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Understanding Systems Challenges in Today’s World

Exceeding the capabilities of traditional siloed approaches • System scale

• Mission complexity • Technical complexity • Project team complexity • Dynamic complexity

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Defining “System”

System

A system is an arrangement of parts or elements that together exhibit behavior or meaning that the individual constituents do not. INCOSE

An integrated composite of people, products, and processes that provide a capability to satisfy a stated need or objective.

Segment

EIA-632

Subsystem

• A System ‘ is a thing that contains interconnected smaller things, interacts with other things in a larger thing, and does something.’ • has structure, in a larger structure (‘physical’ context) • performs purposeful actions • time sequence of collective actions = behavior • behavior observed at interfaces (‘functional’ context) • “… a system is, and a system does …”

Assembly

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