Insurance

Covers cases on accidents—determination of the number of accidents in one mishap

Modeling & Simulation Education for the Acquisition and T&E Workforce: FY07 Deliverable Package

This report was prepared for CAPT Mike Lilienthal, PhD, CPE, and funded by ASN (RDA) CHENG and the Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (MSCO).This technical report presents the deliverables for calendar year 2007 for the "Educating the Modeling and Simulation Workforce" project performed for the DoD Modeling and Simulation Steering Committee. It includes the results for spirals one and two. Spiral one is an analysis of the educational needs of the program manager, systems engineer, and test and evaluation workforces against a set of educational skill requirements developed by the project team. This is referred to as the 'learning matrix'. Spiral two is a set of module and course matrices, along with delivery options, that meets the educational needs indentified in spiral one. This is referred to as the 'learning architecture'. Supporting materials, such as case studies and a handbook, are included. These documents serve as the design framework for spirals three and four, to be completed in CY2008, and which involve the actual production and testing of the courses in the learning architecture and their longitudinal assessment. This report includes the creative work of a seven university consortium and a group of M&S stake-holders, together comprising over 60 personnel.ASN (RDA) CHENG and the Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (MSCO).This report was prepared for CAPT Mike Lilienthal, PhD, CPE, and funded by ASN (RDA) CHENG and the Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office (MSCO)

Overcoming challenges on an international project to advance systems engineering

The Body of Knowledge and Curriculum to Advance Systems Engineering (BKCASE) project's dual product development cycle spanned a three‐year period from the September 2009 to December, 2012. During this timeframe, BKCASE authors met quarterly at various locations, primarily in various regions of the United States, but also in Stockholm, Sweden; Toulouse, France; London, England; and Rome, Italy (BKCASE, 2009–2019). The team successfully worked through challenges and differences to produce The Guide to the Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBoK) wiki and a Graduate Reference Curriculum for Systems Engineering (GRCSE) publication. This article is a collection of personal stories from the team members that focus on overcoming obstacles to successfully produce the final published products

Some Interoperability Issues for Computer-Generated Forces: The Theoretical Chasm between Entity-Level and Aggregated-Force Combat Simulations

CGF Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral RepresentationThis paper presents two important interoperability issues for computer-generated forces. The first is fundamental and concerns the inconsistent representation of interfiring times of direct-fire weapons in ground combat in entity-level (i.e. discrete-event) and aggregated-force (with attrition modeled by Lanchester-type equations) combat simulations. The second is behavioral and again concerns inconsistent representation of platform-level command and control in such combat in entity-level and aggregated-force simulations. This second inconsistency concerns combatsystem behavior in acquiring and attacking (i.e. firing at) enemy systems, i.e. whether or not new targets can be acquired while an enemy target is being engaged. Computational evidence of the seriousness of the consequences of such inconsistencies on simulation output is presented. This paper shows how they can be avoided by appropriate mathematical modeling of Lanchester attrition-rate coefficients in aggregated-force combat simulations. Without such modeling, however, fundamental inconsistencies (with significant consequences) currently exist between all entity-level and aggregated-force combat simulations

Internetting of fires

United States. Army. TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC)http://archive.org/details/internettingoffi109452446

Parametric Models for Aircraft Engine Removals Resulting from Foreign Object Damage

The article of record as published may be located at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2011.00337.xAn earlier nonparametric statistical study of GE F414 engine removals from operational F/A-18 aircraft in US Navy service provided insights into the lifetime patterns of engine removals for various causes. Inspection of the estimated hazard function for engine removals for foreign object damage (FOD) suggested that a parametric analysis using Erlang distributions might be fruitful, bolstered by a hypothesized relevance to the maintenance procedures governing engine removals for this cause, and their outcomes. The objective was both a better model to forecast engine removals and to provide insight into the number of FOD incidents it took to drive an engine removal. Gamma and Erlang distributions did better fit the removals data and provide a tool for predicting engine removals, aircraft availability impact, and the resultant maintenance workload. A parametric model using a cascade of Erlang functions was developed to simulate the combined FOD/line maintenance process, which provides insight into the outcomes expected under reasonable simplifying assumptions. This model predicts that the key research issue, the probability that a typical FOD event prompts a removal, cannot be estimated from engine removals data alone. Field data must be collected to gain understanding of the underlying frequency of FOD and the utility of the present inspection criteria

Thoughts on Systems Engineering at NPS as I depart presentation by Dr. David H. Olwell, Ph.D [video]

"Thoughts on Systems Engineering at NPS as I depart" presentation by Dr. David H. Olwell, Ph.D Professor of Systems Engineering

The Logbook, A Publication of the Wayne E. Meyer Institute of Systems Engineering / August 2004

www.nps.navy.mil/meyerinstitute Email:[email protected] Phone:(831) 656-7847 Fax:(831) 656-2336 Naval Postgraduate School, 777 Dyer Rd., Mail Code 97, Monterey, CAArticles including Digitizing High-rate Signals with Affordable Hardware, Maritime Domain Protection Task Force Hosts Symposium in August, and Chair of Undersea Warfare, VADM Roger Bacon, USN (ret.) Reports...Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, C

The Logbook, A Publication of the Wayne E. Meyer Institute of Systems Engineering / July 2004

www.nps.navy.mil/meyerinstitute Email:[email protected] Phone:(831) 656-7847 Fax:(831) 656-2336 Naval Postgraduate School, 777 Dyer Rd., Mail Code 97, Monterey, CAArticles including: ADM Wayne E. Meyer (ret.) "Father of Aegis" Visits Meyer Institute, Satellite for Naval Undersea Capability, and Professor Charles N. Calvano Honored with Superior Civilian Service AwardNaval Postgraduate School, Monterey, C

The Logbook, A Publication of the Wayne E. Meyer Institute of Systems Engineering / June 2004

www.nps.navy.mil/meyerinstitute Email:[email protected] Phone:(831) 656-7847 Fax:(831) 656-2336 Naval Postgraduate School, 777 Dyer Rd., Mail Code 97, Monterey, CAArticles including: Maritime Domain Protection Task Force Hard at Work, Project Brief Summary - MSSE Port Hueneme, and Systems Engineering and Analysis (SEA).Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, C