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1 Calhoun: The NPS Institutional Archive Reports and Technical Reports All Technical Reports Collection Analysis of Alternatives in System Capability Satisficing for Effective Acquisition Brian Sauser

2 Analysis of Alternatives in System Capability Satisficing for Effective Acquisition Dr. Brian Sauser Stevens Institute of Technology Dr. Jose Ramirez-Marquez Mr. Weiping Tan

3 Physical System Maturity Logical Functional

4 Systems Evolution and Lifecycle Management Value Proposition: To provide a system-level view of development maturity with opportunities to drill down to element-level contributions To allows managers to evaluate Integration system development in real-time Readiness and take proactive measures To create highly adaptive methods, processes, and tools to use on a wide array of system engineering g development efforts Level (IRL) Technology Readiness Level (TRL) The System System Readiness Level (SRL)

5 BPAUV PC BPAUV MP SRL MP SRL w/o Sea Frame Combat MVCS MVCS Mgmt MPCE USV (On-board) (USV) System TSCE Hard Drive 3 MH-0 MPS Trade Between Advanced Capability or Increased Maturity US3 3 MVCS 3 AN/WLD-1 AN/AQS-20A (RMMV) (RMMV) AN/ASQ-235 (AMNS) MP LEGEND MP Technology Sea Frame System Current Mission Package SRL Status Previous Mission Package SRL Status Current Mission System SRL Status 1 Technology Readiness Level 1 Integration Maturity Level 1 System Readiness Level Demarcation Scheduled Position MH-0S Risk to Cost and/or Schedule Memory Low Medium High Card AN/AES-1 (ALMDS) ITRL USV; MPCE; RMMV; MVCS (USV); MH-0S; MVCS BPAUV PC US3; MH-0S MPS AMNS; (RMMV) MVCS (OB) BPAUV AQS-20 ALMDS Example provided by Northrop Grumman in support of the US Navy PMS 420 Program

6 BPAUV PC BPAUV MP SRL MP SRL w/o Sea Frame Combat Mgmt System TSCE MVCS MVCS MPCE USV (On-board) (USV) 5 DLS (On-board) Hard Drive 9 9 MH-0 9 MPS Memory Card System Maturity is Enhanced 5 US3 DLS AN/WLD-1 AN/AQS-20A (RMMV) (RMMV) MVCS (OB) MVCS (USV) DLS (OB) USV BPAUV BPAUV PC US3 MH-0S DLS(RMMV) MPCE AN/ASQ-235 (AMNS) AN/AES-1 (ALMDS) RMMV AQS-20 MH-0S MP LEGEND MP Technology Sea Frame System Current Mission Package SRL Status Previous Mission Package SRL Status Current Mission System SRL Status 1 Technology Readiness Level 1 Integration Maturity Level 1 System Readiness Level Demarcation Scheduled Position Risk to Cost and/or Schedule Low Medium High AMNS ALMDS MH-0S MPS ITRL Example provided by Northrop Grumman in support of the US Navy PMS 420 Program

7 Visit us at Multi-Function,, Multi-Capability Development p y ((MFMC)) System y p

8 A simple MFMC system-the Swiss Army Knife Same function, different capabilities Different functions Large blade: cut Small blade: cut Bottle opener: open bottles Simplified System Architecture

9 Example- apply it to the Swiss Army Knife (TRLs and IRLs are notional) Visit us at Expected SRL

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12 Applying Component Importance Measures

13 Evaluation Criteria MATURITY Evaluation Method via MFMC Capabilities Optimization Model, Index of Capability Satisficing (FUTURE) Input: Architecture Design and Synthesis Alternatives Analysis and Evaluation Output: Preferred System Architecture Importance Measures Lifecycle Cost, Schedule, Key Performance Parameters

14 Special Thanks Naval Postgraduate School, Acquisition Research Program U.S. Navy NAVSEA PMS 420 Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, U.S. Army RDECOM, U.S. Army ARDEC

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