About Systems and Software Engineering

Functions

Systems Engineering has undertaken the following objectives to achieve the goal of driving good systems engineering back into acquisition programs:

• Improve the systems engineering environment
• Provide effective systems engineering policies, practices, procedures, methods, and tools
• Provide for a professional systems engineering workforce
• Improve balance of cost, schedule, performance, and risk in programs
• Reduce the life cycle cost of defense systems
• Assess system technical maturity and readiness for operational testing based on developmental test results

Systems Engineering addresses these objectives through the process shown above to determine sound system engineering (SE) practices through collaboration with the acquisition community, SE community, T&E community, industry associations, and academia to develop appropriate policy, guidance, education, and training; engage directly with programs to institutionalize these practices; and conduct systemic analyses to feed back into future policy, guidance, education, and training updates.