Systems of Systems Center of Excellence
Dr. William J. ReckmeyerChief Systems Scientist(Systems of Systems Center of Excellence)Visiting Scholar(Stanford University – Center for
Inter-national Security & Cooperation)Professor of Leadership & Systems(San Jose State University)[email protected]
American Society for Cybernetics2005 Annual ConferenceWashington, DC28 October 2005
Systems of Systems Approachesin Public Policy-Making
and Program Management
Systems of Systems Center of Excellence
DoD Transformation Efforts
Systems of Systems Center of Excellence
Symptoms of SoS Problems
Ambiguous Ambiguous BoundariesBoundaries
Unbalanced Unbalanced DependenciesDependencies
Unrecognized and Unrecognized and Uncontrollable Uncontrollable
ResourcesResources
Self-Organizing Self-Organizing BehaviorsBehaviors
IndependentIndependentComponentsComponents
Cascading Cascading InterrelationshipsInterrelationships
Recomposibility Recomposibility RequirementsRequirements
Sense of Sense of Inadequate Inadequate
Solution SetsSolution Sets
ContextualContextualComplexitiesComplexities
Evolving Evolving RelationshipsRelationships
Unexpected or Unexpected or Counterintuitive Counterintuitive
BehaviorsBehaviors
Systems of Systems Center of Excellence
Systems of Systems
IndependentComponents
SoS Approach
Integrated Capabilities
Systems of Systems Center of Excellence
Systems of Systems Approach(Origins and Evolution)
Systems of Systems Center of Excellence
Program Management
Organizational Change
Operations EngineeringResourceAllocation
National Strategy
Logistics Acquisition
Systems of Systems Approaches(DoD Application Domains)
Systems of Systems Center of Excellence
DistributionProcess
Management
Capability-Based
Acquisition
NASA SpaceExploration
Maritime ProcessManagement
Global EarthObservation
US National Strategy
Comprehensive Elder Care
HomelandSecurity
Systems of Systems Approaches(Variety of Topical Applications)