January 27, 2000.
The Charter for the INCOSE Space Systems Working Group (SSWG) was developed on April 28, 2000. The SSWG was voted by the Systems Engineering Applications Technical Committee (SEATC) Chairmen to be elevated from an Interest Group to a Working Group based on completion of the necessary elements cited in the Systems Engineering Organization Report. This vote was taken in a telcon on May 9. 2000.
Purpose
The purpose of the SSWG is to expand the body of knowledge of systems engineering as it is applied to space systems. Specifically, the purpose of the SSWG is to:
- Promote the use of systems engineering principles, techniques, and practices in a wide range of activities in the government, academic and private industry organizations which are identified with space applications;
- Share best practices in the international space arena;
- Link systems engineering organizations across international boundaries; and
- Promote the systems engineering principles within the member?s home organizations.
Objectives
The chief means by which the SSWG accomplishes its purpose is through development and sponsoring of activities within the INCOSE during its symposia, workshops and its local chapters.
The objectives include, but are not limited to, improving the people, processes, and resources used in the systems engineering mission as follows:
People
- Enunciating career opportunities for systems engineering in the space domain
- Recruiting qualified space systems engineers to membership
- Sponsoring professional programs at INCOSE meetings to exchange systems engineering techniques and practices used in the space domain
- Maintaining a forum within INCOSE to address space technology and applications issues
- Developing informational outreach programs to promote the successful application of the systems engineering approach within the space industry
- Representing INCOSE and the SSWG with other professional societies
Processes
- Developing analogies within the space community which might transfer to commercial and public interest applications
- Improving the systems engineering process within the space applications
- Reviewing and promulgating professional standards for the practice of systems engineering in space applications
- Maintaining a forum to exchange the successful practices and processes used in space applications
- Developing architectures for space exploration
Resources
- Maintaining a list of resources useful to systems engineers practicing in the space applications domain
- Identifying automated tools and their capabilities
- Facilitating interaction with other groups
Description
The application of systems engineering to the specific space subdomains offers challenging opportunities for discourse between other professions and the expansion of systems engineering within the space industry.
Commercial and public interest applications have much to offer the traditional practices of systems engineering in the space industry, and systems engineering utilized in the space industry can be applied to a wide range of commercial and public interest applications with significant benefit.
Structure and Operation
The SSWG is composed of members of INCOSE who have interest in one or more of the systems engineering space subdomains cited previously. The policies and activities of the SSWG are governed by a board elected by the SSWG members at an annual symposium of INCOSE. Local working groups are elected or appointed from their local chapters.
SSWG board consists of the following members:
- Chairperson, elected by the membership of the working group at the INCOSE annual symposium for a two-year term (The intent is to rotate the chair position among the international members)
- Deputy chair elected by the membership of the working group for a two-year term
- Secretary, selected by the chairperson for a two-year term
The responsibilities of the SSWG chairperson are as follows:
- Direct SSWG meetings
- Coordinate logistics for such meetings
- Ensure meeting minutes, agendas, and newsletters are prepared and distributed
- Establish the annual goals for the SSWG
- Prepare committee reports as required
- Interface with the INCOSE Technical Leadership Team (TLT) and other working groups
- Support coordination of the SSWG activities
The responsibilities of the SSWG deputy chair and secretary are assigned by the chairperson.
Membership
Persons who would like to participate in the INCOSE Space Systems Working Group should contact either the chairman or deputy chairman as listed on the INCOSE website.
Working Group Goals
The elected chairperson will set two-year goals for the working group. These goals will be set at the annual symposium and reflected in Appendix A of this document. The candidates for chair and deputy chair will submit their proposed goals at the annual symposium. These goals will be discussed and confirmed by the membership at the annual symposium.
The goals of the SSWG are to:
- Contribute each year to the INCOSE annual international symposium
- Review papers for the annual symposium.
- Submit papers for the annual symposium.
- Establish a space systems session and/or panel for the annual symposium.
- contribute to IPAL in the area of space systems
- Contribute to the INSIGHT magazine
- Create individual article(s) for an INSIGHT issue
- Dedicate a complete issue of INSIGHT to space systems.
- Invite members to speak on how systems engineering is being performed in space systems applications within government, academia and private industry.
- Conduct outreach to academia in the area of space systems. Establish liaisons for student affairs at the universities.
- Generate white papers on important issues in systems engineering in the space domain.
- Serve as liaison to other space related organizations (e.g. AIAA, IEEE, AAS, etc.).
Published Products
- MBSE Grand Challenge Interim Report
- MIT Graduate Class physics based model
- Initial SSWG SysML based object oriented model
- IS?08 Panel Proposal
- Bibliography of Crosslink magazine articles on SE
Planned Work
- MBSE Grand Challenge
- linking of models; added fidelity; development of state analysis SEM
- December ?08 Insight Issue
- Gap Analysis ? joint project w/Lean SEWG
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