Join us for our 12 December 2023 Chapter meeting featuring:

Mini-presentation "Systems Engineering at the Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs)", by Paul White
Abstract. Discussion on how systems engineering has played an integral role in our nation’s ICBM capabilities. We will show how digital engineering is a game changer in modern engineering practices, particularly with the Sentinel program.

Main Presentation "A Decade of Digital Engineering Research", by Mark Blackburn
Abstract. This session discusses a broad range of experiences with modeling in general, including Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model-Based Engineering (MBE), now often referred to as Digital Engineering. The session covers the research conducted through the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) spanning the last decade for the US Navy (NAVAIR), US Army (Armaments Center) and US Space Force research sponsors. The presentation shares key demonstrations of experiments that have had significant outcomes for the sponsors. We discuss the research in chronological order starting from the NAVAIR Systems Engineering Transformation, and provides descriptions of the outcomes in terms of three case studies for each sponsor. This includes using these case studies to illustrate the concepts aligned with the DoD Digital Engineering Strategy such as an Authoritative Source of Truth that support Collaboration with a new operational paradigm between government and industry, leveraging new technologies such as computationally-enabled ontologies to enable cross-domain model interoperability, digital signoffs, and the latest workforce develop training results that are being used to transition the research to our sponsors.
Bio. Mark R. Blackburn, Ph.D. is a Senior Research Scientist with Stevens Institute of Technology since 2011 and principal at KnowledgeBytes. Dr. Blackburn has been the Principal Investigator (PI) on 18 System Engineering Research Center (SERC) research tasks for both US Navy NAVAIR, US Army Armaments Center and US Space Force on Digital Engineering Transformation Research Tasks. He has also been PI on a FAA NextGen and National Institute of Standards and Technology projects and has received research funding from the National Science Foundation. He develops and teaches a course on Systems Engineering for Cyber Physical Systems. He is a member of the SERC Research Council, OpenMBEE Leadership Team and INCOSE Pattern Working Group focused on the Semantic Technologies for Systems Engineering initiative. Prior to joining Stevens, Dr. Blackburn worked in industry for more than 25 years. He has been the Principal Investigator to the National Institute of Standards and Technology on projects dating back to 2000 involving model-based tools and methods for verification and validation of security-related products and applications. Dr. Blackburn holds a Ph.D. from George Mason University, a M.S. in Mathematics (emphasis in C.S.) from Florida Atlantic University, and a B.S. in Mathematics (C.S. option) from Arizona State University

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