Posts in Past Events
2022-04-20: Analytical Assessment Method to Directly Measure Mission Assurance (Darby)

Michael Darby, CSEP, of the Idaho National Laboratory provided an overview of how the Mission Thread Analysis approach has been used to evaluate mission resilience. He showed generalized results of additional threat-based scenarios and how the All-Hazard Analysis tool can be integrated with black out exercises to assess how and where alternatives, or courses of action, are needed to ultimately improve the overall mission resilience.

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2022-01-25: Months to Minutes - Command and Control (C2) of Control Systems (Scalco)

Ms. Aleksandra Scalco, CSEP, explains how disagreements exist among professionals about remediation of control system vulnerability, mainly due to discrepancies in engineering practice, paradigms, processes, and culture. Her presentation introduces a new model and methodology for measuring multi-concern assurance through statistical uncertainty analysis of Likert semantic differential scales.

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2021-11-17: Lessons Learned from the NSOSA Architecture Study (Maier)

Dr. Mark W. Maier, a Technical Fellow at The Aerospace Corporation, discusses the major lessons learned from conducting a large scale study of its next generation weather satellite constellation architecture. Among the topics discussed are the selection and primacy of value models, the concept of architectures as classes of system alternative, and variance as a measure of significance.

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2021-09-15: The Invisible Matters: How PM and SE Teamed to Build the world’s Largest IceCube (Illiff)

Randall C. Iliff explains how the South Pole is now home to IceCube, the world’s largest and arguably most unusual telescope. Randy shares a true insider’s view of how the power of Program Management and Systems Engineering, working together in a process uniquely tailored for IceCube, enabled all of this to happen. It truly was a rare opportunity to observe the logic, tailoring strategy, and artifacts from one of the most remarkable development programs ever to take place.

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