Dr. Jimmie McEver Senior Scientist, JHU APL

1. Lessons Learned from Dealing with Complex Systems from Other Communities: Potential Topics for CASE 2012 Dr. Jimmie McEver Senior Scientist, JHU APL Chair, AIAA Technical Committee on Information and Command and Control Systems

2. Motivation • CASE symposium established to facilitate aerospace community interaction on problems and issues associated with systems engineering/systems development across the life cycle of complex aviation systems • Other communities are also faced with challenges related to complexity, volatility and uncertainty in their capability development environments • AIAA/CASE may benefit from sharing experiences and emerging insights from others’ efforts to come to grips with these challenges • Would like to consider potential topics/mechanisms for interaction at CASE 2012

3. Selected Complex Systems Efforts • DoD Cyberspace Operations Capability Development/Acquisition • NDAA 2011 called on DoD to develop a strategy for responsive and accountable acquisition of cyber warfare capability, addressing requirements, acquisition, and test/evaluation aspects of capability generation • Identified principles, tenets, and cross-cutting enablers • TTCP Action Group 14: Complex Adaptive Systems for Defence • International effort to explore implications of emerging insights from complex adaptive systems research for national security • Topics addressed included complex causality, approaches to enhancing adaptiveness/agility, and the considerations for SE of complex systems • Network Centric Operations, Network-Enabled Capability Command and Control Maturity Model • Principles, concepts for decision making under conditions of complexity, volatility and uncertainty • A value chain and metrics for how information and collaboration • Enhancing agility of individual and collective decision making processes • What it takes to be more agile, to be more capable of dealing with complexity, volatility and uncertainty

4. Options for CASE • Talk/presentation describe the three frameworks/perspectives offered by these initiatives • But would likely need more than the 30 minutes typically allotted to cover all 3 • Separate talks going into more detail on each initiative • Panel discussion including participants in Cyber Acquisition Strategy effort and TTCP AG14, as well as other identified experts in cyber SE, agile SE, and the SE of complex systems • Some combination of the above depending on interest