Managing IOOS Regional Association Development with Today's Systems Engineering Approach

摘要

As we move towards definition and development of the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS), there is a clear role for today's evolving systems engineering (SE) approach and its disciplined processes and practices to develop a system of systems (SoS). While developing a SoS appears to be an easy technical problem, system engineers understand why IOOS, as an example, is not just another large complex system that will yield to scientific or traditional engineering approaches. Developing IOOS will be especially challenging, involving significant effort and time, because achieving consensus amongst a multitude of stakeholders involved on numerous issues that will drive the SE process is essential to choosing the right approach to evolutionary development.