1.2 Mission Engineering Overview The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017, Section 855, directed DoD to establish Mission Integration Management (MIM) as a core activity within the acquisition, engineering, and operational communities to focus on the integration of elements ...
The Naval "Systems of Systems" Systems Engineering Guidebook issued by the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development, and Acquisition addresses this issue. The Guidebook states the war fighting capability delivered by a force package ultimately depends on how well the systems (hardware...
However, RMF and cybersecurity T&E conducted during the acquisition phase of defense systems often result in fragmented cybersecurity assessments, excluding the operational environment of the defense systems. This omission fails to account for the complex network integration, data exchange functionalities, ...