Judith Dahmann, Ph.D.
MITRE Fellow
MITRE Fellow Judith Dahmann, Ph.D., is well-known for advancing the discipline of system of systems engineering (SoSE). In recognition for her work on developing SoS and standards, she was named an International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) fellow. INCOSE is the premier professional association for systems engineers and has only 112 fellows worldwide with distinctions in systems engineering.
After more than 50 years at MITRE, Dahmann continues to see exciting potential in applying systems engineering to complex challenges that involve diverse views, technical perspectives, and environments. She shares her knowledge broadly through papers, conferences, and committees. For example, she is the co-chair of the INCOSE Systems of Systems Working Group, which helps people understand the benefits of systems engineering in many domains, shares best practices, and develops new approaches to address SoS challenges.
Since being named as a MITRE Technical Fellow in 2020, Dahmann has contributed her expertise to numerous projects and teams. Her focus is on modeling architectures of complex systems to better understand how multiple systems work together to support large national priorities.
At MITRE, she served as the defense modeling and simulation chief scientist and led the development of a general-purpose distributed system architecture for simulation. The work formed the intellectual foundation for IEEE standard 1516, which prescribes the framework and rules for modeling and simulation of high-level architectures. She was also the technical lead for development of the Department of Defense guide for systems engineering of SoS and was the project lead for International Standards Organization (ISO) 21839, the first ISO international standard on SoS considerations for systems throughout their life cycle.
Dahmann has also worked with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on advanced technology approaches to complex SoS challenges.
Dahmann holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Chatham University and studied at Dartmouth College. She holds a master’s in social sciences from the University of Chicago and a doctorate in social sciences from Johns Hopkins University.