1 Study Results/Overview Independent Assessment Of

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1 Study Results/Overview Independent Assessment Of Perception From External/non-NASA Systems Engineering (SE) Sources Submitted To: NASA Tech Fellow For SE Submitted By: Harlan Brown & Company, Inc. Gerald J. Pawlikowski, Senior Project Manager 610-678-6200, gjpawlikowski@verizon.net Harlan Brown & Company, Inc. 2 Table Of Contents Page Study background 3 Study sources current activities 7 Key expectations 13 Current state of SE discipline relative to expectations 21 Current performance trend 30 Perceived key strengths and weaknesses/areas for improvement 40 What is your expectation on the future of SE in relation to how your 44 organization engages SE? SE and MBSE trends in academia 49 What works best with the way that your organization currently engages SE? 50 What areas have room for improvement in the way that your 55 organization currently engages SE? What are your key challenges/opportunities with making SE faster and more 58 efficient (and adopting MBSE)? How far along is your organization in implementing advanced digital techniques 66 to accomplish SE? Other questions addressed 70 Key Study Conclusions 82 Suggested Considerations 83 Supplemental Section 84 Harlan Brown & Company, Inc. 3 Study Methodology Brown produced 50 reports from 56 sources specified by NASA for contact. Study information was gathered through in-depth phone interviews from April to July 2019. Each report was developed independently of one another, with no sharing of information gleaned from other sources during interviews. No input was provided to Brown by NASA regarding opinions or estimates regarding any report information. Harlan Brown & Company, Inc. 4 Harlan Brown & Company, Inc. 5 Distribution of 50 Report Sources 23 industry sources include subcontractors (52%), consultants (22%), primes (17%) and suppliers (9%), that are involved with space (48%), defense (13%) and both space and defense (39%). They are large (57%) vs. small (43%) and located in the US (83%) vs. outside the US (17%). They are at the division/other level (78%) vs. the corporate level (22%) and are practitioners/chief engineers/chief architects (52%) vs. management (48%). 12 academia sources include SE/MBSE researchers (75%), instructors (67%), department chairs (33%) and have worked with industry (58%). 10 OGA sources include directors or department heads (70%), systems development (20%) and one SE fellow (10%) that are located at a central office (40%), field/branch locations (40%), and at the Pentagon (20%). 5 tool vendors are involved with MBSE software (60%) and other software/digital factory (40%) and include sources in marketing/sales/business development (40%), a