Sustainability Working Group

Mission

This working group believes that system engineering cannot succeed without accepting core responsibility for enabling and facilitating effective system security – partly in system requirements, partly in system trade space recognition, but mainly in system thinking applied to concepts of operations and systems architecture. Sustaining system functionality in the face of intelligent determined attack requires self preservation capabilities that adapt and evolve with intelligence, proactive innovation, and strength of community equal to the adversary as a minimum. This requires full system awareness and adaptability, and system-of-system relationships. Security engineering alone cannot accomplish this.

Scope

This working group will address and foster system engineering responsibilities, design concepts, processes, enabling-support, and community understanding of the roles that systems engineering must play to enable effective systems security.

Goals

Establish and foster the responsibility for security within Systems Engineering, with effective system security accepted and practiced as a fundamental part of system engineering.
Establish and foster self-sustaining cross-community involvement between systems engineers, security engineers, and system security standards.
Establish and foster systems engineering guidance for enabling effective systems security in the face of evolving system security needs.
Attract an international cadre of engaged participants to broaden the understandings and effectively deal with multinational interests and differences.
Customers and Stakeholders include systems engineering educators, systems engineering process and standards developers, defense systems engineering acquisition procedure developers, systems engineering leaders and managers, customers of systems that require effective security, systems engineers, and security engineers.