INCOSE Webinar 188: Adaptable Architectures and System Adaptability

DATE: Wednesday, 14 January 2026

TIME: 12:00PM EST (17:00 UTC)

Adaptable Architectures and System Adaptability

Modern systems are more and more developed and deployed in complex, volatile, uncertain and ambiguous contexts, and often result in significantly overrun costs, delayed delivery schedule and other complications, especially with safety-critical systems such as aerospace products. Examples can be found in both commercial and military systems. In industry, changes in missions and requirements generally occur throughout a systems engineering (SE) lifecycle. Rigid architectures result in exorbitant rework to make the operational capabilities and commercial effort evolving with follow-on costs and repeated delayed deliveries. Adaptable architecture enables design adaptation that reduces costs and schedule delays when facing changes. During operations, complex missions and environments also require real-time adaptations. Due to the progress of AI, more intelligence is being built into systems, thus systems of systems and self-adaptive systems are becoming more commonly seen. All these call for concepts, processes and methods for adaptable architectures and adaptive systems, which are considered as a fundamental part of systems engineering practice in INCOSE SE Vision 2035. This talk will introduce basic concepts, methods and procedures of building adaptable architectures for systems. It will also summarize past 15 years of research and development as well as industrial uses in this area, and its support to other SE disciplines.

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