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Topics include resilient systems, model-based systems engineering, commercial-driven transformational systems engineering, natural systems, agile security, systems of systems, and cyber-physical systems across disciplines and domains of interest to the systems engineering community in industry, government, and academia.
INSIGHT is the magazine of INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering). It is published six times per year and features informative articles dedicated to advancing the state of practice in systems engineering and to close the gap with the state of the art.
INSIGHT reaches over 10,000 individual members and uncounted employees and students of nearly 100 CAB organizations worldwide.
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INSIGHT is INCOSE’s practitioner-focused magazine, released quarterly, featuring accessible, real-world systems engineering articles, interviews, and case studies that highlight practical methods, emerging topics, and lessons learned. Each issue connects the community to ideas and experiences you can apply on the job—whether you’re building skills, exploring new approaches, or staying current with what’s shaping the discipline.
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INSIGHT Vol 29, Issue 4
We thank theme editor Rick Dove and the authors of the theme articles addressing agile systems, a future of systems engineering (FuSE) project for realizing the Systems Engineering Vision 2035. This August INSIGHT issue themed on agile systems is preceded by the June 2018 INSIGHT featuring enabling and practicing systems engineering agility. The June 2023…
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INSIGHT Vol 29, Issue 3
The June issue of INSIGHT features “A Decade of AI and Systems Engineering: Looking Back and Forward.” We thank the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), especially theme editors Tom McDermott, SERC chief technology officer (CTO), and Zoe Szajnfarber, SERC Chief Scientist and Research Council Chair, as well as the other researchers who contributed articles. Tom’s…
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INSIGHT Vol 29, Issue 2
The April issue of INSIGHT celebrates industry contributions across Asia-Oceania advancing the practice of systems engineering . . . The selected Asia-Oceania authors/co-authors and their topics are as follows: 1. Kevin Robinson and Tommie Liddy, “Acquirer Driven Digital Engineering Transformation” 2. David Flanigan and Kevin Robinson, “Exploring the Test and Evaluation Space using Model-Based Conceptual…
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INSIGHT Vol 29, Issue 1
The February issue of INSIGHT celebrates industry contributions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) advancing the practice of systems engineering . . . The selected EMEA authors and their topics are as follows: 1. Barend Botha – Functional-Outcomes Driven Tailoring in Modern Complex Engineered System Development 2. David Endler – Integrating Loss-Driven Systems…
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INSIGHT Vol 28, Issue 6
The focus of this December issue of INSIGHT is the French Chapter of INCOSE, Association Française d’Ingénierie Système (AFIS) Doctoral Symposium: New Challenges and Advances in Systems Engineering at French Universities. We thank theme editors Jean-Marie Gauthier and Hervé Panetto . . . The selected authors address the following topics: Theme editorial: New Challenges and…
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INSIGHT Vol 28, Issue 5
The theme of this issue is digital engineering and follows the March 2022 INSIGHT also themed on digital engineering. We thank theme editor Frank Salvatore and the authors for their contributions; Frank served as one of the theme editors in the March 2022 INSIGHT. . .
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INSIGHT Vol 28, Issue 4
The focus of this September issue of INSIGHT on “Complexity and Elegance: A Call for Action” is to bring together a range of voices, who engage with these important topics and explore their use and application. So, what do we all even mean by “complex” and “elegant”? We link the terms elegance and complexity as…
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INSIGHT Vol 28, Issue 3
The theme of this issue is illuminated by the bold cover statement: “Staying Alive in a Hostile Predatory Environment – Systems Need Engineered with Attitude.” We thank theme editor Rick Dove and the authors for their contributions. Several key takeaways of this issue are: 1) “security throughout the system lifecycle as foundational a perspective in…
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INSIGHT Vol 28, Issue 2
The focus of this May issue of INSIGHT is “The State of the Systems Engineering Discipline: A Longitudinal Analysis of INCOSE International Symposium Contributions (2012–2025)” analyzed by INCOSE member Christian Sprague, PhD. The results of his analysis are of value to INCOSE in meeting the objectives of the INCOSE Strategic Plan v1.0 (17 June 2024)…
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INSIGHT Vol 28, Issue 1
The focus of this April issue of INSIGHT is themed on resilience of complex systems. The imperative to address ‘resilience’ is a priority of the future of systems engineering (FuSE) to realize the System Engineering Vision 2035. FuSE is charged by the INCOSE Strategic Plan v1.0 (17 June 2024) Objective O.1 Advance systems engineering as…
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INSIGHT Vol 27, Issue 6
The focus of this December issue of INSIGHT themed on uncertainty and Bayesian methods continues the systems engineering theoretical foundations and its impacts on practice in the April, August, and October 2024 issues of INSIGHT featuring the contributions of the “Bridge Team” (April) and the MBSE Patterns Working Group (August and October). . .
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INSIGHT Vol 27, Issue 5
The focus of this October issue of INSIGHT continues the systems engineering theoretical foundations and its impacts on practice in the August 2024 INSIGHT featuring the contributions of MBSE Patterns Working Group chair and INCOSE fellow William (Bill) Schindel. Bill was asked by Sandy Friedenthal and Heinz Stoewer beginning in 2019 to provide materials from…
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INSIGHT Vol 27, Issue 4
The focus of this August issue of INSIGHT is theoretical foundations: impacts on practice, featuring the contributions of MBSE Patterns Working Group chair and INCOSE fellow William (Bill) Schindel. Bill was asked by Sandy Friedenthal and Heinz Stoewer beginning in 2019 to provide materials from his past work on theoretical foundations for the preparation of…
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INSIGHT Vol 27, Issue 3
The focus of this June issue of INSIGHT is systems engineering technical leadership, the criticality of which is stressed in both the Systems Engineering Vision 2025 published in 2014 and the Systems Engineering Vision 2035 published in 2021. Both vision documents stress the imperative for systems engineering leadership competencies being critical for the successful engineering…
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INSIGHT Vol 27, Issue 2
The focus of this April issue of INSIGHT is advancing systems engineering in the face of complexity. We thank INCOSE technical products & services director Erika Palmer for engineering the collaboration of both INSIGHT and the Systems Engineering journal with the future of systems engineering (FuSE) program (www.incose.org/fuse) to realize the Systems Engineering Vision 2035…
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INSIGHT Vol 27, Issue 1
This issue of INSIGHT features relevant articles selected from the 2023 INCOSE International Symposium by authors representing all three INCOSE sectors: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia-Oceania. Our intent is to encourage and stimulate our systems engineering community to appreciate the focus on sustainability as evidenced by the articles contributed by authors…
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INSIGHT Vol 26, Issue 4
The focus of this December issue of INSIGHT is the French Chapter of INCOSE, Association Française d’Ingénierie Système (AFIS) Doctoral Symposium: New challenges and Advances in Systems Engineering at French Universities. We thank theme editors Jean-Marie Gauthier and Hervé Panetto. . . The authors address the following topics: New Challenges and Advances in Systems Engineering…
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INSIGHT Vol 26, Issue 3
The issue theme is systems engineering in early-stage research and development (ESR&D): bridging the gap. Your editor attests to the successful ESR&D programs cited in the articles, having contributed in ESR&D programs and their transitions into the development, deployment, and fielding of systems as a practicing systems engineer, systems engineering functional manager, and chief systems…
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INSIGHT Vol 26, Issue 2
We are pleased to announce the June 2023 INSIGHT issue, published cooperatively with John Wiley & Sons as the systems engineering practitioners’ magazine. This issue explores the theme of agility in the future of systems engineering. . .
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INSIGHT Vol 26, Issue 1
The issue theme is model-based test and evaluation and is a follow-up to the March 2017 INSIGHT that was published in collaboration with the March 2017 issue of the International Test and Evaluation Association (ITEA) Journal on the common theme of the engagement of systems engineering with test and evaluation. . .
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INSIGHT Vol 25, Issue 4
The issue theme is the Archimedes Initiative, a global systems engineering research network, to conduct applied research to evolve systems engineering and architecting principles, practices, methods, and methodologies for practicing engineers and scientists to address the complexity, dynamic behavior, evolution, and the underlying uncertainty in modern systems and system of systems. . .
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INSIGHT Vol 25, Issue 3
The issue theme is the unique abilities of the systems engineer. We thank theme editors Tom McDermott and Nicole Hutchison, both with the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) operated by Stevens Institute of Technology for the US Department of Defense, and the diversity of authors for their contributions. Tom and Nicole abstract the unique abilities…
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INSIGHT Vol 25, Issue 2
The theme of this issue is security in the future of systems engineering. We thank theme editor Rick Dove and the contributing authors for their valuable work. . .
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INSIGHT Vol 25, Issue 1
The theme of this issue is digital engineering. We extend our sincere thanks to Stephanie Possehl, Acting Deputy Director for Engineering, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and Philomena (Phil) Zimmerman, Deputy Director, Engineering Tools and Environments at the United States Department of Defense, for their unwavering commitment in making…
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INSIGHT Vol 24, Issue 4
The focus of the December issue of INSIGHT is the French Chapter of INCOSE, Association Française d’Ingénierie Système (AFIS) Doctoral Symposium: New challenges and Advances in Systems Engineering at French Universities. This is our seventh issue devoted to doctoral research in France. . . Articles from theme editors David Gouyon and Hervé Panetto, and authors…
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INSIGHT Vol 24, Issue 3
The issue theme is the social dimensions of systems. We thank theme editors Randy Anway, Rick Dove, Erika Palmer, and the authors for their contributions that span multiple INCOSE working groups. . .
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INSIGHT Vol 24, Issue 2
The issue theme is systems and software that is critical to the future of systems engineering initiative throughout the systems community. We thank theme editors Sarah Sheard and John Wood, the Systems and Software Interface Working Group (SaSIWG), and the authors for their contributions. Sarah’s and John’s lead article provides the context for this INSIGHT…
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INSIGHT Vol 24, Issue 1
The issue theme is product line engineering in context. We thank theme editor Drew Stovall, the Product Line Engineering International Working Group, and the authors for their contributions. . .
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INSIGHT Vol 23, Issue 4
This INSIGHT theme is loss-driven systems engineering (LDSE) complementing capabilities-based systems engineering. Loss-driven systems engineering proactively mitigates potential losses by systemically leveraging commonalities and synergies across specialty areas such as safety, security, operational risk, resilience, critical infrastructure protection and recovery, and the ‘ilities.’ We thank theme editor John Brtis and the authors for their contributions…
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INSIGHT Vol 23, Issue 3
The INSIGHT September 2020 issue’s theme is a joint INCOSE Systems Security Engineering (SSE) Working Group and Product Line Engineering (PLE) Working Group project to bring systems security into product line design. We thank theme editors Beth Wilson and Bobbi Young and the authors for their contributions. The SSE Working Group’s mission is providing systems…