Findings of Case Studies in Enterprise Systems Engineering
April 2007
Kimberly A. Crider, The MITRE Corporation
Joseph K. DeRosa, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The systems engineering
community is increasingly facing challenges
of engineering enterprises that consist of
many interrelated systems without a single
hierarchical control authority. Although there
are technical papers describing such complex
adaptive systems as well as some early
papers contributing to the theory of systems
engineering of enterprises, there is no
generally accepted theory or set of best
practices. This paper presents the findings
from over a dozen case studies in enterprise
systems engineering conducted at the MITRE
Corporation during 2005 and 2006. The
projects studied were related to the US Air
Force's Command and Control (C2) enterprise
which is being engineered through many
different programs by different contractors for
different immediate customers—yet is
expected to work as an integrated C2
enterprise. However, the findings presented
are applicable to any net-centric enterprise
with multiple users, operators and
stakeholders.
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